For My Next Trick, I Have a Complete Emotional Breakdown

First, a little background:
Every year, Sean takes each kid to his office for a “birthday with Daddy” excursion. Since Noah’s birthday fell on the same day as a major, mandatory securities training meeting this week, Sean took him in on Monday instead. As a result, we skipped school on Monday.
Monday night, Caleb puked. Tuesday morning, [...]

I’m Ready to Impose a Vow of Silence

This afternoon, once the kids were all down for quiet time, I decided to call T~ and get that conversation (or pre-conversation) out of the way. I’m sure that she appreciated getting a call that, after the initial pleasantries, started with, “Well, I’m not actually calling for a long conversation this time, but I wanted [...]

Unexpected Education

Maybe he’s better at connecting the dots than I have given him credit for.
Today, I just wasn’t feeling like doing the standard morning of phonics, math, history and language arts. So, instead of sitting in front of a computer screen and books, I packed the kids up and headed to our local children’s museum. That’s [...]

Adoption Math: When 4+4=7

When we first made the decision to adopt, open adoption was not my goal. Heck, even a semi-open adoption was kind of a scary idea at first but, the more I read, the more I was convinced that it would be a good idea. I liked the idea of my child’s birthmother having the opportunity [...]

Protected: Yours, Mine, and Ours

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Done

 

Carpets cleaned. Thanks Mom!
 

Groceries bought.
 

Youth watermelon spitting attended.
 

Ferret cleaned.
 

Bears made.
 
All that is left to do is wait for T~ and her family to get here. We’re all excited for the visit (even if I am ready to collapse!).

Like a Chicken with Her Head Cut Off

So much to say–so little time to say it.
I got a phone call on Monday. A BIG phone call. T~ called to ask me what I was doing on Thursday and could she, maybe, come for a visit then. Of course! We have been trying to work out a visit for months now. It has [...]

A Good Conversation

The last time I talked to N’s birthmom, T~, we had talked about them visiting soon. That was well over a month ago, and I hadn’t heard from her since. N~ has been asking when they were going to visit, so we told him yesterday that we would call and ask (then got busy and [...]

A Question for Those Who Might Know

I know that there are some birthmothers who read my blog. I have a question for you.
I honestly have never known how to deal with Mother’s Day with N’s birthmom. I haven’t called her in the past because I figured that it was her day with her mother and her other children. I have been [...]

Five Years Ago Today

Five years ago today, I woke up, showered, got ready and went to work like any other day.
But it wasn’t.
Five years ago today, I sat at my desk and stared at my computer screen, unable to focus my mind and work. I thought about the young woman I had met just a few days earlier. [...]