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Three… is a magic number
River turned 3 today and as a result I'm considering changing my blog topic from adoption to government conspiracy because I can think of no other way that time could have moved so quickly without my...
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Gender Bending
Hello, my name is Jill and I'm a feminist. Not because I believe that men and women are exactly the same but because I believe each gender has great strengths that should be celebrated instead of...
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Hope is a Four Letter Word
I once read a Chinese Proverb that likened hope to fear and insinuated both were for fools. What does hope do but lift us up to higher heights from which to fall? I know many times I have cursed myself...
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Thank you. I can't say that enough.
I wanted to give thanks to everyone who responded to my post on Hope. I honestly could not have asked for better comments of love and support during a very trying week. I also want to give thanks to...
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Snow is coming!
And how! We had two 3-6” snow events over the course of one week. River needs to write a Farmer’s Almanac or become a weather psychic when he grows up. Yes, I know we live in Colorado, and yes I...
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Open Adoption Interview
It is time for the second annual Adoption Interview Project put on by Heather at Production, Not Reproduction! I love this Project and participated in March 2010 as well. For a complete list of...
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Blue Christmas
Christmas always manages to sneak up on me even though Walmart starts dropping hints even before Halloween. It is the celebration of our Savior, Lord and King's birth. And it is the KING of all...
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Goodbye, Sweet Home
Goodbye, Sweet Home.We had a lot of good times together didn't we?Thank you for providing the stage for our daily production. Seven years running. You will always be our first :) We made some sweet,...
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11 Things I learned in 2011
In no particular order, 2011 taught me the following (among many) lessons:1. Dads can be very supportive through pregnancy loss. In the end of September, when I had my most recent miscarriage, my Dad...
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You know you're a good parent when...
... the first thing your son says to you when he wakes up in the morning is,"Mommy, sniff my toot."
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Blood is Thicker than Water
Though River is usually very shy and takes his time warming up to people within hours of Angie, her husband, and their sons PJ and PA (River's first brothers, older and younger respectively) arriving...
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Arts and Laughs
Grief is such a funny thing. It totally sucks but sometimes in the midst of it I become overwhelmed with the excitement of the possibility it brings. The possibility for the expansion of who I am....
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It's Not All "Woe Is Me"...
I promise! We've been enjoying the beautiful warm weather here in Colorado, soaking it in and warming our souls in ways we haven't been able to the last 4-6 months. I swear, for me, open windows with...
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Oh my... where do I even start?
It is Friday and I'm not going to even pretend that I am being a dedicated engineer at work today. At first I was just happily perusing the internet catching up on blogs and recent pins when I came...
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Diggin' Up Bones - A success story in pictures...
Saturday morning I woke up early to work on taxes and to bury little dollar store dinosaurs and bugs in the fresh patch of earth in our yard where one of our trees used to stand watch. Later that day...
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First Observation of Race
This weekend, River made his first observation of race. It was neat to get the conversation going about diversity but daunting at the same time. The process of investigating transracial adoption made...
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Julia Murdock Smith, the thoughts of a 19th Centry Adoptee
This post will be the first of several in which I would like to highlight some great blog posts that I have been itching to acknowledge for anywhere from a few days to a few months. To kick off...
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I hate the Easter Bunny... oh, and Santa Claus, too. *UPDATED*
I wish it didn't have to be that way but it seems the past Christmas and Easter have me at odds with their secular mascots. I wish I was one of those parents that got all teary eyed and excited about...
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In The Mean Time
One piece of advice I often received while waiting to become a mother was to make the most of the freedom and extra time that I wouldn't get back for many years after we had children. If you know me,...
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Statistically Impossible - Thoughts on what each member of the triad is...
I am back to passing the buck! This time with a post that I have wanted to highlight (and received permission to do so) months ago. The post was written by I Am, a first father who blogs openly and...
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