This past week has been a bit stressful on our family. Our foster children’s case is coming to a close, and we will be adopting shortly, but there’s been a lot of heavy feeling happening as things roll to an official end. And so, I created this routine to help with that, because feelings need to be felt, then released!
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Today marks three total years in foster care for our foster daughter. It’s hard to even type “foster daughter”, because soon she will just be our daughter… but even with court orders for adoption and adoption consent from birth parents, she is still in state wardship, and there she will remain, until a judge orders her legally ours.
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Our family has been through a lot in the past few years, and one thing I’ve noticed creeping up in our home is the amount of time spent looking at screens. Just today I realized our DVD player is on its last legs, and I think that might be a blessing in disguise… but do I really want to eliminate screen time altogether, or just be more mindful about it?
As I’ve mentioned before, our family loves hiking and do it as often as we can. This fall has been an interesting mix, because we have been doing a hike-a-thon to raise the last of our adoption funds, and we also got the green light on doing the adoptions, so on days we don’t go hiking… I’m buried under a pile of paperwork!
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