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		<title>Please Help Bring Home the Bac Lieu 16</title>
		<link>http://myeverydaymiracles.com/2011/06/22/please-help-bring-home-the-bac-lieu-16/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carissa</dc:creator>
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Typically my blog posts are well about my family but today I have some very special families and their amazing children to share with you and I hope that you take the initiative to help, which does not mean money necessarily but prayers or a phone call or a letter!
If you  go back to the beginning of this blog you will see that we started out hoping to adopt from Vietnam. I had many reasons that is what I wanted to do. Well as you all know we did not end up being able to do that, Little Man and Little Princess are from Korea, because the United States and Vietnam were well for lack of a better term at this point in a war of sorts over the children. For most of 2008 and into 2009, many of the families who had referrals prior to the shut down and ...]]></description>
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		<title>A Line In The Sand</title>
		<link>http://myeverydaymiracles.com/2011/03/04/a-line-in-the-sand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 08:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carissa</dc:creator>
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If you are/were a regular reader here you know that I am not one to back down from anything, heck give me something that I have an opinion on and I will HAPPILY tell you what my opinion is – I mean one of my most read posts (but least commented on) Not So Perfect After All about an odd adoption disruption that I read about. And I stand by what I said in that post…
Recently I heard a story about another family, this time the parents had made a decision to adopt from a specific country and started looking at waiting children lists. They believed that they had found the perfect addition to their family there on the waiting child list, a sibling set but the information indicated that there was an issue they needed to discuss with the agency. The siblings were adorable and in reality still pretty ...]]></description>
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		<title>More Love</title>
		<link>http://myeverydaymiracles.com/2011/03/01/more-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 05:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carissa</dc:creator>
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Aaron and I have been discussing our options lately to open our currently closed adoption. We have told a few people and constantly get the same questions ~ Why would you open an adoption with someone who cannot speak your language, has a different culture and of whom you are blissfully unaware? We have yet to come up with a perfect answer for the first two but the last one we will outright say is untrue, we are so aware of someone we have never met she is a topic of conversation here at least once a day, usually when one of the kids says or does something cute or shows a specific personality trait and we wonder.
Recently in one of my yahoo groups for those who have adopted from South Korea another parent asked about contact with the birth mother for his/her 4 year old child who has been ...]]></description>
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		<title>Are you the adoptive mother?</title>
		<link>http://myeverydaymiracles.com/2011/02/28/are-you-the-adoptive-mother/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 03:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carissa</dc:creator>
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(before the break)
Some days I just want to be a parent…just mama or mommy and not the lady someone in the corner is whispering about or someone else with more guts or less good sense, I am not sure which, is asking questions that are well just not in good taste in front of my children.
Last week, I was asked more than once “So you are the adoptive mother?” The first two times I was tired, hungry and VERY thirsty and had only just arrived at our final destination, I didn’t have it in me to be funny or say something I might later regret and just answered simply “Yes” but after I had some water, a little bit of food and an hour or so of sleep I wondered what the word in front of mother meant and why it was important for her care. I gave them what ...]]></description>
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		<title>Missing In Action</title>
		<link>http://myeverydaymiracles.com/2010/06/13/missing-in-action/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mommy]]></category>
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										Sorry I have been MIA here for awhile, heck everywhere. I have not written a real post for GIMH for months and I have about 7 started and none finished. I have an equal number of posts started for this blog and they as well are going no where. My post for GIMH is now two weeks late for this month, my kids are now a month bigger on this site. I am not sure I have what some would call writer&#8217;s block as I have a lot of things I want to write about, but writing about those things will get me yelled at by someone or ignored by someone or could be just plain controversial and lately I am just not in the mood. I usually leave the controversial stuff to GIMH, matter of fact I have a post I wrote some time ago on this site I ...]]></description>
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		<title>{118/365} Adoption Finalization Day</title>
		<link>http://myeverydaymiracles.com/2010/04/28/118365-adoption-finalization-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 01:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carissa</dc:creator>
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Today was adoption finalization day ~ until today we were just Little Man and Little Princess&#8217; foster parents, today we became their actual parents and I cried in court as the Judge read into the court record their new names because believe it or not I thought this day would never come and as much as I knew it would be eventful I didn&#8217;t realize how much or what a large role my children would play in the day!
I have been planning today for over a month! Time to take Aaron to one of my favorite restaurants in a town where I used to work and loved, finalization hearing, and visiting a museum Aaron and I had yet to make it to (since we were being bad host parents and letting the exchange student come to the finalization ~ she wanted to ~ and skip school today).
Paula, one of my ...]]></description>
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		<title>{73/365} Walk down memory lane&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://myeverydaymiracles.com/2010/03/14/73365-walk-down-memory-lane/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carissa</dc:creator>
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										I read a lot of blogs, I don&#8217;t always comment on a lot of blogs but I do read a lot of blogs. Many of the blogs are adoption blogs and more often than not they can send me to some more really great adoption blogs. That has happened as I am attempting to catch up on reading in my google reader this week. I love reading the blog Habesha Child ~ even though I have not commented for probably a year or more I love reading! I feel a little connection because she is a lawyer but the connection ends there as she is a single mom (and a good one from what I can see) ~ she is an amazing woman! She also reads the BEST blogs and occasionally she shares them with the rest of us!
That is what she did way back when, but I just read ...]]></description>
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		<title>{67/365} Our Story</title>
		<link>http://myeverydaymiracles.com/2010/03/08/67365-our-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carissa</dc:creator>
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										I get asked all the time ~ what is your story? or better yet how did you come to adopt twins? and I keep promising myself I would write our story one day I would put it all down on the blog to remember forever&#8230;every time I start it I end up crying and it never makes it past the first sentence. It has not been a good winter ~ it has not been an easy winter and I need to remember our story ~ I need to cry tears of happiness because of the immense miracle God pulled off to get us where we are today&#8230;so here goes (and this may take a while so grab a drink or two, get comfortable and read):
In February 2007 we contacted the only agency that we even considered using for our adoption and were given an immediate appointment with the women who ...]]></description>
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		<title>{62/365} The &#8220;safe&#8221; option</title>
		<link>http://myeverydaymiracles.com/2010/03/03/62365-the-safe-option/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carissa</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[adoption]]></category>
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										When talking about how they choose international adoption, I have heard more than one person say &#8220;I picked international adoption because it is the safe option.&#8221; What do they mean by that statement?
Well some mean that there is typically no birth mother to worry about coming back to &#8220;claim&#8221; her child. With domestic adoption there is a period of time after the birth that the birth mother has the right to change her mind and choose to parent the child herself. There are statistics that say a family adoption domestically in the United States have at least one failed adoption prior to a successful one. Some families feel they could not handle that and turn to international adoption as the next option but you need to research the country you choose carefully. In Korea, until the child boards the plane to leave for the US, the birth mother has the ...]]></description>
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		<title>{61/365} Not So Perfect After All</title>
		<link>http://myeverydaymiracles.com/2010/03/02/61365-not-so-perfect-after-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carissa</dc:creator>
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										I was reading today, catching up on adoption news and blogs. I made it to one that I have read for a long time, from their application drop-off to their first fundraiser, from their referral through their agonizing wait to bring home their child from the foreign country they chose. I am being intentionally vague because their story is private and this could be any family with a child from any country; that is part of my point of this post: this could be any adoptive family.
Somehow, within days of meeting the child and bringing the child home, the family learned some of the child’s family history. This family history issue was new to the adoptive family. They had never been told this issue existed or could exist. Within days of arriving back on US soil, the family had relinquished their newly adopted child to the agency handling the adoption.
Ok, ...]]></description>
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