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Well, I’ve had the fever for a while now. You know what it’s like. Looking sideways at cute babies in coffeeshops. “Joking” that friends have brought their newborns to visit in handy carrying cases (AKA car seats). Lingering a moment too long in the diaper aisle, lovingly fingering the Disney motifs on the size-1’s. My husband [...] I wanted to write a post for all of the moms in waiting out there. Especially the ones that have been waiting a long time and who have experienced many bumps in the road. There are a lot of moms in waiting I know right now that are having a really tough time. Adoption is [...] Mother’s Day. The cruelest “holiday” for those that have been trying and waiting for years to become a mother. This Mother’s Day I find myself reflecting a lot on the six Mother’s Days that passed between the time we started trying to conceive and the time we were matched with our daughter’s birth mother, and especially on [...] Fair warning: this is not going to be one of those happy, fuzzy adoption stories. It’s a bit of a rant, perhaps even a screed, written by a woman who is having some trouble processing her anger. Why am I angry, you ask? Because I don’t have $30,000 sitting in my back pocket and yet I feel ready to add to my family right [...] (To clarify up front this is Karen writing this one! I’d hate for Missy or Cheryl’s Mom to think this was their particularly lousy way of announcing it!) There are few less ambiguous statements than “I am pregnant.” However, say the words “I am paper pregnant” and you will get a lot of the same simple [...] Over the last few months, when I haven’t been “allowed” to post, I’ve been thinking a lot about the role of faith in adoption. Honestly, I don’t know how people make it through without faith. For me, my faith comes out of my Faith – a specific dogma, if not a specific denomination. My Faith is the [...] If you haven’t encountered one of “The Coven” women she speaks of – good for you! I pray you never do! My encounter came with them at a wedding. When I was asked what was new, I made the mistake of telling them about our anniversary trip to London and Amsterdam in a few weeks. The [...] I wrote most of this for another blog last year, after what was my first Mother’s Day. More than a little ironic that I will forever spend Mother’s Day thinking about two things besides myself: Noah’s birth mom, “M” – and all of the Mommies-in-Waiting. Today was the big day. The one I’ve waited on for [...] We often describe the process of adopting as a roller-coaster and I think the analogy is a really, really good one. First, you pay to even get near the thing. Then you buckle a safety restraint so you can’t throw yourself from the train, and allow someone else to control every aspect of the ride. [...] This is how I spent that Monday, August 18, 2008: I didn’t know that Noah existed. He was almost four weeks old. I was facing an update of our homestudy in two weeks, and called our doctor to set up appointments. I cried. I fully believed that it would it be another year before I was a [...] |
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