Badassamys: Tales of the World's Most Badass Family

Creative Parenting

Tomorrow I will present to a room full of strangers about my “creative parenting.” I was nominated to present at a PechaKucha event by someone who I had respected from afar, but never realized knew who I was. I’m always excited to talk to anyone about our family’s foster/adoptive journey, and I was especially honored…

cadamy

April 12, 2013

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Adoption, Parenting

As Good As It Gets

Usually when I write, I try to come up with some kind of lesson, something I’m supposed to learn, some bigger picture reason for why things happen the way they happen. Today, though, I’m just amazingly angry. I just left T, my 10-year-old, at inpatient psychiatric care for the second time since November. It’s her…

cadamy

January 20, 2013

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Adoption, Foster Child, Foster Parent, Mental Health, Oklahoma, Policy, Reactive Attachment Disorder

Shadow Mountain

For all you very kind people who have been asking about my middle kiddo, T, here’s an update: Eight days ago, T, my 10-year-old who I have fostered, then adopted, for the last 3 1/2 years, was taken by several Tulsa Police Department officers to Shadow Mountain for inpatient psychiatric care. Many of you may…

cadamy

November 12, 2012

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Adoption, Foster Care, Foster Child, Foster Parent, Mental Health, Reactive Attachment Disorder

Library Books

Tonight, as I was tucking in my kiddos, my 8-year-old proudly showed me her “libary” books. I said your “what” books? She giggled and said “library books,” smiling broadly. I joked with her that if she left the “r” out often enough, the “r” might get its feeling hurt, go away and never come back. …

cadamy

October 21, 2010

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Adoption, Biological Parents, Culture, Foster Care, Foster Child, Foster Parent