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Perfect Moment Monday: Blog life meets real life

June 24, 2012

June has been a month of convergence between my two lives, the virtual one and the face-to-face one. Loch Tess: To welcome the month, reader Caitlin and her adorable son, Sam, invited the children and me to spend the afternoon on her pontoon. Tessa and Reed swam in the lake and, thrill of thrills, they [...]

Time Warp Tuesday: Fathering

June 12, 2012

It’s time forTime Warp Tuesday, the monthly blog hop offered by Kathy at Bereaved and Blessed. This week’s theme is Fathering, and our assignment is to use an old post to: Reflect on the roles that the fathers in our lives have played. I have a fantastic dad. A quirky dad, a wise dad, a [...]

Time Warp Tuesday: Mothering

May 8, 2012

I’m participating in Time Warp Tuesday, the monthly blog hop offered by Kathy at Bereaved and Blessed. This week’s theme is Mothering, and our assignment is to: Choose a blog entry from your archives that you wrote about mothering. It can be a post where you talked about your own experience as a mother, one [...]

Open adoption agreements: to codify or not to codify

April 13, 2012

Open adoption bloggers are meeting for the 36th time at the roundtable. This go-round we are discussing  open adoption agreements. Is there one in your open adoption? What effect does it have on your relationships? If you could go back in time, would you approach the agreement differently? No. N/A. No. Thank you very much, [...]

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