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Will This Child Be Mine? The Ugly Side of Adoption Uncertainty

March 22, 2018

On Thursday's I post from the vault. This post is from December 2007 I was recently reading the blog of another woman adopting from Haiti, and she was describing what it was like to find out she could not adopt a child she was caring for. She described that experience in a painful, honest way that gave me a serious gut check: When we had Sophia with us in May and June, an interesting thing happened.Once we learned that she would not ever be available for adoption it became harder to take . . .

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· Adoption, parenting

Oh boy! Pictures of the baby

February 15, 2018

#TBT On Thursday's I post from the Vault. This post is from June 2005 We brought Jafta home today! It was an exciting day for our family and we had a great time getting to know him and bonding with him. Here are some pictures of our new arrival! Jafta is a foster/adopt child, which means he is our foster child now but the court has assigned us to be his adoptive parents as well. It's still a long process, but hopefully we can finalize by the beginning of next year. We were actually . . .

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· Adoption, Family, Fostercare

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