So, I’m a terrible artist. Ask my students. Ask my kids. I can’t draw for anything. (Once my daughter, who was 5 at the time, gave me a failing mark in a family drawing contest – yes, I’m that bad.) But, I’m pretty good with words.

And I’ve been involved in international adoption for a long time. I’m adopted (from Vietnam, like Jessica, but I was one of those “Babylift” orphans), but have been very involved in the international adoption community since 2000 as a writer, speaker, activist, community builder, research, and so on.

All this is to say that I take adoption very seriously, but I also think that humour and the ability to laugh at ourselves is key to our healing. Laughing at ourselves gives us perspective and the ability to step back and not take ourselves too seriously without minimizing the importance of the topic. So when I saw Jess’ idea, I thought, why not? Especially given that we’re both adoptees, I figured it would be fun to make fun of ourselves and the often odd life experiences we’ve had and observed.

And here we are! I hope you enjoy! Please leave feedback and let us know what you think!