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	<description>The ongoing journey...</description>
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		<title>The Daddy Diaries</title>
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		<title>below the surface</title>
		<link>http://thedaddydiaries.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/below-the-surface/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darrow</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Foster Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foster parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parenting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This morning, as T stepped out of the car onto the sidewalk, he said “I want to see mommy and daddy”.  His timing could not have been worse.  Just minutes before, I had been thinking about a new blog post &#8211; one about our Friday night out at a local eatery and how, for a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thedaddydiaries.wordpress.com&blog=1195748&post=1711&subd=thedaddydiaries&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>five o’clock</title>
		<link>http://thedaddydiaries.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/five-o%e2%80%99clock/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan</dc:creator>
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Something happened to us as you all were leaving your place of work to make your way home to begin your weekend.  You met friends out at happy hour, or if you have kids, you picked them up from day care or after care or met your teenagers as they bounded home in time to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thedaddydiaries.wordpress.com&blog=1195748&post=1703&subd=thedaddydiaries&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Reactions, Perceptions, Impressions</title>
		<link>http://thedaddydiaries.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/reactions-perceptions-impressions/</link>
		<comments>http://thedaddydiaries.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/reactions-perceptions-impressions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adoption]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foster Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foster parents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay Adoption]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adoptee]]></category>

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I didn’t know just how small he would be
&#8211;mind you, he was born full-term, and he is average with a birth weight of six pounds
&#8211;his feet, I think, are the most surprisingly small
 

I didn’t think that it would all be this easy
&#8211;he eats well
&#8211;he is comforted easily
&#8211;he sleeps like a child much older than someone just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thedaddydiaries.wordpress.com&blog=1195748&post=1653&subd=thedaddydiaries&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
	
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			<media:title type="html">Darrow &#38; Lucas</media:title>
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		<title>The Great and Powerful….IKEA</title>
		<link>http://thedaddydiaries.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/the-great-and-powerful%e2%80%a6-ikea/</link>
		<comments>http://thedaddydiaries.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/the-great-and-powerful%e2%80%a6-ikea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Foster Care]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fostering]]></category>
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Oh, IKEA!  How we worship your store, its grand selection, its spectacular prices, its quantity o’off-the-shelf, ready-to-assemble stuff.  Oh, great IKEA!  How marvelous thy meatballs; how fabulous thy strange fabric patterns and colors; how helpful thy blue &#38; yellow smocked sales clerks; how mysterious thy potty training powers.  What?  You didn’t know that IKEA potty [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thedaddydiaries.wordpress.com&blog=1195748&post=1561&subd=thedaddydiaries&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>short but sweet</title>
		<link>http://thedaddydiaries.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/short-but-sweet/</link>
		<comments>http://thedaddydiaries.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/short-but-sweet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darrow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adoption]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[he&#8217;s here
i&#8217;m typing with one hand
he&#8217;s sleeping in the curve of my left arm
juan and t went to the store for diapers and formula
t has been an absolute handful in these first 3 1/2 hours
i&#8217;m about to put my feet up, lean back in this chair and shut my eyes for a moment
happy sunday!
  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thedaddydiaries.wordpress.com&blog=1195748&post=1614&subd=thedaddydiaries&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>passenger pickup</title>
		<link>http://thedaddydiaries.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/passenger-pickup/</link>
		<comments>http://thedaddydiaries.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/passenger-pickup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darrow</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adoption]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thedaddydiaries.wordpress.com/?p=1554</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This Sunday afternoon the three of us – T, Juan and I &#8211; will hop in the car and take a short 15-minute drive.  We’ll head north, turn westward and then exit south for a total of slightly over 5 miles before arriving at our destination.  After a short stay, we’ll exchange Well Wishes and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thedaddydiaries.wordpress.com&blog=1195748&post=1554&subd=thedaddydiaries&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>October 19th&#8211;again</title>
		<link>http://thedaddydiaries.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/october-19th-again/</link>
		<comments>http://thedaddydiaries.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/october-19th-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adoption]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thedaddydiaries.wordpress.com/?p=1550</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It was three weeks ago that I began thinking about this day.  I wondered how we would remember October 19th.  If we had been able to adopt T, then like other adoptive parents we would have been able to celebrate “gotcha day.”  But we are far from that right now.  The uncertainty that surrounds this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thedaddydiaries.wordpress.com&blog=1195748&post=1550&subd=thedaddydiaries&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Another mother, another baby</title>
		<link>http://thedaddydiaries.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/another-mother-another-baby/</link>
		<comments>http://thedaddydiaries.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/another-mother-another-baby/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adoption]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thedaddydiaries.wordpress.com/?p=1544</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in early September when we were presented to the mother that we were eventually matched with, it seemed a bit too quick and a little too easy.  The agency director even seemed a little skeptical about the parents’ resolve.  I told him at the time and have told others as well as myself, that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thedaddydiaries.wordpress.com&blog=1195748&post=1544&subd=thedaddydiaries&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>The Reappearance</title>
		<link>http://thedaddydiaries.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/the-reappearance/</link>
		<comments>http://thedaddydiaries.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/the-reappearance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adoption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay Adoption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Same Sex Adoption]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thedaddydiaries.wordpress.com/?p=1537</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“Sometimes this happens,” said the Director.  Sometimes they make other arrangements; sometimes they change agencies; sometimes they change their minds.  It was so early that we didn’t have that much vested.  I think we were disappointed but it palled in comparison to other disappointments we have lived through.  Then suddenly she reappeared.  In fact she [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thedaddydiaries.wordpress.com&blog=1195748&post=1537&subd=thedaddydiaries&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Flying Babies</title>
		<link>http://thedaddydiaries.wordpress.com/2009/09/18/flying-babies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adoption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay Adoption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay Dads]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[private adoption]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thedaddydiaries.wordpress.com/?p=1518</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
 
Since we began our foray into private adoption, it seems as if babies have come flying at us.  That weekend, after T and I deposited the envelope with our application in the mail—that’s when it all started.  On Monday we got an e-mail from the Agency with all of the forms and the details of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thedaddydiaries.wordpress.com&blog=1195748&post=1518&subd=thedaddydiaries&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
	
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