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Learning to Really Communicate
Fears, I got some of them. Communication issues yep I have those too. Anxiety we can check those off the list as well. In fact lets just go head and highlight it and circle it a few times as well...
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Flashback Friday: The Martyr Role, I Played It Well
Flashback Friday is a semi-regular series looking back at my pregnancy and the beginning of my open adoption experience based on some notes and other mementos I found while going through some old...
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Two Toothbrushes
This weekend TeacherMan and I drove down for Olympia’s Arts Walk where I got to see some of my friends from the old job. We went up to Seattle for the Gauguin exhibit at SAM and had dinner at a...
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The Parents Have Been Met
A couple weeks ago TeacherMan and I went to his parent’s condo to pick up his dog. We entered and he sped walked to get the dog disappearing into a room as I rounded the corner and was face to face...
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But Disfunction *IS* How We Function
The other day TeacherMan and I drove by my parent’s house and TeacherMan casually said, “I think we should get our parents together” or “i think our parents would like it each other” or “our parents...
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My Dad: Reformed Republican
My dad was a soldier until my late teens. Even know that he’s retired from the army he still works for them as a civilian. It shouldn’t surprise anyone to learn that he’s always been…shall we say:...
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Protected: Giving Up Control
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Are You Messing* With Me?
That was my inital response last night when TeacherMan asked me to marry him. *Let’s be honest I said Fucking not messing. It was our anniversary and after dinner we went to get ice cream. He said...
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Closing the Ever Revolving Door of the Birth Mom Closet
What happens when you take a bunch of people who tend to avoid group situations and put them all in a room add some CBT, a lil DBT, a large dose of mindfullness and mix it all together with some psycho...
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Dating While Black…Apparently I’m Doing It Wrong
You know how when you’re reading an article online and you click on a link and while reading what that link led you to you click another…and before you know it you have no idea what the first article...
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Who Is This Man?
While Kidlet was in town for Open Adoption Visit 2013 2.0 we visited the hospital where he was born. Kidlet has had a thing for “army stuff” since he was little so while visiting the hospital we also...
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August 14 2001
It took some doing but all the calls were called and the arrangements arranged and all that was left was for a baby to be born. If only it was that easy. Amidst the contracting and pushing people...
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Sometimes It’s Hard
Sometimes it’s hard being a Black* Chick married to a White Guy. Being a six hour plane ride from my family and only a 45 minute from his makes it harder. We spend a lot of time with them which only...
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Because Of Course
I once read (in a peer reviewed academic article) that moms who have relinquished experience secondary infertility at higher rates than the general population. I have several hypotheses as to why this...
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