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That’s Why I Love You

May 11, 2012
by birch & raven
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Adoption / Foster Care / General Musings

The other day, E and I were walking home from the bus and having a great conversation. It started with a mention of the song he sang with the kid’s choir in church on Sunday, an arrangement of the Petula Clark song, “My Love” (My love is warmer than the warmest sunshine…). The guy who arranged it changed it so that the kids were singing about God. He did this by replacing every “my” with […]

Hugs

December 29, 2011
by birch & raven
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Foster Care / In Transition

I don’t always want them, but they’re there now. We’ve lived together for a little over a month now, and somewhere along the way (I’d know for sure if I’d been blogging regularly as I’d planned), he started hugging me. It was pretty clear this did not happen in his last foster home. During his Christmas visit with his bio mom, his social worker noted he was being more affectionate with her than she’d ever […]