I have a brand new great-nephew as of Friday, December 28th. One of the benefits of Hubby being the youngest of 5 is that his older siblings had kids when he was young. The oldest nephew is only about 10 years or so younger than Hubby and about 7 years younger than me. So I […]
Celebrating Hubby’s birthday
Well I made it through Hubby’s birthday and Thanksgiving. More about Thanksgiving later. Charlie and I are doing okay. We have our good days and not so good days of course. Charlie seems more resilient than me about missing Daddy. For Hubby’s birthday we didn’t do anything. Hubby’s sisters, nephew and great-nephew celebrated it in […]
Band Back Together Adoption Carnival and me!
At BlogHer ’11 I met many wonderful women. Some of the most special were during lunch at the Adoption Birds of a Feather table. I briefly met Aunt Becky from Mommy Wants Vodka. She runs a community blog. Band Back Together. It is unique in many ways, mostly because it talks about some tough subjects. Shedding […]
Foster to Adopt – National Adoption Month
Charlie is adopted. His best friend at school, Martin, is also adopted along with his sister, Lila. They were adopted from foster care through Depelchin Children’s Center. Lori just posted on Facebook that 1 year ago this Saturday, Nov. 19th, she and her husband adopted Lila and Martin. Their social worker from Depelchin called to […]