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Snapshots of Adoption
Life is moving at warp speed these days. I should probably be running alongside, trying to keep up, instead of blogging. I should probably be doing the dishes or installing child proof latches on our...
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Test Driving a Person
I test drove a human being today. Or, to be more accurate, he test drove us. Our first day spent together, just our family, in our own home. Altogether, we handled beautifully. Of course, there were a...
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Happy Family Honeymoon
I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop. Or maybe even the first one. There will definitely be shoes. And they will be dropping. I’m not sure where this saying came from or why the dropping of shoes...
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Today is The Day
So… today, this happened: We added a new pair of shoes to the blog. This sentence is meaningless to most people, but to us, it means that today is The Day We Have Been Waiting For, for three years....
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You’ll See…
Many, many, many moons ago… in the ancient days… B.C. (Before Children) we knew a young couple who had a baby. We had hung out with them before and found them to be interesting, intelligent and fun...
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Finding Mommy
He’s teething. It makes perfect sense. The gnawing on his soother, his toys, his fingers, the t.v. remote… The excessive drool, so much so that Daddy suggested “Hooch” as a new nickname. The fussy...
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Losing My Cool
Turns out, I’m not as cool in real life as I am in theory. I’m talking about the kind of cool that stays calm and collected in the face of a challenge. The serene, unflappable cool that takes life as...
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The Language of Belonging
It’s called “claiming behavior.” It’s a big part of adoption, especially with an older child. Intentional actions to physically demonstrate belonging, not just for the child, but for our whole family....
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The Why of Adoption
The mother and daughter sat silently at the table rolling out play dough and carefully cutting it into shapes, while I chased my boy. He stole stickers off the craft table and stuck them on the walls,...
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For Keeps: the Big Day Arrives
My son is 25% boy and 75% snot. Although we were finally getting the hang of sleep at night, all night long, today we are bleary-eyed and grumpy. And slimy (see above re: snot). It’s not what I...
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