December 31, 2013
by Maralee
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10 of My Most Read Posts of 2013 Dear C-Section Mamas “And at some point when the contractions didn’t stop and your baby was turned all wrong and the room filled up with medical strangers and your midwife started to … Continue reading
December 30, 2013
by Maralee
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For the last three years I have loved participating in my friend Rebecca’s December Photo Project. She hosts it from her blog and encourages people to take a picture daily from the beginning of December through Christmas. It’s been a fun … Continue reading
December 27, 2013
by Maralee
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Before there was this: There was this: This picture makes me smile and brings me back to a time when these three little faces (and about 15 more) were my world. I am thankful to be an adoptive … Continue reading
December 16, 2013
by Maralee
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For the last three years I have loved participating in my friend Rebecca’s December Photo Project. She hosts it from her blog and encourages people to take a picture daily from the beginning of December through Christmas Eve. It’s been … Continue reading
December 9, 2013
by Maralee
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For the last three years I have loved participating in my friend Rebecca’s December Photo Project. She hosts it from her blog and encourages people to take a picture daily from the beginning of December through Christmas Eve. It’s been … Continue reading
December 8, 2013
by Maralee
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I remember the decision making process we began after the adoption of our first child. We wanted to expand our family and give our son a sibling. For us it was a complicated process of examining our options (fertility treatments … Continue reading
December 1, 2013
by Maralee
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Come follow along on Facebook or Twitter. “What Does the Fox Say”: a song aimed at preschoolers that somehow managed to go mainstream. Music in 2013, you are weird. Things I learned when a bunch of my ladies descended on … Continue reading
November 20, 2013
by Maralee
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“I could never be a foster parent. It’s great that you can do it, but I could never love a child and then give them up.” This is truly the most common phrase any foster parent will hear (well, either … Continue reading
November 15, 2013
by Maralee
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I get headaches. Bad ones. I know I have some triggers that make me more likely to have them and having a newborn in the house seems to set off several of those triggers (lack of sleep, not eating well, … Continue reading
November 12, 2013
by Maralee
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Dear Baby Girl, Welcome to our family! Sometimes I don’t know what I’m missing until I find it, and that has certainly been true with you. We didn’t know this family was missing a tiny bundle of pink cries and … Continue reading