Sunday, February 21st, 2010
posted by K | filed under 9 Months of Awesome | 2 Comments
The baby is moving right now, and it is the weirdest feeling ever. A few weeks ago on my June 2010 moms message board, all the lucky early-movement-feelers tried to describe it to those of us still waiting for those elusive kicks. There was a lot of talk of “butterflies” and “flutters.” But this […]
Thursday, February 18th, 2010
posted by K | filed under Pets, 9 Months of Awesome | 6 Comments
In all my years of daydreaming about naming a child, I never thought the reality of it would be so difficult. In high school when my sister and I were playing our invented game “Rad or Bad,” a version of The Game of Life that evolved to be all about seeing how many kids […]
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
posted by K | filed under Adoption, Bedrooms, 9 Months of Awesome | 6 Comments
Until this weekend, we had done little work on the nursery, no more than what we did about this time last year when I was trying to distract myself from the adoption wait by buying cutesy baby things.
Then, when we thought G was going to be our son, we squeezed the nursery stuff to […]
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
posted by K | filed under Adoption, Mr. and Mrs., 9 Months of Awesome | 8 Comments
Last week, my mom and I went on our annual buying trip to Houston. I’d forgotten until I stepped off the airplane and into Terminal B that this airport was the very place where 2009 began to spin out of control. It was here, on the tram, that I got a phone call from […]








