Adoption

Adoption
Parenting

Behind The Scenes of Adoption

So many people ask how we went from “Just Us” to a family of four, so here it is! If you read The Story of Us Pt. 1 you’ve already got the beginning of this story so I will start from where we left off there. . . When you have decided you’d like to […]

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Mental health
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RAD

It’s The Little Victories That Mean the Most-Video

Some days in this battle we have small wins. When bad things happen, you have to find the good.

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Marriage
Mental health
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RAD

Life According to Plan: A Reality Check

So I had that dream again, the one where my life is going as I had planned it.  My family life was fun and exciting yet also calm and un-chaotic. My wife and I went on regular date nights.  I was pregnant and due soon.  I was doing work I loved and work hardly felt […]

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Adoption
Parenting
School Issues

Mommy King of Justice

Such a weird name right? I agree completely, but my son gave it to me. Shortly after leaving an exceptionally difficult school meeting, he asked me about what the heck happened during that meeting and why I had been yelling at them. I attempted to explain what I had been trying to accomplish. He was […]

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Adoption
Parenting
RAD

This Ain’t Your Momma’s Discipline aka Parenting in a RAD World

What is RAD? I cannot even recall a time when this term was not such a huge part of my life. RAD or Reactive Attachment Disorder has changed my life so much more than I knew it could. The first time I heard the term was so many years ago in training for case management. It […]

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Adoption
Parenting

I Was Not There…

I was not there when my children were born. I was 17 years old. It was the summer before my senior year of high school and I was not there. I was in New York, so many miles away from the Florida city they were born in. See, my children were born to another woman […]

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Adoption
Mental health
Parenting
RAD

Teachable Moments…

September 30, 2016 So it finally happened. One of my boys, Malik this time, decided he would throw down in public today at CVS. He had gotten in trouble for fighting on the bus and just escalated from there. Pretty sure the people who pulled up beside us believed he had been kidnapped and called […]

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