Around 2:30 a.m. A’s cell phone started ringing.
I will give you 3 guesses about who it might have been. 
Yes.  It was MIL.
A is trying to calm her down right now.
We spoke too soon.

Well, we made it through the day.  I am calmly sitting here nursing a beer and pondering the events of the day. 
It started well. The plan was to eat, go to the petting zoo, then go to MIL’s house, break the news, then scurry home. 
We met for dim sum.  M was acting shy, […]

Conversation last night with A:
Me: "Do you think your mom is going to flip out? 
A: "NOoooo. I don’t think she will flip out. It will be fine."
Me: "Really? Do you think that maybe she won’t think it is a big deal at all?"
A: "Ok, fine.  She is going to flip the fuck out. But […]

1. What is the stupidest thing you have ever done?
Hmm, how about the stupidest thing I can actually post here?  Probably chasing down the people who kidnapped my friend in Cambodia.  While I was moderately drunk.  Then arguing with a man who didn’t speak English while he pointed a machine gun at me and told […]

I had every intention of continuing to discuss our (A and my) thoughts about diversity and our kids, but then reality hit me:
Saturday is THE DAY.
What day? you ask.  THE DAY.  The day we tell MIL about the adoption.
It makes me a little ill just thinking about the scene we are likely to witness, but […]