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A Beautiful Day...
A year of joy and pain, of effort and triumph had built a bridge to this day. Today was the day of my son’s adoption finalization hearing...
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Endings and Beginnings
She died in February... the darkest hour before the dawn, the month when the snow flies and the wind is bitter cold. I feared for an instant that I’d not be invited to the funeral.
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Glass Collectors
We spend our days picking up the pieces of a child broken and hoping that someday he will be whole.
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Moosum Mothers
Sometimes people are afraid of things they don’t understand. And sometimes they are so afraid that they don’t know what to do except be angry.
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Multicultural Resources
Multicultural and cultural links to websites. Use these to edcate yourself and your family about culture and multicultural families.
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My Amanda
We will celebrate your having lived ten years a few days from now and I want you to know that each and every day of your life has been a celebration.
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Not of Blood, But of Spirit
But for God’s grace, your life could have been mine. But for time, circumstance and space, it is mine.
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Oceans At Christmas
But it’s the quiet times (hard to come by in a household of six) when we ponder not what we will get or give, but who we’ve lost. Who will - when we look upon our family Christmas morning - only be in our minds and our hearts; who will be a lifetime away.
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Oceans At Christmas
But it’s the quiet times (hard to come by in a household of six) when we ponder not what we will get or give, but who we’ve lost. Who will - when we look upon our family Christmas morning - only be in our minds and our hearts; who will be a lifetime away.
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On The Other Side of the World
We entered this place of secrets, and brought home with us a child.
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Or Something Far Worse
What makes the story so different is not that there was a villain in the deal. What makes it different is who the villain was and continues to be: The United States Immigration and Naturalization Service.
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Real Children
And somewhere along the way - between the dreams and the reality; between the nights they called out for you and the ones when you waited up for them, countless memories live.
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Rising Again
As I grow older it seems that life is simply moving rapidly from one thing to the next, always coming back to where it was before.
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Seventy-Five Thousand
On February 27, 2001, seventy-five thousand children became American Citizens on the same day.
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Talena
Somehow this day began to erase a thousand painful ones that had come before it and dried a thousand tears that had been cried.
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Talena, Part II
And in her outstretched right hand was his hand, his dark skin contrasting with her pale skin, their heads bobbing in unison, faces lifted to the ceiling.
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The Moon and the Stars
In order to accurately describe the reactions to the arrival of their siblings, I feel the need to try and accurately describe these children themselves...
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The Ride
One by one he watched those children before him load into the little blue and white Cessna and then back out again. All day he watched and he waited.
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Their Stories
A child in our world dies each day while waiting for a family to find them. Largely, their deaths go unmourned, unnoticed. Stories untold...
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Waiting for Lucinda
I wonder if there’s room in your heart for another mother, maybe if we push the pain aside...
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What I Want My Children to Know
Here are some of the lessons of tolerance that I hope to share with my children.
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We...
We are a family made up of different cultures and experiences. Yet, in our differences, we are one.
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Types of Blended Families
More types of families fall into the category of "blended families" than ever before.
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