Category Archives: the adoption journey
the wait
we have been waiting when Q was three Y looked at me over his newspaper and said something like… we should think about adopting that was it i had already been thinkng the same thing and so the next day … Continue reading
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happy new year, thank you and joy
so, i spent another day in the emergency room. the pain in my back was so bad last night i could not lay down and did not fall asleep until around 5:15 am. not so bad really except Q came … Continue reading
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father b
as i’ve written, last year we began to worship in a new church. we are unitarian-universalist and the new church is episcopal, but we needed close to home, and the congregation does lovely things in the community so we tried … Continue reading
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race
(update: after i wrote the post below the moderator of the group opened it back up. a couple of people had commented without realizing the subject had been closed and after that the moderator posted that although race and culture … Continue reading
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today
as you can see, i am not scraping paint in my bedroom or cleaning out my pantry i will need to do laundry and to clean out the fish tank … Continue reading
Filed under motherhood, self care, the adoption journey, wife, working mom
only
we are q’s first parents but we have no way to know if we will be his last, only, favorite, we will be our second child’s second parents is he less because he is our second? are we less because … Continue reading
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come to the table (day eight of waiting with evelyn)
choices yesterday, 4 years after starting this journey, we recieved the first draft of our homestudy. we are to look for mistakes (impeccable housekeeping? there’s a mistake if ever there was one – but we’re not correcting that) and then … Continue reading
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what the heart can bear (and day three of waiting with evelyn)
we are requesting the referral of a child somewhere between 2 and 6 years old (in the ethiopian adoption world this means we will ask for a referral up to age 48 months to ensure that we have less of … Continue reading
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for Evelyn
it’s surprising the way the journey has changed me the boundaries are shattered the distance shortened the heart blown open slowly coming to stand by, near, with a friend we have never hugged, touched, kissed hello we are here for … Continue reading
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mother’s day
http://adoptioncubed.blogspot.com/2009/04/sacred-mystery.html a few weeks ago i asked rebecca if i could link to her birthday post for mother’s day you’ll need to cut and paste as i haven’t fully figured out wordpress yet – but it’s so worth it – … Continue reading
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