As I mentioned in my previous post, one of our key concerns with readying our lives for Addis to join us was to diversify the play room. I knew right away that our book collection was gonna need some work. It seemed like the majority of the books we had about babies talked about "bringing them home from the hospital" or "when you were in my belly" etc. I loved these little book for teaching Stella about how she joined our family, but they simply would not do for Addis. His story is so beautiful and I want to celebrate the special way he joined our family too.
I have a pretty good collection of adoption books for children. Some of them have sweet bears who are so glad to have their "adopted" cub join their family. Others speak more to how "my love will find you where ever you are."
Today I came across the most eloquently written and beautifully illustrated children's book regarding adoption, specifically from Africa.
This book truly gets at the raw beauty of adoption. All of us adoptive moms are thinking the same things.
"Who is rocking my baby tonight?"
"Who is taking care of his boo boos?"
"Who is singing to my baby?"
And because there is nothing else we can do, we wait and we cry and we pray and we decorate their new room and we dream about our little one, and our friends don't know what to do so they throw you a shower, and when all that's done, we sit in their little empty room and look at their little empty bed and we wonder if we will ever be a family and we cry and we pray....and our hearts get bigger and bigger.
Then in the middle of the night we get the email or the phone call and it doesn't matter that it's 3am because we haven't been sleeping in three months anyway because we keep checking our email through the night for the one that tells us we are cleared to go.
Finally, we fly across the world to our little one and our lives are never the same and our hearts really do go POP!
If this is you at any stage of the journey, then I must insist that you immediately go to this link and buy this book. It's the kind of book that you will want to prop up in your child's room and read to them every night.
And as if that isn't reason enough to buy this book...
All the proceeds of this book will go to the "rubymyles fund." This fund is administered by 4-more and provides grants for adoption and support to organizations addressing the orphan crisis.
I have a pretty good collection of adoption books for children. Some of them have sweet bears who are so glad to have their "adopted" cub join their family. Others speak more to how "my love will find you where ever you are."
Today I came across the most eloquently written and beautifully illustrated children's book regarding adoption, specifically from Africa.
Mommy's Heart Went Pop! An Adoption Story
by Christina Kyllonen and Peter Greer
Illustrated by Jeff Brown
This book truly gets at the raw beauty of adoption. All of us adoptive moms are thinking the same things.
"Who is rocking my baby tonight?"
"Who is taking care of his boo boos?"
"Who is singing to my baby?"
And because there is nothing else we can do, we wait and we cry and we pray and we decorate their new room and we dream about our little one, and our friends don't know what to do so they throw you a shower, and when all that's done, we sit in their little empty room and look at their little empty bed and we wonder if we will ever be a family and we cry and we pray....and our hearts get bigger and bigger.
Then in the middle of the night we get the email or the phone call and it doesn't matter that it's 3am because we haven't been sleeping in three months anyway because we keep checking our email through the night for the one that tells us we are cleared to go.
Finally, we fly across the world to our little one and our lives are never the same and our hearts really do go POP!
If this is you at any stage of the journey, then I must insist that you immediately go to this link and buy this book. It's the kind of book that you will want to prop up in your child's room and read to them every night.
And as if that isn't reason enough to buy this book...
All the proceeds of this book will go to the "rubymyles fund." This fund is administered by 4-more and provides grants for adoption and support to organizations addressing the orphan crisis.
I just ordered this book and can't wait to read it. Thanks for sharing.
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