"We Just Want You to Know.. Our Journey to Becoming a Family" by Andrea Yee
Being an adoptive mom, I was dreading the time I had to begin disclosing her adoption to her. I learnt from another mom that she started practicing her disclosure when she bathed or changed her baby. What a fantastic idea! My baby girl was then about 9 months old and I decided to try it out. Boy was it a disaster! First of all, the vocabulary: birth mom, forever mommy, put up for adoption vs give up for adoption, etc, just couldn't flow smoothly. I was saying it all wrong! How challenging was it to use positive words! When I did finally feel comfortable with the sentences I was saying, I wrote them down. And the list started to grow. And became more refined. For my daughter, I wanted to cement my love for her with my words to affirm that though we are an adoptive family, we ARE a family; just brought together differently. So that was when the idea of publishing a book struck. At adoptive parents support groups, we are all...