Hearts Wide Open - Adopting from Kyrgyzstan

I'm Tina and this blog began as a means to record the journey both inward and to Kyrgyzstan to adopt a child. Along the way, I've shared and read and learned a thousand things. I write about adopting and adoption reform but also the complexities of adoption and its aftermath as I am an adoptee myself. This road has brought me back to ideas, thoughts and feelings that I thought had previously been examined, labeled and shelved. I am mother, wife, baker and pastry chef, occasional scarf knitter, farmer's market stalker,freelance food writer, friend, daughter without a mother, homebody, nosey body, nearly middle-aged woman. I'm completely and insanely in love with my daughters.