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#1 adoption.com! It helped me so much, and the help that the forums gave goes with out saying.

When we first started the process we brought a book called "Adoption It's A Family Affair! What Relatives and Friends Must Know" by Patricia Johnston. This book was helped us formulate answers to question and it helped us with positive adoption language etc.

Adoptive Families magazine. AWESOME resources and a lot of hand outs and information for school aged children are available on the website (adoptivefamilies.com). They also offer a lot of information on adoption in the media, advocacy and all sorts of great stuff. If you don't subscribe you should, not just because my blog was featured in a story in the last issue on adoption blogs (with a great picture of Gavin in his halloween costume) toot toot.

Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother by Jana Wolf. I thought this was a great book. Jana gives and honest account of her experience adopting an African American child as a caucasian woman. Her story was very honest and touching. It made me think about some feelings that may arise becoming an adoptive mother, even though it wouldn't be as obvious that I adopted our son.