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		<title>Sick Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 00:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was the biggest event of the year at our daughter&#8217;s kindergarten. Spring Carnival! We&#8217;ve heard and talked about little else for weeks, selling raffle tickets, signing up for face painting duty, picking out the perfect outfit. What a surprise &#8230; <a href="http://seekingfatherhood.com/daily-life/sick-day">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mother&#8217;s Day Blues</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 16:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For twenty plus years, Mother&#8217;s Day has been bittersweet for me. It&#8217;s lovely to remember Mom, but because she&#8217;s gone it&#8217;s also a lonely holiday. I help celebrate my wonderful step-mom and friends who are moms. But my mom I &#8230; <a href="http://seekingfatherhood.com/adoption/mothers-day-blues">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Leap Forward</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 03:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Huge news, the hearing was today, and the judge terminated the mother’s parental rights and set adoption into our family as the “permanent plan” for the kids. Now the adoption phase begins. This means a new social worker and I’m &#8230; <a href="http://seekingfatherhood.com/adoption/the-great-leap-forward">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Some Positive Points for Us</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 04:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We just switched our daughter from a &#8220;star/sticker&#8221; system to a &#8220;points/rewards&#8221; plan, and the difference is dramatic, in her and in me. I&#8217;ve decided it&#8217;s time to award myself some points! But first I should explain. A sticker on &#8230; <a href="http://seekingfatherhood.com/adoption/some-positive-points-for-us">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Deliciousness of Normal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 04:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not surprised, but proud as can be to report that the kids&#8217; developmental assessments, required as part of the foster care adoption process, showed them to be completely age appropriate in their motor, social, and academic skills. Not surprised, because &#8230; <a href="http://seekingfatherhood.com/adoption/wonderful-to-be-normal">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Once More Into the Breach, Dear Friends</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 06:09:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I never imagined how often day-to-day parenting would feel like the battle scene that opens Saving Private Ryan. I thought we&#8217;d won ours, getting both kids back from the beach to our motel room. 15 minutes of crying by our &#8230; <a href="http://seekingfatherhood.com/daily-life/once-more-into-the-breach-dear-friends">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>And Another Delay</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 04:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[adoption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our five-year-old has a reliable reaction to any surprise in her routine.Something causes us to reverse activity 1 and activity 2. The place is closed. They&#8217;re out of her favorite X, Y, or Z. She is not pleased. Sometimes she &#8230; <a href="http://seekingfatherhood.com/adoption/and-another-delay">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Ready for Fatherhood: I Did Not Steal This</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 04:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We had three social workers visiting the kids one afternoon this week, and I was a mess. I realize that it&#8217;s time to deal with my authority issues. There are big things at stake, of course. About 18 days from &#8230; <a href="http://seekingfatherhood.com/adoption/ready-for-fatherhood-i-did-not-steal-this">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Joy of Water</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 23:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the great joys of growing up in the Southwest was swimming. There were quite a few pools in our middle-class neighborhood and we were lucky to have one. Most summers I was in the water nearly every day. There &#8230; <a href="http://seekingfatherhood.com/daily-life/joy-of-water">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>2-Year-Old Lady MacBeth</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 05:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of all the tantrum-inducing opportunities life affords, I could never have predicted that our terrible two-year old would focus so much on hand washing. Of course he doesn&#8217;t limit himself, but this is his most reliable source of agony, running &#8230; <a href="http://seekingfatherhood.com/parenting/2-year-old-lady-macbeth">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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