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Adoption Good News | Sheyann
My How Adoption has Blessed Your Life series shares good news happening in the adoption world from all sides of the adoption triad …or just offers a paragraph or two on how the love of adoption is...
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Adoption Myths | Time Out For Women
Today I am doing something I have been looking forward to since January. I am attending Time Out for Women in Salt Lake City. I am so nervous …you see, when we got home from Disneyland in January after...
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I’m adopted, found my Birth Mom AND I’ve adopted
Recently Kim contacted me and asked for advice on how get more involved in adoption advocacy. I told her that one of the best things she can do is to tell her story. I don’t know about you, but I could...
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Halloween Birth Parent Gift Idea
R Family loves sending monthly update packages to the birth families. Here’s part of what we sent to them for Halloween: Along with these adorable frames were a stack of other recent photos, candy...
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Why We Chose Open Adoption
I recently had the opportunity to write for Social Work License Map’s blog. Although I am married to a social worker, writing to social workers made me a wee bit nervous. Finally, I decided to write...
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We have a lot of R’s in R House.
The homework assignment was to look around the house for letters and talk about the sounds they make. Tyson: We have a lot of R’s in our house. Me: Yep …we sure do! Because we are Redferns. Tyson:...
View ArticleThe Open Adoption Project | Describe an awkward moment during a visit
The Open Adoption Project is a project my youngest son’s birth mother and I put together while she was visiting several months ago. We asked The R House Facebook Community if they had any questions for...
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Calling My Birthmom
Gavin can often be found wandering around our house having conversations with his birth mother on a phone he made in school or the play phone from the play kitchen. It’s too much cute for me to handle....
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Tyson’s Big Date With His Birth Mom
We recently spent a month on vacation back east where Mr. R and I are both from. That’s right, a month. It was glorious and just long enough for us to almost get to do everything we wanted to do. At...
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I moustache you a question…
Will you be my valentine? Sent these valentines to our families–including birth families–in post card form. I hope they get a giggle out of them. We sure had a blast making them. Here’s a peek at the...
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Open Adoption on Rock Center
As soon as it had aired, my phone started filling up with notifications. Emails, texts and Facebook messages all told me to check out the adoptions story on Rock Center. My favorite message came from...
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The Red Rocks and how smart phones make open adoption rock
This last weekend, I took some of my all-time favorite photos of my boys. We were in Southern Utah were the mister had a football game and needed to visit with some clients. We swam. We played ping...
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Sitting next to the baby.
When is the last time you sat in the back seat? Usually, I am driving or riding shotgun. But, my parents wanted to test drive my car so I hopped in the back seat and sat next to the cutest 9 month old...
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Live Reading of Jackson’s Story [Video] | Listen to Your Mother
This spring I auditioned and participated in Listen to Your Mother. It was one of the coolest things I have done for myself. In front of the live audience, I read a short version of Jackson’s birth and...
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A reminder to keep your open adoption promises.
Disclaimer: This post is sponsored by Ken Garff Honda of Orem. I was compensated for it, but the opinions expressed are all my own. I love these guys so much. In fact, just mention my blog and it...
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Bring Closure to your community, watch on Hulu.
This summer my husband and I hosted a screening of Closure for our local adoption community. (Don’t know what I’m talk ing about? Learn about Closure.) I did not pre-screen it, but I knew when I saw...
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From love to love.
Just shy of three weeks ago, Josh and I were invited to be in the delivery room for the birth of our daughter. Today I felt this undeniable prompting to share the miracle of my experience. In fact, I...
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Is someone missing from our family?
One evening this summer–June to be exact–I was sitting on the couch flipping through my Instagram feed. Scrolling through, a photo stopped me dead in my tracks. My friend Carina posted about her...
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My kids are entitled to know their roots. | Mormon Channel Interview
Recently Josh and I were invited to the Mormon Channel for an interview with Jennifer Stagg. We didn’t really know where the interview would take us and so we didn’t prepare a ton other than bringing a...
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Photos and the Adoption Profile
This fall we had a Funbooth session with Lindsay Ross. These sessions are low-stress, all black and white (no matching clothes required–if you’re into that), and super speedy. Translation: These...
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