My guest for The Happy Hour #138 is Lauren Casper. Lauren is the author of It's Okay About It: Lessons from a Remarkable Five-Year-Old about Living Life Wide Open, and founder of the internationally read blog laurencasper.com. Lauren is a top contributor to the TODAY Parenting Team and has had numerous articles syndicated by The Huffington Post, the TODAY show, Yahoo! News, and several other publications. She and her family live in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.
Lauren is an adoptive momma of two kiddos from Ethiopia. On today's show, she shares about her adoption journey, including their struggle with infertility. She also shares about the unique experience of adopting from Ethiopia and how they decided to keep their children's birth names.
Lauren's son was diagnosed with autism when he was 2 years old. In our conversation, she shares about that life-changing diagnosis and how she has learned to reshape her expectations and see the beauty in the brokenness.
Lauren's book about the lessons she has learned from her son is coming out next week, so make sure you scoot over and grab a copy here.
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Links from the Show
Lauren's Book: It's Okay About It
Anne Bogel's Podcast: What Should I Read Next
Start With Amen by Beth Guckenberger + Love Does by Bob Goff + Love Lives Here by Maria Goff + Love Walked In by Marisa De Los Santos
What Lauren is loving: Spring, all things dog and donuts
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So I am listening to this episode a little late, but I was literally talking about marriage and childbearing expectations that are put on people with my mom last night. My husband and I married when I was 28. I just turned 30 and recently spent a weekend with his family for a wedding. The first question everyone asked me/us was “when are you going to have babies”. While we do intend to try to have children, soon-ish, I couldn’t help but feel pressured. I also felt pain for our dear friends who are struggling with infertility. If we are hearing this question so often just a year and a half into our marriage, how often are they hearing it after 5 years in theirs?
Jamie, Thank you for bringing awareness to people every day! You talk about things that are hard sometimes and you bring so many perspectives with all of your guests. I Love listening to your podcast.