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What I Won’t Share:OAB Roundtable #17

Published on June 26, 2010 By spyderkl

The latest installment of the Open Adoption Bloggers Roundtable is about sharing. Specifically, what we choose not to share. Are there any things that you don’t want the other members of your triad to know—or that you don’t want to know about them? I’ve heard first mothers talk about not sharing their birth stories with [...]

What Would She Say?

Published on June 2, 2010 By spyderkl

I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately. A lot of it is due to M’s renewed interest in visiting – and visiting often. Much more frequent visits than we’re used to having, any of us. Part of it is what got me into the “behavioral sciences” system in the first place last fall, and [...]

Protected: Conflict

Published on May 13, 2010 By spyderkl

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It Makes the World Go ‘Round

Published on April 17, 2010 By spyderkl

This OAB Roundtable is about money. Specifically, it’s about how money influences our adoption. Money had a lot to do with our initial interest in foster-care adoption. We were eventually (actually, K was eventually) talked into a domestic infant adoption; we had never even considered that, because we didn’t think we would qualify financially. I [...]

Protected: Breakthrough

Published on April 14, 2010 By spyderkl

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