I just finished my sixth or seventh adoption book, Adopting an Older Child. It is hard to believe, but any child over 2 years old (or sometimes even 1 year old) is considered an older child. Issues for children adopted at, for example, age 5 are quite different from issues for children adopted as infants. One way I've been trying to manage the wait is by reading everything I can on parenting in general and adoptive parenting in particular. The point of the books is definitely to prepare you for the worst! They're a little daunting to read. The one good thing is that they tell you no one child will have ALL of the issues in the books. But adoption is not an undertaking to be entered into lightly...


The child's room is about ready. As soon as I figure out how to load the photos from the new camera, I'll put one up. In the meantime, I have a photo of one of the lucky dogs that lives here! This is part of Fletcher's morning frisbee game in our back yard.