I have made the rounds of the non-US boards and do not see anything new about when referrals may arrive or how far they may go. I do see that the agency put on suspension has been taken off of suspension – good news for those families. I’m busy shopping online this morning. I’ve bought [...]

I’ve heard from one person that their agency says the CCAA is matching. However, when an agency says this, I usually hear it from more than one person. I do not see anything about a possible cut off date yet, except that someone with a May 30 LID says their agency doesn’t think they will [...]

I’m off work today. The girls are out of school. The house is going to be spotless by this evening.  I’m holding the DVR of this week’s Dancing with the Stars hostage. No one watches it, or finds out who wins, until the house is clean. When I was growing up we traveled for Thanksgiving, [...]

A new SN list was supposed to be released last night. I’ve seen a few people report calls from their agency, already. I know that you can’t share specifics at this stage, but if you want to share some general information in the comments then that will give the rest of us a chance to [...]

Fiction serves a lot of purposes — entertainment being the most obvious purpose, but I believe it also gives us a chance to explore ethics and morals. Life is not often handed to us in black and white, but in a million grey areas in between. Part of defining who we are has to do [...]

I’d like to share and discuss an article today, it’s from Psychology Today, and it helps us understand the perspective of two children adopted as older children. I think some toddler and preschool aged children also have some of these same feelings and thoughts. TwinkleToes was two, and I’m positive some of what she did, [...]