Ways Adoptive Parents Can Cope through The Holidays

The adoption process takes quite a while and somehow during the holiday season, the wait for adoptive parents seems to be twice as long. Seeing pictures of families can stir up feelings of incompleteness as you wait for your child to arrive. To avoid feeling discouraged and uneasy, here are some tips for adoptive parents…

Surviving the Wait: One Adoptive Mother’s Advice to Waiting Families

Waiting can be one of the hardest parts of the adoption process for families. The journey can feel very much like a roller coaster of emotions and from the beginning of the process where families have a lot to accomplish (classes, paperwork, background checks, homestudy, creating a profile, etc.) followed by entering the books and…