Tips to Handle Awkward Adoption Questions Where are you from? Where’s your father? How come you don’t look like your mom? Why didn’t your mom want you? Did it cost a lot of money to adopt you? Is she really adopted? Is her dad tall? These are just some of the awkward questions that have […]
Spence – Chapin Offers Post-Adoption Workshops
Spence- Chapin is a well-know adoption agency in New York City and throughout the country. While I worked with Adoption Arc in Philadelphia, Spence-Chapin is also known for offering parents post -adoption workshops. As any adoptive parent knows, adopting is an on-going developmental and learning process that doesn’t stop once you bring your child home. […]
Helpusadopt.org -Financial assistance for those who want to adopt
Becoming a mother has been one of the great joys of my life and I would never trade my life for the life before I adopted my daughter. However, it was a long journey to that fateful day that I received the phone call that would change my life forever. In addition to the long […]
I am not the babysitter
I am not the Babysitter One of the unspoken but extremely visible New York occurrences is the number of black nannies that populate the city. I have always found this fascinating phenomenon that we truly have not come that far from days before slavery was abolished. Rich white folks with black nannies. Anyone with eyes […]
Have Any Adoption Questions for NYC Single Mom
Some readers may know that I adopted my daughter when she was just ll days old but some of you may not. I have received feedback from readers and others that they would like to see more adoption oriented posts. When I get back from our trip, I would love to do more posts about […]
Adoption Tale – No, My Daughter is Not From Ethiopia
I am re- running this post because I recently saw Alec Mapa on the View last week. You probably recognize him from his Ugly Betty role as the gossip reporter. Two funny hilarious points he made. He talked about his husband and 5-year-old foster /adopted son. “My husband’s white, I’m Asian, and my son is […]
Helpful Tips if Your Thinking About Adopting
Originally Posted June 19, 2010 A couple of weeks ago, I went out to drinks with friends and she introduced to one of her single friends who is thinking about adopting on her own. Of course, I had a lot of advice and I thought whether you are single or a couple, the application process […]
4 Tips for New Single Mom Sandra Bullock
As Sandra Bullock to the long list of celebrities who adopt. Of course, if you have been living under a rock, we all know that Sandra Bullock is now the proud mom of a baby boy, Louis Bardo Bullock. As you can surmise from my blog name (duh), I am also a single mom. I […]
Sandra Bullock adopts a baby boy – From one adoptive single mom to another Congrats
Photo courtesy of People Magazine Imagine everyone’s surprise (or shock) this morning to the news that Sandra Bullock adopted a baby boy. I actually cried when I saw the People cover, I was so excited for her. I know, I know, I am talking about her like I know her but it says something about […]
Jillian Michael’s Offensive and Misguided Adoption Quote
Jillian Michaels needs a course in why one adopts. Last year, I met Jillian Michaels at an event promoting her fitness dvds and while hey, I met her for only a few minutes, you could tell she was committed to being fit. So it does not come as a surprise that she does not want […]
