by Stephanie | Articles, Blended Life, Life, Negotiations & Lullabies
My first baby turned 10 today. Ten. Perhaps it’s the double digits, or as we have taken to calling it here, The Decade Celebration, but I have been wandering around the house shaking my head that I have now been parenting for a decade. There is something significant...
by Stephanie | Articles, Blended Life
This week is Infertility Awareness Week and I’m participating with Adoption Magazine’s blog hop on this often difficult topic by sharing some of my personal story. People often assume that you are unable to have biological children when you adopt. Countless times,...
by Stephanie | Articles, Blended Life, Handmade & Homemade, Life
Remember when I said that Dinners Around the World was a New Year’s Resolution goal for the new year? I am fully embracing my goal rhetoric because I find myself in mid-April with a family who has just recovered from a week of the stomach flu yet still delirious with...
by Stephanie | Articles, Blended Life, Guest Bloggers
Lately I have been thinking quite a bit about the power of gifting our children’s birth language to them post adoption. This can be a dicey subject among adoptive parents and just so you know, I have landed firmly in the belief that parents of adoptees, whether...