tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47604178210598713802024-03-13T05:32:07.591-05:00Adoptive Momma of ThreeAdoptive Mommahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11292394884269387827noreply@blogger.comBlogger1050125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4760417821059871380.post-32331645118284158382015-03-21T22:24:00.001-05:002015-03-21T22:24:25.998-05:00Exposure and Attachment<div class="blog__header page-header" style="border-bottom-width: 3px; border-bottom-style: double; border-bottom-color: rgb(214, 214, 214); padding-bottom: 11px; margin-bottom: 21px; float: left; width: 290px; position: relative; min-height: 60px;"><h2 class="page__title" style="margin: 0px 0px 6px;"><span style="font-size: 17px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Prenatal Drug Exposure and Disruption of Attachment</span></h2><div class="blog-subtitle" style="margin: 0px; float: left; max-width: 540px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Attachment must travel a two-way street </span></div><div class="blog__author-description subtext" style="float: left; max-width: 540px; clear: both; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Post published by <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/experts/ira-j-chasnoff-md" style="transition: color 0.2s; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;">Ira J. 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border-style: none; overflow: hidden; height: 21px;"></iframe></span></div></div><div class="region region-content region__content"><div id="block-system-main" class="block-system-main block block-system" style="clear: both; top: -4px;"><div class="block__content"><div class="t7-clear-me" style="clear: both;"></div><div class="node node-blog-entry node-promoted node-1072612 comment-2 clearfix" data-nid="1072612" data-type="blog_entry"><div class="node__content mode__full"><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field__item"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Most simply, <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/attachment" class="inline-links topic-link" title="Psychology Today looks at attachment" style="transition: color 0.2s; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); padding-bottom: 2px;">attachment</a> is the interconnectedness between human beings. Central to long-term social development, attachment theory says that all children have attachments – either positive or negative – but all children have attachments. Positive attachments are protective, while negative attachments place children at high risk for long-term social/emotional outcome. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For successful attachment to occur, there are two requirements: each individual must be able to read the other’s cues and each individual must be able to respond appropriately to the other’s cues. These thoughts came to mind as I read a recently published book, <em>When Mama Can’t Kiss it Better </em>by Lori Gertz. In it, Lori tells the emotional and gripping story from the time of her family’s adopting a beautiful newborn girl through the time seven years later when the adoption disrupted and the child was moved to another family and another state where perhaps her needs could be better met. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Briefly, Lori and her husband Craig met and worked with a birth mother throughout a good portion of the <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/pregnancy" class="inline-links topic-link" title="Psychology Today looks at pregnancy" style="transition: color 0.2s; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); padding-bottom: 2px;">pregnancy</a> and were present for the delivery. There was no history of drug or <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/conditions/alcohol-abuse" class="inline-links topic-link" title="Psychology Today looks at alcohol abuse" style="transition: color 0.2s; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); padding-bottom: 2px;">alcohol abuse</a> in any of the information Lori and Craig were able to gather, but from the moment of birth the baby showed a classic picture of severe neonatal abstinence. The doctors caring for the infant didn’t recognize this, nor did Lori and Craig, who quickly became enamored of the baby girl in spite of her incessant crying, irritability, and screaming. By just a few months after the birth, Lori and Craig found themselves in an endless cycle of seeking help from one doctor after another. And, similar to many adoptive families, the couple were repeatedly told the baby was merely fussy, the baby was allergic to a variety of foods, the baby would be fine, and, ultimately, it was their fault the baby was like this.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When the infant was three years old, Lori and Craig and the family underwent a comprehensive evaluation. This was only after they learned from the birth mother’s brother that there had been heavy <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/alcohol" class="inline-links topic-link" title="Psychology Today looks at alcohol " style="transition: color 0.2s; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); padding-bottom: 2px;">alcohol </a>and drug use throughout the pregnancy and that the birth mother had recently died of a drug overdose. The child presented to the clinicians with severe behavioral difficulties, most of which went far beyond anything that could even remotely be considered “normal.” I won’t go into the specifics of the family’s daily life; the book spells it out in agonizing detail. 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exposure on her developmental and emotional functioning came to light through the evaluation. The most unexpected diagnosis made, however, was that the little girl at three years of age was suffering from a severe attachment disorder. This is surprising on many levels. First of all, the child from the moment of birth had been with one family who loved and adored her. Second, from all that could be discerned from our clinical interviews and assessment with the family, Lori and Craig had done everything possible to support and nurture their daughter. In most cases like this, quite a bit of blame is laid at the feet of the <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/parenting" class="inline-links topic-link" title="Psychology Today looks at parents" style="transition: color 0.2s; -webkit-transition: color 0.2s; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); padding-bottom: 2px;">parents</a>, especially the mother. Their personalities and family backgrounds are dissected, the mother’s strengths and, primarily, her weaknesses are laid out. If the mother had been a better mother, the child never would have developed an attachment disorder! This was the message that repeatedly had been given to Lori from multiple different professionals.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But we have to look at this from a different perspective. 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Too many times, and in too many different ways, our preconceived notions of what a “good” mother is get in the way of our objective analysis of a clinical problem. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">These issues are especially pertinent as we face a resurgence in opiate use during pregnancy. Not only heroin but prescription drug abuse is reaching epidemic proportions in some states. Infants prenatally exposed to opiates go through a true abstinence, characterized by irritability, tremors, crying, sweating, diarrhea, and, in some cases, seizures. Infants going through opiate abstinence often will not be able to respond adequately to touch, voice, or face-to-face interaction. 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<br />Adoptive Mommahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11292394884269387827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4760417821059871380.post-62839211381545653322014-11-25T17:46:00.001-06:002014-11-25T17:46:52.473-06:00Family Needed<blockquote type="cite"><div id="ygrp-mlmsg" style="position: relative;"><div id="ygrp-msg" style="z-index: 1;"><div id="ygrp-text"><blockquote type="cite"></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><i>I receive these postings from a list serv and do not have personal knowledge regarding placements. Please practice due diligence.</i></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">kathrynmfinch@hotmail.com [waitingtoadopt]" <waitingtoadopt@yahoogroups.com></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Date:</b> November 25, 2014 at 5:26:09 PM CST<br><b>To:</b> <waitingtoadopt@yahoogroups.com><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>[waitingtoadopt] LOOKING FOR a Family to adopt an African American Girl Due February 2015 --- Code: SALIMA</b><br><b>Reply-To:</b> waitingtoadopt@yahoogroups.com<br><br></span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div id="ygrp-mlmsg" style="position: relative;"><div id="ygrp-msg" style="z-index: 1;"><div id="ygrp-text"><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">LOOKING FOR a Family to adopt an African American Girl Due February 2015 --- Code: SALIMA</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Name & Due Date: Salima - February 20, 2015</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sex (If Known): Girl</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Race: African American</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Location: <b>Mid-South Region</b> - KS -</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Health: She doesn’t do drug or use alcohol, she smokes about a pack or so a week. She is healthy.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Other Info: She would love to receive pictures after the placement. She would prefer a family with Afro American (Parents and or children) but will consider others if they apply.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Total Estimated Fees: $ 21,000 this includes finalization and all other costs</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Case Worker: FLO</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">IF YOU ARE PAPER READY AND INTERESTED, please contact Sarah <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:sarahjdalia@gmail.com">sarahjdalia@gmail.com</a> (sarahjdalia @ gmail.com - No spaces) or Adam <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:adambodily@gmail.com">adambodily@gmail.com</a> (adambodily @ gmail.com - No spaces)</span></p></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><div><div style="position: relative;"><div style="z-index: 1;"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="position: relative;"><div style="z-index: 1;"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></p></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div>Adoptive Mommahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11292394884269387827noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4760417821059871380.post-38979317914601372812014-11-23T16:07:00.001-06:002014-11-23T16:07:25.080-06:00ThanksgivingToday our family loaded up and headed to church. We attend a VERY small "cowboy church" in a tiny little town just south of our large suburb. <div><br></div><div>A fully packed house in our church may be a congregation of 60 people. Today we probably had 30 people in attendance.</div><div><br></div><div>When you walk into the door at cowboy church, you will be greeted with hellos all round, hugs, and sincere fellowship and kindess.</div><div><br></div><div>Today, I was immediately greeted by an elderly gentleman who is an adoptive parent. He hugged me and said the Lord blessed your family through adoption and you are enjoying His blessings everyday. I could not agree more. We talked adoption for bit.</div><div><br></div><div>The man told me about his adopted daughter. He told me she is an adoptive parent herself. <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">As he and I chatted another adoptee joined our conversation. Her parents adopted her and her sister as infants. We laughed as I heard stories about them growing up.</span></div><div><br></div><div>Our pastor's sermon was about thankfulness today. Obviously, this is a week we focus on our thankfulness. He encouraged us to be thankful in all situations, even those where we struggle to find reasons for thanksgiving. </div><div><br></div><div>As I left church, I was hugged and wished a good week by a mom whose family fosters children. She told me all about the house full she had last night.</div><div><br></div><div>Our church family is overflowing with adoption and adoption stories, with a few foster stories as well. <span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Such a small congregation but such a huge story of adoption and so many reasons to be thankful.</span></div><div><br></div><div>Happy National Adoption Month. Happy Thanksgiving. Be Blessed.</div>Adoptive Mommahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11292394884269387827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4760417821059871380.post-83009830434812537032014-11-01T11:37:00.000-05:002014-11-01T11:37:29.214-05:00National Adoption MonthNovember is National Adoption Month. This month we celebrate adoption. If you are wanting to adopt here are some ideas on where to start...<br />
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<br />Adoptive Mommahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11292394884269387827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4760417821059871380.post-77149983184004194852014-09-16T15:46:00.001-05:002014-09-16T16:39:00.859-05:00MaizeyMaizey Lulu Mitchell is our 3 year old Bassett Coonhound mix. She was born in March 2011 and we got her so the boys would have a puppy. Every boy needs one right? Our other dog Maggie was elderly and not the least bit interested in the time and energy two little boys had to invest in her. So we were getting a puppy. How exciting!<br />
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She had always known she was adopted but had never heard anything about the circumstances.</span></p></div><div class=""><p style="padding: 10px 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On the day she was born, according to the story Rick Cox heard, somebody left her in a phone booth at the Tulsa state fairgrounds.</span></p></div><div class=""><p style="padding: 10px 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Who told you that?” she asked, laughing at such a wild tale. “That can’t be right.”</span></p></div><div class=""><p style="padding: 10px 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Cox had grown up with two older brothers in Hartshorne, a town of 2,100 people in southeastern Oklahoma. Her parents made no secret of the adoption, but they had been waiting until she was older to tell her the rest.</span></p></div><div class=""><p style="padding: 10px 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Yes,” her mother acknowledged when Cox asked. “It’s true.”</span></p></div><div class=""><p style="padding: 10px 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">About 11:45 in the morning on Monday, June 12, 1978, an anonymous woman called the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office and told a dispatcher that a baby girl was in a phone booth near the Skyride. A deputy arrived minutes later and, sirens blaring, rushed the newborn to a hospital.</span></p></div><div class=""><p style="padding: 10px 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Doctors estimated she was 3 to 4 hours old, and they found a twist-tie looped around her umbilical cord. Wrapped in a blanket and lying in a well-worn baby carrier, she weighed 6 pounds 9 ounces and measured 19 inches long.</span></p></div><div class=""><p style="padding: 10px 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Although she has since had surgery to improve her vision, Cox was legally blind as a child and had a mild case of cerebral palsy, suggesting that she might have suffered from a lack of oxygen at birth.</span></p></div><div class=""><p style="padding: 10px 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“When I found out that I was abandoned,” Cox says, “I wanted to find my biological family even more.”</span></p></div><div class=""><p style="padding: 10px 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She looked for clues in the archives of the Tulsa World, but details were scarce. The press had called her “Baby Maybelle” because she was found in a Ma Bell phone booth.</span></p></div><div class=""><p style="padding: 10px 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A young woman repeatedly called a hospital and the Tulsa Police Department to ask about “my baby,” and officials promised not to press charges if she came forward, but she never did.</span></p></div><div class=""><p style="padding: 10px 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Six months later, the state put the baby up for adoption.</span></p></div><div class=""><p style="padding: 10px 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The police also received an anonymous tip from a young man who claimed that the baby’s grandmother had taken the child away from its mother, who needed medical attention. He apparently knew details about the baby that police had not made public, indicating that he might actually have seen the child, according to World archives.</span></p></div><div class=""><p style="padding: 10px 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I have a birthmark on my back,” Cox says. “In my mind, that could have been it.”</span></p></div><div class=""><p style="padding: 10px 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Was he the father? An uncle? Or a convincing liar who pulled a prank on investigators?</span></p></div><div class=""><p style="padding: 10px 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I have so many questions,” says Cox, now 36 years old and living in Pawnee, an hour east of Tulsa. “There’s got to be a reason. There’s got to be a story behind it, and that intrigues me. Good, bad or otherwise, it’s my story, and I want know what started it.”</span></p></div><div class=""><p style="padding: 10px 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Her initial search in the ‘90s came to a dead end. But earlier this year, Cox launched a new effort to find answers, starting a Baby Maybelle blog that has attracted 50,000 readers and making a personal plea that went viral on Facebook, shared more than 100,000 times in just one week.</span></p></div><div class=""><p style="padding: 10px 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Soon, a woman came forward claiming to be Cox’s mother with a heart-wrenching story about rape and incest.</span></p></div><div class=""><p style="padding: 10px 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“The resemblance was remarkable,” Cox says. “Put blond hair on me, and you would be looking at her. My friends who saw her were in tears because we looked so much alike it was crazy.”</span></p></div><div class=""><p style="padding: 10px 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A DNA test, however, ruled out any chance that they were related, and the woman admitted that she had made up the whole story. Cox will be less gullible next time.</span></p></div><div class=""><p style="padding: 10px 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I’m not mad at my mother, whoever she is,” she says. “Maybe she was young. Maybe she was scared. Maybe it wasn’t her choice. I don’t know. Whoever put me there wasn’t trying to hurt me. They were trying to get me to a safe place.”</span></p></div><div class=""><p style="padding: 10px 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">With a petite figure and thick, curly hair, she has some Irish background, but her genes are mostly Spanish, according to the DNA results.</span></p></div><div class=""><p style="padding: 10px 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Estranged from most of her adoptive family, she’s raising three daughters, ages 15, 12 and 9, and they want to meet their grandmother.</span></p></div><div class=""><p style="padding: 10px 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Somebody somewhere knows something,” Cox says. “If not for me, then for my girls. Tell us who we are.”</span></p></div><div class="asset-tagline tagline"><p style="padding: 10px 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Michael Overall <a href="tel:918-581-8383" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="telephone" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0">918-581-8383</a></span></p><p style="padding: 10px 0px;"><a title="mailto:michael.overall@tulsaworld.com" href="mailto:michael.overall@tulsaworld.com" target="_blank" class="ui-link" style="font-weight: 700; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">michael.overall@tulsaworld.com</font></a></p></div></div></article>Adoptive Mommahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11292394884269387827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4760417821059871380.post-68618857299479586602014-09-01T14:04:00.007-05:002014-09-01T15:52:39.526-05:00Busy, Busy, BusyOnce school begins the year is over before you know it. 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Our new home is much larger than anything we have lived in before and I am not one to head out and buy up new furniture. I love old. I love to give new life to something that has already had a life before. The flea market is my favorite place to shop for home furnishings.<br />
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I purchased a dining table many months ago. It is solid oak with claw feet and I loved it immediately. I sanded it down and repainted, sanded and antiqued the table for our dining room.<br />
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I needed chairs. So I hit the flea market again. I found these inexpensive, very old solid wood chairs with very ugly gingham padding.<br />
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I had never recovered chairs before so I enlisted my mother to help me. By the end of this project we felt like professional reupholsters. <br />
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The dining room is nearly complete it just needs a few finishing touches. <br />
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So much left to do at the house but we need to have some fun too! The boys had a rodeo...<br />
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Little sister looked adorable for cowboy church...<br />
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My parents headed home and we headed to the ballpark to watch some minor league baseball...<br />
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Just another fantastic weekend at the Mitchell house.</div>
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It's over. Summer is gone. We felt like we had missed summer because our time was spent searching for a home and moving. At the last minute we decided to load up our crew and head to Missouri. We rented a condo on the lake and took the kids to Silver Dollar City, Dogwood Canyon and to see the sites in and around Branson. It was last minute but turned out to be a great trip. </div>
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We hit the road with our bearded captain at the helm...</div>
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One of our first stops was Dogwood Canyon. A beautiful animal preserve with buffalo, elk, deer, long horn cattle and trout fishing.</div>
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We hit the strip in Branson and visited some site seeing hot spots. <br />
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After 4 days away we hurried home to see the PBR event in Tulsa last night.<br />
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The boys are back to school on Wednesday which means schedules and alarm clocks. Goodbye summer. Thankful for the quick trip and the much needed break.Adoptive Mommahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11292394884269387827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4760417821059871380.post-35054181826381968272014-08-04T14:24:00.001-05:002014-08-04T14:24:20.726-05:00Moved...Whew!Two years ago we set out to move our family to a new home. We stuck a sign in our yard and unexpectedly sold our home almost immediately and had no where to move. We ended up leasing a home that fit our needs for the short term and kept our kids in the same school district. We extended our lease for 6 months to avoid moving during the school year and decided to build. After losing a beautiful piece of land to an unclean title and then deciding to just stay within the planned neighborhoods of our school system we again lost a home on the day of closing. It was not looking good for us.<br />
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We had eight days left on our lease. Only 8 days and we would be homeless or living in a hotel with 3 kids and a dog. We hoped for a miracle and through the grace of God and the hard work of our realtor we found a home. We found the perfect home for our family. A large treed lot, plenty of space to grow, everything we were hoping to find. With a little elbow grease and a little of bit of time we will make it our own.<br />
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This weekend we worked in our yard clearing brush and dead limbs. My parents were here to visit and were a huge help. My dad and Brian cleared the yard with a chainsaw while my mom piled brush and limbs to be hauled away. <br />
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I worked keeping the kids out of the way, and painting furniture and patio furniture to spruce up our old things for our new home. I love to redo furniture, it's a favorite hobby of mine. <br />
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I painted old adirondack chairs and made them beautiful for our front porch. <br />
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I think this dining table is my favorite. I have a few more projects in the works. My biggest is a claw footed, solid oak table for our dining room. Our new home is proving to be a lot of work but it is all totally worth it and making it our own is creating some fun memories, laughs and a lot of sore muscles. Home sweet home.<br />
<br />Adoptive Mommahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11292394884269387827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4760417821059871380.post-8617427837637192402014-07-20T21:59:00.000-05:002014-07-20T21:59:36.832-05:00Dear Moms of Adopted ChildrenI think I have posted this before but I saw it again tonight and it needs to be posted again. <br />
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First, a quick note: I wrote this piece after reading an essay written by <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lea-grover" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #1982d1; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lea Grover</a> in the<em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Huffiington Post</em>, titled “<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lea-grover/dear-less-than-perfect-mom_b_3184445.html" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #1982d1; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Dear Less-Than-Perfect Mom</a>.” The post by Lea was wonderful, and it made me think about us moms who found our sweet babies through adoption, and how we face unique challenges. I hope you enjoy it, whether you are the parent of an adopted child or not. <strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Happy early Mother’s Day, everyone.</strong></div>
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I met you in adoption education class. I met you at the agency. I met you at my son’s school. I met you online. I met you on purpose. I met you by accident.</div>
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It doesn’t matter. The thing is, I knew you right away. I recognize the fierce determination. The grit. The fight. Because everything about what you have was a decision, and nothing about what you have was easy. You are the kind of woman who Makes.Things.Happen. After all, you made <i style="font-style: italic;">this</i> happen, this family you have.</div>
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Maybe you prayed for it. Maybe you had to convince a partner it was the right thing. Maybe you did it alone. Maybe people told you to just be happy with what you had before. Maybe someone told you it simply wasn’t in God’s plans for you to have a child, <i style="font-style: italic;">this</i> child whose hair you now brush lightly from his face. Maybe someone warned you about what happened to their cousin’s neighbor’s friend. Maybe you ignored them.</div>
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Maybe you planned for it for years. Maybe an opportunity dropped into your lap. Maybe you depleted your life-savings for it. Maybe it was not your first choice. But maybe it was.</div>
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Regardless, I know you. And I see how you hold on so tight. Sometimes too tight. Because that’s what we do, isn’t it?</div>
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I know about all those books you read back then. The ones everyone reads about sleep patterns and cloth versus disposable, yes, but the extra ones, too. About dealing with attachment disorders, breast milk banks, babies born addicted to alcohol, cocaine, meth. About cognitive delays, language deficiencies. About counseling support services, tax and insurance issues, open adoption pros and cons, legal rights.</div>
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I know about the fingerprinting, the background checks, the credit reports, the interviews, the references. I know about the classes, so many classes. I know the frustration of the never-ending paperwork. The hours of going over finances, of having garage sales and bake sales and whatever-it-takes sales to raise money to afford it all.</div>
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I know how you never lost sight of what you wanted.</div>
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I know about the match call, the soaring of everything inside you to cloud-height, even higher. And then the tucking of that away because, well, these things fall through, you know.</div>
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Maybe you told your mother, a few close friends. Maybe you shouted it to the world. Maybe you allowed yourself to decorate a baby’s room, buy a car seat. Maybe you bought a soft blanket, just that one blanket, and held it to your cheek every night.</div>
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I know about your home visits. I know about your knuckles, cracked and bleeding, from cleaning every square inch of your home the night before. I know about you burning the coffee cake and trying to fix your mascara before the social worker rang the doorbell.</div>
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And I know about the followup visits, when you hadn’t slept in three weeks because the baby had colic. I know how you wanted so badly to show that you had it all together, even though you were back to working more-than-full-time, maybe without maternity leave, without the family and casseroles and welcome-home balloons and plants.</div>
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And I’ve seen you in foreign countries, strange lands, staying in dirty hotels, taking weeks away from work, struggling to understand what’s being promised and what’s not. Struggling to offer your love to a little one who is unsettled and afraid. Waiting, wishing, greeting, loving, flying, nesting, coming home.</div>
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I’ve seen you down the street at the hospital when a baby was born, trying to figure out where you belong in the scene that’s emerging. I’ve seen your face as you hear a nurse whisper to the birthmother that she doesn’t have to go through with this. I’ve seen you trying so hard to give this birthmother all of your respect and patience and compassion in those moments—while you bite your lip and close your eyes, not knowing if she will change her mind, if this has all been a dream coming to an abrupt end in a sterile environment. Not knowing if this is your time. Not knowing so much.</div>
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I’ve seen you look down into a newborn infant’s eyes, wondering if he’s really yours, wondering if you can quiet your mind and good sense long enough to give yourself over completely.</div>
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And then, to have the child in your arms, at home, that first night. His little fingers curled around yours. His warm heart beating against yours.</div>
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I know that bliss. The perfect, guarded, hopeful bliss.</div>
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I also know about you on adoption day. The nerves that morning, the judge, the formality, the relief, the joy. The letting out of a breath maybe you didn’t even know you were holding for months. Months.</div>
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I’ve seen you meet your child’s birthparents and grandparents weeks or years down the road. I’ve seen you share your child with strangers who have his nose, his smile … people who love him because he’s one of them. I’ve seen you hold him in the evenings after those visits, when he’s shaken and confused and really just wants a stuffed animal and to rest his head on your shoulder.</div>
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I’ve seen you worry when your child brings home a family tree project from school. Or a request to bring in photos of him and his dad, so that the class can compare traits that are passed down, like blue eyes or square chins. I know you worry, because you can protect your child from a lot of things — but you can’t protect him from being different in a world so intent on celebrating sameness.</div>
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I’ve seen you at the doctor’s office, filling out medical histories, leaving blanks, question marks, hoping the little blanks don’t turn into big problems later on.</div>
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I’ve seen you answer all of the tough questions, the questions that have to do with why, and love, and how much, and where, and who, and how come, mama? How come?</div>
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I’ve seen you wonder how you’ll react the first time you hear the dreaded, “You’re not my real mom.” And I’ve seen you smile softly in the face of that question, remaining calm and loving, until you lock yourself in the bathroom and muffle your soft cries with the sound of the shower.</div>
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I’ve seen you cringe just a little when someone says your child is lucky to have you. Because you know with all your being it is the other way around.</div>
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But most of all, I want you to know that I’ve seen you look into your child’s eyes. And while you will never see a reflection of your own eyes there, you see something that’s just as powerful: A reflection of your complete and unstoppable love for this person who grew in the midst of your tears and laughter, and who, if torn from you, would be like losing yourself.</div>
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Adoptive Mommahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11292394884269387827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4760417821059871380.post-14384263143223541922014-07-09T21:10:00.001-05:002014-07-09T21:10:36.940-05:00Happy Birthday Rogan!Today our cowboy turned 6 yrs old! He celebrated with all the other cowpokes at rodeo camp. The dinner of his choice was alligator tail at Bass Pro. Happy birthday lil redneck Rogie!<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-HTXAzH-gzAc/U732AkB8YAI/AAAAAAAAGP0/oRl3AlzSSqc/s640/blogger-image-2046083157.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-HTXAzH-gzAc/U732AkB8YAI/AAAAAAAAGP0/oRl3AlzSSqc/s640/blogger-image-2046083157.jpg"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-HTXAzH-gzAc/U732AkB8YAI/AAAAAAAAGP0/oRl3AlzSSqc/s640/blogger-image-2046083157.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-LQ6T43fXzfQ/U732Dkl2fyI/AAAAAAAAGP8/CDqUKuUI_U0/s640/blogger-image-944070875.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-LQ6T43fXzfQ/U732Dkl2fyI/AAAAAAAAGP8/CDqUKuUI_U0/s640/blogger-image-944070875.jpg"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-LQ6T43fXzfQ/U732Dkl2fyI/AAAAAAAAGP8/CDqUKuUI_U0/s640/blogger-image-944070875.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pjyzln6rer8/U7319UBk2QI/AAAAAAAAGPs/2xnP_EHbNnA/s640/blogger-image-1553115836.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pjyzln6rer8/U7319UBk2QI/AAAAAAAAGPs/2xnP_EHbNnA/s640/blogger-image-1553115836.jpg"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pjyzln6rer8/U7319UBk2QI/AAAAAAAAGPs/2xnP_EHbNnA/s640/blogger-image-1553115836.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-U_7ATA-xRUs/U7316kgFQJI/AAAAAAAAGPk/BoedeMQLQ_E/s640/blogger-image-1309328417.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-U_7ATA-xRUs/U7316kgFQJI/AAAAAAAAGPk/BoedeMQLQ_E/s640/blogger-image-1309328417.jpg"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-U_7ATA-xRUs/U7316kgFQJI/AAAAAAAAGPk/BoedeMQLQ_E/s640/blogger-image-1309328417.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Fwjft-yvUM0/U732GravpPI/AAAAAAAAGQE/ckqQKb6tp7U/s640/blogger-image--1346383370.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Fwjft-yvUM0/U732GravpPI/AAAAAAAAGQE/ckqQKb6tp7U/s640/blogger-image--1346383370.jpg"></a></div></div></div></div></div>Adoptive Mommahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11292394884269387827noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4760417821059871380.post-53749254837586100342014-05-24T19:59:00.001-05:002014-05-24T19:59:23.129-05:00First Day of Summer Break<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">We took a road trip to SE OK today. We saw rock carvings dating back to 600-800 A.D., a family of vultures, a barge go through a lock and dam, a crop duster flying and dusting fields, played on a playground, watched a parade of covered wagons and looked at arrow heads and other Native American relics. It was a great day.</span><br />
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The boys started to ride horses when they were four years old and Avenn will probably start in the next year or so when she is three. Somehow they got the rodeo bug and started by doing the calf scramble where they chase a calf with a million other kids trying to take a ribbon off the poor calf's tail. Now, they are official members of the Lil Rough Riders Association. Rogan does mutton bustin' (he rides sheep) and Brice rides calves. <br />
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They had their first official event last night....<br />
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<br />Adoptive Mommahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11292394884269387827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4760417821059871380.post-25903013101552847422014-05-09T23:32:00.001-05:002014-05-09T23:32:18.421-05:00<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-7-QsvQcrgTE/U22r0OtmrzI/AAAAAAAAGJc/AF9lxuN3baY/s640/blogger-image-1424256726.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-7-QsvQcrgTE/U22r0OtmrzI/AAAAAAAAGJc/AF9lxuN3baY/s640/blogger-image-1424256726.jpg"></a></div>Adoptive Mommahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11292394884269387827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4760417821059871380.post-10160595534724212222014-05-09T20:57:00.001-05:002014-05-09T21:00:55.631-05:00Birth Mother's Day<h2><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">I repost this every year...</span></h2><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Do you know about Birth Mother's Day? Birth Mother's Day is celebrated the Saturday before Mother's Day. It is a somewhat controversial holiday, some say it is a way to celebrate birth mothers while others say it should be a day of grieving versus a celebration. The day itself was actually started by birth mothers. If you are interested in learning more about the history of Birth Mother's Day check this link </span><a href="http://wiki.adoption.com/Birth_Mother%27s_Day">http://wiki.adoption.com/Birth_Mother%27s_Day</a>Adoptive Mommahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11292394884269387827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4760417821059871380.post-6725769129649058432014-05-01T10:18:00.000-05:002014-05-01T11:17:37.847-05:00It's Not A CompetitionI was reading posts on an adoption website from birth mothers a few days ago. I found it interesting that birth mothers were discussing adoption profiles created by hopeful parents. The birth mothers were going back and forth about us outdoing ourselves and trying our best to impress or to outshine other profiles. Several said, they just knew when they saw our faces that we were the right ones for their child. They did not need to see all the biographical details, fancy bindings, essays and quotes.<br />
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Their discussion caught my attention because it has always been my advice and our methodology that less is more when it comes to an adoption profile. I have been asked time and time again about our profile(s) and I have even sent copies to several friends so they could "copy" it for themselves. <br />
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Less is more. It's the best advice we received from our adoption agency and it apparently holds true with birth mothers looking to place.<br />
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They do not what to know EVERYTHING about us, ALL of our plans for the future, our religious affiliations, our parenting styles, they do not need to see a photo of EVERY person from each branch of our family tree, every photo from EVERY mile of our cross country vacation.<br />
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They need to see our face, our smiles, they'll know us when they see us. <br />
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Our children's birth mothers just so happened to share with us why they picked us each time. We didn't ask specifically, the topic happened to come up in conversation during our initial meetings and for some reason I remember their answers. For one it was because we had dogs and they grew up with dogs and wanted their child's childhood to include a dog. For another it was because we already had a son and they wanted their child to grow up with a big brother. The other liked that we took vacations and traveled whenever we could and we had known each other since childhood.<br />
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None of them mentioned the decorations in our nursery, or the size of our yard and home. They didn't really care what religion we were or how often we went to church. They paid no attention to the scrap booking handiwork on each page. Something simple just caught their eye.<br />
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So, as I attempt to do with all things in my life...keep it simple. <br />
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My personal suggested layout for your profile is no more than 10 pages and goes something like this:<br />
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<li>A picture of you and your spouse and a short blurb about yourselves</li>
<li>A few photos and a little paragraph about what you like to do, hobbies, spend time with family, etc.</li>
<li>A page for each kiddo you already have with a few photos- it is my suggestion to not go on and on about your children you already have. You know they're wonderful but a birth mother doesn't want to worry that you won't love her child as much as the one(s) you already have. So less is more as always.</li>
<li>A few pictures of a family get together or vacation.</li>
<li>An individual letter from you and your spouse to the birth parents. Keep it to one page and include things like what you look forward to, what you love about your family, be positive and excited about another child. </li>
<li>A letter with a photo from the grandparents too if you can. We included letters from our parents to the birth parents. These were only one paragraph and generally said they looked forward to a grandchild or another grandchild and what they loved about being grandparents.</li>
<li>End with a photo or photos of family time. Once or twice our last page was just a family portrait of us. One time the last page was a collage of us and extended family.</li>
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Photos, photos, photos. Less writing and rambling and use photos to tell the story. Birth mothers will most likely get more out of looking at your photos and making up their own story in their head of where their baby will fit into your life and family then to be expected to read page after page after page after another page of information about you and your loved ones. Again, less is more.<br />
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Repeat this mantra less is more...keep it simple!<br />
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Good luck. I hope your baby comes home to you soon. <br />
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***As always this is based purely on my personal opinion from my own personal experience with domestic adoption. I am in no way an adoption expert. Just a mom, with a computer, and a heart for adoption.<br />
<br />Adoptive Mommahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11292394884269387827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4760417821059871380.post-77283370360587876152014-04-25T09:31:00.001-05:002014-04-25T09:32:24.264-05:00It's Us!Today we are featured on Adoption.com's Facebook page. Check us out! <a href="https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=620743081353982&substory_index=0&id=435278349900457">https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=620743081353982&substory_index=0&id=435278349900457</a><div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-f-X4bFXxvkY/U1pxyy0QDoI/AAAAAAAAGJM/hLGKrsx0DhI/s640/blogger-image--1014287407.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-f-X4bFXxvkY/U1pxyy0QDoI/AAAAAAAAGJM/hLGKrsx0DhI/s640/blogger-image--1014287407.jpg"></a></div></div>Adoptive Mommahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11292394884269387827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4760417821059871380.post-83149451997944699392014-04-21T12:10:00.000-05:002014-04-21T12:23:18.733-05:00Infertility Awareness WeekInfertility Awareness Week begins today. If you are interested in more information start here...<a href="http://www.resolve.org/national-infertility-awareness-week/home-page.html">http://www.resolve.org/national-infertility-awareness-week/home-page.html</a><br />
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Adoptive Mommahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11292394884269387827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4760417821059871380.post-15299306895103715222014-03-30T10:56:00.001-05:002014-03-30T13:06:57.369-05:00Whew!<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Our weekend went like this, Wednesday night Brice became ill. No biggie, we thought it was just the stomach bug that has been making it's way through our family. By Thursday mid morning he was in the ER with an expected appendicitis. </span></div><div><br><div>He spent all day Thursday and most of Friday in the hospital being tested, scanned and treated with antibiotics. Friday afternoon he had an appendectomy. He was released Saturday afternoon.</div><div><br></div><div>Saturday night we had planned to be at the PBR (pro bull riding) event. Our Rogan says he plans to be a bull rider and had been looking forward to going for weeks.</div><div><br></div><div>Fortunately, with a lot of help from family, we made it through it all. Brice is home resting comfortably and healing from his surgery while Rogan, myself and my parents went to the PBR. </div><div><br></div><div>Brice is on the mend and Rogan met his heroes. Avenn left with my parents to spend a week in Texas.</div><div><br></div><div>Whew. Never a dull moment.</div></div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-1kc6D4zrdb4/Uzg-iQJ8iwI/AAAAAAAAGGE/vZpUTBUkihs/s640/blogger-image-278630094.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-1kc6D4zrdb4/Uzg-iQJ8iwI/AAAAAAAAGGE/vZpUTBUkihs/s640/blogger-image-278630094.jpg"></a></div></div><div><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-JTJiC-jWgOA/Uzg-kfzkPUI/AAAAAAAAGGM/6qC5MbVP7Bw/s640/blogger-image-1427273797.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-JTJiC-jWgOA/Uzg-kfzkPUI/AAAAAAAAGGM/6qC5MbVP7Bw/s640/blogger-image-1427273797.jpg"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-JTJiC-jWgOA/Uzg-kfzkPUI/AAAAAAAAGGM/6qC5MbVP7Bw/s640/blogger-image-1427273797.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/--FZtO1ovW68/Uzg96UgzhMI/AAAAAAAAGF0/_RbfBeZIQvI/s640/blogger-image-1144689851.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/--FZtO1ovW68/Uzg96UgzhMI/AAAAAAAAGF0/_RbfBeZIQvI/s640/blogger-image-1144689851.jpg"></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-FCGgcxJ52K4/Uzg9zMpoiRI/AAAAAAAAGFs/ZrL7bGHv7VI/s640/blogger-image--909810881.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-FCGgcxJ52K4/Uzg9zMpoiRI/AAAAAAAAGFs/ZrL7bGHv7VI/s640/blogger-image--909810881.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-J3T1bVAfIZw/Uzg-f27V6fI/AAAAAAAAGF8/zMCJr1fwml8/s640/blogger-image-777116157.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-J3T1bVAfIZw/Uzg-f27V6fI/AAAAAAAAGF8/zMCJr1fwml8/s640/blogger-image-777116157.jpg"></a></div><br></div>Adoptive Mommahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11292394884269387827noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4760417821059871380.post-88350633440370641512014-03-22T17:00:00.001-05:002014-03-22T17:00:56.455-05:00Spring Break 2014We just rocked a pretty great redneck spring break. We rented a camper and hit the road to the hills of Arkansas. No cell phones, wi-fi or television. We were unplugged and happy lil campers.<br />
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