Since getting our referral for little Mary and realizing that the little munchkin whom I have yearned for so desperately will be coming into my arms during the busiest time in my professional life, I have been giving a lot of thought to time and money. I was already cutting my work hours this fall [...]
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Dipping from the money pot, stealing from the time account
Posted in Adoption, Family, Feminism, tagged Adoption, compromise, home, love, Mary, money, saving, shopping, time, work on May 25, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Love
Posted in Adoption, tagged Adoption, good news, love, Mary, match, Philippines on May 21, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 was the single greatest day of my life. After 22 months and 3 weeks of waiting, hoping, pining and complaining we got the call. A little girl. A perfect little girl. My Mary. I was at work, minding my own business and, well, working when my cell phone started buzzing. I [...]
Sketchy motives in a hurting world
Posted in Adoption, Practical Christianity, justice, tagged Adoption, Haiti, help, motives, racism on February 2, 2010 | 2 Comments »
When I was a little girl I daydreamed about being a missionary. I imagined myself surrounded by dirty-faced, bright-eyed children whom I’d saved from some evil-doers, performing emergency surgery on an injured farm worker (highly unlikely since I can’t handle any bodily fluids), and getting all “Dead Poets’ Society” on a group of bright, impressionable, [...]
Pining for the Hypothetical
Posted in Adoption, Living, tagged Adoption, mommy angst on January 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I know I just did a little post on my intention to start writing again in late March, but here I am with all of this angst and nowhere to put it. So I shall deposit it into the blog-o-sphere: I am full of mommy-mania. My maternal clock is screaming. I am becoming, quite literally, [...]
