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Coming up 17 Aug 2013 | 06:51 am
I’m working on a post about our visit with Posy’s birthfamily (short version: very good visit) but it will be password protected… so email me at artsweets@gmail.com if you’d like the password, or leav...
Nervous(ish) 29 Jul 2013 | 09:14 am
In just a few days we will be headed off across the country to visit Posy’s birthfamily – the whole kit and kaboodle of them. My introvert self is anxious about all sorts of things – the lack of priva...
Father’s Day 19 Jun 2013 | 08:19 am
This is sort of a belated response to the Open Adoption Bloggers Roundtable #49 As you might imagine, Father’s Day is not a super big deal in our house. We talk from time about splitting up Mothers’ D...
Happy Blogging for LGBT Families Day 4 Jun 2013 | 09:22 am
It is the 8th annual (wow) blogging for LGBT families day, organized by the fabulous Mombian. And today, I’m caught up in memories of the amazing day, a year ago, that we finally became a family of fo...
Blog Hop! 20 May 2013 | 06:46 am
I have so many little thoughts that I think would make good blog fodder, and then before I can sit down at the computer, they disappear. End result, it’s been two months since my last blog. So instead...
Posy’s Story: Part II – The Hard Part 18 Mar 2013 | 07:06 am
I hesitate to tell this story and put it out there, and yet I feel sort of obligated to do so. Obligated to whom, I’m not sure – the handful of people who read this blog? That’s awfully self-important...
Open Adoption Roundtable: Time 17 Mar 2013 | 01:30 am
The prompt for this Open Adoption Roundtable was very simple and open-ended: Write about open adoption and time. I’m constantly aware of the time that’s passing and wondering how it’s passing differen...
Book Club Time! 5 Mar 2013 | 09:07 pm
I’m taking part in the first Open Adoption Roundtable Book Club. So, pull up a chair, pour yourself a glass of wine, and bring on the cheese and crackers. I’m partial to Truffle Tremor and a bottle of...
Finalized! 1 Mar 2013 | 01:55 am
There’s a new line through the final item on our adoption #2 list over to the right – Posy, is officially, legally ours. After all the stress and anxiety of this adoption – the worries about whether w...
There has to be a first time 10 Feb 2013 | 07:57 am
Today, for the first time, P’ito said to us “You’re not my real mommies. You didn’t grow me.” And told us he was going to run away to Guatemala. Threw some food into a pillowcase, put his boots and hi...
