Today let’s talk about books designed around adoption parenting. Again, I’ve got some listed on my Book Recommendations page, but my favorites are: Toddler Adoption: The Weaver’s Craft Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today’s Parents The Out-of-Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder, Revised Edition Adoption Parenting: Creating a Toolbox, Building Connections [...]

We’ve had a lot of good book recommendations on the threads we’ve done so far: Books that help us learn about China Children’s Books about adoption or China or how families are formed Let’s get some recommendations today for parenting books. The one I always say made the most impact for me is Siblings Without [...]

An agency said yesterday that the CCAA is “preparing to work on the next set of matches”. Which means they aren’t matching yet. I would hope they will start matching in the next couple of working days, but only time will tell.

More children were added to the Waiting Child list on April 21st. Congratulations to all who found (or were matched) with their child. Looking at the numbers: The shortest time frame is 20 days, the longest is 49. The average is 34, the median is 34, and we see 34 three times. This means the [...]

It looks like TA’s from the most recent batch of referrals began arriving yesterday. Congrats to those families who are now so much closer to buying those plane tickets!!!

We should be in the latter part of the window of when the next Waiting Child list should come out. However, someone told me it’s already come out. If it has come out, then no one let me know about it, and I didn’t see any discussion about it. When did the most recent list [...]