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Reality… | Two boys, One dog and Us
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Two boys, One dog and Us. The stories of our lives. Contact – 2 stars and a wish. Finally, some possible help… →. August 4, 2015. I stood today talking to a group of adoptive parents, discussing the closure of BAAF and the conversations that occurred on twitter re: national adoption week…it sprung thoughts into my head and discussions with others. (this was an ongoing conversation over the course of a few hours). We talked about the idea of how much better it would be if there was an honest picture of wh...
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Finally, some possible help… | Two boys, One dog and Us
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Two boys, One dog and Us. The stories of our lives. A walk… →. Finally, some possible help…. August 11, 2015. So today the boys were at the childminder’s. There was a reason for this, which I will get to, but it meant I had a lot of uninterrupted time to do some of my growing to do list. I started simple, Brownie accounts, sorted and printed. Got more complex, tackling HMRC about gift aid questions (relating to the above mentioned Brownies). We discussed the fact that 90/95% of the time we will be doing ...
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Admitting when it’s tough… | Two boys, One dog and Us
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Two boys, One dog and Us. The stories of our lives. Then something else happens…. Admitting when it’s tough…. June 20, 2015. Yesterday I admitted defeat – I could not do what I needed to do. It turned into a day of self care…. We have had a couple of very difficult weeks, Boyo’s teaching assistant was off for the first week, it’s been phonics test this week so teacher spent most of Mon-Wed out of the classroom. She listened, she emphasised and I felt better. I promised my boss I would be in work on Monda...
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Two boys, One dog and Us | The stories of our lives | Page 2
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Two boys, One dog and Us. The stories of our lives. Newer posts →. Onwards and upwards…towards the holiday! July 10, 2016. Apparently, I am a poo poo head and I am also stupid. I have been a poo poo head most of the week… with occasional (at least once a day) stupid. I am not looking forward to him learning more interesting words! It will be no surprise to most adopters (& my friends) that this is the result of several days of ‘different’ at school. So transition day went okay – sports day less so&...
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connections | Two boys, One dog and Us
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Two boys, One dog and Us. The stories of our lives. Admitting when it’s tough…. Contact – 2 stars and a wish →. June 27, 2015. Some of these are adult only meets, or mostly adult only. Some are family events. I value both equally for different reasons. There is an unexplainable connection, between the children and between the adults. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. Admitting when it’s tough…. Contact – 2 stars and a wish →. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. A new normal…. Onroa...
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Two boys, One dog and Us. The stories of our lives. Then something else happens…. Admitting when it’s tough…. June 20, 2015. Yesterday I admitted defeat – I could not do what I needed to do. It turned into a day of self care…. We have had a couple of very difficult weeks, Boyo’s teaching assistant was off for the first week, it’s been phonics test this week so teacher spent most of Mon-Wed out of the classroom. She listened, she emphasised and I felt better. I promised my boss I would be in work on Monda...
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Then something else happens… | Two boys, One dog and Us
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Two boys, One dog and Us. The stories of our lives. Admitting when it’s tough… →. Then something else happens…. June 2, 2015. I am, this evening, feeling incredibly sad…but hoping (I have to hope) that we can make progress and improve things. Turns out – not so. Boyo blurted out some information this afternoon that we though he didn’t know. He has sat on this information for 11 days. Worried about it for 11 days. Felt fearful about it for 11 days. Suddenly the extreme beha...The Thurs evening before half...
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Holiday time | Two boys, One dog and Us
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Two boys, One dog and Us. The stories of our lives. Moors, Wood and Water. Then something else happens… →. May 29, 2015. We have spent the majority of our time on the beach. The beach that we were regularly taken to as children, and that Dad and Aunt have memories of visiting as children. It is special to see my children playing on that beach. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. Moors, Wood and Water. Then something else happens… →. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. On Education th...
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Other useful sites | Two boys, One dog and Us
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Two boys, One dog and Us. The stories of our lives. Is the place to go to start meeting other adopters online. They have all sorts of things going on, with all sorts of bloggers contributing. Is somewhere else to go to find out about adoption, and link up with other adopters. Especially relevant if you want to find out why adopted children need a different type of parenting is the Wall. Is an organisation with a lot of information about adoption and fostering. It also produces many, many useful books.
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newm | Two boys, One dog and Us
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Two boys, One dog and Us. The stories of our lives. October 22, 2016. After a couple of properly horrid weeks; I finally have time to reflect. I need to state our new normal is still okay, we are still doing ‘okay’ no matter what it looks like from the outside or how tired … Continue reading →. A new normal…. October 9, 2016. A small ask…. October 1, 2016. Back to it…. September 4, 2016. September 1, 2016. August 4, 2016. Once upon a time there was a lady. She was pregnant (again). She had a diff...I mea...