With everything in turmoil around here I have not been able to keep you all updated on Guatemalan adoptions let alone get into the blog. The powers that be are working hard to restore everything so bear with us a while longer as they push and shove their way to the cots for cat naps in between computer work-outs.
Guatemala, on the other hand, is in just as much flux. Today, as pre-adoptive parents sit at home and bite their fingernails (okay, some of us may be down to the cuticles) two CNA BOD members will be sworn in. …read more

Many parents have difficulties getting their children to sleep but adopted children come with their own host of problems. Parents are often bleary-eyed, caffeine jittered, desperate balls of nerves. Or, at least I was. And ALL I wanted was some respite and a good night’s sleep.
I asked everyone I knew to let me into their parenting club…to reveal their sleep secrets and their tricks to the sleep trade and some did…others just told me to “wait it out” or Ferberize him because he’ll eventually come around and get used to it. Well, adoptive parents, it just does not work that …read more

Yeah Right.
A few months ago we had an adoption medical specialist (or so she said) tell a group of pre-adoptive and adoptive parents that sleep issues work themselves out within a matter of a few weeks.
Bull Shit.
Oops, am I allowed to say that?