Grand Theft Childhood
March 16, 2010 – 7:00 am | One Comment

So much of parenting entails thwarting.
I must thwart my toddler’s attempts to travel staircases and wade in toilets. I do this with gates, latches, and other inventions meant to keep small children safe and …

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Here I come to save the day
March 9, 2010 – 12:01 am | 7 Comments
Here I come to save the day

As part of our post-adoption homestudy nine years ago, our agency required us to attend classes in Infant & Child CPR and to submit our certificate of completion for our file. At the …

Trying not to be too ready
February 24, 2010 – 7:00 am | 6 Comments
Trying not to be too ready

Guest Blogger Gwen is expecting…for the second time. And once again, no baby bump or stretch-marks will grace her with their pending bambino. Step inside their world of growing a family through adoption. Follow along …

My Eno n Me
January 21, 2010 – 7:00 am | 2 Comments
My Eno n Me

Warning…if you’re male and/or get the heebies hearing words like, “uterus, ovulation, period or stirrups,” you might want to forgo reading this post. I’m going to attempt to tackle the popular question, “Why can’t …

About Face
January 14, 2010 – 7:00 am | 6 Comments
About Face

Have you read Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking? It chronicles the period after the sudden death of the author’s husband’s and the concurrent illness of her adult daughter. It is starkly written and …

Needles & Fire Drills
December 17, 2009 – 12:01 am | 3 Comments
Needles & Fire Drills

My left arm hurts. Actually my right arm does too. Reason…because in order to adopt a child, the government needs to know that I don’t have TB. And that I’m free and clear of sexually …

Expecting, the First Time Around
November 15, 2009 – 12:01 am | 4 Comments
Expecting, the First Time Around

Guest Blogger Gwen is expecting…for the second time. And once again, no baby bump or stretch-marks will grace her with their pending bambino. Step inside their world of growing a family through adoption. Follow along …

Expecting…minus the baby bump and stretch-marks
October 28, 2009 – 12:01 am | 6 Comments
Expecting…minus the baby bump and stretch-marks

Here we go…
We’re expecting. For the second time. Technically we’re about 2 days along with ohhh, 2 months, maybe 9 months, who knows…maybe 2 years to go before the teeny weeny joins our family. The …