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If You Are Able, Adopt-a-Family or Senior This Holiday Season

Family Balance Sheet

So when our oldest daughter was born 7 years ago, we were over-joyed.and maybe a bit overwhelmed. Right after our daughter was born, I read an article in the newspaper that tugged at my heart and my postpartum hormones. That first year, the family was a single mother whose infant son was born just a few days before our daughter.

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When I Became a Mom | Throwback Thursday Stories

Family Balance Sheet

This photo was taken the morning after the home birth of our oldest daughter. Our daughter was born at 6 pm on a fall day in 2005. I sat for hours in that big comfy chair that morning staring at every inch of our new baby, in complete awe of her beauty. He just wanted to snuggle with me and sniff the baby.

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