Plug and Play Parenthood

It’s almost time for another Mother’s Day– my second as a mom.  I think about Baby Boy’s birth parents, literally, every day, but Mother’s and Father’s Day tend to direct my thoughts to them even more.  Their loss is my gain, their grief translates to my joy, and the hole in their lives has become [...]

Last weekend, Baby Boy participated in his first Easter egg hunt.  Watching him grab an orange dyed egg and claim it as his own was fun and fresh.  It made me remember being small myself and how finding a hidden egg felt like unlocking the door to Narnia– or so I imagine.  I don’t actually know how [...]

Forgive me for being lost in a daydream lately.  The end of this month will mark a year– A WHOLE YEAR– since I received a  call from the agency informing me that a set of birth parents wanted to talk to us.  It felt so surreal, and looking back on it now, I relive the scenes [...]

“In three words, I can sum up everything I know about life:  it goes on.” — Robert Frost I love this quote.  It applies to… well… pretty much any situation.  It offers straightforward, factual comfort. Since I started this blog over two years ago, the adoptive parent/birth parent relationship has been a common topic among [...]

This year will mark my very first Mother’s Day as a mother instead of a daughter, granddaughter, and friend to other moms.  While I am still all of those things, the addition of “mother” to that list is obviously very special to me. I’ve been thinking about Mother’s Day 2012 a lot lately.  Two Mays [...]

Last week I chronicled my doomed adventures in salt dough hand prints.  I told the brave tale of salt dough making, wrestling a squirmy baby’s clenched fist, and baking the dough only for it to puff up and look exactly like oven baked sand dollars. Then, the internet hiccoughed, and my post disappeared never to [...]

SBC is now two months old (and some change.)  However, his hair is already in college.  I have never, ever seen so much hair on such a little person.  He looks like he’s been Photoshopped and entirely different than he did a month ago– not to mention two months ago!  THIS is what “they” mean [...]

Today, our little guy is one month old.  One month ago, I got a text from his birth mom while we were driving somewhere in New Mexico announcing that he was here and everyone was healthy.  One month ago, we saw this little guy for the first time late at night after his sweet birth [...]

Let’s play a quick word association game.  I’ll be the proctor as well as the player. Word? Whirlwind. First word that comes to mind? My life. Okay, that’s a phrase, but you get the idea.  Let’s not get hung up on semantics. Our little guy could make his appearance literally any day now.  Our family [...]

Two quick things about Olive Garden:  I do not, in fact, believe that families would take relatives visiting from Italy there, and after last week’s events, Olive Garden will forever hold a special place in my heart.  That is where we met our birth family. Seeing with your eyes is somewhat of a luxury this [...]