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Mr. MPB and I, well, we both love spreadsheets and data. Truthfully, it’s a problem. We both make spreadsheets, charts and analyze results.  Sometimes it borders on obsessive – like when we bought our house, the spreadsheet that Mr. MPB made about what we could afford comfortably would put most financial analysts to shame. I love lists.  Heck, I often write lists on my blog.  I simply love organization and structure (although… Read More

The thing about being an adoptive parent in an open adoption is that we are one of many parents in our child’s life.  From what I can tell, for many adoptive parents, Mr. MPB and I included, this is one of our biggest fears. Our child will have us, their parents and their birth mom and birth father.  And, of course the child may also have extended families both in their adoptive… Read More