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The most beautiful baby around
I know it isn’t just hormones…these pictures made me cry this morning when I pulled them up on my email. I wrote a post here about Makenna, my new niece who will be coming home from China next week...
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She’s home!
Just had to share our extended family’s joy with all of you that our new niece, Makenna, is home! She arrived with her parents late Wednesday night a bit tired and jetlagged but every bit as beautiful...
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Anniversary thoughts
Today is my 27th wedding anniversary, and I can’t help but compare it to when my parents celebrated their 25th. (Only because they didn’t have a big celebration for their 27th.) I was their youngest...
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“Nature” Takes Over
In the debate over “nature versus nurture,” I’ve always been of two minds. As an adoptive mom of two who were not related to each other, both their similarities and their differences were striking. I...
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The Triple Threat and the Fab Five
We’re nickname people. There I said it. I know some people are opposed to it but it is part and parcel of our family. When our three “littles” came, we called them alternately, “The Littles” and...
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Characters from Oz plus a Belly Dancer
It has to be said — they’re beautiful. You got it — it’s “Love Thursday.” When we set out to form our family through adoption, we did not think about ethnicity. I think we both assumed a child would...
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The Littles and the Bigs
It is time to re-introduce the family. Everyone is growing up so fast. I won’t have a picture of everyone, however. It turns out that it is really hard to squeeze 7 people into one photo. We have a...
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Love Thursday – The Blitz
Oh yes, we call him the Blitz. He uses his heat seeking powers to finding the only clean room in the house, run straight to it, and leave it in a disheveled heap in only moments. And yet, we adore...
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Introducing: Tinker
When our little ones arrived, they immediately got nick-names. This, mainly, was to protect their identities; by referring to them by their nick-names in conversations amongst ourselves, someone...
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Birth Sibs
My mom and I made the 4 hour trek to take Pepper to see her birth siblings. (Technically they are half-siblings. I don’t think it matters to them or us!) Our last visit several years ago was a little...
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