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A Pleasant Surprise
In the 6 weeks since our last update, we have gotten to sit back, breathe for a bit, and just enjoy baby girl! Matt’s family was in town the week of the 4th of July and got to meet her and spend time with her and my parents came for the weekend a few weeks
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Breathe In, Breathe Out
When we signed up to be adoptive parents, we committed to love, care for, and look out for the best interest of any child we brought into our home. Last Tuesday, June 10th, we received a call that DCS was going to return baby girl to birth mom and we would have to meet DCS
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Moment By Moment
Let me start by saying that how we ended our last post is still what we believe. God has shown and is continually showing us So we continue to hold on loosely (even when we want to grip things so tightly), love big (even when our hearts could be so broken at any second), and
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She’s Here
First, the fun and exciting stuff. Baby girl is here. She was born on Monday, May 26 via c-section at 1:07 pm. She weighed 6 lbs 12 oz at birth and was 18.89 inches long. She had a little bit of fluid in her lungs at birth and had some trouble breathing so she had
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Home Stretch
Yesterday was Mother’s Day and it was such a stark contrast from around the same time last year. Last year, I straight up ugly cried at the zoo the day after Mother’s Day watching all the families with young kids. The grief of our situation at the time ran very deep. This year, we are
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