Tomorrow is New Year's Eve, and I thought it would be a fun way to wrap up the year on the transracial adoption blog by highlighting my twelve favorite posts from 2007. By the end of tomorrow, I will have written 514 posts on this blog this year. It takes a lot of time and a lot of work, but I learn a great deal and I really do enjoy it. I hope you do too.

Here are my posts numbers eight through twelve in my "Top 12" posts of 2007 countdown.

#12 - Large Transracial Adoptive Families - What Kids Gain- I wrote this post early this month, after writing a post on what kids give up or miss out on when they are part of a large, transracial, adoptive family. My kids, and kids that are in other large, transracial, adoptive families do live differently in a lot of ways than kids in small, traditional families, but I believe what my kids gain far outweighs the things they give up.

#11 - White Children in African American Adoptive Families - This post was written about a report on National Public Radio about a black father who had adopted a white little girl from foster care. I liked this one because it challenges the ways in which we picture transracial adoption, and reminds us that transracial adoption does not always mean white parents with a black, Asian or Hispanic child.


#10 - Adoption is Necessary - This post was on of many in my "Adoption Is" series, which I wrote throughout the month of November for National Adoption Month. In writing these posts I spent a lot of time really thinking about what adoption is and what it means to me, and all of the different layers to those things. While all of the "pieces" to my answer are important to me, this is one that I really feel strongly about.

#9 - Contest and Giveaway for National Adoption Month - For National Adoption Month in November, I held a contest and giveaway (thanks to the folks at Curly Q's hair products for kids). To be eligible for the prize package of hair products, I asked readers to leave a comment and tell me what adoption means to them. The comments that were left were wonderful, and represented all three sides of the adoption triad (adoptees, adoptive parents and birth parents). It was a blessing for me to read what adoption means to the lives of others and I was truly grateful to everyone who participated and shared their thoughts and feelings about adoption.

*Picture from Liquid Library