For this week's Music Monday, I chose the Mark Harris song Find Your Wings ............

"Our greatest journey is not in never failing but in rising every time we fall." ~ Confucius Photo Credit

It seems like when society is thinking about birthmothers we often fit into one of two categories. We are either a sinner or a saint. Some o...

I wrote the following quote in Charlie's birthday letter this year. It would be a great quote to write inside a birthday card, a book,...

It's some of the best advice I've ever received, and it's only proved more and more helpful as I dealt with pregnancy, the pl...

Whenever you Call- Mariah Carey

I'm a fan of Post Secrets and from time to time secrets that are related to adoption or unplanned pregnancy are featured. Sometimes th...

"Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but by how we react to what happens and not by what life brings to us but to the a...

“I could never do that.” This statement makes my stomach churn every time I hear it and I’m sure there are probably some other birthmothe...

Coley mentioned in the newsletter this month that adoption is everywhere.  Lately, I've felt like every TV show I turn on or movie I r...

The October Newsletter is now up. Check it out at www.birthmombuds.com/oct09.htm.

This is a new feature to the blog called...you guessed it! Music Monday. Every Monday we will share a song that either deals with adoption, ...

"A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn."  - Unknown Photo Credit

"Believe in yourself. Our strength grows out of our weakness." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you are not already doing this, I encourage you to sit down each year around your child's birthday and write him or her a birthday l...