Happy Friday! I’m so excited to put out candy for trick or treaters on Saturday and see all of their adorable costumes. <3 -1- After 3 years of living in our house, I’m finally tackling the master bathroom repainting and decorating. I ordered some shelves, my first favorite, to hang…
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-1- If you missed the post last week, our adoption profile is live up on our agency’s website!!! We’ve been listed with them and approved to adopt for about 15 months, but they rotate waiting families on their website rather than listing them all at once due to space constraints.…
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Today our profile is officially live on our agency’s website! You can visit our profile at the link below. https://www.givingbirthtohope.org/profile-mark-and-adri You might be thinking, ‘You two have been approved to adopt for 15 months. Why weren’t you already on the website?!?!’ This is something I thought many times and called…
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Many of my friends who are parents have struggled throughout the pandemic. Trying to juggle distance learning or homeschooling, work, and the shock of parenting 24/7 with zero help from their usual support networks has been really really hard. Having never been a parent, I don’t think I can comprehend…
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Happy Friday, friends! This week has absolutely flown by. I feel like I woke up on Monday blinked and here we are on Friday. -1- If you’ve been following my blog for a while, you may know that I hate swallowing pills. My physician recommends women of child bearing age…
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I look at my last post giving a quick update about where things stood with our adoption and I feel so naive. I thought living in the midst of a global pandemic was a chaotic time! Fast forward a few weeks and we’re living in the wake of George Floyd’s…
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A pandemic is a tricky time to be waiting for adoption. There’s no going out with friends or visiting family or looking forward to/taking vacations to distract us from the wait. I walk by the nursery about 100 times per day on the way to the bathroom, kitchen, to visit…
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We are approaching 1 year of waiting for adoption in June, so we thought we do some proactive work to spread the word to help us connect with an expectant family. To help us do that, I created a new Instagram account called @markadri_adopt. There’s not much content there now,…
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This has been such a unique and challenging time, on stay-at-home orders during a global pandemic. I have the sense I should write a blog post about what’s going on in our lives and how we’re managing for the sake of posterity, but I’m just not ready. I’m still processing…
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This analysis is based on my limited view of adoption, coming from someone who hasn’t done it before. My aim is not to criticize those who have done these things (We all do the best we can with the information we have at the time!), but to share what I’ve…
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