Many adopted children arrive to your family without previous church or religious experience. Because your family embraces Christianity, you would naturally want your newly adopted child to embrace Christianity. Unfortunately, as parents we cannot make our newly adopted child embrace faith. Certainly, we are able to take a young child to our church. We are able to instruct our newly adopted child in Christian principles. We can pray daily for our child’s salvation. Ultimately, the child must make the decision.

In the new testament of the Bible, Jesus used parables... more

There is theory that the longer you have your pet, the more they begin to look like you. Now, I’m not comparing adopted children to pets, but it is interesting how your kids begin to take on your characteristics!

Lately I’ve noticed some of the silly made up expressions I use, coming out of the mouths of my children! They rock out to the music of my favorite 70’s band, and they have a love for my husband’s favorite band, as well.

The kids mimic their older brother, both intentionally and not. They have some of his same facial expressions, and ours as well. At first, it was difficult for my oldest son - who, for nine whole years had been an only child – to grasp the concept... more

Before the adoption was finalized, the kids knew all about our cat. We’d sent pictures of her to them, and created a page in our family scrapbook just for her. They often asked about her, and by the time we were ready to bring them home, they were in love with her. Great, right?

Not so fast!

They loved her, but she was not prepared for them. She didn’t get that the pictures of the children on our refrigerator would soon be romping through the house. She didn’t realize she would be sharing space with two more children. She had no clue she would not have as... more

Prayerfully, our new children will be arriving soon! Though they are eager to move to California and “see the ocean”, we know that reality will set it and moving so many states away will be difficult.

My biological son has already gone through something similar. When we made the decision to adopt, it became clear that adopting siblings would mean a move for our family. Though my son really wanted sibs, he really did not want to move. He made that supreme sacrifice because of his love for them, but clearly it was extremely hard for him.

One... more