26 Jan 2012 10:33 AM
If you read my last entry you would know that I found my kids biological mother on face book and attempted to see if she wanted to restart updates and pictures. If she did want it I wanted something from her. I want medical history forms for her and all three of the kid's biological fathers.
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25 Jan 2012 03:53 PM
If you have adopted children one thing you think about is how you will explain to the kids what their life story is. Of course our kids all know they are adopted we have never kept that a secret we actually speak of it with great pride. We tell them that they were chosen by us in specific.
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25 Jan 2012 10:02 AM
So I have a dilemma that I thought I would share. As I have shared previously when we were trying to get Rebecca's biological mother to relinquish her parental rights so that we could adopt her we went to mediation.
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23 Jan 2012 05:33 PM
I learned something the other day that I did not know. There are an overwhelming number of baby girls placed in orphanages in India. The situation is much like that of the baby girls in China little girls born in India are quite often given up for adoption and placed in orphanages.
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11 Jan 2012 03:16 PM
I was watching the news today and they had their Wednesday child special segment. Wednesday's child is featuring kids that are in the foster care system that are waiting for a forever family. The two today were nine year old twins that had been in foster care for a while.
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17 Dec 2011 02:16 PM
When I am remembering our first Christmas as a family one thing that Steve did sticks with me to this day, when he unwrapped his presents he put them to the side and did not think they were for him to play with.
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17 Dec 2011 02:02 PM
When I think back to this week I always refer back to the joy and happiness of my first Christmas as a Mom. I remember Steve who was 3 lying under the tree looking up at the lights.
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08 Dec 2011 06:33 PM
Before I left work that wonderful day I told my coworkers what was happening and that I did not have any baby items.
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07 Dec 2011 04:50 PM
I am sitting here thinking back to 9 years ago this week when child protective services called and told us that the two brothers that we adopted in July 2002 now had a beautiful little girl and asked if we wanted her. Now we just got the boys 5 months before this call came.
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24 Nov 2011 04:58 PM
Last week was National Adoption Day! National Adoption Day is a day to celebrate the adoption and finalization of children adopted from foster care. I mention this because I was watching a Wednesday Child story on the news and there was 2 beautiful sisters that were looking for a forever family.
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