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What is a Putative Father Registry?
If you are considering domestic infant adoption, you may have heard the terms putative father, putative father registry or birth father registry. But what is a putative father? What is a putative father registry? And how do these registries work when it comes to adoption? What is a putative father? A putative father is a man that claims to be the father or whom is alleged to be the father of a child born to a woman to whom he is not married to at the time of the child’s birth and whose legal relationship to the child has not been established. What is a putative father registry? Every state…
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Cinnamon Roll Sourdough Focaccia
Cinnamon roll sourdough focaccia is exactly what it sounds like… the BEST on the go breakfast EVER! Yes, just like most things “sourdough” there are stretch and folds and bulk fermentation and it takes a while. But, GREAT things come to those who wait! I love to prepare this dough on a lazy Saturday morning, bulk ferment all afternoon while I go out with the family and then throw it in the fridge to bake Sunday and have for breakfast all week! Or if I have something to do Saturday, I make the dough Friday, or even Thursday if I need to because it can stay in the fridge to…
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Top 5 Tricks to Trim Belly Fat in Your 30’s
Fat loss becomes more challenging after 30 due to various factors. Hormonal changes, decreased muscle mass, added stressors, and a slower metabolism are major contributors. To overcome these added challenges we must focus on maintaining a balanced diet and increasing physical activity. But what does that mean? Most of us think of weight loss as dieting. We think about ourselves running to exhaustion on a treadmill while we live off of rabbit food. Yes, calorie in < calorie out does work to lose weight. However, dieting is just not sustainable. I’ll say it louder for the people in the back…DIETING IS NOT SUSTAINABLE! If you’re anything like me, you’ve tried a…
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Favorite Sourdough Discard Sandwich Bread
This is my family’s absolute favorite sourdough discard sandwich bread! My husband and I love sourdough and all the gut health benefits that come along with it, but my kids (6 and 4) would simply NOT eat it. It is just not that fluffy, soft bread like they were used to. However, that all changed when I started making this discard sandwich bread! If you make sourdough bread and have an active starter at home, I know that you accumulate so much discard and are constantly looking for new recipes to use it in. If you have kids, or you just prefer a sandwich on more fluffy, soft bread, definitely…
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Easy Amish White Bread
This classic, easy Amish white bread recipe requires no kneading, yet still produces the most fluffy, soft loaves of white bread! If you’re intimidated by baking homemade bread, this recipe is for YOU! It is just so easy! You don’t need any fancy bread makers or ingredients. You most likely have all the ingredients for this easy Amish white bread in your pantry right now! I started making bread this way when we ran out of sandwich bread before it was grocery day. My usual, No Knead Overnight Bread recipe is amazing for toast and serving with soup or pasta, but it is not that soft, fluffy sandwich-style bread we…
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Adoption Profiles by Design | Ever Nester Review
Adoption profiles and adoption profile books are such a challenging and intimidating part of the adoption process. Portraying you and your family accurately to a stranger through pages in a book is a daunting task. Because of this difficulty, online adoption profiles, like Ever Nester, have become increasingly more popular. Online adoption profiles, by design, make it easier to form a connection due to the use of current uploads, posts, videos, etc… Ever Nester is a new, online adoption profile service that allows hopeful adoptive parents to easily create an online profile including text, pictures, and videos in a guided template. Once complete, each profile is displayed on the site…
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May 2024 Cincinnati Calendar of Events for Kids
Your May 2024 Cincinnati calendar of events for kids is here!! Just in time for the first weekend! Happy early Mother’s Day to all the hard working mommas out there! And aren’t you super stoked that it seems like spring has officially sprung?! HELLO sundress weather! If you aren’t yet familiar with CincinnatiPLAYces, here is what it’s all about: CincinnatiPLAYces is a group ran by ME (Briana Baker, the owner of Struggle Shuttle)! As a mom of two young girls that can’t stand to be a “STAY AT HOME” mom, I am always on the go! I am passionate about finding FREE or super affordable engaging entertainment and educational experiences…
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Easter & March Calendar of Events for Cincinnati Kids
It’s Easter 2024! What’s going on this month for Easter in and around Cincinnati?! CincinnatiPLAYces has YOUR monthly calendar of events for Cincinnati kids! If you aren’t yet familiar with CincinnatiPLAYces, here is what it’s all about: CincinnatiPLAYces is a group ran by ME (Briana Baker, the owner of Struggle Shuttle)! As a mom of two young girls that can’t stand to be a “STAY AT HOME” mom, I am always on the go! I am passionate about finding FREE or super affordable engaging entertainment and educational experiences for my kids in and around our hometown, Cincinnati. I started tracking all of these places and events on an IG account: @cincinnatiPLAYces.…
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