If you already read Kids Health Notes, you know Grace is a smart cookie. Well, she came up with another great idea and asked the Health and Wellness bloggers to round up their favorite posts from the month of April. Here are mine!

Oh Wait, Are We Sure We Want to Do This? – Second thoughts about trying to have a baby, that will eventually grow into a tweener
The Mistress’s Daughter by AM Homes – The latest edition of the Barren Bitches Book Brigade. Adoption, identity and needing (or not needing) answers are discussed
The Girl with Two Birthdays – More on …read more

When I was little, I had a book entitled, “The Girl with Two Birthdays.” I had a lot of books, but this is one I remember clearly. It was smaller than most, so I couldn’t use it when I built my Little Golden Books towers – structures built like card houses that I would try (unsuccessfully) to reach to the ceiling of my living room before they would collapse. It was worn and pretty ratty-looking. The pictures were old-timey. Maybe it was a hand me down? Nothing about it was aesthetically or structurally pleasing, but I can visualize almost …read more

This month’s selection of the Barren B*tches Book Brigade is AM Home’s memoir, The Mistress’s Daughter. And it is a prime example of how the number of pages or words doesn’t necessarily correlate with the length of time a book can linger in one’s mind. I probably finished The Mistress’ Daughter the day after I borrowed it from the library; I have been thinking about it ever since.
The book focuses on the author’s feelings about being adopted, finding her birth mother, or rather, her birth mother finding her, and trying to find the similarities, if any, between “who I …read more