By Jillian Lauren In some ways, tour is anarchy- the boys are up late dancing to crazy loud rock music, giving each other dinosaur tattoos with face paint, and smuggling forbidden Fruit Loops into their bunks. They spend their days scootering around parking lots, chatting up the other bands, riding questionable attractions in sketchy roadside […]
By Jillian Lauren Woke up this morning in Atlanta, though the view from the bus window looked exactly like the one in Tampa, Miami, New Orleans, Houston… Cloudless blue sky, sun turning the asphalt into a skillet, rows of trucks, camps of buses, sweaty crew guys with creative facial hair heaving around huge road cases, […]
By Alex Temblador Amy is a 38-year-old teacher in the Los Angeles area, and she is also a single foster mother. An amazing video provides insight in to the life and experience of Amy, a single foster mother. She explains why she became a foster parent: “I became a foster mom because I knew I wanted to […]
By Alex Temblador Adoption Days are always a memorable moment for any family. However, a recent Adoption Day that occurred in Michigan will forever be ingrained in the mind and heart of one little girl. On June 8, Jim and Sarah Koning adopted two children — one-year-old Neveah and five-year-old Danielle. In honor of Danielle’s love […]
Too often adoption and the articles or blogs associated with it on the Internet, are focused primarily on the adoptive parents and the adopted children. We rarely hear from the women who put their child up for adoption, so it was refreshing to see Adoption.com do just that. In a relaxed setting, four women who […]
Adoption is a wonderful journey toward creating a family. Not only are you creating a family, but you’re providing a child with love and a safe place to call their own. Though many of us often consider adoption or like the idea of adopting, there’s a few questions that you should ask yourself before moving […]
By Jillian Lauren Yesterday, I spent 5 solid hours on a plane correcting a toddler, who was banging with both fists on the seat in front of him, throwing his shoes, and screaming like I was sticking pins under his toenails. It has been a long time since I was so desperately beside myself. The […]
Mark and Kristen Howerton are part of a family of six. They had two biological children and one adopted child before they tried to adopt Kembert, a child from Haiti. They met Kembert when he was still an infant in a crib, however, they would not be able to adopt him for another three years. […]
By Jillian Lauren Would you walk up to a pregnant woman and tell her about your friend’s cousin’s daughter whose infant died of a rare disease, offer her the unsolicited tale of your hairdresser’s daughter’s home birth gone wrong, tell her about every mother you know visiting her teenager in rehab, etc.? Would you walk […]
By Jillian Lauren First of all, go order Julie Fogliano’s When Green Becomes Tomatoes right this minute. Go ahead, I’ll wait. Run-don’t-walk next Tuesday and get it at your local independent bookstore. Okay, well done. You’ll thank me! Now I’ll tell you a little story about this gem of a book… Bright Eyes has a language […]
