What I learned while caring for the broken During the first few weeks of care for Greyson, I learned so much about my little fur-baby and his personality. Most interesting though, is what I learned about me and my personality.
Even with adoption no longer feeling imminent, every part of my life I try to translate into a lesson I can learn to either understand my potential future adopted children, or I can use to help them through their own … Continue reading
Last week I attended my second ANE (Adoption Networking Event) this year in the lower mainland of BC. I would like to start by saying a HUGE thank you to those people who work tirelessly to put together events such as … Continue reading
Last Friday there was an Adoption Networking Event in Victoria, BC. While I wasn’t able to attend this year, I had some other pre-adoptive parent friends who attended and gave me updates. One parent friend sent me messages throughout the … Continue reading
My kitty cat, Greyson, is teaching me what I will be like as a mom. Or at least what I might be like – because a mostly self-sufficient, independent cat is a totally different experience to a child, I do … Continue reading
Saturday I went to my second Be My Parent matching event. This is one of the smaller events, where they set up separate stations of the kids being profiled with laptops playing video or slideshows, along with a one page … Continue reading
Last week my SW sent me two emails with profiles of children to consider. Yay! Made my heart skip a beat to see these emails pop up and I feel a glimpse of hope. One of the emails had photos attached. I … Continue reading
Webinar – July 28, 2015 I want to send a big thank you shout out to Dawn Davenport and the team at Creating a Family, as well as Dr. Dan Siegel (http://www.drdansiegel.com/books_and_more/) for giving their time and energy to create … Continue reading
Recently we had an annual festival in my town, and I am heavily involved both at an organisational committee level and as a volunteer through the weekend. This time I was also “official photographer” for the festival website. What was … Continue reading
This is a question I have asked myself since the very first conversation I had about adoption nearly 3 years ago. The person I was talking with was a foster care social worker and encouraged me to consider foster care … Continue reading