Archive for June, 2006
Hubba Hubba
If a conversation about my female anatomy might offend you, you may want to skip this post.
As you know, I am planning to try adoptive breastfeeding with the HFC. (If you are new around here, you can read my reasoning here and my answers to some reader’s questions here.)
I put off starting the regular Newman-Goldfarb […]
Posted: June 30th, 2006 under Adoption.
Comments: 12
Fighting the Patriarchy
The other day, I dropped M and two of her classmates off at preschool. To manage the hurculean task of driving three whole kids around, I used the classmates’ mom’s mini-van (dropping them off was a favor for her because she had an early meeting).
As soon as I sat down in the Mini-van, I […]
Posted: June 27th, 2006 under Feminism.
Comments: 30
cracks in the fascade
I have spent the last eight months not thinking and not feeling.
Last October, I made myself a little crazy thinking that the HFC was being born. Being abandoned. Being scared and alone. It got cold outside and I started thinking about the HFC shivering in her orphanage crib with goosebumps and skinny little legs […]
Posted: June 21st, 2006 under Adoption, Marvelous Miss M, All about me.
Comments: 16
So last night, I was feeling feisty. Tonight, I think I am just a little tired. Laziness often leads to bullet points around these parts.
The dresses from the wedding were BLACK not chocolate brown as some people ( Shelba and Chicagomama) suspected. I think it may have been the video software that messed up […]
Posted: June 20th, 2006 under Adoption, Marvelous Miss M, All about me, Extended Family.
Comments: 9
One of the things that sucks the most about reading blogs is when you get really interested in someone’s story and then they just slowly fade away and stop posting. I can think of probably 20-30 bloggers who just disappeared. What the heck happened to them? What are they doing now?
Unfortunately, I am sinking […]
Posted: June 19th, 2006 under Weblogs.
Comments: 40