18 ways to love the new family or family member in your life
* Wondering what’s up with the sign? See # 5. So there’s a new family- or family member- in your life, and you want to be really helpful. And I want you, […]
6 months old and 1 month home
On the day we met Happy 6 months (and 1 month home)! In honor of our one month of parenthood and six months of Sweet Baby A’s life, I thought […]
The Sweetest Things
So, there are two things that just break my heart almost every night. 1. After baby’s been down for a little bit, I’ll do something that brings my hands to […]
Dear Friends and Family
Because the adaptation process with adoption is different than what most families expect when you are bringing a new baby home, our adoption counselor and social worker suggested letting our friends and […]
We are family
Attachment and adapation are big words in the adoption world. You want your new family member to smoothly adapt to the transition and attach to his/her new family members, and […]
Working Mom
So, if you are a long time reader of this blog, you know that my work is a hodge podge of things– I am a freelance writer for magazines, a […]
Sleep Progress!
I hate to speak too soon but I just have to write down somewhere that we have had some sleep progess at our house. As you might recall, our boy […]
What I love about parenting
There are the obvious things that one loves about parenting: earning the trust of someone so vulnerable and yet discerning, getting a smile out of his pursed little lips, making him […]
Where in the world is Ethiopia?
I was an African Studies major as an undergrad and one of the first things I had to for one of my classes was memorize the map of Africa and […]
introducing sweet baby A
We’re home from Ethiopia and getting settled. There’s much to do around the house (including figure out how to get a baby boy to sleep) so I’ll take a couple […]
