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Toddler Tantrums: Beauty’s Acting Beastly
I’ll admit it: my daughter, Beauty, has a Case of the Terrible Two’s. I say it with both relief and regret—relief that’s she’s developed into a two year old whose lust for independence has led her to...
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What Does “Adoptive Parenting” Mean Anyway?
A few weeks back, I had a quick cup of coffee with a dear friend of mine. We did the usually “catch up” convos; we talked about our families, reminisced about the “old days”, and laughed a lot. I...
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October 15: Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day
Today, October 15, is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day. As many adoptive parents come to their beautiful children after a struggle with infertility of some form, I felt this a fitting topic to...
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When Adding a Child Adds Stress to Your Marriage
When Bear was born, my husband and I had one uniting focus: meeting Bear’s needs and keeping him happy while we were doing so. Our marriage grew stronger as we really learned the meaning of “team...
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The Teeter-Totter of Time Management
As a mother of both a two and three year old, I sometimes think I have it easier than most by having two children a mere ten and a half months apart in age. I mean, they’re only ten and a half months...
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The Stability of Schedules
I’ve been reading over the journal I kept to document our journey of adopting Beauty, and let me tell you…it’s pretty intense. I can still conjure up so many of those feelings as I read over the...
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Household Chores and Developmental Delays
Our Beauty is inching up on her third birthday (just over two months to go) and we’ve started a new addition to her daily schedule: a household chore. Some may argue that almost-three is too young to...
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Re-establishing Daily Routine
The holidays have come and gone. If you’re anything like me, I’m still not back to my normal routine. I feel that I’m almost there, but not quite. It’s hard to wrap my head around a whole new year, and...
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A Single Parent Household
The other day I wrote a post about single parenthood, a fact of life for many adoptive families. A lot of people (mostly women, but not all) choose to parent on their own, while others, like mine,...
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A Less Than Stellar Performance
I am well aware of the intricacies of sibling rivalry. I grew up in a very large family with eleven siblings of my own. I know that siblings can love each other one minute, hate each other the next and...
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