With an adoption there are hurdles to overcome. When it is an International Adoption and the child is an Older Child. The language barrier might be a bit of an issue.

Learning any language as a younger child is easier than it is for an older child. One positive issue is that the child will be well versed in his own national language and will also become fluent with the English language also.

Communication may be an issue unless you yourself or a family member is versed in the national language from which country your child will be adopted from.

The one universal language is always love. Warm smiles and caring gestures are always a good way to communicate with any child.

An older child can teach you about his country and about his way of life. What word translations and cultural differences there are between his country and the new country here he or she is living in.

It will be fun to learn how they dress and what they eat and how much difference there is in music and art or philosophy there maybe.

It is a wonderful way to learn from each other. Maybe one day you can plan a trip back to the country your child was adopted from and allow your child to show you his or her birth place.

We all are living under the same sky, same moon and same stars. We all have the same body type, same ability to see and hear and speak. We just do things a little different in different parts of the world.

I have always adored listening to older people talk about how things used to be. Elderly people are walking, talking history books. Younger children are just fresh chapters in the history books to come.

We often go to museums to catch a look at history when in reality history is in the people living right around us. International Adoption just brings another child into the melting pot that America is founded up on.

Americans come in all shapes and sizes, colors and they speak many different languages. Some have dark skin others have light skin. We are many shades of the rainbow and we are the richest country on the earth.

For we have love and compassion. The ability to choose freedom and create our own career. It is no wonder why we are sought out by people who cry for freedom to be who they want to be and do what they dream to do.

America really is a cool place to live. It is the international melting pot of the circle of life. We are fortunate and blessed to be here and to be able to adopt a child and share our wealth and knowledge with them.

Love is the unspoken language of life.