McCain vs. Obama: Getting Answers on the Adoption Tax Credit
Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in Adoption, Behold, the Internet, Politics | No Comments »About a week ago I was talking to a friend about the adoption tax credit that offers a $10,000 credit when you adopt. This friend claimed the credit was George W. Bush's idea and lamented that if Barack Obama gets ...
Toddler Adoption: Not Thrilled to be Adopted
Saturday, May 31st, 2008 Posted in Adoption | No Comments »I've been trying to do more adoption reading lately and Toddler Adoption: The Weaver's Craft has been my book. It's not likely we'll be placed with a toddler, but our child will eventually be a toddler, so issues of toddler ...
Transracial Adoption in Minneapolis
Thursday, May 29th, 2008 Posted in Adoption | 4 Comments »Yesterday NPR interviewed Dorothy Bode, who has six adopted children in her transracial family and blogs about the accompanying issues and questions. The family moved from the white suburbs to the multi-racial inner-city to better accommodate their transracial family. And as ...
Vietnam & Guatemala Adoptions Shut Down
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 Posted in Adoption | 5 Comments »Stories like this aren't what you want to hear when you're about to adopt. Both Vietnam and Guatemala have halted all foreign adoptions (though the U.S. stopped Guatemala adoptions after April 1, so it's not clear how new this news ...
Adoption is Closer Than We Think
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 Posted in Adoption, Uncategorized | 2 Comments »Nine months is a long time to wait for a baby. But at least you know how long the wait will be. With adoption it's a bit trickier. In December we were told six to nine months. Of course things ...
What Are We Getting Into?
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 Posted in Adoption | No Comments »At a Cinco de Mayo part last weekend I talked to a couple who are the unofficial grandparents of a child adopted from Ethiopia. The child has a 13-year-old brother still in Ethiopia who the parents and working on adopting ...
Happenings in Ethiopia
Friday, April 18th, 2008 Posted in Adoption | No Comments »With our upcoming adoption we've been paying more and more attention to Ethiopia. So it's been a bit discouraging to read about two bombings earlier this week and another one last month. And though I didn't realize it at the ...
Stopping AIDS, Saving Children
Thursday, April 17th, 2008 Posted in Adoption | No Comments »This story from a woman who spent time at an orphanage for HIV positive children in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia is amazing: Once they started getting the ARVs that were needed and at a fair price, children stopped dying. And so money ...
Yes, We’re Still Waiting
Thursday, March 13th, 2008 Posted in Adoption | 1 Comment »Lots of folks have been asking how our adoption process is going, and the answer is the same as it was two months ago: We're waiting. We've been approved, we've filled out all the paperwork and we're officially on the ...
Still Waiting to Adopt and Where the Money Comes From
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008 Posted in Adoption | No Comments »We haven't talked about our adoption much lately. Mainly because we're on the waiting list, and there's not much to do other than wait. Yeah, we try to busy ourselves with other things, but we're really just waiting. I think ...
