Tag: parent
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2.5 Years as Adoptive Parents — Our Biggest Takeaways
It’s hard to believe she’s been with us almost as long as she was in her first home, there is something that feels so monumental of crossing that threshold between longer there than with us and moving into the future. I’ve heard from so many adoptive families that have come before us that every season…
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Here Comes Autumn! How I’m Keeping My Kids as Healthy as Possible
Our son woke up with a stuffy nose this morning. We made it 5 weeks into the school year before it happened — and honestly that is a win in my book. Being in Kindergarten I think I was bracing for the fa ct we’d only make it a week or two before those new class, more…
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Creating Our Calming Corners
How we go from all out brawls to relaxed space in just a few minutes. Having kids of any age is going to result in daily disagreements, fights, and sometimes physical torment; having virtual twins with very different backgrounds enhances that reality ten-fold. Our house would be super calm until it wasn’t. Having them at…
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The Hope for Year 2, After the Fury of Year 1
Hopeful, cautiously optimistic, anxious and every emotion in between. I clenched my jaw as the season turned. I remember it. I remember it well. The scars etched in my brain possibly forever, at least for awhile. Year one was nothing I have ever experienced and nothing I want to go back to. In October of…
Fueling Her Forward 