I hesitate to post this, because I know people will judge me. But I want to help people, so I hope someone out there find this helpful. I’m normal!! At least, that’s what this book showed me. As you know from reading, I have really been struggling. Not so much with being a mommy (I… Continue reading Book Review: The Post-Adoption Blues
One of my favorite teacher blogs titles all of her posts with lines from songs. I wish I was that creative… First, someone go show love to Prabha. She and her hubby traveled 8 hours yesterday thinking they would bring home their baby, but instead returned home empty-handed. I think that is every pre-adoptive parent’s… Continue reading And We Will Wait…
It’s 6:49 pm where we live. It’s Sunday night. I spoke to S on Christmas Eve. She was surrounded by her family members that she loves the most. She was “eating pie for two” because she can. She teased me that I can’t eat for two 🙂 Baby has dropped – she feels lots of… Continue reading Exhausted
Throughout this whole process, it seems that Thursday is our “magical” day. Of course I don’t really believe in magic (well, maybe Disney magic…). But every important thing has happened on a Thursday: Meeting the adoption social workersMeeting the lawyerBeing approvedGetting “the call”Getting our first letter from SGetting every letter, in fact, from SGetting ultrasound… Continue reading Another Thursday
Wow. Little did I know that I would inspire such hate and venom from total strangers. I have struggled all day with how to respond to the hateful comments I have gotten about yesterday’s post. I don’t know why yesterday’s post resulted in such comments; certainly, I feel I have posted things what would be… Continue reading How to Respond
The Baby, that is. That’s ALL I think about. I have to meet with my principal tomorrow (simple monthly meeting) and I’m going to have to tell her that I can’t hardly concentrate because all I can think about is Baby and that I’m going to be a mommy in less than 12 weeks. Do… Continue reading It’s ALL I Think About…
When I started this blog, it was for me. I admit it – I’m selfish. I wanted to know I wasn’t alone, and I wanted to keep a record of our journey. But sometimes it’s so intimidating to write it. I read my blogroll (see the right side of my page) and I am amazed… Continue reading Friday Night Ramblings…
We got our second letter yesterday from S, our Birth Mother. It was a beautiful letter. See, there are circumstances surrounding S’s life that make it possible for us to communicate in exactly one way: letters written, sent to the lawyer and then mailed to us from the law offices. It’s kind of quaint, kind… Continue reading Communicating with Birth Mom
I’m a list girl. I love to make lists, check things off, keep track of things. Guess how many lists I can make now that I am an expectant adoptive mother? Registry lists, shower guest lists, “things to do” for school lists, “things to do” for the baby’s room lists, “things to do” around the… Continue reading Multiple Lists
I thought the waiting process was a roller coaster. Enter the call…and the knowledge that I will be a mother in a little more than four months…because a woman is going to entrust me with her fifth child. I realize that S has made an adoption plan because she is mature and responsible and knows… Continue reading Today’s Emotion: Guilt
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