Today marks 36 years since my husband came into this world.
While candles, cake and jabs about him aging certainly are on my agenda, this day usually finds me pondering his bigger birthday picture.
After all, 36 years ago he became a baby waiting to be adopted.
The details of his first few months aren’t carefully chronicled in a scrapbook placed [...]
I was thinking recently about how, despite a comfortable home and all its stuff, there are just a few things inside it that actually have a deep, sentimental, in-the-gut connection for me. Things not necessarily of great financial value, but of utmost import personally and emotionally. Some bring me great happiness; others are bittersweet. Thought I’d share some of them [...]
Two years ago today you came into the world.
The next morning I learned of you through the most memorable phone call of my life.
Twenty-four hours later I touched you for the first time, and held you in my arms, your little newborn body, long toes and round rosy lips making an impression on my soul so large [...]
