I am three and a half years old now, but look about five because of my height. I have inherited your athleticism. I love to dance and currently am taking ballet and tap. I have already caught up with the second year students, although this is my first year. I can’t wait until we perform this summer on stage.

My favorite activities are reading, puzzles, coloring, dressing like a princess, and dancing. Even my big brothers occasionally succumb to dancing with me when I beg.

It has been 11 months since we’ve heard anything from one of our dear guest bloggers Snafu Suz, but we are fortunate that she has yet another candid and engaging blog to share with us. Over a year ago Snafu Suz and her husband adopted two children from foster care; recently the adoption was finalized.

Snafu Suz is a blogger at Seattle PI. In addition to being an adoptive Mom she is also a cancer survivor.

It's been a year and two months since the kids moved in and about six weeks since the adoption was finalized. What a year it has been!

When I first started this blog and decided on a name [Adoption Adventures], I had no idea how fitting it would be. Adoption is certainly an adventure, and a difficult one at that. Being a parent to foster kids has been the greatest challenge of my life. And this is coming from someone who battled cancer just three and a half years ago. Parenthood makes cancer look like a breeze. I wish I were kidding.

This first year held so many things to blog about but I just didn't have the energy to do it. By the end of the day I was so emotionally exhausted that the last thing I wanted to do was write about it and relive the day. I wanted to just do something relaxing and mindless instead, like watch TV, goof around on Facebook, or sleeping. Not only that my son was in half-day Kindergarten which only left me two and a half hours a day to myself. (I swear, half-day Kindergarten was the bane of my existence.) It only left me enough time for errands, getting a few things done around the house …or sleeping. Plenty to blog about, little time and no energy to do it.

Like the day my son decided to go explore the woods adjacent to our property without telling me, causing my first parental panic. Or the time our daughter got a bloody nose in the wee hours of the morning and didn't come wake us up until she and the bathroom were so covered in blood that she looked like that scene out of the movie "Carrie". And then there's the time my son decided to pee on the driveway where we could all see him from the window – while our social worker was there for her monthly visit. And let's not forget the time my daughter decided to play with fire in her bedroom – and yes she did this while the social worker was there for her monthly visit. All this while Bill and I are brand new parents, trying to figure out what the hell we were doing.

 Shelia Davis and her wonderful husband are the adoptive parents of three children through domestic private infant adoption. Their youngest child was diagnosed with autism when he began missing milestones. They have had to learn many new parenting techniques to help their son. Shelia is the founder of Heaven Sent Adoption Services, Inc. She strives to help women with unplanned pregnancies make informed decisions about parenting or placing their babies. She encourages all of her potential adoptive parents to research and engage in open loving adoptions. She notes that, “Adoption is very personal to me as I am the sister of two brothers through adoption, the mother of three children through adoption, a friend to three birth parents through adoption, a child of God through adoption and a director of a licensed adoption agency.”

Being the mother of three children through the blessing of adoption, it is inevitable that if you have a conversation with me we will talk about adoption. In the past several months I have spoken with two birth mothers who placed children over 20 years ago and an adoptee who’s age was in the thirty’s. Each of them expressed to me an interest in knowing more about their adoption placement and birth families or child, however they also expressed to me they would never want to intrude in the others life.

The birthmothers each said that when they had made the adoption plan for their child, they felt they had given up their right to know them, or be a part of their life. The adoptee had feelings that the birthmother might not want to know them and did not want to force a relationship on her. All three expressed not knowing how to go about finding information without invading the privacy of the others.

Shelia Davis and her wonderful husband are the adoptive parents of three children through domestic private infant adoption. Their youngest child was diagnosed with autism when he began missing milestones. They have had to learn many new parenting techniques to help their son. Shelia is the founder of Heaven Sent Adoption Services, Inc. She strives to help women with unplanned pregnancies make informed decisions about parenting or placing their babies. She encourages all of her potential adoptive parents to research and engage in open loving adoptions. She notes that, “Adoption is very personal to me as I am the sister of two brothers through adoption, the mother of three children through adoption, a friend to three birth parents through adoption, a child of God through adoption and a director of a licensed adoption agency.”

Click to Read part one. Adoption can be scary when looking at it for the first time. Until now there was probably never a thought she would need assistance in making a decision regarding this. The journey begins with researching adoption, talking with a pregnancy counselor who understands adoption. Maybe talk with a mother who has placed a child in an adoptive home. You should not make a decision about adoption without having knowledge about it. You are not making a commitment to adoption by researching it – you are making a responsible decision to research adoption and parenting options to find what is best for the future for you and your baby.