Now that I am tackling my weight/food issues head on, it is time that I deal with my spending habits head on too. I have been working for a long time to figure out why I over eat and why I over spend. It is self-destructive behavior that only has a down side--there is no … Continue reading Head On

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