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Kristen and Misty's Open Adoption Journey: August 2011
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Kristen and Misty's Open Adoption Journey. This is our story in the process, waiting, and hopefully eventual placement of a child through open adoption. Tuesday, August 16, 2011. The one year anniversary of being in the baby pool came and went without too much fanfare in the Gonzales-Ryan household. In fact, I didn’t even really think about it until about 20 minutes ago when I looked at the date on a drawing that was sitting in front of me and realized that it’s been a year. Kristen and I have a (bad?
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Kristen and Misty's Open Adoption Journey: December 2010
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Kristen and Misty's Open Adoption Journey. This is our story in the process, waiting, and hopefully eventual placement of a child through open adoption. Friday, December 31, 2010. January saw me flush my cell phone down the toilet at a lacrosse game (seriously, it happens people) and the introduction of the iPhone to Misty (best. gift. ever.). Plus we had our First Annual Leavenworth trip! February brought around the initial meeting at the adoption agency where we got a feeling of what was to come. Septe...
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Kristen and Misty's Open Adoption Journey: 2012 - The year of the Baby.
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Kristen and Misty's Open Adoption Journey. This is our story in the process, waiting, and hopefully eventual placement of a child through open adoption. Wednesday, April 18, 2012. 2012 - The year of the Baby. 2012 is the year. No, seriously - this kid will be here in 4 months. If you haven't started to freak out yet, now is the time. No, wait, what? I'm the only one thinking that after all of the doctor visits, the fingerprinting, the background checks, the waiting, did I mention the waiting? Anyway, I w...
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Kristen and Misty's Open Adoption Journey: February 2011
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Kristen and Misty's Open Adoption Journey. This is our story in the process, waiting, and hopefully eventual placement of a child through open adoption. Thursday, February 24, 2011. There was FINALLY a lesbian adoption at our agency! Yay for them and their new little family :) I'm also excited that our next adoption support group meeting is in a week! Even just a pack of onesies or a blanket or something! Her answer is always NO. I think that she's afraid of having too much stuff around the nursery r...
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Kristen and Misty's Open Adoption Journey: June 2011
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Kristen and Misty's Open Adoption Journey. This is our story in the process, waiting, and hopefully eventual placement of a child through open adoption. Friday, June 24, 2011. Let the games begin! So I'm hanging on to my 5. Grade schoolyard hero dreams by a thread. And not only that, I'm also dragging along 14 of my friends and family into this pipedream with me. What is this crazy idea you ask? May I introduce myself to you as the newly appointed ASSistant coach of the Kickin' Nuggets! And we're not tal...
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Kristen and Misty's Open Adoption Journey: May 2011
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Kristen and Misty's Open Adoption Journey. This is our story in the process, waiting, and hopefully eventual placement of a child through open adoption. Tuesday, May 24, 2011. Not New To This. Because even through the heartbreak there is happiness. Monday, May 2, 2011. Overall the month of April saw 8 couples (two of them lesbian couples) adopt babies. Far more than any other month since we entered the pool last July. It's so exciting! Birthday. My SURPRISE 30. Birthday party. At the end of APRIL....
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Kristen and Misty's Open Adoption Journey: Checking in...
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Kristen and Misty's Open Adoption Journey. This is our story in the process, waiting, and hopefully eventual placement of a child through open adoption. Friday, September 9, 2011. I always start these blogs out in Word, away from the actual Blog and then I forget what it was that I mentioned last time to be able to continue on with this new blog. Summer has finally hit Seattle and it couldn’t be more perfect! It’s been in the 80s most of September and to me, that’s perfect. BAH, I say! The BBQ was fun!
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Kristen and Misty's Open Adoption Journey: November 2010
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Kristen and Misty's Open Adoption Journey. This is our story in the process, waiting, and hopefully eventual placement of a child through open adoption. Monday, November 22, 2010. It's beginning to look alot like.Winter. Day We played wii and had a good time. I think maybe we will try to make that a tradition. He left early on Sunday due to the mountain pass being so snowy. As long as it is new and technology she is pretty much excited. I thought about getting us a new video camera, since we could po...
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Kristen and Misty's Open Adoption Journey: October 2011
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Kristen and Misty's Open Adoption Journey. This is our story in the process, waiting, and hopefully eventual placement of a child through open adoption. Tuesday, October 18, 2011. Who asked for the cold weather? Fall is definitely in the air! Did we even have a summer, though? I actually secretly like the fall season. I don't so much like the cold (I *am* a desert girl, after all) but I love the way the trees turn from green to gold and red. They don't really do that in the Tri-Cities. I never thought th...
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