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The Sometimes 8 Irons: September 2014
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The Sometimes 8 Irons. Adoption and Foster Care. Sunday, September 14, 2014. I love to capture life's little split-second moments that leave my mind so quickly. I need evidence on days that are tough that they aren't always that way. I need reminders of where we were. And hope for where we are going. So, yesterday I charged the camera. And started taking pictures.I did some practice while Adam and Asher were getting clean. Adam looked more like a bubble-monster in one of them. And I found this one. Asher...
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The Sometimes 8 Irons: counting.
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The Sometimes 8 Irons. Adoption and Foster Care. Monday, February 16, 2015. Sometimes, I am wrong. Sometimes, I am afraid. Many times, I don't know what I am doing. There is just so much uncharted territory. Parenting children with special needs has proven especially heart-wrenching. It would be so easy to excuse behaviors. But, I cannot. I will not. This week has been hard. We are tired. We are confused. We are hurt. We have cried. We have been angry. We have been so, so sad. That I am not enough. In th...
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The Sometimes 8 Irons: October 2014
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The Sometimes 8 Irons. Adoption and Foster Care. Wednesday, October 1, 2014. Right now, in my state, there is a disaster of a social services system. There is good ol' boy politics at play. There is red tape. Complicated bureaucracy at its worst. There is insufficient accountability for what is done and not done that directly affects one of our most unprotected group of humans. The South Carolina political world has proven to be all narcissism and complication. We have multiple problems at play here.
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The Sometimes 8 Irons: May 2015
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The Sometimes 8 Irons. Adoption and Foster Care. Sunday, May 10, 2015. Happy Mother's Day, Moms. To all the moms. This is your day. This morning Asher pooped on my foot, the bath mat, the floor, and the tub. Happy Mother's Day to me. I used to think today was about me. Mother's Day around here brings about BIG emotions. Because four of our ten family members remember biological moms. And sometimes, it hurts. We spend Mother's Day carefully celebrating the mothers that gave our children life. It isn't tha...
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The Sometimes 8 Irons: June 2014
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The Sometimes 8 Irons. Adoption and Foster Care. Saturday, June 21, 2014. He has gone from a Ukrainian hospital. To a Ukrainian orphanage. No brothers or sisters. Unwilling to make eye contact. Unsure of how to play. Unaware of people around him. Living in an orphanage. Destined to a life in an asylum because he has an extra chromosome. This teeny boy has a best friend in our house. TC and Asher are buddies. Asher likes to click his teeth on TC's head. Right now, it is Asher's favorite. I have had lots o...
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The Sometimes 8 Irons: December 2014
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The Sometimes 8 Irons. Adoption and Foster Care. Sunday, December 28, 2014. 2014 is almost gone. 2014 will be a memory in short order. For our family, 2014 has been wonderful and horrible. Exhilarating and frightening. It has been a year of extremes for me. Maybe that is standard.I don't know. This year, obviously, one of our enormous life-changes was adding our two teeny boys to the family. I am not sure if I can adequately put into words how I feel about these two. Some days, they make me crazy. I love...
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The Sometimes 8 Irons: November 2014
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The Sometimes 8 Irons. Adoption and Foster Care. Sunday, November 30, 2014. I have spent National Adoption Awareness Month (aka November) trying to understand more about the workings of the Department of Social Services. It has been an emotional month. I keep hoping there will be a great story. I anxiously await any of the former foster youths to tell me, "foster care made such a positive impact on my life.". I wish that was the case. Often vilified. Frequently reviled. Unpopular and detested....I wan...
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The Sometimes 8 Irons: May 2014
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The Sometimes 8 Irons. Adoption and Foster Care. Tuesday, May 13, 2014. My bathroom smells perpetually of poop. One of our teeny boys (ahem, Asher) uses bath time to evacuate his intestines. I use post-bath-time trying to convince Nigel that I am too dainty to clean poop from a tub. It works. Some of the time. Our first face-to-face meeting was February 8th. I knew very little about him. I knew the majority of his life was spent in an orphanage in Kharkov, Ukraine. For what he has missed. Saturday evenin...