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• National Adoption Month: Bittersweet

  
  Blogs — Authority: 160
  This years theme for National Adoption Month--which occurs in November--is "You dont have to be perfect to be a perfect parent" (what a relief--right?). Jokes aside, I should be happy about this special month to celebrate adoption. But Im not, not totally anyway.  Ive written about this over at The Faster Times ...
  6 days ago

• Adjustment: Marking the good. redux

  
  Another Espresso Please — Authority: 419
  I dont have a picture. Not the right picture anyhow. I have this picture, far below, which will have to suffice. I had a "mark the good" moment today. And because I have written before about how I think its important to MARK the good when you recognize it, I want to write this down...for the record, and so it ...
  6 days ago

• Real kids. On their own.

  
  Another Espresso Please — Authority: 419
  Teenagers. What happens to them? I mean, what happens to them if they dont have a family? If they dont have a home? A bedroom? A safe place to be? Enough food, enough care? Someone to watch over them, to give them grief, to tell them "good job", or "nice try", or "hey, no attitude!"? What if no one is there to say ...
  1 week ago

• sneaking off

  
  :: Adventures In Daily Living :: — Authority: 103
  If you know us in real-life, or even in blog-life I guess, you know that Dandy is not a free-range kid. I always have to know where he is and what he is doing. If I dont, he gets himself into trouble. Its not a lot different from parenting a 4-year-old, only a lot taller. Any way, he has been sneaking off for ...
  2 weeks ago

• Firsts

  
  Another Espresso Please — Authority: 419
  No adoption blog really is complete without posting that ongoing, ever growing, list of firsts. The list ranges from the mundane to the sublime, but they all have impact and are a privilege for us to witness. Fun and nervewracking, scary sometimes, sometimes hard, but really...its always cool to expand a world, bit ...
  2 weeks ago

• Turn-keys

  
  Another Espresso Please — Authority: 419
  So many of the things that are involved with adjusting to an adoption keep crowding into my head. So, Im processing stuff. Which means I have to post, you know it...its how I process. Bear with me. I wish someone had talked about this stuff when I was researching wondering dreaming about it all. I know, heaps o ...
  3 weeks ago

• Counter Intuitive Adjustment

  
  Another Espresso Please — Authority: 419
  There is an odd part of the adoption adjustment process that I want to talk about, to kind of sort it out in my head. Ive only really actually been able to see it clearly this time around. I think it plays out much more with the adjustment of an older child into the family. Im talking about that boundary...the one ...
  4 weeks ago

• Three months. Adjustment

  
  Another Espresso Please — Authority: 419
  So, today is three months. Three months since Miss Marta T landed in America. Stepped foot on US soil and became a citizen (IR3 visa, dont get all worked up, Gabey came on IR4, its just different) . Three months of adjusting to a tsunami of change: only child to big family, no parents to two parents and even ...
  4 weeks ago

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