Mother’s Day was coming up. “It’s supposed to be MY day, now!” This thinking was wrong, wrong wrong. We should never consider our role as an adoptive parent to be a “replacement” for a biological parent.
Year: 2020
When you boil it all down to this gut-checking moment, what do you learn about yourself and your heart? Building a family through adoption is not a task to approach lightly. May love and wisdom lead you: together, not separately. (VIDEO INCLUDED)
I’d thought… one day, when the “story” is done being written… I could help the next person. Encourage them. Strengthen them. And so on. But now, what I’ve learned is that EVEN in the middle of the chapter… even when we are about to turn a page that will surprise us all… my story matters NOW.
Stomach pangs from hunger were familiar. Emptiness was familiar. …But I couldn’t feed him. Mealtimes still felt like hostage negotiations; “Take a bite AND chew, and we’ll fly in your escape helicopter filled with bags of cash!!”
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Author’s new book receives a warm literary welcome. A 5-Star rating was issued to the non-fiction release, which is sure to take reader’s down roads they never imagined they would go.
Wendy and Megan of the parenting podcast “The Momologues” ask Janelle Molony about navigating adoptions, school and life with her son. The women digest common struggles to advocate for special needs and sorting out what might be “different” versus basic “boy-ness.”
Prospective foster and adoptive families might want to read this and ask themselves, “Am I made of the stuff that made it possible for Janelle and Ryan to persevere?” – Dr. P. Leslie Herold
Janelle Molony presented at University’s Diversity Festival 2-27-20. Many who came to meet her shared their own stories of facing adversity, overcoming stigmas, and finding hope for the future.
Though I don’t have a toddler, listening to Natasha Daniels, host of Anxious Toddlers Parenting (AT Parenting Podcast), is a total joy to listen to ….