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    When facebook is a total disadvantage

    I recently attended a seminar for paralegals on social media and the law. In a nutshell, right now, anything you post on social media, no matter what your privacy settings are, or whether it is a private message or not, is discoverable in a lawsuit. You have a case where a judge struck it...
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    When facebook is a total disadvantage

    Facebook and social media is like money. It isn't good, it isn't bad, it just is. It is what you do with it, and how you treat it, that is good or bad. I just don't post specifically about work, period. I also don't post when I'm expected to be working. Better to be safe, than sorry.
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    Sandy hook vigil

    Pastoral Letters on the Newtown Tragedy
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    November is National Adoption Month

    If you know anyone who is considering foster care or adoption, but doesn't know where God is leading them, the Portrait of an Adoption Blog (Portrait of an Adoption) is posting a story every day this month from people affected by all aspects of adoption and fostering. It's a great way to see it...
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    An open letter to anyone who has adopted or is considering adoption

    That's still just...wow... Some of the best adjustments I have seen in adoption are in single parent adoption. Are MOST of those kids unwanted too?
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    Think I'll sit down here for a bit... (13)

    Prayers for Ruth's family. Congratulations Aibrean!!! Belated Congratulations, Rev and Alexnbethmom! Hi. Just checking in, haven't been here in a while. It's been wedding fever in the Mr. and Mrs. Flipper household. We have attended 5 weddings so far since Labor Day weekend. Daughter was...
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    Think I'll sit down here for a bit... (13)

    You got it. How heartbreaking!!
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    Think I'll sit down here for a bit... (13)

    Hey for those who had been praying for my SIL...she was arrested this afternoon and charged with statutory sodomy. We're all dumbfounded, we thought the investigation was over. She didn't do it, and I can't believe there would be evidence that she did it. The logical legal mind in me is...
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    We got married.

    Congratulations! Lovely dress.
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    Iowan's where are you???? (3)

    I miss Phoebe, my buddy in Perry, Iowa.
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    A Mommy issue I can get behind

    DH and I volunteer as a resource family to those considering adopting older children, so we can tell them it is just as rewarding as adopting an infant.
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    A Mommy issue I can get behind

    No (and we adopted our kids at 4 and 5), it's because of bureaucracy.
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    A Mommy issue I can get behind

    I don't know, that's from the blog. Did you read the rest of the article? No I did not read the Time Magazine article, nor do I care to.
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    A Mommy issue I can get behind

    I read a statistic one time that if 7% of Christian couples with proper training and love to give adopted, there would be no orphans world wide. There are MILLIONS of kids languishing in the US and worldwide who want and need good parents - and that is so much more important than anything in...
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    A Mommy issue I can get behind

    Here's a parenting issue near and dear to my heart: where is the mommy-war for the motherless child? | Rage Against the Minivan If you watch the trends of media, whether it be print, internet, or tv, you’ve probably noticed that every couple of months there is a new version of the “mommy...
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    Think I'll sit down here for a bit... (13)

    She is looking for closure and healing. However, the motivating factor was that if she fought and lost (i.e. got fired), the school could come after her for their attorneys' fees.
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    Just for fun - tell something odd about yourself

    I remember that, and it did used to freak me out too! Especially the symbol of our local PBS station. I would have nightmares about it.
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    Just for fun - tell something odd about yourself

    I take it you don't like the new version? I actually enjoy both (and have both DVD box sets), if you look at them as separate entities and not one as a re-boot of the other. That being said, thinking of a show my son likes -- Original Voltron hands down. That new Voltron Force thing is just bad.
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    Just for fun - tell something odd about yourself

    Netflix has made it easier! Yup, though now we have to wait until the kiddos have gone to bed. All day marathons are now a thing of the past... Just started watching Kolchak - still can't get over him being the dad in A Christmas Story.
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    Cross Denomination Relationships

    Same goes with the Catholics in my family and the Methodists in my husband's family. I was telling my MIL, a Methodist, about the Baptists trying to "save" my son, and she couldn't understand why it bothered DH and I. She goes to church every week - you would have thought by now something...