While LightStream has compensated me for this post, all opinions are my own. The following isn’t intended to be financial or adoption advice. Debt gets a bad rap. We hear people talking about getting out of debt, avoiding debt, complaining or expressing fear about being in debt…all conversations that paint debt as something that shouldn’t…
Don’t ask me how much my kids cost. Just don’t. Don’t ask me how much my kids cost. Here is why. “How much did that set you back?” “That” was my chubby 2- year-old nestled in my arms as I stood in front of a community bonfire. It was 2012 and we’d been home with our newly-adopted…
Are you looking for adoption gifts or wondering if you should give gifts for adoption at all? Here’s some perspective and great adoption gift ideas! Adoption is complicated. It’s a joyful, broken roller coaster of all the feels that is kind of hard to grasp unless you’ve been on that roller coaster. Sometimes it’s hard…
To the trolls and the haters that think my blog is a free space on the internet for you to semi-anonymously spew negativity, I have a few things to say. I thought I’d start by telling you a little bit about me. You know…the person who pays for this online space where you feel so…
The Seven Seas Food Festival at SeaWorld San Antonio is happening now through May 30. Here’s what you need to know. My husband and I have this thing we do together every year. It’s absolutely our favorite date night…except it happens during the day so I guess we have to call it “date day.” The…
Things I wish someone had told me before I adopted People said a lot of things to us when we were getting ready to adopt our boys. They ranged from supportive and positive to things that made me feel bad. “Oh really? At your age? Why?” isn’t something you say to someone who has just…
People ask us for adoption advice or ask us questions about adoption all the time. Sometimes, the questions are kind of insensitive. I’ve kind of gotten used to the adoption questions, even the ones that make my roll my eyes like: “Where did you get them?” “What happened to their real parents?” And, my personal…
I often wonder about my boys’ lives before they joined our family (for newer readers, my boys were adopted at two-years-old and three years-old, respectively.) They are four months apart and are now eight and in the third grade. I always wonder how they will see their adoption stories when they are older. I wonder in…
It’s been a long time since I’ve written a real, raw, bare my soul adoption post. Some of you might think this blog has gotten a little bit “commercial.” A little bit less “real.” Today is real. We’re talking about how to handle hearing “You’re not my real mom.” The truth is, adoption isn’t the…
Mother’s Day is complicated for me. An unknown Chinese birth mother occupies my thoughts in random moments all year around but never more so than right before Mother’s Day. This is the one day of the year when my family pretends its all about me. It goes a lot deeper than that. Disclaimer: We are…
