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	<description>Marriage, Adoption, Motherhood, Faith, Family, Life.</description>
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		<title>SAHM: Showering, Stress, and Sweatpants &#8211; Thoughts on the &#8220;Lies&#8221; We Tell</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 22:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day, BlogHer featured a post called &#8220;6 Lies Stay-at-Home Moms Tell Themselves.&#8221; I&#8217;d been running around in the heat all morning, and I was enjoying a mental break and some lunch after finally wrangling Ellie into her bed for a nap. Since I am a SAHM now, I was curious. What lies am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Children&#8217;s Book Baby Shower</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2013 01:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Camille</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My little sister, who should still be using markers to dye the hair of her own baby dolls, had the audacity to grow up, get married, and get pregnant with an actual baby. I mean, yeah, she&#8217;s 27, but still, the very idea! SO weird to see her pregnant. Anyway, my beautiful sister is due [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lazy Day Link-a-palooza: Rape, Purity, Jesus Blogging, and Jezebel</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2013 02:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Camille</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay people. So really it&#8217;s been a lazy writing month. We added a new family member, and I&#8217;m adjusting to my role as mom to a 17-year-old girl. In case you don&#8217;t have non-driving teenagers, this basically means I&#8217;m now a full-time chauffeur. School drop-off, school pick-up, friend pick-up, mall drop-off. We&#8217;re rolling, y&#8217;all. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Proud of the Boy Scouts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 03:48:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Camille</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, the Boy Scouts of America voted to end its ban on openly gay youth joining the organization, and I&#8217;d like to say WAY TO GO SCOUTS!!! According to NBC, over 61 percent of 1,232 delegates voted to lift the ban. Of course, they still have a ban on openly gay leaders, but hopefully, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foster-Adoption Note to Self: Reminder, It Takes Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 20:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Camille</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re just now joining me, I&#8217;d advise checking out the following two posts to catch up. - The Paper Pregnancy is Starting to Show - Ways to Help Friends Adopting an Older Child The short version: After months of Youth Villages classes and paperwork, we were approved to bring home a 17-year-old girl that we&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why &#8220;Orphan Fever&#8221; Isn&#8217;t Always a Bad Thing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 02:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Camille</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, Mother Jones published a lengthy article entitled &#8220;Orphan Fever: The Evangelical Movement&#8217;s Adoption Obsession.&#8221; The article reviews the book, The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption, by Kathryn Joyce. I&#8217;m seriously late to the discussion, but I wanted to throw in a few thoughts. The book and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ways to Help Friends Adopting an Older Child</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 16:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Camille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adoption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the purposes of this post, I&#8217;m going to refer to our potential adoptee as G. It will be up to her whether any identifying information is ever shared here.  Adoption #2 Update: InstaMom Version 2.0 I promised to try and keep y&#8217;all updated as our second adoption becomes a reality, but life has kept [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Paper Pregnancy is Starting to Show</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Camille</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adoption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In December of last year, I started sharing with friends and family that we were actively pursuing a second adoption. (To which we had a myriad of reactions.) We worked for months to complete a homestudy update with Hannah&#8217;s Hope, and y&#8217;all, that was a journey. When you have two unrelated males over 18 living [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lazy Day Link-a-palooza: Marriage Equality, Purity Culture, and That Awful Song</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Camille</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While completing graduate school projects, building a house, and raising a toddler, I&#8217;ve sadly neglected my Google Reader for quite some time now. (And apparently, I&#8217;m going to have to soon find a replacement as Google is killing the reader. Bleh.  Insert whining here.) Anyway, there are just too many amazing bloggers out there, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Boston</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 20:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Camille</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At any given time, I have a list of roughly 32 random ideas for blog posts. Today, I&#8217;d like to write something snarky about how my house is fighting back against the constant onslaught of a two-year-old by hiding all my stuff and allowing ants to run rampant. I&#8217;d like to tell you about the [...]]]></description>
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