Tag: family
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You Guys Make Me Feel Normal
Even though I have always wanted to adopt and I know that this is the right decision and the beginning of a great adventure, I have mourned basically throughout this entire process about the loss of being able to experience the “normal” celebratory parts of having a child. When we told people we were adopting…
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Closure
I’m a part of several transracial adoption groups on facebook. They’ve been talking about this documentary called “Closure” for a while. I bought it about a week ago, but hadn’t watched it because I knew it would be emotional. Last night, as we hunkered down for the sleet and ice that was about to slam…
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On Having a Big Personality
At one particular sleepover in middle school, the girls around me decided to get all dressed up, put on make-up, and do their hair. I probably didn’t participate in this activity because 1) I had already combed my hair once that week, 2) it’s highly probable that there wasn’t a dress that I could fit…
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Dear Daughter: This Love Runs Deep
Hi sweetheart- Happy Valentine’s Day! Dad and I are thinking about you. I’m collecting links of cute valentine’s ideas for when it’s time to make some for your classmates. No boxed cartoon character Valentine’s for us! Someone gave us a bed for you this weekend. We haven’t had time to move furniture around, so it’s…
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Nashvegas
We just returned from a trip to Nashville where we visited my sister Leah, AKA the Leggy, Bronze Goddess, and her husband Tyler, the Abercrombie model. I’ve always been the more Quasimodo-esque sibling and this time was no different. In case you think I’m joking, please compare these two pictures from this weekend: One looks…
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How to Adopt Adoptive Parents
Before I started this process, I wouldn’t have known what to say to an adoptive parent except, “Yay! Congratulations!” and I might jump up and down a little. For me, adoption was fairly foreign because I only know a few adopted people and even fewer adoptive parents. What do you say to people? How do…
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You Can Depends on Me
My family is notorious for playing pranks. Okay, when I say family, I mean, father. I leaped into my bed until I was…..(Doesn’t matter. All that matters now is that our mattresses are sitting directly on the floor.) Moving on, I jumped into my bed so that the serial killers hiding under it wouldn’t grab my ankles…
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Mud ‘tween my fingers and grass in my teeth
I had a new life experience this week- a mud run. Abilene style, of course, which means that the touted “obstacles” were wooden balance beams, a gigantic air slide, hurdles taken from a high school, and dragging a tire across the ground. But I would expect nothing less, because those things are on the Top…
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Saving a Stranger from Imminent Danger
I don’t know. Maybe it’s my old age or my big city ways, but my sense of personal boundaries has been steadily eroding since I graduated from college and moved to Dallas. Sure, it’s always been the case that if you say to me, “Man, I really hurt my back yesterday”, I will inevitably punch your…