In On It

The amount we’ve learned about adoption over the past year has been staggering.  We’ve learned about the adoption process itself, general parenting, and how parenting an adoptive child might be different than parenting a biological child.  We’ve learned about attachment and bonding, and about various medical and emotional challenges we may face with our children.  We’ve learned about the vast range of birthparents, what brings them to choose adoption, and what the experience is like from their perspective.  We’ve learned about loss and gain, grief and joy, fear and embracing that fear. 

 

Along the way, we have changed.  The way we think about adoption has changed.  The way we think of “family” has changed.  Our faith in God’s sovereignty has increased.  Who we are now is not who we were when we started this process. 

 

We wanted to find a resource that would help bring friends and family “up to speed” in an easy and accessible way.  We looked at several books written for family and friends of adoptive parents, and thought that one book in particular provided a good and well-balanced look at adoption.  It is called In On It:  What adoptive parents would like you to know about adoption, by Elisabeth O’Toole (here it is on Amazon.com).  While no book can convey all that we have learned and changed, this book does a good job of covering the basics.

 

If you are interesting in reading the book, we would be happy to purchase it for you.  Simply email Jeannine to let her know that you would like a copy; be sure to include your mailing address in the email. 

 

~Jason and Jeannine

 

How you can be praying:

1.    For the Lord to continue to prepare us to be parents

2.    That the Lord would be surrounding our child’s birthparents with a strong support group