I once had a friend, a fellow special educator, tell me, If you bribe your kids and it works, it's not called bribery, it's called ...

I'm starting to put together a travel bag for Axel. This bag will serve three purposes. First it will hold some small toys or fun surp...

Jennifer, over at A Difference to This One is a frequent commenter here (Thanks for all your support Jennifer!) This morning she posted a g...

Do you remember my post a few weeks ago about what it means for a child to be "transferred" ? People, it really DOES happen! Ye...

Monday we should get our EXACT travel date. We've known the "first week of December" but not the specific day. We have to wait...

My friend Abby, a dog trainer friend of mine, who also just happens to be a two-time adoptive mom, sent me this awesome blog post today! THA...

Bringing home Axel is going to be the most difficult thing Dean and I have ever done, either independently or together as a couple. At 10 ye...

The Dossier Dance is what you do when your dossier...that very expensive pile of documents that we spent most of the summer putting together...

These aren't just any old prints, these are Biometric prints, (pictured above) which measure and count all the loops and whirls tha...

It seems it doesn't take much to make my knees shake these days. Todays episode was brought to me courtesy of the Department of Homelan...

Do you see that $$ Thermometer over there on the right sidebar? It went up $1,000 today. There is now $1,000 in Axel's Reece's Rainb...

Like many adoptive parents, I have no idea what size clothes Little Boy Blue wears. But I have an advantage, I got to meet Axel a few months...

Let me tell you a little secret about myself. Shhh...come closer. Really close so I can whisper it in your ear. shhhhhhhhhhhh Most peopl...

Yep, we're doing a give away!!! Help us get Axel home! With just a few weeks until we board that plan to get our boy, we're in the f...

Well, one decision has been made for us! Angela cannot come along on this trip. The drive from the big city to Axel is long, and the car sma...

Have no fear! We have NOT forgotten about Ianna!!! We are hoping that we'll have the opportunity to see Ianna while we're there, so ...

Just three weeks ago, we were finally given the go-ahead to send our family profile for Axel. It took some time for it to be translated, an...

A name only a very strong boy can earn, carried down from my grandfather who in the early 1900's, at the age of 14 came alone from Canad...

I PROMISE!!!! Tonight the news is coming! FOR REAL! I have to leave to run a bunch of errands, write some big checks, then come back and upl...

" This little angel can just light up a room with her smile and her giggle. She is constantly happy, very alert and playful, and is an...