"A World Of Love"

I went to the library to check out some books on tape for my upcoming 2 week car trip. I thought I would check out some books on adoption while I was there. To my surprise there was a display of adoption books! It must be fate.
Or as I later found out, its national adoption month.

Anyways, I got a book called "A world of love" about a family who has one biological daughter and 3 adoptive daughters. Its just a story of the couple years while they adopted the 3 girls, how the family dealt with each transition, etc. I enjoyed the first half of the book leading up to their first adoption. But when they adopted the next 2 girls in 1 years time, I thought they were a little crazy. I guess the parts I related to most where the parts that matched my current situation. She compared her pregnancy with her first daughter to the adoption process. When she was pregnant there were plenty of mothers handing out free advice left and right. A pregnant body was a free invitation for strange women to come up and tell her their birth stories. But in 1995 when this takes place finding adoption advice was a whole different story.

I am pretty lucky I have talked to a couple people who have been through the adoption process and through the power of the internet I have joined 3 chat groups. 1 for Korea adoptions, 1 for adoptions just from the agency we are using and 1 for families in Dayton who have Korean adopted kids who get together for play dates, etc! These women and men in the chat groups are a great source of information. In fact I chated with Mo (Linked Mo's blog off to the side) and found out Mo lives in Medina, OH of all places!

Small world.

I got another book , "Family Bonds, Adoption and the Politics of Parenting" which I will be reading next.