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		<title>Paths&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2007 05:41:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have had such a difficult time, even thinking of writing this post, so please forgive me if you have been expectantly waiting on an update.   I didn&#8217;t mean to keep you waiting&#8230;I  did e-mail many of my readers to let them know what has happened, but I do realize the rest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=randomcontemplations.wordpress.com&blog=511614&post=186&subd=randomcontemplations&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Camping and Violet update&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2007 02:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Camping was fun this weekend.  In the beginning, I couldn&#8217;t believe that Hubby was &#8220;making&#8221; me go camping (on our 15th anniversary too) when I have so much to do here at the house before we leave on Thursday, but I am now so glad that we went.  He said I needed to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=randomcontemplations.wordpress.com&blog=511614&post=185&subd=randomcontemplations&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Long day&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2007 06:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[My "Pooh Bear" Joshua]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a sick little one again today, but we still went to a birthday party, for my nephew Evan, they are all snotty over there too so why not continue to share the germs?  :-)  Joshua isn&#8217;t running a fever though, just a very snotty nose, and a cough, a glaze to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=randomcontemplations.wordpress.com&blog=511614&post=180&subd=randomcontemplations&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It is OFFICIAL!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 04:47:30 +0000</pubDate>
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We&#8217;ve officially been chosen as Violet&#8217;s new family!  Hooray!  Praise God!  We are all thrilled, to put it mildly. :-)
We have not yet been told the date that we will be going to get her, there are still things that her caseworker needs to get done, paperwork mainly, but it will happen [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=randomcontemplations.wordpress.com&blog=511614&post=179&subd=randomcontemplations&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Friend or foe?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 06:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We will soon be in the midst of caseworker visits again.  I am so, so thankful that we will probably have the same one we did for Joshua, that is IF we get Little Miss V.  When you are first starting out on the adoption journey or foster parent journey you just don&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=randomcontemplations.wordpress.com&blog=511614&post=176&subd=randomcontemplations&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yes, you are in the right place&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2007 05:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you ever click to my blog and wonder if you are in the right place?  I feel the need to change the look of my blog yet again.  We are in the midst of the winter blahs here in Texas, probably the longest one that I can remember in a very long [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=randomcontemplations.wordpress.com&blog=511614&post=175&subd=randomcontemplations&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Randomness&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2007 02:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have taken the picture of Violet down now, if you missed it and would like to see her shoot me an e-mail and I&#8217;ll send you her picture!
The past couple of days have been busy caring for Joshua.  I took him in to see his doc yesterday, to learn that he had a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=randomcontemplations.wordpress.com&blog=511614&post=154&subd=randomcontemplations&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adoption news&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2007 04:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
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We are in the midst of hopeful prayer for a little girl, a child named Violet.  Joshua&#8217;s former CPS worker has called us and seems very hopeful that we will be the family chosen for her. Violet turned 2 in September, so she is 9 months younger than Joshua, and has had quite a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=randomcontemplations.wordpress.com&blog=511614&post=153&subd=randomcontemplations&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Family size&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2006 01:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just read a post, by Erin of Transracial/Transcultural Adoption Blog, responding to a question she often receives from others: &#8220;Are you done yet?&#8221;.  Erin is an adoptive mom that I really love to read and truly admire.  Go over and read it for yourself!
Our Family Size
I know just what she means when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=randomcontemplations.wordpress.com&blog=511614&post=144&subd=randomcontemplations&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>About adoption and attachment&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2006 04:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If  you are interested in the subject of attachment and adoption, I suggest you go over and read Erin&#8217;s post, she has adopted all different ages and has great experiences to share. 
 Questions and answers- Age and Attacment in Adoption
Love one another!~Yvonne
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