Call this the obligatory post on gratitude, but it must be said. I have so much to be thankful for. This time last year, we were beginning our adoption outreach in earnest. We had filed our initial paperwork six months earlier and we were more than...

So I went to my first “new moms” group meeting last week. It took me nearly six months to finally do it. I’d been reluctant to even get together with other moms who aren’t familiar with my situation, and even some who are. We go to our monthly adoption...

Thank you all again for your support these past few weeks. I posted an update to my last post (at the end), but I just haven’t had the time, energy or chance to write much lately. I’ve talked to my mom every day for the past week. The morning after my...

Thank you so much for your outpouring of support. Every one of your kind words and thoughts reached their way through the box and warmed my ailing heart. Seriously, many thanks for all the virtual love. I needed that. I still have not spoken with...

It’s inoperable. My mother is dying. It may be a few months, or a few weeks. Or longer. I have no idea. We had hoped with this surgery that she’d still have some years left in her. But it was not to be. Just a few months ago she was a vibrant...