by Stephanie | Articles, Blended Life, Handmade & Homemade
Creepy, crawly, horror, scary, gross, and an excuse for an inappropriate Halloween? Nope. No thank you. That’s not for me. I think I actually turned that literal corner back when I was a third grader crawling through a friend’s ‘haunted house’...
by Stephanie | Articles, Blended Life
What are you doing this weekend? I am finishing Halloween costumes and picking pumpkins with these fall-minded kiddos of mine. What could be more fun than climbing in apple crates, over hay bales and getting lost in the corn maze? But after that I need to relax a...
by Stephanie | Articles, Blended Life
Lately I have been talking to frustrated foster parents and adoptive parents alike. Most of their frustration stems from a lack of knowledge about adoption and foster care at their schools. While there may be one or two key instructors or administrators who...
by Stephanie | Articles, Blended Life
If you are involved at all in the adoption world you are talking about this right now. Everywhere I go I have conversations about adoption, specifically International Adoption, and orphan care. There is a growing movement of people (I am one) that want to see a shift...
by Stephanie | Articles, Blended Life
A recent survey I received asked how often I talk about adoption with my child and where, most often, do these conversations occur. I assumed they were asking about my adopted child when they asked the question, but that day it struck me as the most inadequate...
