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Adoption Books for Toddlers | David Chosen and Loved
Truly one of the most beautifully written adoption books for toddlers. Authored by an adoptive mother, David Chosen and Loved is a testimony to her love for her child as well as his birth mother. The book is an ode to the adoption triad and the beauty that adoption can be. It’s perfectly written to simplify a child’s adoption story into a context that even toddlers can understand, but also accurately portrays their life after the adoption for what it truly is- normal. Definitely in the top five books for adopted children. David Chosen and Loved is incredibly touching and relatable on all sides of adoption, portrays the traditional infant…
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Adoption is Love
Adoption is a triad. Adoption is love amongst that triad. No matter what the circumstances, there is love from each member in the triad, for each member in the triad. The child: A child is the recipient of love from their birth and adoptive parents. This love may look different than traditional “love”. However, it is love all the same. Bonding with that child at some point within their life has resulted in a lasting love and care for that child. The child has the more difficult role in this love triad. As they navigate childhood, adolescence and even into adulthood, their perception of their adoption story and all those…
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Baby Items List A-Z
This is THE go-to baby items list A-Z that every soon-to-be mom needs! Get ready for baby with every mom’s must haves! If you don’t absolutely need it, you won’t find it on this list! This is the complete list of baby items that every experienced mom swears by for baby! In alphabetical order, starting with baby item A, here is your complete baby items list A-Z: A: Activity Play Mat Babies need time and space to explore and learn. Starting with tummy time to learn neck control and rolling to starting to work on motor skills- your baby needs to be on the floor! These activity play mats are…
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Adoption Guide | All-in-One Course and Support
Have you been thinking about adoption, but don’t know where to start? Do you wish that there was an adoption guide out there to help get to get you started? Or maybe you have started doing some research on the process and are starting to get scared about the extensive and expensive process? Do you wish that the adoption guide that got you started also included DETAILED instructions on how to EASLIY navigate the ENTIRE process AS WELL AS show you how YOU really can afford adoption? Hoping to adopt? Let me guide you through the entire process and turn stress into success! Learn More Loading… I’m so excited for…
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Adoption Struggles | Reviews
The reviews of Adoption Struggles (www.adoptionstruggles.com) are starting to roll in! Check out what adoptive parents that wish they had a course like this when they started the process are saying! Check out what hopeful adoptive parents are saying! AND, check out what professionals in the adoption world are saying about this new online adoption course! Read the reviews of what people are saying about Adoption Struggles- the new site for online private infant adoption step-by-step courses: “This course is exemplary! It calmed all of my anxiety because it breaks each and every step down so clearly and into manageable pieces that I could then use to create my plan.…
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Adoption Struggles | Adoption Wait Time
One of the hardest of the adoption struggles…the wait. How long is adoption wait time? How can I reduce my wait time? How can I reduce my wait time WITHOUT increasing my budget? How can Adoption Struggles, the new online, step-by-step, adoption course help? Why this course? As you learned in the video, using the methods of adoption education that I teach in this course, I was able to successfully adopt twice! Not only that, BUT, from the start of the application process to bringing our baby home took less than a year and a half! Even though statistics say that second adoptions are more difficult and the wait is…
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For Goodness Cake
For Goodness Cake is a super easy cake recipe made with yellow cake mix and instant pudding! One bite will surely have you saying, “For Goodness Cake!!”. Sour cream cakes, like this one, are incredibly moist and simply melt in your mouth! Adding to that, cooking this cake for a long time at a low temperature keeps all that moisture in and the cake cooked evenly throughout! I love serving this cake after having a soul satisfying dinner. It’s simply the icing on the cake. No pun intended 🙂 Some of my favorite meals to serve before a For Goodness Cake include: Apple, Cherry and Walnut Salad with Maple Dressing…
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Ugly Duckling Cake
An Ugly Ducking Cake is a vintage cake recipe packed with so much texture and flavor that you would never believe it was made with boxed yellow cake mix and a can of fruit cocktail! This is one of those “grandma’s secret recipe box” kind of recipes! Super simple, yet unbelievably addicting! The fruit cocktail in this cake really is the hero. It leaves this cake incredibly moist, while pulling a near Houdini act and disappearing into the cake! Make dinner this week a vintage theme! Serve this classic cake for dessert after one of these classic dinner ideas: Creamy Chicken Lasagna Classic Sloppy Joe’s with Tomato Soup Chicken Ratatouille…