11 days ago I had the honor of picking up a beautiful, tiny little girl from the hospital.  Other than a few massages and runs to the store, I have been spending just about every moment with her since then. I am completely enamored, although struggling with limited sleep.
I appreciate the congratulations that people are [...]

J- and I aren’t good with limbo. We are in a  holding pattern right now while we wait for phone calls that will allow us to be parents.  We’ve got a bassinet, crib and clothes. We even have the carseat in the car. We are as ready as we are going to be.
It started with [...]

We got a call from our licensing social worker on Thursday.  She said that she was entering our information in their database of certified foster parents.  It takes 24 hours for our names to show up to placement workers, but we could get a call for placement as soon as Friday. Of course, every time [...]

A few years ago, I was fed up with the guilt that I felt every time I turned down an invitation, missed a political event, a concert or a party.  But, I new that I wanted to invite focus and simplicity in my life.  I decided that I would rule out anything that fit into [...]

About a month and a half ago, J- and I decided to complete our fost-adopt application so that we would be certified to work with A- County.  This was partly because we had been done with the rest of the process for a long time. It was also because we were tired of the complicated [...]

After asking a few people and reading a lot of webpages about it, I decided to try and induce lactation. This is something that I had been considering for some time. I talked with a woman at a training who was getting small bits of milk and I knew that I wanted to try it.  [...]

I wasn’t actually sitting on the wall.  Honestly, I was trying to stand up there. On one foot. Okay, I was also jumping up and down in circles. It didn’t really work, so I did fall and the pieces were messy, messy pieces that looked and felt a lot like swine flu.
The magic tripod [...]

I apologize for my long, unplanned absence.  I have heard it is bad blogging etiquette to just drop off the face of the earth with no explanation. It makes sense with the high rate of abandoned blogs and the fact that you may have reserved real estate for me on your home page.  I hope [...]

Did anyone have a good year last year?  It seems to be consensus among everyone that I know that it was the worst year ever. Just about everyone in my community is thinking “Thank God It’s Over”!
I went to a zine reading the other night by my friend artnoose.  Ker-bloom! #81 was actually sub-titled Artnoose [...]

I had a new client recently that had experienced the tragic loss of a baby. At 24 weeks of pregnancy, just a few weeks before viability of the fetus, she experienced a life threatening illness that resulted in the emergency abortion/delivery of the baby. Not only did I relate to her loss, but [...]