Last week I took a walk with a new friend. I pushed the stroller and she held the leashes of her dog and mine.
We chatted about all sorts of things new friends talk about, including the dramatic tale of Owen's arrival in our family. She asked me when or how we'll tell Owen he's...
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The thirty days have passed, the papers are signed, and I've squirreled away enough time to properly blog about our son. (I said "our son." *giggle*)
A month ago Greg and I were with his family in Whistler, chilling out and enjoying each other and looking ahead to 2011 and musing and reading and knitting...
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I have only a few minutes to write this, so I'll dispense with my inclination to properly introduce the topic and jump right to the point.
Last Thursday afternoon we learned we'd been chosen to adopt a baby the next day. I'm sure you can imagine the frenzy of the following twenty hours. I'll tell...
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So many little things collecting in my brain, and I haven't set any of them down here. Time to remedy that! *Rolls in my trusted bulleted list.*
After a decade wondering what it would be like, I was on the radio. Not live radio, but radio all the same. In a studio, with a schmancy...
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I know, "nearly approved" is like "almost pregnant."
Still, we really are nearly approved, and I'm itchy to talk about it.
Over the last several weeks we completed the final major part of our application to be approved to adopt: the home study. As I think I've said, this isn't what you might think it is...
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We had our first home-study session for adoption yesterday.
Contrary to what we've all seen on television — a social worker shows up to a home unannounced on the day the vacuum broke and the neighbour's kids trashed the place and the dog's vomiting and there's Fruit Loops everywhere and one of said neighbour's kids...
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This weekend on Twitter I mentioned for the first time publicly that we're applying to adopt, and I was really psyched by the enthusiasm lots of people shared. Thank you!
We started the complex application process about six weeks ago, and although I don't anticipate sharing every detail here, I'm very much open to chat...
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