Origins Part 2: Building a Family Through Adoption with Channing Power

In this 3-part series to Episode 3, we deep dive into three very different adoption stories to explore the topic of biological identity and origin. In Part 1, Jason reveals a major find, a truth to his own adoption story that perhaps would have gone undiscovered if not for Ancestry.com. In Part 2, we talk about the truths one mom faced while building a family through adoption. Here, we have a heart-to-heart with a mom who shares her very personal journey to building a family through adoption.  

 

This week: 

• Enjoy a Whiskey Old Fashioned and share this recipe’s origins
• Channing met Jason and Yvonne through a mutual friend, Hank and Sueann Fortener, founders of Adopt Together 
• Channing tells Jason and Yvonne that she had medical challenges that made it impossible for her to carry her own child 
• To Channing, adoption felt like it made a lot of sense and there are kids out there that needed a home, so that’s the path she chose
• Channing explains how she talked to her children about their own adoption journeys 
• Yvonne asks Channing, “What has been your search for identity?” 
• Channing talks about feeling like she was “playing with half the deck,” being a Black girl growing up in an all-white neighborhood
• Channing talks about growing up without representation in media, and how much she appreciated women like Shonda Rhimes now 
• Jason and Channing talk about being biracial, both Black and white, in cities that were historically sundown towns.
• Channing talks about how she predicts how her children will come to understand their adoption journeys 

 

Cocktail: Whiskey Old Fashioned

Recipe

• 2 oz of George Dickel Rye Whiskey
• Three teaspoons of simple syrup 
• Several dashes of bitters 
• A couple of splashes of water 

 

History & Meaning

The Old Fashioned :

Before the 1860s, cocktails in America tended to be some mixture of spirit (often