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		<title>Transparency</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s something about this adoption that is different from when I adopted Oscar.  My agency tells PAPs what number they are on the wait list(s).  They also disclose all referrals, so PAPs continue to know exactly where they are in the process.  This is far from how things happened when I adopted Oscar.  Don&#8217;t get [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=malodorousmesses.com&blog=1931991&post=1739&subd=singleandpaperpregnant&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>REALLY Happy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[He spoke!  Oscar said a word, completely unprompted.  We were in the kitchen and the oven was on.  He walked by it and I looked down at him while he was signing &#8220;hot,&#8221; and all of a sudden he said &#8220;hot. . . hot&#8221; out loud.  Clear as day &#8211; just like he says it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=malodorousmesses.com&blog=1931991&post=1736&subd=singleandpaperpregnant&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy</title>
		<link>http://malodorousmesses.com/2009/07/13/happy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oscar's mom</dc:creator>
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Don&#8217;t you love a good dossier?  I didn&#8217;t even mind putting this one together (and did I mention I had it assembled, complete with notarization and state certification, within 24 hours? you could say that experience has paid off).  With Oscar, I was so green I didn&#8217;t have a clue what I was doing, so [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=malodorousmesses.com&blog=1931991&post=1733&subd=singleandpaperpregnant&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our afternoon</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Six</title>
		<link>http://malodorousmesses.com/2009/07/10/six/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 01:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The number of heart attacks my father has had.  The most recent was on Sunday.  He&#8217;s out of the hospital, but, seriously, six?  It&#8217;s a miracle he&#8217;s alive.  I guess I&#8217;ll leave it at that.
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		<title>Troubling News</title>
		<link>http://malodorousmesses.com/2009/07/09/troubling-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oscar's mom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two things I learned today.  1 &#8211; Oscar&#8217;s latest developmental tests put him at a 12-14 month range for expressive communication and 2 &#8211; Oscar can unbuckle any car seat &#8211; EVEN his five-point harness that is so tight I have difficulty undoing it.  Which of these do you think bothers me?
For those who think [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=malodorousmesses.com&blog=1931991&post=1722&subd=singleandpaperpregnant&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>C&#8217;mon</title>
		<link>http://malodorousmesses.com/2009/07/09/cmon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oscar's mom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How happy does this toilet make you?  Oscar loves this thing so much that he hugged it when I brought it into the bathroom while he was taking a bath.  He climbed out of the tub (yes, he can do that on his own &#8211; can you imagine how happy this makes me?) and spent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=malodorousmesses.com&blog=1931991&post=1717&subd=singleandpaperpregnant&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Literary Baby</title>
		<link>http://malodorousmesses.com/2009/07/08/literary-baby/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oscar's mom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oscar went to his first literary event tonight.  My so fabulous social worker, naturally, has brilliant children.  One of them is a big deal author with a new book out getting some great reviews.  Oscar and I attended a reading this evening. He was pretty well behaved, but we did have to duck out for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=malodorousmesses.com&blog=1931991&post=1714&subd=singleandpaperpregnant&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Be a part of history</title>
		<link>http://malodorousmesses.com/2009/07/06/be-a-part-of-history/</link>
		<comments>http://malodorousmesses.com/2009/07/06/be-a-part-of-history/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oscar's mom</dc:creator>
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I would like to buy this t-shirt for Oscar (or Baby Etta), but there&#8217;s really no point.  Given that neither of them were born on American soil, they&#8217;ll never have the right to be considered for President under current law. 
While I was stuck in Viet Nam, I met a brilliant woman named McLane Layton, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=malodorousmesses.com&blog=1931991&post=1711&subd=singleandpaperpregnant&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hint 3 and the rest . . .</title>
		<link>http://malodorousmesses.com/2009/07/03/hint-3-and-the-rest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oscar's mom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, the photo in Hint 3 is allegedly of an Ethiopian coptic cross.  I say &#8220;allegedly&#8221; because while the great people at Etsy have exquisite handmade wares, I&#8217;m not so sure about their ability to identify artifacts of a religious nature. Regardless, the significance of the photo is the Ethiopian connection.  Why?  Because I&#8217;m adopting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=malodorousmesses.com&blog=1931991&post=1702&subd=singleandpaperpregnant&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My big project</title>
		<link>http://malodorousmesses.com/2009/07/02/my-big-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oscar's mom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You guys did really well with the hints.  I haven&#8217;t given you nearly enough information in the past six months for you to possibly hit it square on, though, so it wasn&#8217;t really fair.  As Amy noted, there has been an absence of adoption-related posts on this blog for the past few months.  Well, that&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=malodorousmesses.com&blog=1931991&post=1680&subd=singleandpaperpregnant&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hint 3 to my big project</title>
		<link>http://malodorousmesses.com/2009/07/02/hint-3-to-my-big-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oscar's mom</dc:creator>
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		<title>Hint 2 to my big project</title>
		<link>http://malodorousmesses.com/2009/07/02/hint-2-to-my-big-project/</link>
		<comments>http://malodorousmesses.com/2009/07/02/hint-2-to-my-big-project/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oscar's mom</dc:creator>
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		<title>Hint 1 to my big project</title>
		<link>http://malodorousmesses.com/2009/07/01/hint-1-to-my-big-project/</link>
		<comments>http://malodorousmesses.com/2009/07/01/hint-1-to-my-big-project/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oscar's mom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[likely to be finished sometime next year . . .

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		<title>Picking Berry</title>
		<link>http://malodorousmesses.com/2009/06/29/picking-berry/</link>
		<comments>http://malodorousmesses.com/2009/06/29/picking-berry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oscar's mom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nope, not a typo.  We went berry picking yesterday, and that&#8217;s exactly what happened. We picked a berry.  One.  A lonesome little blackberry.  In my quest to find amusement for my tyrannical toddler, I thought that I would follow our great day at the zoo with an even greater day picking berries at a berry [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=malodorousmesses.com&blog=1931991&post=1672&subd=singleandpaperpregnant&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar&#8217;s First Show</title>
		<link>http://malodorousmesses.com/2009/06/27/oscars-first-show/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oscar's mom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The zoo is celebrating its 80th anniversary and decided to put on a show for the kids.  We got up early to enjoy the early admission and members&#8217; show, which I thought would be better than going to the general show, where I figured there would be hundreds of kids.  Yep, there were hundreds of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=malodorousmesses.com&blog=1931991&post=1664&subd=singleandpaperpregnant&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The real reason I haven&#8217;t been posting</title>
		<link>http://malodorousmesses.com/2009/06/23/the-real-reason-i-havent-been-posting/</link>
		<comments>http://malodorousmesses.com/2009/06/23/the-real-reason-i-havent-been-posting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:04:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oscar's mom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been sort of obsessed with a couple of things lately that have led me to step away from the computer.  The first is that this is the week when my firm meets to decide which senior associates are going to make it into the final round for partnership.  I felt sick even typing that.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=malodorousmesses.com&blog=1931991&post=1661&subd=singleandpaperpregnant&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The abuse continues</title>
		<link>http://malodorousmesses.com/2009/06/22/the-abuse-continues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oscar's mom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know, I really had been hoping that the head-butting, hitting, pinching and kicking that started to occur recently were random, isolated incidents.  I am coming to realize that this violence is not going to stop on its own.  Slugger came at us full force this weekend, slapping my face, pinching Nanny Norma&#8217;s cheek (the combination [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=malodorousmesses.com&blog=1931991&post=1659&subd=singleandpaperpregnant&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Precious moments</title>
		<link>http://malodorousmesses.com/2009/06/18/precious-moments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oscar's mom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t you just love those special moments when you&#8217;re sitting with your child, looking into each others eyes like on a television commercial?  I&#8217;ve had, oh, probably two or three of those moments, although mine always seem to end a little differently than you think they do on t.v. 
A week or so ago, Oscar and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=malodorousmesses.com&blog=1931991&post=1656&subd=singleandpaperpregnant&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Still alive</title>
		<link>http://malodorousmesses.com/2009/06/15/still-alive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:47:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Oscar's mom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It didn&#8217;t really occur to me until I started getting email that I haven&#8217;t been around here for a while.  When I looked at the date of my last post, I was shocked at how long I&#8217;ve been gone.  Very neglectful blogger, but I guess something has to give when you&#8217;re working 110 hours in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=malodorousmesses.com&blog=1931991&post=1654&subd=singleandpaperpregnant&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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