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Adoption Stories
Many of you know that my son has Type 1 diabetes. So, every night we check his blood sugar at various hours of the night (which he sleeps right through!). Lately, during the time that I am up, I’ve...
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Productive Waiting
I stated in an earlier post that I was going to outline some ideas for wiling away the hours until your child arrives. Great minds must think alike, for the very same day, Tana wrote an excellent...
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How to Survive the Adoption Wait Time
The time between the moment you decide to adopt and finally holding the child(ren) of your dreams spans eons. How can you survive the wait? Pray: Pray without ceasing (1 Thessalonians 5:17). Pray for...
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How to Handle Setbacks in Adoption
It is said, “the course of true love never runs smoothly” and I suppose that includes adoption as well! Just as the end was in sight and we were about to set a court date to finalize things, we...
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Job – Mr. Patience
If anyone in the Bible knew anything about patience, it would be Job. Job not only waited adversity out and won the victory through God, but lost just about everything that would matter in this human...
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Great Articles on “The Wait”
While devouring everything I can about adoption, I came across a wonderful cross-section of articles on what seems like the “Never-Ending Wait.” What is so great about these articles is that they...
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How to Handle Having Your Life on “Hold”
For the last six months, I have been hesitant to schedule anything more than a week or two out, because we’ve been under the assumption that the finalization could happen “any time now…” As I...
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Sleepless Nights …
I lie awake, I have become like a lonely bird on a housetop. (Psalm 102:7) Here it is – almost 3 in the morning – and what am I doing? Blogging about adoption. If I’m not up thinking about the kids,...
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How to Manage Pre-Finalization Stress
With a mere nine days before we board the plane for the trip that will change our lives forever, much remains to be done. Today alone I’ve spoken to our social worker and lawyer (both more than...
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Oh No! Is a Name Change Needed?
How carefully did you look at the name you chose for your newborn when you decided to adopt? Did you dissect the name to see what possible combinations people could come up with from it? Apparently,...
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Adoptive Child in the Womb
What exactly does it mean when we say that we adopted embryos? We “adopted” one batch of embryos directly from the genetic parents back in 2011. We transferred two of them into my uterus at a time,...
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