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Things Have a Way of Working Out

This is my mantra for our upcoming visit with my daughter's birth family as I try to coordinate time with her birth mother, birth father and grandmother, and various siblings. Will everything work out?
- Posted by Barbara Herel to Improv Mom 1 month, 1 week ago | 4 Comments | Post a reply
Having My Say About Motherhood (on STAGE!)

I'm proud to be taking the stage with mothers across the country in early May, speaking about, well, motherhood.
- Posted by Barbara Herel to Improv Mom 3 months ago | 2 Comments | Post a reply
The Brave Ones

Has anyone ever called you "brave" after you mentioned that you have an open relationship with your child's birth mother?
- Posted by Barbara Herel to Improv Mom 3 months, 2 weeks ago | 10 Comments | Post a reply
A Question of Money

Well, it happened -- my daughter's birth mom called asking for money. How did my husband and I respond?
- Posted by Barbara Herel to Improv Mom 6 months ago | 15 Comments | Post a reply
What’s Your Open Adoption Truth?

After hearing back from many AdoptiveFamiliesCircle.com members who shared their stories, I'm pleased to kick off the Open Adoption Truth project with a video of Sadie, an adoptee who's also a birth mom and an adoptive mom.
- Posted by Barbara Herel to Improv Mom 8 months ago | 7 Comments | Post a reply
Unrelated? Oh, I Can Relate.

At first, the blended-family dynamics common in my daughter's biological mother's circle surprised me, but who knows better than a mom in an open adoption that you don't have to be related by marriage or DNA to love one another and call each other family?
- Posted by Barbara Herel to Improv Mom 10 months ago | 1 Comment | Post a reply
Can Some Things Ever Sound Right?

As the mother of an adopted child, there are a few idioms that now sound idiotic to me and definitely make me think twice when I hear them.
- Posted by Barbara Herel to Improv Mom 1 year ago | 9 Comments | Post a reply

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