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Adventures in Foster Care. Two Years and Counting …. August 11, 2016. The average time a child spends in foster care is 23 months. Our Princess now has 24 months under her belt of which the last 19 have been in our home with no end in sight. Her life hangs in … Continue reading →. March 17, 2016. February 24, 2016. 5 Ways to Encourage Foster Families. October 8, 2015. Hair Today Hair Tomorrow. August 19, 2015. We had been prepared for many of foster care’s challenges: abused children, uncooperative birth...
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(Un)lovable | The Magic Window
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Adventures in Foster Care. Shades of Black and White →. July 15, 2015. There is the great lesson of ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ that a thing must be loved before it is lovable. Hurt people hurt people. It’s sad but oh so true! If you think about it, our gut reaction to being wronged or hurt is to lash out. As we mature, we learn how to control these impulses and channel our anger and negative emotions so that we rarely hurt others. And boy can they figure out quickly which buttons to push and when. But, our ...
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Hair Today Hair Tomorrow | The Magic Window
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Adventures in Foster Care. Shades of Black and White. 5 Ways to Encourage Foster Families →. Hair Today Hair Tomorrow. August 19, 2015. We had been prepared for many of foster care’s challenges: abused children, uncooperative birth parents, and poor hygiene. But, no one ever mentioned HAIR. We all know hair is NOT created equal. When our older foster daughter arrived, I was told I had to do. First, I consulted an African-American foster mom. She gave me reassurance that I would be OK. She let me ...So I ...
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Super Powers | The Magic Window
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Adventures in Foster Care. He’s Got This. Good Enough →. June 24, 2015. If you could have any super power, what would it be? Me, I’ve always wished I could fly. Then I’d truly experience freedom. I could defy gravity and not feel so tethered to this world. I would soar above everything, and all below would fall into perspective. Until this week, I’d always wanted my fantasy superpower to be the ability to fly. Now I’m wishing for a new super power: wherever I am –. Truth would be revealed. If all we had ...
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He’s Got This | The Magic Window
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Adventures in Foster Care. Why is this blog called “The Magic Window? Super Powers →. He’s Got This. June 17, 2015. But this has not been our story…. Our first child stayed a mere 23 hours and returned to her dad whom she hadn’t seen in two years in another state. We’ve heard nothing about her since. How have we learned to reconcile what we’re doing with the sometimes, tragic, seemingly unsuccessful results we’re experiencing? Well, I have to admit that at first, I kick and scream and get pretty mad at G...
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Adventures in Foster Care. Category Archives: Foster Care. Two Years and Counting …. August 11, 2016. The average time a child spends in foster care is 23 months. Our Princess now has 24 months under her belt of which the last 19 have been in our home with no end in sight. Her life hangs in … Continue reading →. March 17, 2016. February 24, 2016. 5 Ways to Encourage Foster Families. October 8, 2015. Hair Today Hair Tomorrow. August 19, 2015. We had been prepared for many of foster care’s challenges: abus...
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Shades of Black and White | The Magic Window
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Adventures in Foster Care. Hair Today Hair Tomorrow →. Shades of Black and White. July 28, 2015. She doesn’t like that we have such distinctive colors. She loves me. I have a beautiful painting she made for me that says so. But this. This problem of our different skin color bothers her. Now where we are not minorities, we again find ourselves in the place of being judged for the color of our skin. It’s this strange place where no matter what we do and how loving we try to be, that underlying prejudice ge...
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Adventures in Foster Care. Tag Archives: Foster Care. 5 Ways to Encourage Foster Families. October 8, 2015. We all wonder how best to support our friends and family who are fostering. Let’s face it, foster families are usually in it for the long haul and they need a large safety net of people they can rely on … Continue reading →. Hair Today Hair Tomorrow. August 19, 2015. June 30, 2015. The most common question we hear as foster parents is, So, how’s it going with the girls? June 10, 2015. The writing b...
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Adventures in Foster Care. Johnna spends her days working at a job she loves as a foster care advocate. Then, when she gets home, she gets to put the theory into practice with her amazing husband, Frank Stein. (Yes, she is the bride of Frankenstein! Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Email (Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. Notify me of new comments via email.
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