There is a gash in my soul. A cut so deep within me that it can not be reached, repaired or receive the oxygen it needs to dissipate. It is just there, perpetual and persistent in it’s inability to heal. It was small in childhood, one peppered with memories of love and pain. A dramatic [...]
November 20 is National Adoption Day. A day to raise awareness and celebrate adoptive parents and children everywhere. It’s funny, I never even knew it existed, or really cared, until recently. Until my blog, really. Until I forced myself to post honestly about my myriad of emotions as a mother and realized, this event- my [...]
Anyone who has read ADayinMotherhood.com ever knows that I was adopted. I was 8, I knew my birth family and I am not silent about it. If it were not for my adoptive parents, my life might have been drastically different. And not in a good way. 22 years ago, Dave Thomas, the founder of [...]
It is possible that I am typing this post with tears in my eyes. Frustrated, tired, at the end of my rope tears. Not because anything in particular is wrong. Not because I have any real complaints in life. But because I get up everyday thinking I can do it, I can handle it and I [...]
