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Weight loss and weight gain
This may seem like an odd topic for a foster care and adoption blog, but I have found out that this is one hot topic for foster and adoptive parents. The daily life of a foster parent or special needs...
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What Do You Do for Fun?
I started back to counseling yesterday. The recent events with Sammy have triggered some major PTSD issues with me, and I need to deal with them in order to be a good mom or wife, much less friend or...
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Creating an “ahh” space
The recent edition of Fostering Families magazine has several articles devoted to self-care for foster parents. I am glad to see a national magazine that is recognizing the importance of this. A book...
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Humor for Health
Yesterday was Holy Humor Sunday in our church. Is it any coincidence that it fell on my husband’s birthday? A large part of the message of the sermon was taking care of ourselves through humor. This...
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Dating Your Partner – Foster Parent Style
My husband and I had what could be qualified as a date tonight. It’s been a long time since it has happened, so I’m not quite sure. I had been working all day, really all week, helping some friends...
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Quiet Time
“If women were convinced that a day off or an hour of solitude was a reasonable ambition, they would find a way of attaining it. As it is, they feel so unjustified in their demand that they rarely...
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Privacy Deprivation Syndrome
While reading the book, “Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy” by Sarah Ban Breathnach, the devotion if you will, for July 24 screamed at me. It talks about something called Privacy...
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Parents Need a Time Out Too
In my prior blog, I wrote about the negative feelings that we can develop toward our kids. We live in chaos on a daily basis, so who can expect us to feel warm and fuzzy toward our kids all the time?...
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Parent Respite
This post is being “dripped” in because my husband and I are away for the weekend. Just the two of us. No kids. A friend of ours is getting married and the wedding is in the Door County Peninsula....
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Growth
I was standing next to my son today, you know him as Orange Shoe Guy (OSG) because of his wild shoe color choice, and was absolutely amazed at how tall he has grown. Truthfully, I am astounded. It...
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