We went to a dinner party last night where we were treated in grand style to cocktails, dinner, dessert, tea, conversation, and all the good things one hopes to have at a dinner party. Why is it the art of entertaining is lost on so many or rather than so few find it rewarding to entertain?
I was walking through the park this morning and all the cypress have lost their rust colored needles and left them like a blanket around their trunks. Now just moss hangs from the branches and the trees look like men with hoary beards. Then an RTA bus drove by with flashing lights that said Merry Christmas and I thought of T asking me on the way to the beach about a sign that said, Keep…
I went today to the obgyn clinic with the birthmother. Quite an experience. We were hoping to determine the sex of the baby, but it’s still too soon. You know what I’ve learned in life? If you go about designing your own life, having a preset construct of what you want, you’ll fall short of what you need. Today, aside from the birthmother and her grown daughter, I was introduced to the the grandmother –…
We drove to Gulf Shores and stayed at a friend’s beach house this weekend near Ft. Morgan and Dauphin Island. We got up Saturday morning to white sand beaches and perfect beach combing weather. I took a bunch of books to read and ended up reading the one that had just arrived called “Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption.” The essays were giving voice to Korean, Vietnamese, Chinese, Black and mix raced adopted children. The…
Every year on New Year’s eve they build a huge bonfire on Orleans Avenue – now suddenly the city thinks they are unsafe. Please, please, sign this petition to save the bonfires and tell the city to focus on the crime – the crime, you get it? – not the bonfires.
December has been a crazy month – a whole team of hurry up and wait and go go go and collapse. But amidst all of this nuttiness, joy runneth over. From having our first interview for adoption, to immediately having a successful second one. To knowing the moment I walked in the room that something was happening with this woman I had never met to walking out aware of my life enlarging in ways I…
Today was quite an amazing day! We met a woman who chose us to be babymamas! To say that we are so excited we are walking on air would be an understatement.