Lux et umbra vicissum…

Writing a letter can be difficult for many people.  What to say, how to say it, what impressions you’re going to make, knowing how certain things will be taken when read… it can be a daunting task.

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I know several people check here regularly, so I wanted to explain this right away.  I took down two of my posts because I found out they were beginning to cause a bit of panic among some of the adoptive community.  There’s really nothing to panic about.  There was a miscommunication somewhere along the line […]

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When we brought her home, we could tell that she was adventurous, but she was also overwhelmed.  She had come from a small home (most likely a hut) where she was starving despite her mother’s best efforts, to a place where everyone had their own bed, no one lived in one room, and there’s more […]

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It’s a good thing I’ve learned to laugh at myself over the years.  If I hadn’t, I wouldn’t be able to post about this sort of thing.
You may know from a previous post that we received some court papers in the mail, but I wasn’t sure what they were or why we got […]

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It’s a sin that lawyers can charge as much as they do for things. At the same time, I can definitely understand why people use them rather than trying to do stuff on their own.
On Friday we got mail from the county courts. We opened the envelope and found what looked like some […]

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I was telling Joel last night that it’s just not fair that some people can do things like write one book and then have it become a best seller the proceeds of which they can live off of.  Or write one song and live off the royalties.  *sigh*
I wish I could write!  I don’t even […]

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A friend from our web board recently received an email that really got me worked up. She and her husband are both on the pastoral staff of their church, and they’ve been trying to keep the church family up to date on adoption happenings. (They’re mid-process right now.) They’ve mentioned their financial […]

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I was getting ready to write a rant about an email a friend received, but I realized as I was thinking it through that a good portion of my rant would address PAD, or Post Adoption Depression, so I decided I should make a separate post on that first.
Being part of the adoption community (and […]

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For our first adoption, we had to complete a full home study. A home study is an incredibly detailed document created by a social worker in which she says whether or not she thinks you’re a fit family to adopt a child. Part of the home study has to do with whether or […]

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