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Surviving Mother's Day: I will find a way or make one. aka The Mother's Day drinking game 12 May 2013 | 08:59 pm
I am not much of a holiday girl, aside from Thanksgiving of course - known around these parts as "The Best Holiday Of Them All". I am terrible at remembering birthdays, I never send cards, my gifts ca...
And I am telling you, she's not going 8 May 2013 | 07:26 am
Update from the front lines: Evie is still here. I still have no idea for how long. I am still totally, utterly in love. I have absolutely abandoned all common sense and reason, and broke every single...
Babies are dropping out of the damn SKY. 3 May 2013 | 07:36 am
Hi. I am still here, and in a very strange case of deja vu, on Saturday we brought home a baby. No, not that one . Another one. The girl kind. Words cannot begin to describe the heights of Lucy's joy....
....and just like that, he was gone 25 Apr 2013 | 09:05 am
Yesterday Leo left our family via voicemail. The social worker's message thanked me for all I do, and told me not to bother picking him up at the appointed time. So I picked up a burger and fries, ins...
Another child, not my own. 22 Apr 2013 | 07:56 am
Last week Thursday was Tallulah's birthday, and on the same day that we were celebrating her birth, another baby was being born at the very same hospital she had been, under very different circumstanc...
Someone gave me a baby, the 2013 edition 12 Apr 2013 | 11:20 am
Yesterday morning, I realized that I was out of time. I kept thinking I had another day - but then the day filled up in a flash and there I was. Out of time. I know it shouldn't matter. Lucy knows she...
Giving Up: the things I am learning to live without 9 Apr 2013 | 04:45 am
First, let me say right from the outset that this has nothing to do with lent. I am not even capitalizing "lent", so complete is my disassociation from all things relating to church and religion in ge...
When is it time to think about medicating a kid? 3 Apr 2013 | 07:00 pm
I have 2 children. Both are silly, sweet, smart, mature kids - but my son has always been a handful. My son was the kid who taught me why the child harness was invented, after he twisted away from me ...
My marriage did not lead to procreation, maybe I should notify the Supreme Court 27 Mar 2013 | 12:26 am
I wanted it to. Oh, how I wished and prayed (and did all the other things biologically necessary) to have a child. Before, during, and after my first marriage, to be precise. As a heterosexual woman, ...
How it happens. Date rape is not what it sounds like, sometimes. 21 Mar 2013 | 08:19 am
The moment of transition from consensual fun to non-consensual force can be breezed over mid-kiss. It can happen when you are stone cold sober, or drunk and disoriented. It can happen in the safety of...
