We are mothers of a different sort. Our children did not come to us easily. For many, we suffered years of heartbreak. We watched as our dreams were crushed. We watched as our friends, family and strangers coddled the small beings growing within them knowing that our bodies were empty, but our hearts were full. […]
Mommyhood
Whoa. A year
Holy crackers! A year? Serious… a year. A year ago today I was wrapping up a whirlwind tour on the other side of the world (by myself). I still can’t believe I got on a plane and traveled to Far East Russia by. my. self. Where have I been? I’ve been here. Our little family […]
Things he does
On the day we went to pick the boy up, or was it just for a visit? I can’t remember. Anyway, one day when we went into the baby home to see Oleg we entered the little office room before the groupa room to see a gaggle of little ones shredding a newspaper. We weren’t […]
Sometimes he is a boy
Saturday I was at work and got a frantic phone call from Derek. “Hello,” I answered. “I’M FREAKING OUT!” was his reply. Now the child was at his aunts so it had to be something involving an animal. Oh so many animals to choose from. This time around it was a chicken. Let’s just say […]
Snow and the league of idiots
The Pacific Northwest is not known for major snow events. In fact we’re quite well known for fuh-reaking out in the face of a few fluffy white flakes. It could be that there happens to be a large city in the Northern part of the state that didn’t even own a snow plow until that […]
Kids and money
As a child my education of money consisted of “we don’t have any.” My family lived very paycheck to paycheck and there wasn’t much wiggle room. We didn’t take family vacations, we rarely ate dinner out, new clothes were at back to school time or given for Christmas or our birthday. We didn’t have the […]
My child and the thank you notes of doom
I’m going to start writing posts about our general life here. I’ve mostly avoided this type of stuff because of not wanting to be judged. However, I’ve come to a point as a parent where I looked at my husband and said, “One of us needs to go to therapy.” It is either me or […]
If I let him give up
If I let my son give up on everything that he was scared of he would sit in front of a window and do nothing all day. He would watch the world pass him by. Since the day he joined our family everything new has been scary. Here he had this nice orderly little life […]
It’s good, It’s not good
I’m pretty sure today was one for the record books. You know those days when you finally sit down at 9:30 at night and realize that the glass of wine you are drinking is your dinner. Yeah… that’s me right about now. When we last left off I was going to call a local hockey […]
The fine line
There is this fine line with this PI kid of mine. It is a fine line of behavior between “normal” and “PI.” You would think that after over 5 years out of the institutional setting he would have adjusted to being just a regular kid. It just isn’t the case in this house. To the […]