We had a plan for our road to parenthood, but the best-laid plans are often foiled!
Planning Parenthood?
Tag: Family
Dumb Letters…and Cookies
I sent this year's dumb letter in the mail yesterday. It was probably the lamest dumb letter I’ve written them, especially compared to last year’s emotional keening about Summer’s Middle Eastern roots and the fears I have for her in Trump’s Muslim-hating America. I should have known better than to get emotional – they didn’t… Continue reading Dumb Letters…and Cookies
To Keep Her Safe
They say hindsight is 20/20, and in this case, that is absolutely true.
Moriarty
We had no idea our family was incomplete until we met him...
The Mother I Didn’t Deserve
She’s the worst person I’ve ever had the misfortune of knowing. I wish I was exaggerating.
My Story is Rooted in Adoption
Every member of the triad tells a completely different story. My siblings and I have vastly different stories. The story of my biological mother is night-and-day-different from my story of being a birthmother. I've never met an adoptee nor a birthmother with the same story as me.
Letters by the Dumb, Written for Deaf Eyes
This is what it is to be a birthmother: to love someone who doesn't even know you exist.
My Heroes
I can’t discuss my heroes without also discussing adoption. For me, the two are inextricably linked. And I wouldn’t have it any other way. It's funny, in the adoption world there really are no rules or solid expectations because no two stories are the same. Even the stories experienced and told by siblings differ. There… Continue reading My Heroes
