Jane Samuel: MavenMama
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Jane Samuel: MavenMama
I am married and the mother of three girls. Formerly an attorney I put my legal career on hold in 2003 when we adopted our youngest child from China. Since then I have been actively pursuing what I like to refer to as my "PhD in parenting", with sub-specialties in international adoption and special needs parenting. In between carpool runs, therapy appointments and volunteer work, I write about life. Most recently my work has appeared in From Home to Homeland, an anthology on returning to China with your adoptive child (Yeong & Yeong Book Company 2009 available on Amazon) and in Our Own - Stories Celebrating Adoptive Families (Touch Adoptive Services, 2010)
Dancing with Death
It took a trip away from my daily grind to see that life with my aging mother had become a dance between her, me and an unwanted partner: Death.
Jane Samuel: MavenMama
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JANE SAMUEL: MAVENMAMA
Being a Martha
A recent encounter with my brother reminded me the virtues of being a "Mary" not a "Martha". Lk 10:32-38
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JANE SAMUEL: MAVENMAMA
Practicing What I Preach
What I realized on a cold morning in Chicago about my own "plans" for my oldest daughter.
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JANE SAMUEL: MAVENMAMA
Auditioning for Life
Our first child is in the throes of the college admission process and it has given me pause for a reason I could not have imagined.
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JANE SAMUEL: MAVENMAMA
Thanksgiving and The Depths of Despair
This Thanksgiving Eve I tried my best to sit and list my blessings, but my struggling soul was just not allowing it this time. At least not right then.
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JANE SAMUEL: MAVENMAMA
Seeing the Good in the Hardness of Life
One week into my new life as chief parent of my elderly parents I am finding it very hard, unless I stop and take a moment to recognize the goodness around me.
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JANE SAMUEL: MAVENMAMA
What a minute, they will change their minds.
Don't you just love when your children change their minds at the last minute and mess everything up?
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JANE SAMUEL: MAVENMAMA
Eldercare - Living Arrangements
Moving my parents to Kentucky has been overwhelming and finding the right place for them to live was a large part of that stress.
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JANE SAMUEL: MAVENMAMA
When Life was Simple
23 years ago my life was definitely “simpler”, but as crazed as I feel most days I would not trade now for then.
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JANE SAMUEL: MAVENMAMA
Working Outside the Box
Working outside the box can be hard for one of my children, but as her Mom I feel I owe it to her to drag her outside her box every now and then.
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