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December 26, 2024
Kwanzaa for Adoptive Families
Celebrating the holiday season with your family is always an opportunity to try new traditions and activities. After all, the holidays...
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December 22, 2024
Creating A Sense of Belonging During the Holiday Season
The holiday season is a time for family and friends to come together and celebrate the togetherness with laughter and love. What better way...
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December 21, 2024
Surviving the Holiday as an Introverted Parent
It’s here: the holiday season. We are somehow in December and I am still trying to figure out where summer went. November begins the...
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December 19, 2024
Managing Christmas with Neurodivergent Families
Is anyone else in full panic!-it’s-almost-Christmas-mode? *Jumps wildly in the air waving hands* I am! Oh gosh . . . I am. It snuck...
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November 27, 2024
Thanksgiving Reflections and Rethinking Traditions
We are on the cusp of yet another Thanksgiving that has strict traditional norms that will be enforced with impunity by families across the...
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November 23, 2024
Creating Meaningful Holiday Traditions in Adoptive Families
Thanksgiving is almost here. Right after that, the Christmas season is in full swing. From December 1st until New Year’s, everywhere...
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November 19, 2024
The Waiting and the Journey: 10 Years of Parenting Through Adoption
Our kids’ adoptions have been finalized for a while now. It feels like it was just yesterday we said hello to teeny people, but the...
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November 16, 2024
Dear Parent, You’re Doing Better Than You Think
Hey there, you—the exhausted one who hasn’t slept for 6 consecutive hours in a month. The parent who just fed the kids chicken nuggets...
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November 14, 2024
An Open Letter to the Mean Girls in the Room
One of my favorite movies of all time is Mean Girls. It’s irreverent and funny and has just enough truth to be compelling and...
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November 07, 2024
My National Adoption Month Playlist
I love music. I think that is a medium that so many talented artists have used to carve out thoughts, feelings, and places that invite us...