If only I had the answers to this question on the day that is set aside to honor us. I waited years to be a mother and this day is the culmination of that journey. Last year at this time, I had a picture of Minnow but was not yet his mother...the distance to far, … Continue reading What does it mean to be MOTHER?

and we have been found to not be criminals and perfectly legally acceptable to parent a child. Thank Goodness!!!!!! Now that our homestudy update is just days from being completed, I guess that means I have to get moving on the rest of the dossier. Here's to paperchasing....

The adoption stork delivered this pictureand the message that he was ours if we accepted his referral. The minute I saw him, I knew he was ours and there was no way we would be turning down his referral. That thought was incomprehensible to me. I felt as if I had known him and that … Continue reading One Year Ago Today…

from the ashes...I have returned. I really wasn't anywhere, just buried in life and the end of my graduate classes. As I type this now, my last paper of the semester--all 23 pages of it--is printing and I am only a few hours from turning it in. I love the end of the school year. … Continue reading Like a Phoenix Rising

I love my son and he has brought so much joy to our lives, but toddlerhood has totally set in and he has a new trick. What is it you ask? Screaming. Screaming everytime he wants something. He can say please and does but after he screams. I never thought a child so little could … Continue reading Are you sure it isn’t the Terrible Ones????