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Writing Letters
Many birthmothers, even those in open adoptions, write letters to their placed child. Some birthmothers find it healing and therapeutic. There’s really no right or wrong way to writing a letter to your...
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Love Thursday: The Love Letter
You probably can’t read the words in that letter, but that is what I call my “love letter” to Charlie that I wrote when he was only a few days old, now hanging framed in his room. Before Charlie was...
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Writing Letters to Your Child
While chatting with some birthmother friends recently, we discovered that we all had similar New Year’s Resolutions of writing and mailing our child a letter once a month. I have attempted this in the...
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What Birthmothers Really Want To Know
I noticed a maple in our woods has turned red. This sight produces an instant memory for me that I feel in my entire body, quickens my heart rate, and ultimately, makes me smile. Back in the fall of...
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My Son’s Mother
I learned so much from my son’s mother. She became everything to him that I could not. She gave him bottles, baseballs and band uniforms. She also gave him my love. She didn’t just love him for herself...
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The Sound of Love
As I walked to the Food Pantry a few weeks ago, I was praying, struggling with some things that have been heavy on my heart recently. Things that God himself has brought up from the storage room of my...
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Making Promises in Adoption
“I’m going to vote for him because he reaches across the aisle,” some people say. I hate politics. I hate it but I can’t help but follow it. Following politics is one of those chores that I do because...
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What To Say
Our requirements with our agency for an open adoption is to write once a month for the first six months and then twice a year after finalization. Our communication is expected to stay open as long as...
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