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Sometimes the best stories are the ones that you don’t know how they will end. Maybe you know how you want them to end, but when you get there, it’s nothing like you imagined, but somehow, it’s even...
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13
In November, in the midst of the holiday ramble from Thanksgiving to Christmas, our baby girl turned 13, surrounded by her aunties, cousins, and sister. We celebrated by kicking the boys out and eating...
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I get the question often–“How’s it going?”. It’s a fair enough question and I usually answer with a smile and non committal answer about our present life going well, par for the course, all things...
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One weekend last year, Chris and I sat in two full days of adoption based learning and training. We sort of slumped in our chairs like teenagers forced to participate in a group project. We were a...
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What Mr Darcy Taught Me About Love
Mr Darcy went missing almost 3 years ago. He came and went as he pleased, with very little interference from us, but he also stuck to his routines. He loved three things best, his kibble bowl, outside,...
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Loving Wide Open
This process of parenting a child from another culture, language and heritage, has me constantly changing, questioning and fumbling. Many days it feels like chipping away at granite with a spoon. I’m...
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Black and White Upside Down
I am a person who is exquisitely content with the comfort of small things. I want things to make sense, books to have a happy ending, justice to win and everyone to do the right thing, simply because...
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Things I Tell My Kids
Am I enough? This is the wrong question. The better question is “Who am I?”. Because who we are, in the very depths and essence of our beings, is what matters. Everything that we do flows from that...
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