Upside Down is now available in its entirety – complete, revised, and expanded – through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and WestBow Press. Enjoy this excerpt here. :)
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This was beautifully written and so helpful. It’ll be an adoptive parent resource for many years to come!
Thank you, Alison!
Thank you for writing this. I look forward to going back and reading the rest of the series – it’s so good to hear that we are not alone!
Oh my gosh, YES! Our circle has become very small because people just don’t understand. And how do you explain to someone that there are good days and bad days and you can usually tell when they get out of bed which kind of day it’s going to be and if it’s a bad day, I’m sorry but we’ve got to cancel our plans. Again. And please do not get a drink and/or food for our child every single time he asks, I know it seems like a little thing, but he doesn’t know the difference between parents and a stranger and we’re trying to teach him boundaries and you taking care of him isn’t helping us with this. I needed to read this today. I wish I could climb through my computer screen and give anonymous a hug because she read my mind and spoke my heart. I’m looking forward to reading the rest of your series. <3
This. ALL of it. Having just emerged from another Mother’s Day season with our foster adopted girls, I second (and third) all of these great ideas. And something else that’s helped us is to allow me the weekend after mother’s day to travel someplace with my own mom. Priceline makes it very reasonable :-).
“Well done, good and faithful servant”!