My latest column is up over at AFTH, and as usual, the link to it remains nestled in my sidebar. But in the interest of saving you a click or two, here’s what I had to say in the Fall installment of Musings of an Adoptive Mama:
Changing Leaves, Changing Minds
Some use the start of the [...]
Giggle, giggle.
Went on a date tonight, movie and dinner. (For me, the second movie in as many years. It’s about time, right?)
We saw adoption-themed Martian Child. (Still mulling that one over.)
During dinner, we had conversation. Conversation that didn’t include entertaining anyone else other than each other, or reaching for books and snacks from a nearby tote [...]
So I shut my eyes for just a quick minute last evening as Thomas put Maeve to bed … and then I woke up this morning.
Arg.
This means there’s a blip in my NaBloPoMo effort. Double-arg.
Clearly this also means I was more tired than I realized, but really? Twelve (blissful) hours went by and I didn’t [...]
“Keeping [birth] records closed perpetuates the myth
that open adoption is a fringe movement,
flirting with the potentially dangerous idea
of not cutting adoptees off from their families of origin.”
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“Closed records play into the fiction that there is something
shameful in adoptees’ pasts. … They reinforce the idea
that first parents should disappear into the shadows
after relinquishment if they know [...]
If a picture is worth a thousand words, consider this a 2,000-plus word post.
“Playground Bliss”
NaBloPoMo Stats: 6 down, 24 to go.
It’s been four months since I went part-time at the newspaper. Since then, I’ve had two days each week at home with Maeve. My mindset is improved, my house a bit better organized and, most of all, my heart is so much happier. After all, it’s two days a week where Maeve and I take on [...]
As Jenna noted, seems the Christmas Advertising Snow Job has begun. Today, I, too, found myself trying to shut out have-a-holly-jolly-Christmas jingles while perusing store aisles for very non-Christmas things.
Now, let me be clear. I’m not against Christmas jingles. Or Christmas shopping. And I certainly don’t mean to sound bah-humbug. It’s just that it all seems [...]
Hoo boy.
(Or, in this case, girl.)
You know how you spend the first year of baby’s life waiting for them to speak?
With bated breath you await the first “mama,” the first “dada.”
Then comes wanting to see them make connections, and begin to use newly learned words like “up” and “down,” “cat” and “dog.” And “shoe.” (My [...]
Knowing this is likely the last year where Maeve will simply don whatever I choose to dress her in for Halloween, I thought I’d have some 1950s fun.
And frankly, I think it’s just dreamy! And nifty, too! (OK, so I’m not so super smooth with the ’50s jargon. Blame “Grease” and “Back to the Future.”)
To [...]
Two girlfriends chillin’ lakeside.
(Taylor, left, and Maeve)
I’ve been hearing it lately from folks in my life (in a snarky tone): “What, no new blog entry?” And those of you that e-mailed to see if I’d fallen off my computer chair and just couldn’t get up? Thanks for checking in. Makes a mama feel loved.
It’s true, [...]
