The totally self-imposed stress and anxiety of our home visit is painfully chronicled in my latest column for AFTH. If you feel like seeing how ridiculously overwhelmed I got during the process some three years ago, ride the link in my sidebar and scroll to page 10.
Ack. I still cringe when I think about it.
(Hey [...]
When Thomas and I were dating about a gazillion years ago, we spent many a vacation day attending the concerts of our favorite band. Over the years we made our way — when our work and school schedules could accomodate the band’s tour schedule — from Pennsylvania to Maine and back, enjoying the music, the camaradarie and adventure of exploring various locales [...]
I chatted online with Maeve’s first mom tonight. IM’d as the cool kids say.
Although I’ve been steadfast in my sometimes impatient desire for more — more contact in any and every which way — I’m having to remind myself here, right now in the blogosphere, to be happy for these small steps. Because these steps face forward. She’s [...]
Received a heads-up about this very important survey from an adoptive mom friend of mine.
It’s actually for first parents, and the letter accompanying the survey link is written by Roberta MacDonald, chairwoman of the North Carolina Coalition for Adoption Reform and the state’s representive on the American Adoption Congress.
She explains the goal of receiving input in [...]
Before I get this ol’ girl back up and flying again with some fresh thoughts, I first must point everyone toward the pink star in the upper right sidebar. It’s for Judy, a dear online friend who often has made her presence known here in mamagigiville, and whose own blog I haunt.
Her adoptive mom status [...]
Taken while Christmas tree shopping this weekend. The tree lot is right next to a playround, which makes for an interesting tree-choosing time, indeed. (In case you ever wondered, in a two-year-old’s version of Rock Paper Scissors, Playground Beats Getting a Tree.)
I’m just sayin’.
Nonetheless, she rode daddy’s shoulders and we ultimately picked a tree two feet [...]
Tonight my local adoption group hosted Hollee McGinnis of the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute. A most-interesting presentation indeed — and I’m not just saying that because she drew my name as winner of the raffle for a signed copy of Adam Pertman’s Adoption Nation. Really.
I’ve got more to say on the evening, but I just [...]
Thanks to a fellow blogger and adoptive mom for reminding me that there are reasons to celebrate adoption. (Sound strange to some? Let me explain.) Although this is National Adoption Month, “celebration” hasn’t been a word I’ve been throwing around much.
After all, adoption is a very serious subject. There’s so much to consider, so much involved, [...]
Driving home tonight with Miss Maeve in the backseat and my mother at my right in the passenger seat, I commented how quiet Maeve had recently become.
Glancing down at the clock, I reasoned that since it was just about her bedtime, and we’d just spent a good handful of hours out and about doing some good ol’ [...]
