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Discouragement

Submitted by GuestBlogger on Thu, 04/03/2008 - 14:12.
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Once again "Scraps" will capture your minds and hearts with this heart wrenching and incredibly honest blog about her family. I admire Scraps for many things, but her honesty in particular.   Lisa S.

 

  

Discouragement can hit the most positive thinking, hopeful, energetic folk, and when it does...look out!  It has hit our house like a sack full of bricks this month, which is partly why I have been  noticeably absent in the blogging world, if anyone notices such things.  It is terribly difficult to watch painfully hard work swirling down the drain, and realize that although your adopted children have learned to function within the confines of your family unit, they are still as uncommitted as the day they walked through the door.  It is crushingly painful to realize that your adopted children do not harbor a fledgling love for their new family, but rather an appreciation and enjoyment of the perks membership in said family affords.

 

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Stop Using Gross as a Weapon

Submitted by GuestBlogger on Sun, 03/23/2008 - 12:06.
  • Adoptive parenting
  • Grosses Mom Out
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  • Showing Love
  • Teens

 

 

"Scraps" as many of us so fondly refer to her, is a regular guest blogger with "Adoption Under One Roof." Her entertaining and humorous insights into parenting her children are not only helpful, but reflect her loving committment to her children... LIsa S. 

 

Hello, I'm Scrapsbynobody. I've been a wife and Mom for over twenty years, and not all that long ago our family decided to pursue adoption. We took a dive into the deep end, by doubling the size of our family through older child, large sibling group, transracial, foster adoption. Welcome to my world. Read more from Scraps here.

 

 I have a confession to make. I can be a very slow learner. In fact, at times I can be downright dense.  My lack of intuition in one particular area  has cost me permanently. This is a lesson I must file away, if ever I do this older child adoption thing again, because my opportunity will never fly back to me with this set of children.

 

Everyone knows what grosses Mom out. I have another confession to make.  I am a bit of a neat and clean freak.  Most of the time this serves me well enough, as I scurry about disinfecting things and organizing drawers.  It actually relaxes me, and gives me the illusion of control in my often chaotic life.  I know it really does not matter that every recipe I have is neatly filed, or that my fabric bins are arranged by color and type of fabric.

 

 

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First Meetings

Submitted by GuestBlogger on Wed, 03/05/2008 - 19:15.
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Guest BookHello, I'm Scrapsbynobody. I've been a wife and Mom for over twenty years, and not all that long ago our family decided to pursue adoption. We took a dive into the deep end, by doubling the size of our family through older child, large sibling group, transracial, foster adoption. Welcome to my world. Read more from Scraps here .
 

Although it seems like a lifetime ago, there was a time that our adopted children were not with us. The process seemed to drag on forever, and in fact, it dragged out longer than necessary.

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Age vs. Maturity

Submitted by GuestBlogger on Fri, 02/22/2008 - 09:14.
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Hello, I'm Scrapsbynobody. I've been a wife and Mom for over twenty years, and not all that long ago our family decided to pursue adoption. We took a dive into the deep end, by doubling the size of our family through older child, large sibling group, transracial, foster adoption. Welcome to my world. Read more from Scraps here

Recently, I've been enjoying some blogging and forum discussions here in the house at OurAdopt, about older parent adoption.

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Guest Blog: "The Big Picture" by Scraps

Submitted by GuestBlogger on Wed, 02/20/2008 - 07:50.
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Hello, I'm Scrapsbynobody. I've been a wife and Mom for over twenty years, and not all that long ago our family decided to pursue adoption. We took a dive into the deep end, by doubling the size of our family through older child, large sibling group, transracial, foster adoption. Welcome to my world. Read more from Scraps here

Over the last couple of days I've been keeping my eye on a conversation going on in bloggyland, and it has actually compelled me to jump into the fray a few times.

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Guest Blog: "I Like Cake" from Scrapsbynobody

Submitted by GuestBlogger on Wed, 02/13/2008 - 13:59.
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  • Righteous Indignation
  • Scrapsbynobody
  • Social Worker

Hello, I'm Scrapsbynobody. I've been a wife and Mom for over twenty years, and not all that long ago our family decided to pursue adoption. We took a dive into the deep end, by doubling the size of our family through older child, large sibling group, transracial, foster adoption. Welcome to my world. Read more from Scraps here.

Recently I was clicking through a few blogs I like to read and I came across a topic of conversation that I've seen tossed about occasionally. It pertained to the idea that foster families had the right to specify what sorts of children they intended to foster. A fair amount of righteous indignation

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Guest Blog: "Nothing To Call My Own" by Scrapsbynobody

Submitted by GuestBlogger on Sun, 02/10/2008 - 05:27.
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Hello, I'm Scrapsbynobody. I've been a wife and Mom for over twenty years, and not all that long ago our family decided to pursue adoption. We took a dive into the deep end, by doubling the size of our family through older child, large sibling group, transracial, foster adoption. Welcome to my world.

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