Lux et umbra vicissum…

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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Wow. We’re only in the beginning stages, and I’m already feeling lost in the paperwork! In some ways we don’t have as much this time since we don’t have to have a full home study done, just a home study update, but since we also have to finalize our first adoption we have […]

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