Today I learned about something that really touched my heart, so I thought I would share it.

I found a company called Red Thread Sessions.  Instead of me trying to tell you what it's about, here's a blurb from their website:

Red Thread Sessions was started in 2011 by two custom photographers in Texas and Maryland, both whom added to their families through adoption. Feeling the need in their communities to celebrate the beauty of adoption through photography, Red Thread Sessions was born. Soon after, many other photographers throughout the U.S. felt moved to donate their time as well. Red Thread sessions not only captures family portraits of new families, it also capture the precious, happy, confusing, exciting, exhausting, traumatic, life-changing time that is so often brief and fleeting in the life of an adoptive family.

A Red Thread Session is a complimentary photography session held during your homecoming or shortly after you have become an adoptive family. Depending on what type of Red Thread Session you would like, our sessions will capture you as a new family and all of the emotions that go along with it. Photographers will also create portraits of your new child if you like. Participating photographers have agreed to celebrate your adoption by completely waiving their session fee and offering edited proofs from your session at no cost to you.



It warms my heart to see people taking care of people.  

I also feel it's worth mentioning that I found this company through an article that my wonderful friend Erin Mathews shared with me.  That article can be seen here: 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/10/adoption-photos_n_6064110.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063

Have a beautiful night, all! 

So, my last post had to do with the "Dear Birth Mother'' letter.  Something that we have tweaked and perfected since then, and have submitted the final version.  

Another thing that our social worker suggested we do is create a photo book chronicling our lives.  I loved this idea, but was unsure where to start.  It took a while for me to get going with it, but eventually I got a great idea from a friend to do an ABC book about Jon and me.  It took a while, but it is finally done, and submitted as well, but I wanted to share it here since it involves so many of our friends and family.  If you didn't make it into the book, I'm really very sorry - but there's only so many pictures I can put into such a small book (and that worked with each of the letters)!  

So ... without further ado .... The ABCs of Jon and Nikisha (Front cover picture, the black and white photo on page "E", the groomsman picture on page "F", 5 small pictures on page "K" every picture on page "U"  taken by R. Gonzalez Photography,  -Thanks Rebekah!)

Oh man, what a boring picture.

But!! This here is the room that used to be full of ... well ... nothing really.  Just a bunch of junk that overflowed from the rest of the house.  

Now! Now it's all clean! And that's our first piece of furniture for the baby (the dresser).  This will be the baby's area if we are placed before we are able to move into a house (although he or she will be sleeping in our room if we are placed with a child before we move in March).  

This will be our project to work on while we wait for the home study and after that, while we wait for the baby. 

So whereas it is indeed a boring picture, it symbolizes something very exciting.

Not much going on in the adoption world for us right now.  These past couple of weeks have been a whirlwind of activity.   We were supposed to have had another interview with an agency yesterday, but my students who are performing in the one act James and the Giant Peach placed at districts, so I went to regionals with them. 

So since I don't have any real news to share, here's just a couple of images and quotes that I have found on the interwebs.  I thought they were cute, or sweet or thought provoking and might make a couple people smile.  If you click on the image, it'll pop up to full size, and you can scroll through the images. 

Ok, so technically the stork one isn't about adoption.  But it kind of relates, right?

You wouldn't believe how hard it is to find adoption images online.  So, you know what I would really love?  If others found images that they associate with adoption and posted them in the comments.  Adoption means different things to different people, so let's share what we find!

That's all from me at the moment.  Enjoy the rest of your weekend everybody!