By: Brandy Black Who says you have to be fancy and belong to a club for your kid to go swimming in the summer? We find the nearest hotel, get drinks and appetizers and blend right in with all the tourists. The trick is going to nice enough places that they’d never expect it. Ahh […]
By: Brandy Black I love my yard, I love the unopened boxes of kiddy toys, I love the easel on the porch, I love the little red tomatoes that Sophia picked from the garden and put on my windowsill. If it weren’t for my daughter I wouldn’t love any of these things the way I […]
This video is going around on the Ethiopian adoption forum that I frequent. The organization that made it is a little bit too religious for me, but I like the video. I like the idea of rethinking our perceptions and our conversations. I’ve been spending a good portion of my days obsessing over new table […]
By: Rosey Barren I just got a slam of reality today. The drugs arrived in the mail and I can’t believe that I’m actually doing this. This can’t be my story. Am I really infertile? I must be, right? It’s just…the needles, doctors and the hospitals, it is all freaking me out and it’s overwhelming. […]
By Jillian Lauren We found out Tuesday that Tariku made it through court in Ethiopia, which means Scott and I are legally his parents now. It also means I can post his picture. I know. He’s beyond. I spend my mornings writing the memoir and my afternoons running all over town buying tub toys and […]
Urban Dweller, Los Angeles
same sex parent blog
By: Jillian Lauren When you wish upon a star…. ..and when you perform the twelve Herculean labors of prospective adoptive parents, including attacking the hydra of international paperwork, facing the hell hounds of the home study, cleaning the Aegean stables for the house inspection and enduring an interminable wait (we waited exactly 361 days). After […]
By: Rosy Barren This morning I was making breakfast when I got a call from my doctor; we had been playing phone tag over the last couple days regarding the next steps of the pre-pregnancy process. I have been trying to get pregnant for 2 years now to no avail. We have done 23 IUI’s. […]
Dear “if you ask me” I was at the playground the other day, sitting among the other mommies and nannies. I noticed the woman next to me like myself, was white – but the boy she was minding happened to be black. I was very curious as to whether this was her son or if […]
