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	<description>Join us on our journey to Daddyhood.</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:21:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Only Good Foster Parent</title>
		<link>http://thedaddydiaries.wordpress.com/2008/07/28/the-only-good-foster-parent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The only good foster parent is one who doesn't act like one.

 

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		<title>Letting go of foster care</title>
		<link>http://thedaddydiaries.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/letting-go-of-foster-care/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan</dc:creator>
		
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I have reached the point where I can&#8217;t take much more from the foster care system.  It is hard to imagine it becoming any worse, though gauging from all we have experienced from social services thus far, I suppose it&#8217;s possible.  We operate now completely on our own.  We refrain from contact with our son&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dispositioning</title>
		<link>http://thedaddydiaries.wordpress.com/2008/05/24/the-dispositioning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 15:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan</dc:creator>
		
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Okay, so since disposition-ing isn&#8217;t really a word, let me be the first to coin it.  In the world of the foster care system, the disposition hearing is a BIG DEAL.  While it&#8217;s just another step in the long legal process, it&#8217;s a significant one.  &#8220;The purpose of the disposition hearing is to determine whether a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Potato</title>
		<link>http://thedaddydiaries.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/the-little-potato/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Potato.&#8221;
&#8220;Potato?&#8221;
&#8220;Yes, in the dream he said potato.&#8221;
&#8220;Why did he say that?  What does it mean&#8211;potato?&#8221;
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know.&#8221;
&#8220;Did he say anything else.&#8221;
&#8220;No, just  po-ta-to.&#8221; 
We have been waiting patiently for the first word.  We assume it will be Da-da, but I suppose it could be anything.  Though I don&#8217;t think he will be uttering three syllable words [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sentries</title>
		<link>http://thedaddydiaries.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/the-sentries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ Two months ago we went to the adjudication hearing regarding our foster son.  The hearing was supposed to determine whether there are sufficient facts in the case to necessitate declaring him a child in need of assistance (CINA) from the State of Maryland.  I say we went, rather than attended because we weren&#8217;t actually invited [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wednesdays (The Remix)</title>
		<link>http://thedaddydiaries.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/wednesdays-the-remix/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darrow</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, what the hell happened? Two Wednesdays ago, I was stressing about the inevitable Wednesday visits and all the things that those visits brought to mind.  Last Wednesday came and went - as did the visit - and I barely batted an eye. Hands were not wrung. Teeth were not gnashed.  And in two days, Wednesday will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wednesday Reminders</title>
		<link>http://thedaddydiaries.wordpress.com/2008/03/26/wednesday-reminders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:52:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darrow</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The days when I watch T doing something goofy, endearing, or utterly irrational are even more enjoyable when my inner-voice fails to surface and remind me that in 10 months or even 2 years, he may go back to his biological parents.  As time goes on, those days of forgetting are much more frequent than the days [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Little Worm</title>
		<link>http://thedaddydiaries.wordpress.com/2008/03/06/the-little-worm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes we marvel at the things this little boy does. It is the reason neither of us can refer to him as a baby anymore, because he has become his own little entity&#8211;he is becoming a little boy. He has become more demonstrative as he becomes a toddler; he emotes more through his facial expressions. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There May Ultimately be an Explosion</title>
		<link>http://thedaddydiaries.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/the-may-ultimately-be-an-explosion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:16:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a post that I have been staring at for over a month contemplating whether to share it. It needed to be processed a little because it was so raw. But I have not sugar-coated anything. It represents what is happening to me, be it good, bad or ugly:
There may ultimately be an explosion. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Perfect Little Boy</title>
		<link>http://thedaddydiaries.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/the-perfect-little-boy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juan</dc:creator>
		
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Sometimes one of us turns to the other and states, &#8220;we have a baby,&#8221; as if it has just dawned on us for the first time. On occasion it seems surreal that this perfect little boy is with us.
I know that I have written about how the course of our days has changed; how I [...]]]></description>
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