Blogs are fun. Not only are they a great way to connect with other adoptive families, to get a ton of great adoption advice from those who have “been there done that” and to get a good idea of what adopting is really like (from the adoptive parents point of view), they provide a wealth of information and are really fun to read.

There are blogs out there from families whose children are home. There are blogs out there from adoptive parents “in the process”. There are blogs kept while families are traveling abroad to get their child. There are all sorts of adoption-related blogs out there to entertain you, educate you, get you thinking and get you connected to other adoptive parents and families.

I thought I would start a category of “Blogs I Read”, to share some of my favorite spots to read. Some will be more of the resource-type blogs, and some are personal family blogs.

If you have a recommendation, I would be more than happy to hear it in a comment or in an email.

The first blog I am going to recommend today is a relatively new one. “AdoptBlogger” is written by Martha Osborne, who if you don’t know, is the creator and editor of Rainbowkids.com, which is the largest website dedicated to international adoption. Martha provides a wonderful perspective, because not only have her and her husband adopted five children from China and Korea, but she is an adoptee herself.

Martha is extremely dedicated to adoption and education and advocating for special needs children who need families.

Although her blog is still new, she has already covered topics like “Will Korea close to International Adoption?” and “Hosting a Russian Child”. I look forward to seeing what Martha shares with us in the future.

And of course, I have shared these before, but you can find a blog dedicated to most any type of adoption at the Adoptionblogs.com home page. On this site you can not only find my blog, but you can find blogs on China adoption, Korea adoption, Russian adoption, Foster adoption, Step parent adoption, Jewish adoption and quite a few other types of adoption, as well as some blogs focusing on special needs (including attachment difficulties), a Fertility blog and blogs aimed at birth parents, such as the Crisis Pregnancy blog and the Birth/First parents blog. And of course there is a really cool Transracial adoption blog. :)

All together there are 27 blogs. They are all set up to share personal experiences and a variety of resources, and Adoption.com has pulled together a great bunch of writers.

Happy reading! More to come soon.