There was an amazing post yesterday on "Six Blessings" and I apologize for not sharing it with you all immediately.

I bookmarked "Six Blessings" a while back because it is one of the few blogs out there from people who have adopted older children, and also one of the few to continue writing after the kids came home. (Note to all of you bloggers now in the waiting and travel stages: Please carve out time to write after you bring your children home. The rest of us want to know how the story turns out.)

Kim, the author of "Six Blessings", and her husband adopted their twin boys in July 2006, when the boys were five years old. (They now have six children at home, hence the blog's title.) At the time of her court hearing, Kim was asked if she wanted to maintain contact with the boys' biological grandmother. She agreed. I won't steal the thunder of her post on what has just happened, so please read it here.

There are posts from time to time on various chat boards from people wondering aloud whether they should try to find out information on their child's birth family. Pamela Kruger, a contributing editor at Child magazine, wrote about her thinking in "To Search or Not to Search", one of 20 stories in A Love Like No Other: Stories From Adoptive Parents, which she co-edited with Jill Smolowe.

Kruger and her husband adopted their daughter from Kazakhstan and she admits that she had intense curiosity about her daughter's birth mother even before she contacted a searcher being used by some other adoptive parents she knew. What ensued is a tale that reads like a Cold War spy novel, although unlike most of those stories, it had a happy ending.

If you do not already have A Love Like No Other on your bookshelf, I highly recommend it. While very few of the stories are about adoption from Russia or the countries of the former Soviet Union, I lost count of the number of times I found myself nodding in quiet recognition as I read.

But while you wait for the book to arrive, give Kim's story a read.