Our family has always loved Doc McStuffins, but who knew we could love it even more? In a new episode titled, “The Emergency Plan,” Doc McStuffins features a two-mom, interracial family! Better yet, the actresses playing the two moms are voiced by LGBT actresses, Wanda Sykes, and Portia de Rossi. Chris Nee, the show’s creator […]
By Henry Amador-Batten “You’re going to have to come with us sir” was a phrase I had grown accustomed to hearing each and every time I was boarding a flight. This was the late 1980’s and I travelled a lot on business. While mostly from Miami to New York, work often took me to […]
By Henry Amador-Batten This is the time of year that writers and bloggers generally love. It’s a joyful and special time that is full of wonder and memories and traditions. It makes for especially warm and receptive articles that touch our readers in those warm and fuzzy holiday ways. It’s also when we get to […]
By Henry Amador-Batten November is National Adoption Month and each year during that month, I as well as countless other adoptive families share their story. We share them to raise awareness for all the thousands of children still without homes of their own lingering in the Foster Care system. We share them to add […]
By Henry Amador So I would never use the word intelligent to describe myself. I am far from a thinker or an over analytical man. I am much simpler than that, more basic, I’m a feeler. I trust my gut and my instincts and I make every attempt to move away from what what I […]
On Friday, March 13, 2015, three same-sex military couples were denied assistance by the federal military identification card enrollment center at Camp Mabry, the headquarters of the Texas Military Forces, near Austin, Texas. All three couples were told by the center’s employee that they would not be provided service because their marriages were not recognized by the state of Texas, […]
By Henry Amador Our last visit had our MAPP classes completed and if you remember in part three we were then jumping through hoops and hoping to check things off that great big list that the state requires for all families hoping to become licensed and to be placed with a child. I wrote that […]
By Henry Amador Tired, irritated, angry, distant, envious, tired, overwhelmed, tired, judgmental, did I say tired? These are some of the ways I have been feeling lately and that really has me feeling, well… tired, irritated, angry, distant, envious, overwhelmed, judgmental and tired, really tired. I was recently featured in an article on Buzzfeed about […]
By Henry Amador 1. When are you going to tell him he’s adopted and how do you think he’ll take the news? We’re not, we are planning on waiting until he is either eighteen or just senses that he’s different to SURPRISE him with the news. Adoption is not a bad word, we have […]
By Henry Amador Dear little man, It will soon be 2015, and although your little mind can not understand this yet, we are on the edge of some exciting and momentous of things. This new year will find you turning four, which is huge and beautiful and oh so exciting. Your papa and I […]
