Jan 23, 2018 | Adoptions, Domestic Adoptions, International Adoptions
The planners amongst us have started to think about filing taxes and are asking questions about the Adoption Tax Credit for 2017. The information in this blog is for your 2017 taxes, which are filed by April 15, 2018. Amount of the Adoption Tax Credit for 2017 The IRS...
Dec 12, 2017 | Adoptions, Domestic Adoptions, International Adoptions
“The most wonderful time of the year” is here, whether we are ready for it or not. For many of our kids from hard places, all that wonderful-ness can also represent big changes in routines, in familiar foods, with clothing, and noise. Some of those changes are enough...
Sep 21, 2017 | Adoptions, Domestic Adoptions, International Adoptions
Every year right about this time, children everywhere are going back to school. The lines at Walmart are long and shopping carts are full of brand new box of crayons and brightly colored spiral bound notebooks. As thoughts turn to school, parents of adopted kids often...
Aug 29, 2017 | Adoptions, Domestic Adoptions, International Adoptions
Over the last 15 years, I have learned (usually the hard way) that parenting tweens and teens requires a particular set of skills and perspective that don’t just naturally develop in pace with my kids’ developing identities or maturing bodies. I had to go after those...
Sep 22, 2016 | Domestic Adoptions, International Adoptions
Many people have heard of Postpartum Depression, a period of depression suffered by a mother directly following childbirth. What many people don’t know is that a similar type of depression can affect adoptive mothers. It is estimated 18% – 26% of mothers who become...
Aug 18, 2016 | Adoptions, Domestic Adoptions, International Adoptions
Newness and expectancy is what makes beginnings so exciting, but so often in life we enter into the next stage with a certain naïveté. When we were young, we may have been excited about the first day of Kindergarten, but we had never been to school before. We entered...
