Winter 2012 The past 48 hours have been riddled with anxiety. One of my best friends was sitting, waiting, wishing for the opportunity to hold Maddie in her arms and know for certain that she was hers forever. In our state, a birth-mother giving her child up for adoption has 24 hours after the child… Continue reading I Won’t Give Up: A Contested Adoption
It’s easy to get wrapped up in the holiday season before it even begins. We’re anxious to start checking off to-do’s and complete our shopping lists so that when sales hit, we know what we’re buying, where we’re buying it from, and how much money we’re saving. Black Friday sales are announced earlier and earlier;… Continue reading Thanksgristmas
It’s not something they hid from me. I’ve always known I was adopted, so it wasn’t a shock for me at all. I can’t tell you when my mom actually told me. My mom had some type of ovarian cysts that made it so she couldn’t conceive. They were on the adoption list for a… Continue reading Adoption: Given A Chance
As most “crunchy” moms know, cloth diapers tend to be the gateway drug to green living. We cloth diaper our babies, happy to be saving the earth, and then BAM. We’re sucked in. And it all boils down to these questions: How can I save more money? For stay at home moms (like me), saving… Continue reading Green Living Giveaway with Marley’s Monsters
Ah, toddlers…the tiny little dictators that run your life and your schedule. If you don’t revolve around their nap schedule, you’re doomed to a life filled with tantrums and emotions bigger than the poop they had last week that they smeared all over the bathroom before you could hang up your five minute phone call.… Continue reading Learning Through Play: Toddlers
It was December around Christmastime, and I was the only one home, waiting for my 6 year old sister to get back from dance class. I was 14 years old, busy cleaning the kitchen from making cookies and dancing around to the Practical Magic soundtrack, and I didn’t hear the soft knocking on our front… Continue reading FARE Treats For All: The Teal Pumpkin Project
Why do people run marathons? Climb mountains? Swim great distances? So they can say they did? No. They do it to prove to themselves that they can. They do it to push their bodies to their fullest potential. They do it to explore the limitations of their minds. They do it because they feel it… Continue reading Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
#WhyWeWear: Family Edition “Gimme that baby!” my mother would shout the minute she stepped into our house when Lucas was first born. She would proceed to be a baby hog for the remainder of her visit, and that never bothered me in the slightest, not only because Lucas was being cared for and loved… Continue reading Líllébaby Costume Contest and Giveaway!
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” – Maya Angelou My husband and I have been trying for our second child for 18 months now. In that time, I’ve had 2 chemical pregnancies. If you’re not familiar with the term, it means this: sperm and egg met and formed… Continue reading An Untold Story: Breaking the Silence on Pregnancy and Infant Loss
# I remember the first time I used Twitter. I was so confused. I’d never felt so old. I asked my students to explain to me “the point” of it all. Why use hashtags? Are they like secret jokes? Is this a filing system? Who is clicking on these and why? How is Twitter different… Continue reading 5 Things Everyone Wants
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