Wilberg, Janice

Janice Wilberg is a blogger and essayist. She writes from forty years' experience as a mother of four including three adopted as children with special needs from Nicaragua. She remembers well the first days of knowing her children including walking across the courtyard of a Nicaraguan orphanage to meet her six-year old daughter for the first time. Much of adoption literature is about the extraordinary joy new adoptive parents feel when they are matched with the child of their dreams. Janice Wilberg goes beyond the honeymoon phase to reflect on the days when love is so desperately needed but th...