Category Archives: General
The Education of George
The following post was submitted by CWA adoptive Mom, Traci Weldi/Ethiopia Program. You can read more about the Weldi adoption journey at http://weldieadoptionstory.blogspot.com If you are interested in allowing us to post your CWA adoption-related story, please let me know!
The Education of George
A while ago, CWA asked me if I would write a [...]
Kathy’s Corner
Why do I feel so sad all the time? Why don’t I want to hold and play with my baby? Why do I continue to feel as if I am this child’s caregiver and not his mother? Post Adoption Depression affects many parents. PAD is something that happens to many families, but no one likes [...]
Recommended Reading Volume 2
Here are a number of books we recommend for your general adoption reading. The next list will be travel titles.
Do you have titles you’d like to recommend about adoption, parenting, children, travel, attachment, or even something you’ve written? Please let us know, we’d love to include them on our suggested reading list and let others [...]
Family Dinner
A feast is made for laughter. Ecclesiastes 10:19
One of the things I cherish about the time when our children were growing up is we made eating dinner together a priority. As a rule, we ate dinner together every night. Dinner was a time to catch up with the news [...]
Recommended Reading Volume 1
Two of our foundational beliefs here at CWA are the importance of parent preparation and parent education. We believe it is impossible to be too prepared and too educated regarding the issues involved in bringing a child into your family through international adoption. To this end, I have compiled several lists of recommended reading. Some [...]
Keep it Simple
Keep it simple sounds easy enough, but with our daily schedules and routines, life becomes hectic. Keeping it simple is important when bringing a child into your home. The child can be an infant, toddler, or school age. We want to keep our life simple to help the child adjust to his new environment. Our [...]
Getting Ready for School
In the next month, our children will be attending public, private, or home school. For the children attending school away from home, they may have different feelings about being away from home. Some children are excited about returning to school, while some children experience some anxiety. School can be a very stressful experience for some [...]
Staying Focused
The following post was submitted by CWA adoptive dad, Scott Cramer/Ethiopia Program. If you are interested in allowing us to post your CWA adoption-related story, please let me know!
You may not know this…but I come from a long line of white people. It’s a condition that goes back many generations. All of them [...]
Hope Project Updates
Dear CWA Parents,
We just wanted to let you know that several new children have been added to our Hope Project website, from China, Ethiopia and Eastern Europe. The Hope Project site provides you with photos, limited biographical and medical information, and videos of the children.
Adoption fees for some of the children are reduced, and in [...]
Waiting Patiently… Most of the Time
The following post was submitted by a CWA family. If you are interested in allowing us to post your adoption-related story with our readers, please let me know!
Our journey of adoption began in an unlikely place – the plains of Dire Dawa Kezira in Ethiopia. In February 2005, we began sponsoring a child named Henok [...]
