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news item – adoption. never easy, but worth the fight.
This week’s news article is getting a bit of double team action! Check out both Chandra, a mom and foster parent who has tried to adopt through foster care, and Traathy, an adoptive mom in an open...
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adoption blogger interview project – interviews are up!!!!!!
It’s finally here!!! I’ve been so excited to participate in the blogging event put on by Heather at Production Not Reproduction, mostly because I got paired with someone who I respect so much and have...
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guest post – missohkay on russia banning international adoptions
Last Friday afternoon I was playing with Ky on the floor in the kitchen with the TV on in the background in the other room when I started hearing words like “adoption, ban, international, &...
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january 2013 – monthly theme post –“where do babies come from?”
About 6 weeks ago, I was at the local community centre with HGB for Toddler RunAroundLikeABansheeonFire Gym, and a little girl started talking to me. She informed me that she was 3, had hair, was a big...
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january 2013 – where do babies come from?
Here are the posts for our January 2013 topic “Where Do Babies Come From?” Each of us had a unique path to tread to bringing our children home, and it will be interesting to see how we each plan to...
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featured post: “Some news from Ms. J” by Weathering Storms
Rain is a Mom who blogs about life with her husband, MrRuger, and their son, Cadet. They have an open adoption with Mrs. J, Cadet’s birth Mom, and Rain’s most recent post is an extremely interesting...
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family is everything
I was hanging out with a friend the other day when I mentioned that we’d be hanging out this coming Friday at Ky’s great grandma’s house for a fun Easter day of an egg hunt and then dinner with our...
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healing week: the afterwards
Being present in your own life movie A concept that I love and that I really only just started actively participating in these past few months. I had to stop blogging. And I had to put a firm boundary...
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news item: post-adoption depression
If there were a ranking of topics that don’t get talked about enough “post-adoption depression” would probably win for least talked about, even least recognized, topic. My only knowledge of the topic...
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mothering, a tribute to the cause – (jess)
This time of the year is all about honoring mothers. Over the next two weeks, we have International Bereaved Mothers Day (May 5), Birth Mother’s Day (May 11), Mother’s Day (May 12), and Step Mother’s...
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news item: canadian author explains how babies are made without sex or gender
On Monday (Canada Day, as it were) I found this news story in a roundabout sort of way. The short version is that I was reading a new blog called Tiny Human(s) for Two Queers and saw the book...
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featured post: you blissed-out moms are ruining futures
I used to volunteer with a youth group. And occasionally I would just be hanging out with the young women of this group and I would feel the need to lay some truth down. One day these young ladies were...
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featured post –“the most important thing i want you to know about our open...
Every once in a while, I stumble upon a blog post that hits me in the gut – hard. It’s posts like this one from Kasey of MacKronoicles that motivate me to be the best mother I can be. Why? Because...
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september 2013 monthly theme – why we blog
When I started my blog, it was a place to post pictures and hilarious anecdotes about my kid because I had quit Facebook. I had been secretly reading IF blogs when I was pregnant with him, hoping to...
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October 2013 monthly theme – birth story
While discussing and sorting through monthly theme ideas with my fellow PAIL ladies I was SHOCKED to learn we haven’t done a monthly theme on Birth Stories! Now, the theme of birth stories is a little...
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