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Engineering Motherhood: April 2015
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Friday, April 24, 2015. I've been out of the blogging grove lately both because I'm so busy and I feel I have so little to say! But today seemed like a good time to share a few things! 1 First, on the adoption front, we have an interview! We expressed our interest in being matched with a teenage girl and for the first time the answer wasn't "no"! It was, "come interview"! 2 Last night we made asparagus risotto. 3 Lucy is potty trained! Except for diapers at bedtime, we are a diaper-free house! 5 Lucy als...
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Engineering Motherhood: Quick Takes: Our Adoption Journey
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Friday, June 5, 2015. Quick Takes: Our Adoption Journey. I was blessed to find a wonderful, supportive, authentic community of foster and adoptive moms. On Instagram. We share life together through #knittogetherbyadoption. For most of the year, the conversations are unstructured, but a few times a year our fearless leader, Shala. Will host a month-long photo share with daily prompts. We just wrapped up a month of sharing for foster care awareness month. 1 First Time Considering It. 3 Quote a Friend.
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Engineering Motherhood: June 2015
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Friday, June 5, 2015. Quick Takes: Our Adoption Journey. I was blessed to find a wonderful, supportive, authentic community of foster and adoptive moms. On Instagram. We share life together through #knittogetherbyadoption. For most of the year, the conversations are unstructured, but a few times a year our fearless leader, Shala. Will host a month-long photo share with daily prompts. We just wrapped up a month of sharing for foster care awareness month. 1 First Time Considering It. 3 Quote a Friend.
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Engineering Motherhood: May 2015
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Monday, May 25, 2015. Work to home fashion. One of the troubles of being a part-time stay-at-home-mom and part-time teacher is that I need two outfits every day. First thing in the morning I get dressed professionally and then when I get home mid-morning, I need to change quickly before sticky kid hands reach me! I typically take off my dress clothes and throw on a t-shirt and sweats. But of course this doesn't make me feel very good about my appearance, especially if we need to run errands that day!
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Engineering Motherhood: November 2014
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Tuesday, November 4, 2014. Tomorrow marks one year since we took the first step. To adopt from foster care. When we started this journey, we never imagined that it would take so long. We assumed we'd have our child home by summertime. The literature given to us at our first training said that it typically takes 3-6 months to be approved. It's been a year. At times I get frustrated, at times I get overwhelmed with sadness, and at times. I want to give up. On instagram today, I saw this picture:. 6th Annua...
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Engineering Motherhood: January 2015
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Monday, January 26, 2015. The process beats you up. I feel beat up. Beat up by the process. It's completely emotionally draining. It's been such a long time. And then there was the part that questioned our character because of our lack of patience in the process. Yes, we were frustrated with the months of delay in writing the home study. But that is because we are invested and we care. That is what makes us good parents - we're already fighting for our kids. Monday, January 19, 2015. From November 2013 u...
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Engineering Motherhood: March 2015
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Wednesday, March 11, 2015. We're still waiting to find our child, but I wanted to share some answered prayers. It's so easy to lose faith and think that God isn't working, or that He isn't listening. But He is. So far in this process there have been three kids that we thought would be ours. The first was a young man. We prayed diligently that God would bring him home. And He did. This young man found his forever home - it wasn't with us, but he was adopted. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). From Nerdy to Thirty.
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Engineering Motherhood: WWRW: Teenager Picks
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015. We're in the process of adopting a teenage girl. Who LOVES to read. One of the ways that I've been able to connect with her is through books. She loves Harry Potter, which I've read multiple times, but she also loves many books that I'd never read or even heard of! She suggested for me two series - the Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan and the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. Linking up with Jessica. For What We're Reading Wednesday! May 25, 2015 at 11:05 PM. Engineer, t...
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Engineering Motherhood: "I'll take anyone"
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Thursday, October 17, 2013. I'll take anyone. Old or young, dad or mom, black, white, purple. I don't care. And I would be really appreciative. The best I could be." Those words were spoken by Davion, an orphan who lives in Florida. His caseworker took him to church so that he could address the congregation and ask for a family. His story has been shared all over the internet. Is a link to one of the news articles. I heard about it when my sister-in-law posted it to my facebook page. The. Yes, practicall...
