Every night we say family prayers together before putting Aurelia to bed. Lately she has started having a tough time sitting still for the prayer so we decided to tweak how we pray a little bit to keep her attention 🙂 We're trying to use short sentences, words she understands fully and to pray about … Continue reading Family Prayers For a Two Year Old
Tag: Birth Moms
Openness
The level of openness in an adoption is a personal choice and each family needs to do what is best for them and their situation. Some people want minimal contact while others have frequent personal contact. A common fear I've heard when talking to birth moms or reading birth mom blogs is the fear that the … Continue reading Openness
In Defense of Birth Moms
Alright. I've given myself a few days. In fact, I've given myself over a week. Whenever something really upsets me I give myself a few days to calm down, think rationally, and gain some perspective before I respond, blog or facebook about it. This has saved me from saying and doing a lot of stupid … Continue reading In Defense of Birth Moms
Hard
Some days I am able to laugh and joke about my infertility.Some days I have infinite optimism that all of this will be for the benefit of our family and I'll be able to look back on it and see the good.Some days I am able to be over the moon, genuinely and wholeheartedly happy … Continue reading Hard
Please Excuse the Mess
We've decided not to do a separate blog for adoption. Instead, we will be incorporating our adoption information into what we already have here. This will be great for birth moms because it will be all of our information in one place. So, for the next little while (a.k.a. as long as it takes for me … Continue reading Please Excuse the Mess
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