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		<title>Turning a new leaf</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a year and a half since I last wrote on this blog, and I needed that time. I feel like I was beginning to gripe about clients without fully accepting where they were coming from, and the reason for some of that was because I was getting burned out at work. Not that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=considerthekid.wordpress.com&blog=980868&post=45&subd=considerthekid&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>It&#8217;s been a year and a half since I last wrote on this blog, and I needed that time. I feel like I was beginning to gripe about clients without fully accepting where they were coming from, and the reason for some of that was because I was getting burned out at work. Not that my job was hard or really stressful, but it was monotonous. I was continually hearing naive things from PAPs, and my main supporter, my right-hand gal, had quit and moved away. So, I wasn&#8217;t tempered as before, and I could feel it, and I didn&#8217;t like it. I needed a break from the adoption scene, which included not only halting my blogging, but also leaving my job. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s been a little over a years since I said goodbye to adoption, and it was a well needed break. And now, I&#8217;m ready to get involved again. Except this time, I won&#8217;t be living and breathing adoption 24-7. This time I&#8217;ll only be thinking about it in my spare time, which is good and bad. It&#8217;s good because I can take a step back from it all and see the good stuff and try to temper myself. It&#8217;s bad though, because I no longer have my finger on the pulse of adoption.</p>
<p>With all this in mind, I&#8217;m going to turn off my previous posts for a while so I can re-read them, and decide which ones are really of any benefit and which ones are just complaining or in the least have no real substantive value. </p>
<p>I&#8217;m ready for the new journey that I think this blog will take me on, and I hope you&#8217;ll join me.</p>
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