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Breast is Best, But…
Back story: I have a fairly large list of friends on facebook. I have received numerous adoption information requests over the past year, and I am always more than happy to share our adoption story and...
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Keep Your Children Healthy & Active
A healthy lifestyle is beneficial when learned early in life. Longer life span, more energy, and happiness and contentment all accompany good health. And what more could you want for your children? But...
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Re-establishing Daily Routine
The holidays have come and gone. If you’re anything like me, I’m still not back to my normal routine. I feel that I’m almost there, but not quite. It’s hard to wrap my head around a whole new year, and...
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New Baby, New Routine
I have an admission to make: I am a former (definitely former–definitely mostly former) control freak. Granted, it’s gotten a lot better since Bear made his debut in May of 2006; having kids kind of...
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Happy Father’s Day!
It’s Father’s Day and across the country dads are opening up presents: ties, barbecue tools, car gadgets, the latest technological mechanism guaranteed to make their life easier. Or perhaps they are...
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Celebrating Family
I love the word family and how it has evolved. 50 years ago, if we would have asked a group of people what a family was it would have been such a boring answer. “A dad, a Mom, and 2.5 children.” Maybe...
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A Creative Solution
A good friend of mine, Jessica, adopted a child from China about ten years ago. When Jessica’s daughter was around four, she exhibited a lot of anxiety whenever Jessica left the house. Jessica would...
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A Less Than Stellar Performance
I am well aware of the intricacies of sibling rivalry. I grew up in a very large family with eleven siblings of my own. I know that siblings can love each other one minute, hate each other the next and...
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Mercy Trails Ranch
F-E-A-R-L-E-S-S Letters spelled out in splashes of bright paint across the soft brown sides of the little horse. A four legged canvas for the word that she wanted to stay forefront in her mind as...
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From “Gooooal!” to “Bravo!”
Rasmussen’s are soccer players. Whether you were born into our family or adopted in, that’s what we do…or so I thought. We have six kids, 3 bio, 3 adopted. Our adopted kids are sandwiched in the...
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Temporary Attachment Parenting
My husband and I parented our foster daughter VV for 10 months, from the age of 6-16 months. During this time, we had ongoing contact with VV’s family, especially her young mother. It wasn’t clear...
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Connecting Together
My husband and I adopted a child from foster care earlier this year. She has been leaving in our home for over a year now. We have all grown closer together as a family over the past year. We love our...
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Relating to Other People’s Kids
Maybe years of failed adoption attempts have jaded me. I never attached much meaning to whether or not my future children would be genetically related to me or not. I just wanted the opportunity to...
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