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 […]

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 […]

posted by K | filed under Adoption, Family & Friends, 9 Months of Awesome | 3 Comments

1. Somehow, out of all the people in the world, I managed to meet and marry the only one I’m never tired of spending time with. Even with my most beloved family and friends, I need a break after a couple of days, because that’s just the kind of irritable meanie I am. But […]

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I’m very happy to be pregnant. Very, very happy. But still, there are moments when I think about G and am very sad. The other day in the car, the song “Maybe (Reprise)” from the movie Annie came on my iPod, the version from near the end of the movie, when Rooster and Lily […]

posted by K | filed under Adoption, IF, 9 Months of Awesome | 6 Comments

Things are looking good so far. Soon the baby will progress from the size of a grain of rice to an apple seed. (Though I don’t have the two for a comparison … is an apple seed really any bigger?)
I couldn’t resist peeing on another stick yesterday morning, and this time the second pink […]

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In the 80’s, this horrible Christmas movie always came on TV during the holidays. Set in the Australian Outback, it was all about this poor farming family and their trials and tribulations. There’s a devastating brush fire, and a creepy thief Santa, and the freakin’ pet dingo dies!
Being the kind of kids who found […]

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