Posts in Adoption

Why my daughter’s assembly at her special needs school made me cry, A Christmas post

Gillian Marchenko -
Dec 21
Why my daughter’s assembly at her special needs school made me cry The […]
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Down syndrome adoption … four years in

Gillian Marchenko -
Aug 26
Down syndrome adoption … four years in “Ma ma ma ma ma,” I […]
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She stands tall, not trying to fix the child I adopted

Gillian Marchenko -
Mar 13
When we adopted Evangeline from Ukraine in 2009, she hunched. She cowered. She […]
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5 mistakes I’ve made as an adoptive parent

Gillian Marchenko -
Feb 28
Our daughter Evangeline came to our family three years ago through international adoption […]
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