The snow is falling outside and all I can do is long for the Spring-like weather of last week. The weather was so mild that I donned my new shoes and went hunting for the signs of Spring in my garden.…

Yesterday was the start of National Adoption Month.  Around our house I have been busy writing articles for Adoption.Com on different ways to celebrate the month, and we have all been sporting purple ribbons for adoption awareness.

Adoption is a big thing in our family.  I am an adopter.  I adopted my…

When I think of the Russians and what they wear on their heads, I think of furry military hats or colorful babushkas (head scarves) tied around the babushka’s (grandmother’s) heads. Before I adopted Elle, I rarely thought of baby beanies we put on our infants heads.

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I have a very odd sense of humor.  I love nothing more than embarrassing my children by car dancing at stop lights, or driving a white VW Beetle convertible covered with colorful daisy decals, or driving around in the same car, top down, with a stuffed deer head in the backseat.

So, it isn’t really surprising that before…

I started reading a new book last night, The Boy From Baby House 10. It is the miraculous story of a boy who somehow managed to survive a Russian orphanage, be adopted by an American family, and grow up to be a…

Today we celebrate Elle’s A-Day. No, it’s not her birthday; although we celebrate those in fine fashion…it’s her adoption day. I adopted her 11 years ago today.…

I am sitting at my desk absolutely so angry that I could spit nails. I just read a series of articles

that reported the return of a 7 year-old Russian boy back to Russia. The adoptive mother, from Tennessee,

put him on an airplane bound for Moscow, alone, with a note saying she was

returning him. Seriously? SERIOUSLY?yes""> And…