When I was a little girl, I dreamed of having a family one day. I knew I would have two girls and two boys. I knew that they would have brown hair and blue eyes like me. And I knew that they would have peach-colored skin, just like mine. But when I finally married, I […]
November is Adoption Month and M2M Wants to Hear From YOU
Next month is November and that means National Adoption Month! Every November I devote the whole month on Made to Mother™ for adoption stories, and I this year is no different! Get ready for a whole 30 days of stories that honor adoption…Birth mothers, adoptive mothers, adoptees, adoption-related organizations, and anyone else with a story about […]
November is Adoption Month and M2M Wants to Hear From YOU
Can it really be October already!? Less than one month until November and that means, National Adoption Month! For the last two years I have devoted the whole month on Made to Mother for adoption stories, and I this year is no different! Get ready for a whole 30 days of stories that honor adoption…Birth mothers, […]
National Adoption Month Series – Ali’s Adoptee Story
I was born on June 29, 1982. My birth mom was 22 years old and had a “good head on her shoulders,” which is why they tried to convince her to keep me. They asked her if she had considered all the possible resources available, and when that didn’t work, the nurse who was the […]
November is Adoption Month and M2M Wants to Hear From YOU
Can you believe it’s already October? Less than one month until November and Adoption Month will be upon us! Last year I devoted the whole month of November to adoption stories, and it was such a success, I want to do it again this year! Get ready for a whole 30 days of stories that honor adoption…Birth […]
Living in the Shadow of Being a Birth Mother
In honor of birth mother’s day on 5/9 and Mother’s Day on 5/10, I wrote a guest post for the Portland Moms Blog. I am a wife of ten years, and stay-at-home mother to three little ones under eight. From an outsider’s perspective, I appear to be just an average Christian church-going, minivan-driving, play date-attending […]
November is Adoption Month and M2M Wants to Hear From YOU
There is nothing more beautiful to me than the strong women who make up the two sides of adoption motherhood. First, the woman who makes the brave choice to endure 9 months of pregnancy and several hours of labor pains to give life and a future to a child, and then hand him or her […]
A Little M2M Guest Post Action AND A Motherhood Monday LinkUp
Other than motherhood in general, my all-time favorite cause is for birthmothers. I’ve been there. I know what it’s like and I am passionate about championing birth moms all over the world as often and shamelessly as I can! As such, I have the joy and pleasure to network with, speak at and write for […]
Motherhood Vignettes: A Mother’s Day Week Tribute #5
What a fantastic week of Mother’s Day tributes! Thank you so much for sending in your Vignettes, for your comments, shares and likes! I have been so blessed by them and I know the women in your life that deserve to be celebrated this Mother’s Day have been too! As we wrap up this series and […]