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Why ABM and the Blog? Add Water and Stir. The Year of the Try. Tales from an adoption journey. Tag Archives: Single Adoptive Parents. October 25, 2016. Case Managing as Parenting. I could really use a personal assistant. Of course at this point I couldn’t afford one, but that’s beside the point, really. I could use a family case manager, scheduler, minder person, robot, something. Work email responses are taking up about 15% of my attention. Case managing me and Hope. I updated the family calendar. Updat...
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Add Water and Stir | AdoptiveBlackMom
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Why ABM and the Blog? Add Water and Stir. The Year of the Try. Tales from an adoption journey. Add Water and Stir. Dd Water and Stir. Is a podcast focused on the promoting adoption within communities of color, especially within the African American community. Co-hosted by AdoptiveBlackMom (ABM) and ComplicatedMelodi. We podcast live every other week on Google. And our podcasts can be downloaded from our podcast page: Add Water and Stir. Drop me a line below if you have topic suggestions! Thank you for yo...
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Lessons Learned | AdoptiveBlackMom
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Why ABM and the Blog? Add Water and Stir. The Year of the Try. Tales from an adoption journey. Category Archives: Lessons Learned. October 6, 2016. I listen to an absurd number of podcasts. Today on the way home from Hope’s orthodontia appointment, I cued up a recent episode of Modern Love. The episode featured essays read by recent Emmy winners. So, I just let it play. Then I got lost in my own thoughts, thinking about how our own family has expanded in the nearly three years we’ve been together. We obs...
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African American Parenting | AdoptiveBlackMom
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Why ABM and the Blog? Add Water and Stir. The Year of the Try. Tales from an adoption journey. Tag Archives: African American Parenting. October 13, 2016. When They Don’t Listen: School Edition. Remember when I realized at the end of summer that we kinda hate school because of some of Hope’s challenges? Yep, still hate it. I thought that her counselor and I were on the same page in terms of what was in Hope’s best interest. Apparently, I was mistaken. I know my kid. I know her. I used to not believe in o...
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Add Water and Stir 19: Adoption Disruption and Rehoming | AdoptiveBlackMom
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Why ABM and the Blog? Add Water and Stir. The Year of the Try. Tales from an adoption journey. April 13, 2015. Add Water and Stir 19: Adoption Disruption and Rehoming. Be sure to join Complicated Melodi’s Mimi and AdoptiveBlackMom’s ABM this Thursday as they wade into to touchy subjects of adoption disruption and adoptee rehoming. What kinds of things lead to adoption disruption and how common (or uncommon) is adoptee rehoming? Or catch us later on Youtube. View all posts by AdoptiveBlackMom. I’ve ...
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Karen Pickell — Between: A View from the Space that Separates. February 18, 2016. July 11, 2016. I feel an evolution happening within me a revolution really. I’m beginning to feel free in a way I haven’t before. I’m beginning to feel settled, on the inside. But I’m still not living authentically. Yes, it’s gotten a lot easier to reveal myself in some situations, but there are still too many instances when I bend and twist myself. Why do I do this? Continue reading “Evolution Revolution”. November 10, 2015.
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Single Adoptive Moms | AdoptiveBlackMom
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Why ABM and the Blog? Add Water and Stir. The Year of the Try. Tales from an adoption journey. Tag Archives: Single Adoptive Moms. August 5, 2016. A Day in the Life-Travel Edition. This post should be called, Why ABM can’t get several half written posts finished and why her pre-production work for Add Water and Stir. 5:30am Get up to do hair. 6:45am Put on workout clothes and walk Yappy. 7:01am ABM loses ish for the first time of the day. 7:02am Hope slams a door in ABM’s house. 7:30am Starts getting bre...
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Why ABM and the Blog? Add Water and Stir. The Year of the Try. Tales from an adoption journey. October 25, 2016. Case Managing as Parenting. I could really use a personal assistant. Of course at this point I couldn’t afford one, but that’s beside the point, really. I could use a family case manager, scheduler, minder person, robot, something. So, I’m at a professional meeting, but I’m in the back of a room, tethered to cords in a power plug. I am paying attention at about a level of 37.4568%. Logging on ...
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Adoptive Single Moms | AdoptiveBlackMom
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Why ABM and the Blog? Add Water and Stir. The Year of the Try. Tales from an adoption journey. Tag Archives: Adoptive Single Moms. August 28, 2016. The last week or so I realized that things had changed around Casa d’ABM. Things wereroutine. Things were relatively smooth. Hope and I have always been a loving family, even if it didn’t always seem very loving as we grappled with our challenges. It’s been hard for both of us. We actually got back into the habit of eating together (Thank you Instant Pot).
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Adoption Lessons | AdoptiveBlackMom
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Why ABM and the Blog? Add Water and Stir. The Year of the Try. Tales from an adoption journey. Tag Archives: Adoption Lessons. September 15, 2016. So Much Love for Hope. This parenting thing is hard. It really is. Parenting, in general, is tough. Parenting a kid who has seen some things and gone through some stuff is especially tough. There are days when it brings me to tears for so many sad, sad reasons. I love my daughter. I could never have imagined that this family of mine would exist. This morning I...