Brett used to have a GPS on loan from his job and he loved it, oh how he loved it! The kids and I named it Veronica and referred to it as “Daddy’s girlfriend, Veronica.”
I happened upon a sweet deal on a new GPS and after consulting with Noah, decided [...]
David, may this day be the start of a beautiful, beautiful year. Happy birthday!
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Thanksgiving 2008
Thanksgiving 2009
Gratuitous siblinghood
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My family both immediate and extended with a special prayer of thanks for my husband for putting up with me (but then I put up with him so I’d say it’s an even trade).
My mentors who have helped and continued to help me figure out this elusive [...]
I haven’t read The Road and I’m not going to and — looking at the trailer — I’m not going to see the movie either. It scares the hell out of me.
I’ve always had apocalyptic dreams although they went up a notch in my teens. The [...]
1. Got heads up on a project to try out for that has me kind of excited. I like the start of things — the research and planning and learning something new. I love it!
2. I wrote a guest post on the Bitch blog on (surprise!) [...]
We went over to Pennie’s house yesterday to celebrate her birthday and Madison said, “Mommy, would you feel bad if I thought Pennie was prettier than you?”
And I said, “Of course.”
No, I said, “Nope, I think Pennie’s beautiful.”
And she said, “Oh, OK. I think Pennie’s prettier than you are.”
She is, [...]
This is a topic that is very timely for me (Thanksgivingmom) right now, but is something that all of us in open adoption deal with at least once during the year: birthdays.I know that birthdays can be an extremely emotional time, for everyone connected to adoption, not [...]
I didn’t get a response but Abby got one and then she forwarded the post that went out to the whole list.
It was just been brought to our attention, that this year’s UWWG t-shirt logo design appears to some to be depicting a black clown and thus offending some as [...]
Because I am cheap and because my budget is tight and because I hate malls with the power of 1000 hot burning suns and because Allyo was talking about downsizing her toy stash, I decided to host a used toy/book/clothes exchange the Saturday after Thanksgiving.
This is how it’s going [...]
I was going to try to write a post about being an over-thinker but I couldn’t make it funny. Let’s just say I know I think about things too much but that’s how I like it. If I thought about ‘em less, I’d have a lot less fun in the [...]
A friend of mine is looking for support around her need to find her child a residential treatment center for mental health issues. My friend adopted her child in a situation that is very similar to foster-to-adopt and their adoption is open as safety allows. She has been a helpful [...]
I’ll say right up front that I think the racism that I see (indeed the little monkey clown thing) is unintentional. I betcha the t-shirt was designed by a kid and I am 99.9% sure that the kid [...]
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When I was a kid our house lived at the top of a hill. I would ride down the hill so that I could cross the backyards of our neighbors by the river and head into 4500. This was the neighborhood next to ours with sprawling properties including a Victorian [...]
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I also walk around wondering how “everyone else” manages to cook from scratch, wrangle toddlers, get writing time, get family time, and work on top of it. What’s funny is that I had you squarely in the “Everyone else” category–I’m always amazed at everything you manage to get [...]
My original plan was to use this month to do some soul searching only I haven’t had time to do any soul searching, which is one of the things I wanted to search my soul about. I have not been happy, oh dear internets, for what feels like a long [...]
I forgot to update my blog yesterday so I officially tanked on NaNoBloMo. But I’m not going to let that stop me! I’m gonna pick myself right back up and act like it never happened although I was thisclose to forgetting to update today, too. (What can I say — [...]
Except for using it to watch Hulu while I did Madison’s hair this morning and getting a surprise lecture on VD by Bill Cosby courtesy of Fat Albert. After I got done laughing, I posted it to facebook. You can see the clip here. Awesomeness!
I’m trying to get a [...]
Skila and Tatjana both asked about openness in international adoptions in regards to my Roundtable post. Specifically, should adoptive parents push for openness? Tatjana said:
This is very much the predominant point of view re searching for birth families of internationally adopted children here in NL due to *very [...]
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Note Madison’s stuffed to the limit cheeks!!!!)
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This round we’re going to consider one critique of fully open adoptions. Have you ever heard–or perhaps even made–statements like these?
“We have medical histories and can share the information we have about their birth parents with our children now. If they feel a need to initiate [...]I’m making banana waffles for the kids right now and clearing out my work inbox at the same time. (That’s why waffles are nicer than pancakes when you’re multitasking — more downtime between waffle rounds.) Our kitchen is well-stocked even though we’re only a few days away from the end [...]
Another tooth down! Click for full gorgeousness!!
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It’s only the third day of NaNoBloPo and here I am already thisclose to flaking. When in doubt, list post!
Madison is “cleaning” up the floor with her bed pillow. She’s sliding down the hall on it and she says it’s picking up the dirt. Awesomeness. Really it’s a help because [...]That’s what Madison has taken to calling Pennie. She says, “You know, my real real mama.” When she talks about her adoption, she says, “It’s hard to miss your real real mama.” They were talking about adoption on Arthur today (you know, for National Adoption Month and all) and she [...]
I think I’ll make this a monthly thing.
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