Since we sent in our application to Holt last March, we knew this week was coming. We knew that at some point we would have to come to pretty much everyone we know and ask them, point blank, if they could help us financially afford this adoption. To be honest, that realization was a hindrance […]
In the last month, I’ve been working myself up a bit about Carson starting kindergarten next year. I’m not usually this weepy, “oh my sweet baby is growing up so fast” type of mom, but we’ve all got it inside of us and the looming kindergarten registration is pulling up the crazy, nice and strong. […]
It has been one year since the devastating earthquake hit Haiti. I still cannot fully explain WHY this tragedy affected me so greatly. I know it was partly because I had been to Haiti, fallen in love with the people myself several years earlier. I know it was partly because my friend Kristen was there […]
I wrote this on Facebook, but for those of you who don’t have a FB account or don’t check it, I will repost here. Plus, after The Lockout, I feel like I need to tell some positive stories about Mr. C. On Sunday night we were watching America’s Funniest Home Videos with Carson, and during […]
There’s nothing like a really, really good Christmas morning surprise. You’ve been a part of one, haven’t you? Either on the giving or the receiving end–both are just a ball of giddy excitement. Well, I was on the “opening” end this year and I still have goose-bumps.*See, with our families, we usually exchange gifts around […]
After an especially loud, violent and emotional screaming, scratching and hitting match (btw, both parties were fighting dirty–neither was more or less to blame) over a remote-control Strawberry Shortcake car, an angry mama put two angry kids in angry time-outs. When they had served their time, I quietly opened the doors to their rooms. A […]
More good news! We got our I797C! Don’t worry, 10 months ago, that wouldn’t have meant anything to me, either. Basically, it’s THE paper we needed to be ready for a referral. We filed the I-800A, which asks the US to approve us as adoptive parents, to say that we’re cool to adopt a baby […]
I’ve alluded to The Lockout several times on the blog, but never got around to telling you blog peeps about it. I’m not going to lie, it was a pivotal moment in my parenting of the C-dawg, and part of the reason I didn’t want to talk about it for a long time was that […]
Whew! I’m exhausted from waiting to find this out, but today we heard that FIVE Thai children from Holt were matched with FIVE waiting families, which means we’ve moved up from #11 to #6 on THE LIST! This is wonderful news! Each day since about the 10th I’ve casually looked through my inbox for an […]
Some years the holiday(s) just goes by so fast I don’t take enough pics. This year we had a wonderful Christmas (which is really 2 very full days), full of happy tears, sad tears, stories, jokes, food, gifts, family and then even more food. I was very mindful this year–and perhaps a little melancholy–that our […]