I wrote a guest post for Wendy at Babymoon Parenting about our adoption.
Here is an excerpt: “My husband Mark and I intended to adopt internationally (from Lesotho) but after eight months of bureaucratic hiccups, we set our sights closer to home. On Friday, we sat in a JJ Bean café quaffing Americanos and wrote up our profile and Dear Birthmother letter. We made 20 copies, tucked them inside shiny silver folders and dropped them off at the agency that day. We we’re shocked to receive a call the following week indicating a family was interested in meeting us….” Read the rest of the story.
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This is a powerful piece, and am so glad your audience is expanding out on this one to include some new readers potentially, who may not have experienced the open adoption story in such depth before. Well done Mama!
Great article. I enjoyed reading it.