Adopting a Special Needs Foreign Teen for Dummies
What holiday is coming up next? Can I put the aforementioned manual on the top of my New Years Day wish list? I have a feeling I'm...
Holidays and Happiness (or lack thereof)
It’s easy to be an angry mom. Angry because I don’t feel appreciated, angry because my daughter can’t show affection, angry that she...
Randomness
Keeping my eyes on my own paper is so hard. It was hard when I sat next to someone smarter than me in high school (basically anyone with...
She said Dad.
A wise woman (my mother) once told me that relationships are kind of like refurbishing furniture. Things sometimes have to get really...
"And you?"
This is how my daughter responds when I tell her she is going somewhere or doing something that doesn't involve my presence. "And you?" ...
Why I write.....
I write because I want to give a voice to the reality of what the first year of adoption has and continues to look like for us, but most...
POP
The adoption bubble burst for me tonight. I realized my daughter is not now nor may she ever be capable of showing love or affection...
Mother vs Daughter
It's not about me. It's not about me. It's not about me. Thank God for teachers and school because if my 15 year old daughter and I...
Adopting a Tween + PMS
Shoot. Me. Now. The end.
On the 12th week of parenting....
My daughter gave to me....no tears and wanting to flee! Drum roll please...the past week was the first week since coming home with our...
