Helpless mother wants to 'surrender' kids

Here is a story of children that were abandoned by the mother and then later surrendered to the Child Welfare Committee (CWC).

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Merry Christmas!!

Wishing you all a wonderful time with your families this Christmas!

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Missing Your Child at Christmas

The holidays are suppose to be a joyous time but the happiness wanes when there is a loved one missing. Even though you may only have a photo...

to look at while you wait, you have most likely already fallen in love with the child you are waiting to bring home. There are a few things we did while we were waiting to be united with our child. We bought a small, silver/grayish glass ornament that was fashioned in the shape of an elephant to hang on our tree to make us feel that our child was a part of our celebration even though she was miles and miles away, to the other side of the world in fact. Another idea I had was to make an ornament with a copy of the photo we had of her and place that on the tree as well. We even went so far as to wrap a couple of presents and set them on top of the entertainment center for when she did arrive home. She was still far away with her Ayahs at that time but it sure did make it seem more real that one day soon she would be joining us and be included, in the flesh, on the next Christmas celebration. When she finally did arrive home in March of the next year it was fun to watch her open her gifts and the anticipation of her joining the family felt even more complete. It was a great feeling.

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Reasons to share about adoption

I was reading readers reviews of a book "Telling the Truth to Your Adopted
or Foster Child" by Betsy Keefer, Jayne E. Schooler which clearly states the
reasons for sharing the information about adoption:

1. Secrets distort Reality
2. Secrets undermine trust and intimacy
3. Secrets create exclusion and division
4. Secrets destroy authenticity
5. Secrets produce fantasies.

Keeping the truth from our children is in the worst interest of them and our
family's future. These children, we have chosen on our own to bring them in
to our lives and they deserve only the truth and truth alone.
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Love is blind?

Here is a story of a young boy about how his life has changed from one stage to another in a completely different way. This story reiterates that if adoption community works hard, they can find a home for every child.

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Half Sarees

I received a Christmas picture of the child my family and I sponsor in India. She had on a different kind of outfit than I had seen her wear in the past, so I decided to find out more about it.

As she is growing into a young lady she now gets to wear an outfit called a half Saree. As I did some research I found that this type of outfit is worn by girls who are not quite adults yet, but are not too far from becoming one, in other words, around the teen years. It consists of a skirt, which is not as full as a Saree but only wraps around the waist once. There is a scarf that tucks in at one side of the waist and then wraps around and up over the shoulder and back down again, it crisscrosses in the front. She also wears a short top under the scarf wrap.

This outfit helps the young girl to practice the feel of a Saree so that when she is older she will be able to sport a full Saree in confidence. As I was searching the net for more pictures of these, I found they come in many different beautiful colors just as the full Sarees do, they can either be sort of plain or very fancy with decorations. Of course our sponsored child is just beautiful in hers!

Here is link to a picture of one I found , on a site that sells these half Sarees:

http://indianclothing.in/traditional-saree/half-davani-saree/c-2-758-695.html

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