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Today is our 15th Anniversary! I don’t have any profound words to share about life or marriage right now, but I was looking through pictures last night and they made me laugh, so I thought I’d share them. This is a total highlight reel – no hard things mentioned here. But sometimes it’s good to […]
Read MoreWe got through the weekend! Father’s Day tends to go better than Mother’s Day here, which I think is pretty typical in adoption. You just don’t have the whole Forced replacement of someone I loved who disappointed me factor with adoptive Dads. Instead, Dads are like unicorns – something kids heard might be real but […]
Read MoreI may have been a little glib on the sleep thing yesterday. I didn’t mean to be. You know what happened last night, right? How I went to bed nice and early and then… couldn’t sleep? Sigh. Also, grrrr…. Not sleeping is one of my LEAST favorite things. Yours too, probably, unless you’re at […]
Read MoreWhen I was in law school, some students thought it was cool to brag about how they’d been up all night studying in their library carrels. A few even brought in pillows. In a moment of wisdom that was pretty rare for me back then, I thought, Wow, that is the dumbest thing I’ve ever […]
Read MoreSome of you reached out to check on us after my spate of candid posts about things we’re struggling with. I get it. It’s not typical to see this sort of honesty on the internet these days, especially in circumstances like ours where it would be possible to create an alternative reality online, painting our […]
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Trish Ryan 