Can I just say...I LOVE THIS BOOK! It is so informative and so honest. I finished it a few days ago and I'm so grateful that a resource like this is available to us.

A few thoughts...though

Yikes! Sometimes as I was reading, my heart started beating faster and I wondered "Am I really going to be able to do this?" Somedays when I find myself losing patience with my birthchildren, I wonder if I'm going to have the patience to deal with a grieving toddler. It's kindof scary to think about. Not to mention the fact that I will be dealing with not one, but two toddlers at the same time. My baby will only be about 20 months old when she comes home. They are close in age, and I'm sure that it will be difficult. But you know, I take a deep breath and think again. "Can I do this?" and the peaceful thought comes loud and clear "YES! I can do it! And dang, I will probably be good at it too!" LOL

I am so grateful there is a book like this though, so that I know what I can expect. That way I can make plans in advance for how I will handle different situations. I definately recommend this book for anyone who is considering adopting a toddler from here or another country. Two thumbs up!

Best wishes to you and your family! :)

thanks !!

There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.

Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.

Everything is gratuitous, this garden, this city and myself. When you suddenly realize it, it makes you feel sick and everything begins to drift...that's nausea.

Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control.

Cut the pie any way you like, 'meanings' just ain't in the head!

A democracy is a state which recognises the subjecting of the minority to the majority.

If hanging a man in effigy would produce the same salutary impression of terror upon the minds of the people, it would be folly or cruelty ever to hang a man in person.

Cut the pie any way you like, 'meanings' just ain't in the head!

Therefore something than which greater cannot be thought undoubtedly exists both in thought and in reality... And you, Lord God, are this being.