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"We talked in depth to our neighbor who is a 40 something adoptee. His advice to us was to tell Drihan she is adopted, but not to keep talking about it and bringing it up. He said he knew he was adopted and that was fine, but if his family had kept talking about it, he would have felt uncomfortable and different than his sibling."
Good advise in my opinion. You will find, as Drihan grows older, that she may ask questions from time to time. But I've found with my son, he's gone through periods where he was very curious about his adoption when he asked a LOT of questions. Then he goes through other periods where the subject just never comes up at all. Now that he's 15, when I expected that he might have a lot of questions, surprisingly, he hasn't brought up the subject in a long time. Guess he's just too busy with 15 yo's stuff.
He know he can ask anything, anytime. He might when he gets older. But his adoption is just how he came into our family, it's not something we discuss all that often.
Robin
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