Finally, some adoption nitty-gritty (revised)

It’s been a while since I got down and dirty here with the nitty-gritty of adoption issues. A long while.
One reason — and seemingly the simplest believe it or not, is the major life changes going on round here for me. From starting my own craft biz geared toward children and also experiencing a serious [...]

Another focus. Crafty, ain’t I?

Pardon me while I sweep the tumbleweed from ye ole blog.
Sometimes, though, there’s little to say adoption-wise, at least as far as The Big Picture goes. And recently, there’s been so much nastiness being spewed about in Adoption Bloggerville that it’s painful to read, exhausting and frustrating, and well, it simply squelches the urge to write. At [...]

Adoption story tonight on Nightline

Heads up: Tonight on Nightline (which airs at 11:35 p.m. here on the East Coast), host Cynthia McFadden — an adoptee herself — joins Cynthia Guditus, a 43-year-old adoptee, in her journey to find and contact her natural mother in “Where Did I Come From?”
Guditus was helped in her search by Pam Slaton — the [...]

She’s a reader, that one

So what if it’s in her laundry hamper,
placed at the foot of my bed, with my comforter pulled over as a backrest.
Reading is reading, right?

Tea … and tidy hair

Daahling, let’s have tea … yes?
And don one of those headbands you so adore. In fact, wear them all!
And why not layer those shirts, too?
(A lady should be at the ready should it get chilly …)

An omnium-gatherum

Ever feel like you have so very much you want to say but the effort it would require to give it the respect and time it deserves is totally beyond your current energy reserve?
Frankly, the very thought of buckling down, sending home and publishing as posts the myriad drafts I’ve got in the hopper –  [...]

Frosty reminder (or “Good calories!”)

This weekend Wendy’s will be donating 50 cents from every Frosty sold to the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption.
With the nasty heat wave currently frying my brain here on the East Coast — good goddess, will it ever break? — a cold, chocolaty ice cream treat benefiting children in foster care sounds like a mighty [...]

Considering adopting? Look and learn.

At face value, the list you’ll find below is written most especially for the folks – as prospective adoptive parents – searching adoption-related keywords who find themselves landing here at musings:mamahood&more. Since I see your searches and know you’re here, I’ve got something to share with you that I, as an adoptive mother, believe is truly [...]

Maeve’s First Joke?!

Move over, Sarah Silverman. Step aside, Whoopi Goldberg. Not so fast, Ellen DeGeneres. Make room for … Maevy Gravy. Maybe.
This was a conversation in our house a few days ago:
Miss M: Mommmmay!
Yours Truly: Yes, Maeve?
Miss M: Knock! Knock!
Yours Truly, after realizing my child is actually about to attempt a joke: Who’s There?
Miss M: MEEEE!!! (She [...]

It’s official! NJ has Paid Adoption Leave

At noon today Gov. Jon S. Corzine signed the paid family leave bill into law, calling it a “legacy moment” and a “moral necessity.”
Beginning January 1, 2009 payroll deductions will begin being taken, and employees will be eligible to take up to six weeks of paid time off beginning July 1, 2009.
More than 12 years [...]