[daisymay]

YES, Please. I very much enjoy reading your story. I came across your post just today as I was searching the threads on adoption because we are approved to adopt. I believe that your personal experience, with adoption can help us improve our parenting of an adopted child. I am not foolish enough to think that any parenting strategy can take away deep personal feelings for a child, but as parents we have the joy of do our best to help children skip as many bumps and bruises as we can. We happily parent three children already, and as a family are very anxious to meet/love/ nurture and raise another child. We also want to know and develop a positive relationship with his or her birth family.
You can see Chapter One of "our story" at Idaho Hopeful Adoptive Parents - A. James & Xochithl ID. Parent Profiles We really hope for an open adoption. We have seen that open adoptions can be so much better for all involved. If nothing else, much of the unknowns are solved for.
Enough about us(probably too much about us)---back to your original question- Please do continue your story as you can. You are so very talented with words and description- I agree you should write a book!
Thank you again for sharing.http://forums.adoption.com/images/sm...morecoffee.gif