While the amount of contact with B. has increased as time has passed, I’d always considered ours an open adoption. Even from our Day One in both her and Maeve’s lives.
Dawn’s written a wonderful post about open adoptions that not only covers some of the varied ways it’s defined — a nice primer for those [...]
This morning I was helping Maeve get dressed and when she slid a sock over her toes I noticed a dime-sized hole in the sock. “Oh noooo!” I said, pointing to the spot on the side of her foot.
She looked down, her mouth fell open, and she declared with delight: “Mommy! A wiiindooow!”
Hmmph. Now that’s [...]
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 [...]
There’s that line in a Jewel song about being sensitive and wanting to stay that way. I remind myself of that chorus if ever I feel like someone has intentionally poked and twisted sharp and hurtful words into me, my heart, my soul. As difficult as it can be when this happens — for me, it’s especially [...]
Don’t ya just love those conversations with new acquaintances, essential strangers or even friends and family (does that cover the spectrum or what?) that inevitably lead to adoption, which inevitably leads to someone saying something brilliant like: “Well, adoption is just so wonderful. And Maeve is sooo lucky! If we couldn’t have had our own [...]
Several months ago, my local adoption group hosted musician and adoptee Zara Phillips, who shared her adoption story and performed several songs from her album – quite an interesting evening as I detailed here. This month’s meeting featured as speaker Margaret L. Schwartz, a single adoptive mom from the Washington, D.C., area whose children were born in [...]
So today for Love Thursday I was planning to post a picture of how my dear Maevey Gravy looked as she went to her little school yesterday morning.
But the ‘conversation’ she and I had this morning as I changed her diaper trumped even the most wonderful of images, which I’ll share another time. I’m letting her [...]
Judy over at Just Enjoy Him wrote a very interesting post about Jeanne Marie Laskas’ book, Growing Girls. I haven’t read the book, although I know of it and its columnist-author.
That said, Judy excitedly launched into the book only to come to a screeching halt on Page 4 when she read this (emphasis added):
Anna was [...]
Zara Phillips is an adoptee, musician and author of Chasing Away the Shadows: An Adoptee’s Journey to Motherhood.
Last night I met her and I heard her story. Let’s just say, she tells it like it is.
It was frank, honest, stark, poignant, sad, angry, raw, real. And as an adoptive parent, it was very hard to hear.
Guest speaker [...]
Today would have been Dorothy Louise Law Nolte’s 83rd birthday. A trained family counselor (who also founded a kindergarten, taught parenting and childbirth classes, and was a published writer), Law in the mid-1950s wrote a poem, “Children Learn What They Live,” as a submission for her family-matters column in California’s The Torrance Herald.
Now, more [...]
