Good question. And while it would be convenient and nice to not dig deeper, learn how to parent special needs differently and be willing make changes–the truth of parenting adopted children actually is that most every adopted child will have unique and special needs quite different than children who have NOT been through transition, trauma […]
First of all, this isn’t Andrea. This is Christy. I am Andrea’s non-adoptive friend who is probably completely opposite from Andrea but our friendship works beautifully! I might be the only person who can completely ruin any craft project I try of hers! Not so crafty here…so this post won’t include a craft! 🙂 Andrea […]
These past few weeks have been tough at our house–and one day I will share more…but right now–I’ll just say that the roller coaster ride of adoption doesn’t end when you bring your baby home. It just begins. But in a beautiful way…because that is when healing begins too. Healing though–is hard…especially for little ones […]
I’m passionate about a handful of things…and I’m SO excited about this upcoming conference in Colorodo as it includes two of “my things” together! Parenting AND adoption. While our Created for Care Retreats are designed to REST, RESTORE, RETREAT and EQUIP–the Empowered to Connect conference is designed for BOTH men, women, counselors, professionals and church […]
I have had a bit of a crazy two weeks…in a good, crazy way–and lot of processing on this end. While adoption does have hard sides–it also has redeeming, miraculous and beautiful sides too. God works wonders many, many times in both birth moms lives as well as families He calls to be the second […]