The Perfect Blend
It's been almost three months—seriously, three months?—since we brought our son, Dylan, home from Korea, and if it's seemed to you that I've been writing on my blog on AdoptiveFamiliesCircle…
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July 2011 Archives
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“Can’t You Have Kids Of Your Own?”
“Wow, he is so little. How old is he?” asked a stranger sitting next to us in a waiting room at a pediatrician’s office in Florida, the state we'd traveled…
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Raising Bilingual Children: When Two (or More) Languages Are More Fun Than One!
When people in our small town hear my children, adopted domestically as infants, speaking Spanish to me, we invariably get some interesting questions and comments. The most common comment and…
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Farewell, Fire Truck: Milestones of Becoming a Family
We've been working on clutter clearing at our house recently. I asked my son, Gobez, adopted from Ethiopia, to go through his room and pull out anything he no longer…
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The Upside to Visibility
I’m the kind of person who’s mortified at the thought of being sung to on birthdays in public. I halfheartedly tried to convince my husband, Jeremiah, to elope because I…
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“Why Do You Have an Open Adoption?”
"Do you want to join my friend Molly and me for a girls’ night out, dinner and a few drinks?” my friend Sarah asked me not too long ago. "Yes!…
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