by GIFT Coach | Feb 28, 2011 | Adoptive Parenting Skills/Tool, Blogs by Lynn Cooper, Difficult Discussions, Foster Parenting, Strengthening Family Relationships
Hello friends! Looking at the calendar recently, I began to prepare once again for the marking of my 1st son’s arrival home to Seattle on a cold and rainy midnight some 19 years ago! Each year our family has in one way or another marked this incredible anniversary of...
by Gayle Swift | Feb 21, 2011 | Adoptive Parenting Skills/Tool, Blogs by Gayle Swift, Difficult Discussions, Foster Parenting, General Discussion, Post Adoption Challenges & Behaviors, Strengthening Family Relationships
As adoptive parents, we began our journey to our child/children many months (years?) before they actually arrived in our homes. An idea became a dream. The Dream became a Process. The Process finally matched us with a child/children. Our longing was fulfilled and we...
by susand | Jan 24, 2011 | Adoptive Parenting Skills/Tool, Blogs by Susan David, Difficult Discussions, Strengthening Family Relationships
Hello friends! GIFT Founding Members gathered together in the windy city of Chicago to celebrate GIFT’s beginnings as well as plan for various trainings and programs that will support and assist adoptive and foster families and those thinking about adoption and...
by Gayle Swift | Jan 17, 2011 | Adoptive Parenting Skills/Tool, Blogs by Gayle Swift, Foster Care Adoption, Foster Parenting, General Discussion, Strengthening Family Relationships
Twenty-five years ago, we received the blessing of a lifetime. After fourteen years of marriage, we adopted our son; two years later, we adopted our daughter. Those days are etched in my mind’s eye. The flood of emotions still pulls at my heartstrings. I have come to...
