The triad

Part of our process in preparing for adoption and completing our homestudy is reading! Lots of reading! We both have many books that we own about various topics ranging from dance, theater and lighting to vegetarianism to religion and politics to the poetry of Shel Silverstein! W would love to spend more time enjoying these books but always seem to lack the time to do so. Then along comes this adoption process with all of this required reading and we are nose to the books! A lot of the materials speak about the process of open adoption vs. other types of adoption, the relationship of the birthparents with adoptive family and of course, the benefits of the child having knowledge about their biological identity and their adopted family identity. The books share millions of stories about the beautiful ways that families merge. Instead of reading about the typical things that perhaps families read while preparing for a  baby to be born like "what to expect... blah blah blah" we are trying to learn the language and responses as to how we will bring a baby into our lives as well as her/his biological mother and possibly father. I can only imagine that this powerful  triad will create all the more love and possibility in this child's life and I will continue to put the positive energy into the universe of what our expanded family may look like and pray that love will truly be at the heart of it!