by Stephanie | Articles, Blended Life
I was sitting in the hallway outside three classrooms overflowing with first graders. It was moments after morning exercise when it seems that the kids are most awake, engaged, and happy. Something about bopping along to ‘Dynamite’ together makes their...
by Stephanie | Articles, Blended Life
When I met my daughter for the first time she was almost three months old. She was wearing a pink baby onesie with bloomers and on her tiny feet she wore socks with pink scrolling letters that said “I love my Mommy.” She had that baby fresh smell and as...
by Stephanie | Articles, Blended Life
Every year as May rolls around I hear and read the same old things from those in the adoption community. For those unaware, May holds both Mother’s Day and Birthmother’s Day, separated only by one day. There are those in the adoption community that feel...
by Stephanie | Articles, Blended Life, Life, Negotiations & Lullabies
We were smack dab in the middle of the bedtime routine, deeply involved in the storied negotiations involving a grasshopper and an ant when my three-year-old son said, “Mommy, I’ve been thinking about something.” “About grasshoppers?” I asked. “No. About mommies.” He...
by Stephanie | Articles, Blended Life, Life
As a mother I miss a lot. Sometimes I’m too tired or too frazzled, or honestly, too grouchy at times to see a great moment in my child. I realized that I pay more attention, am more present when I get one on one time with my children. Attempts to plan said one...
