Category Archives: adoption
Religious Thoughts from a Non-Religious Jew Girl
To the person that found me by searching “Jewish girl tattoo craft blog,” I think I love you. Seriously I am greatly amused by that strange mix of keywords. I actually believe that my new job will help a lot with my Jewish identity. I don’t really have one, if that makes sense. Sure I [...]
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Foster-Adoption on Television
So I have been watching the last and final season of Brothers & Sisters, which finally came on Netflix. Yay! (But also Boo! bc I adored that show and the whole Walker clan.) Anyhow, one of the brothers, Kevin, and his husband Scotty have been trying to have a baby via surrogacy for a couple [...]
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Adoption Bloggers Interview Project ~ Meghann of Bflomama
Hello friends! Last month I posted a call to action for adoption bloggers on all 3 sides of the equation. Did any of you participate? A couple weeks ago, Heather from Production, Not Reproduction paired me up with Meghann of Bflomama.com. Not only did I enjoy reading through Meg’s blog, but I loved finding out [...]
Working Out.. And Taking Control
On Saturday, we joined a gym. I haven’t belonged to a gym since.. umm… maybe 2008 or so. I mean, I worked for the YMCA, but I only worked out a handful of times in the almost 2 years I was there. We had gone into our local Planet Fitness a little over a week [...]
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Plug: Adoption Bloggers Interview Project
Hello readers! As y’all know, my husband and I are planning on adoption 2 children from foster care (a sibling pair to be exact) and I have been researching everything I can find on the subject. During this research, I discovered (and became a part of) the Open Adoption Bloggers (see the orange link in [...]
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Oh, Hello Fabulous New Adoption Information Site
image source: AdoptUsKids Facebook page Don’t you just love it when you find a new-to-you website chock full of information on a subject you are passionate about? Yeah, me too. Yesterday afternoon I clicked on a link from the AdoptUsKids facebook page entitled “Grandparents – How to Support Your Foster Parenting Child” and, after reading [...]
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The Steps to Foster Adoption
Image Source: Zazzle I’ve been doing a lot of contemplation in terms of expanding our family lately. This afternoon we met with an insurance agent at work in the hopes of getting health insurance. My request was that infertility testing was covered, but not IVF, surrogacy or IUI. I honestly just want to know what [...]
Foster Kids Heart Gallery Pictures
Dear Self, The more you look at the adorable children in foster care, the more you will want to start the process immediately. Please stop. Seriously. You’re killing your ovaries. And your willpower. Please just stop checking out the Heart Gallery bc it’s really not helping at all. Like, Sue and Frank, or Jamie and [...]
Adoption Progress through the Foster System
Saturday night at a friends birthday bash, we spoke to one of her co-workers that specializes in placing foster children into homes. SCORE! Unfortunately she only works in Broward county, but we were still able to get some great info. Seeing as we aren’t certain what state we will be living in, we aren’t planning [...]
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Taxes: Paying for the First Time in Ages
Every year for as long as I can remember I have done my taxes myself on taxact.com and gotten a nice refund back. I even turned my not so tech loving hubby on to taxact a few years ago. This year we had a ton of things for our taxes, not to mention our first [...]
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