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I received this card the other day, just in time for Mother’s Day. For most people Mother’s Day means brunch and flowers and merriment. And that plays into my day too as I celebrate my mom and my sister (who’s a mom). But Mother’s Day is also bittersweet for me. Because I’ve always, always, as…
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Periodically people ask about how our adoption is going. Yep, we’re still at it! We still submit profiles of children to our social worker every couple of weeks and she submits our home study to their social worker. But we haven’t been matched yet. This is really frustrating for us. We feel like we are…
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Don’t get all excited folks, there’s no breaking news. I just wanted to let you all know where we stand right now with the adoption. We are still approved for adoption by the state of NC. Each month I log on to the websites with photo listings of available children (like http://www.adoptuskids.org) and browse the…
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As you know we submitted our home study for 3 little girls at the end of December. At this time we have not heard back about any of them. A dear friend of ours who’s been through this process said that this could happen. I just did an online search and one of them (the…
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I’m so excited to tell you that I’ve found 3 little girls that we’ve submitted our home study for! I combed the websites looking for a sibling group of 2 girls, or a boy and a girl but no such luck. But I did find 3 single girls. One is in the south. Not sure of…
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I hadn’t updated my 100+ Things page in a while so I sat down to do that and realized that a few things have changed over the past 3 or so years since I’d updated. #26- I used to only have 2 tattoos. Now I have 5: a sun/moon on my lower back, 3 ladybugs…
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We are all finished with our adoption work! No more paperwork. No more deadlines. No more inspections and scrutiny. No more digging for records. WHEW. We’ve been working on this for so long I almost don’t know what to do with myself now! Well, yes I do. That would be prepare for the arrival…
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Today I am thankful that tonight’s adoption class is the last one we will ever have to take! Then we just wait for our paperwork to be approved and we’ll be able to start screening kids! Can’t wait!! Papa’s been wanting some granddaughters!
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