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		<title>Refreshed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am at SeaTac getting ready to board my flight home from Seattle.  The Refresh Conference exceeded my hopes in every way.  I was very nervous about speaking, but I had the sweetest speaking spot of the event.  The evening started with beautiful worship, which really helped me get my mind off myself and on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honeybee&#8217;s First Email</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OneThankfulMom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Honeybee got her very own email address yesterday, and this is what I found in my inbox this morning. Hi mom I love you. You are wonderful you are a grate mom you are funny and weird but I still love you thank you for being my mom. This just might be one of the sweetest things she has ever said. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tell it Well, Part 5: Bitter</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes you have to ask yourself, “If I could only tell one more story, what would it be?”  Tell it Well is my answer. Part 1: Alone &#124; Part 2: Sought &#124; Part 3: Found &#124; Part 4: Redeemed &#124; Part 5: Bitter I will never forget the night I checked my email and saw the subject line, &#8220;Is this for real? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday Visit: Mark Schultz and His Adoption Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OneThankfulMom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I stumbled upon a link to a music video of the song &#8220;Everything to Me&#8221; by Mark Schultz.  After watching it, I clicked on  the link to the story behind the song. It is powerful to hear him talk about his birthmother and see the emotion on his face.  His face and voice speak to me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I Distinctly Remember Growing in Your Tummy&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OneThankfulMom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adoption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I distinctly remember growing in your tummy, &#8220; Little Man tipped his head to one side, put his finger in the air and made his point with confidence. Conversations about where he came from, how we found him, and traveling from Ethiopia to America, are becoming more frequent and I&#8217;m doing my best to navigate them. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday Visit: Adopting Older Children</title>
		<link>http://www.onethankfulmom.com/adoption/sunday-visit-adopting-older-children/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 15:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OneThankfulMom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have ever been in doubt about the value of adopting older children, watch this: What do you think?  Did Meredith&#8217;s reaction surprise you?  Did you get choked up like I did? I want to add a few thoughts.  From the little bit I understand of this story (and it is very little), the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Listen: An Adoptee Tells Her Story</title>
		<link>http://www.onethankfulmom.com/adoption/listen-an-adoptee-tells-her-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OneThankfulMom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Changed Life There she was, with her beautiful long hair, lying all alone in the uncomfortable, hospital bed.  She was dying of HIV/AIDS and unable to speak to me, I felt so much sorrow as I watched her lose weight because she could not eat.  In 2003, in Mekelle, Ethiopia, I was a six year old, second [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Face to Face &#8211; From Italy to Idaho</title>
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		<comments>http://www.onethankfulmom.com/adoption/face-to-face-from-italy-to-idaho/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OneThankfulMom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday Eby saw his Ethiopian sister, Mesky, for the first time since he was a baby. It wasn&#8217;t quite face to face, but it was as close as we could get since we live on different continents &#8211; they Skyped.  A little more than a year ago I wrote the amazing story of how Meskerem&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Little Guys</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OneThankfulMom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was lying in bed very early this morning trying to sleep, but with little success.  Yesterday my heart was extraordinarily full of love for my little boys. I fear that my blog may be devoted too heavily toward the challenges we have faced as adoptive parents, and  I&#8217;ve neglected to share the utter gratitude I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Monday</title>
		<link>http://www.onethankfulmom.com/adoption/happy-monday/</link>
		<comments>http://www.onethankfulmom.com/adoption/happy-monday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>OneThankfulMom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m home from my grand adventure to Denver.  It was a great time in absolutely every way; I felt the prayers that were said for me on this trip.  Every bit of travel went well, from driving to the airport (no snow!), flying without getting airsick, being picked up from the Denver airport at the [...]]]></description>
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