Lessons Learned as a Parent
I’ve got a post up over at Chicago Moms Blog about our Birthday Party at the Hotel Water Park. Check out the lessons I still continue to learn as a parent.
Do You Talk About Sex?
The Silicon Valley Moms do (well, some of us anyway!) and we want you all to come join us for our monthly topic day. This month we’re talking about…you guessed it…SEX! Come visit all of our sites and read about what it means to be a mom and feel sexy, to teach the teens about sex, to be over 50 and deal with sex, and so forth…
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Are You Considered A Non-Mom? NBC Thinks SO!
Read all about how I feel about this Non-Mom issue over at Chicago Moms Blog!
What Role Does Religion Play in Adoption?
I have to admit that we never Baptized or Christened AJ.
Why?
He was already Baptized in the Russian Orthodox Church, or so we were told (he has a small cross as “proof”).
Attachment and Dissolution, More on Poeteray
Disruptions and dissolutions happen in the adoption community but they usually happen within days or weeks, not after SIX years. I am certainly not "recalling" my child (see title of the post) but Dutch Diplomat Poeteray is in the process of dissolving the adoption with his daughter (who has no citizenship in Hong Kong or the Netherlands ) six years after adopting her from Korea.
Raymond and Meta Poeteray handed their daughter, Jade, over to social workers in Hong Kong saying the adoption had not worked out.
In a statement published by Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf (and the BBC News), Raymond …read more
Breastfeeding an Adopted Child, Yah or Nay?
I admit that I know nothing about breastfeeding mainly because I have never been and never will be pregnant. So, I had to do some clinical research to bring you this information.
What I found in my research is that there are two basic issues in breastfeeding an adopted child; getting milk to come in and getting the child to latch, basically what every mother contends with, right? But, because nursing an adopted child is more about bonding and attachment than nutritional support (in my opinion at least) does it really matter how much milk comes in when there are …read more
It Took Me a Year?
After my semi-annual dentist appointment this morning (and a lengthy conversation with the hygienist about adoption and infertility, as she is finally pregnant after 4 IVF attempts) I drove to the Secretary of State to get new stickers for our license plates because, you guessed it, they expired today.
While standing in line and writing a check (again, something last minute. Are you sensing a pattern here?) I glanced at my Drivers License and smiled at the great picture. Ah, ten pounds ago. Umm, okay, 15 pounds, but I’m working on it. But, what was horrifying was my address.
It …read more
Seven Things: Day Three
I HATE to put away laundry and I HATE to cook. . I will clean bathrooms, vacuum, sweep, scrub floors, wash dishes, anything…but ask me to do laundry or cook? UGH.
Oh, I will put laundry in the washer and transfer it to the dryer. I’ll even fold it. But, I HATE to put it away. I have a consistent pile of laundry that I affectionately call Mount Laundrious. In fact, there have been times that my own mother has come over to my house just to put the laundry away.
Now thats embarrassing.
And cooking? I will do anything to avoid it …read more
