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Happy Enough New Year 2016!
On Christmas day we rushed Bright Eyes to the emergency room with pneumonia. He seems to be pulling out of it now, but it was deeply nerve wracking. It feels like it’s been weeks and weeks of nothing...
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10 Ways I Take Care of Myself While Parenting Wild Pirates
A friend stopped by the other night and as I was busy burning some chicken for us all, I caught her looking at me with a combination of horror and pity. It turned out my bright lipstick (the shade I...
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A Letter to my Son on his Seventh Gotcha Day
To Tariku on his Gotcha Day- I always love your Gotcha Day (remember when you used to call it your Cha Cha Day?), because it’s a chance for me to reflect on that pivotal trip to Africa daddy and I...
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Massive Mom Fail
Does that look like a photo of a terrible mother to you? Friends, I yelled at my kids so badly yesterday. I was a monster. Oh, come on, you say. You’re exaggerating. Everyone yells. You were probably...
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More Room on the Couch
I’ve been working on Bright Eyes’ lifebook lately. I used My Family, My Journey for Tariku, and I liked it so much I bought another one. A lifebook is the adoption equivalent of a baby book, but has a...
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What NOT to Say to Prospective Adoptive Parents. And What to Say Back.
Would you walk up to a pregnant woman and tell her about your friend’s cousin’s daughter whose infant died of a rare disease, offer her the unsolicited tale of your hairdresser’s daughter’s home birth...
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Learn by Teaching
This past weekend, I had the privilege of delivering the keynote at the Parenting in Space conference, a fantastic therapeutic parenting conference. I followed up my presentation with a workshop on...
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Meet our Son
Yesterday, the four of us drove out to Lancaster and stood holding hands under the fluorescent lights of the juvenile court. The kindly Santa Claus of a judge spoke a few magic words and in an instant...
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A Letter to Jovi Starshine on his Gotcha Day
To my Starshine on his Gotcha Day A year ago you showed up here in your red-and-black sweatsuit, with pleather stars in a semicircle across the chest. You didn’t know what they were called yet, but...
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Happy National Adoption Month…a Day Late!
It’s been a while, I know. I’ve missed you! As we barrel headlong into the holidays, I wanted to reach out and tell you how thankful I am, always, for entrusting me with your precious time and...
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