Yesterday I had a great conversation with my friend Karen about our thoughts about adoption. She brought up many interesting questions that deserve some thought or even just acknowledgement. She is now mom to three beautiful girls, one just recently born a few weeks ago. Karen is one of my friends whom I had referenced…
Author: Stephanie Karp
Is this normal in the decision making process?
What happened to my ease and calm from January 15? Where oh where did you go? Yesterday, thinking about adoption gave me such visceral reactions — nerves and fear of the unknown, real thoughts of can I handle this and is this for me? The days leading up to yesterday felt promising however. I emailed…
Things Fall Into Place
There is a natural wellness center just down the block from me. I’ve been living here almost two years and have only just gone in today. Well, I have gone there before but not since it’s been half a block away. Why is it that I often neglect to frequent the places closest to me…
More Things Fall Into Place
The other day I got an email from my local community college about their Best-Selling Author series and that A.M. Homes, an author I like very much, would be there on Tuesday night, February 5. I read further on and saw that she would be discussing her newest book, a memoir entitled The Mistress’s Daughter,…
Gratitude List
I am grateful for a wonderful spontaneous visit from McP from Georgia last Thursday. We met through his family blog back in the Fall — fast forward just a few months to him standing in our bathroom as we gave him a tour of our home renovations. Funny how life works out. We look forward…
Goals
Don’t know if this is really going to happen as it seems too good to be true, but Gary has plans to move his office as early as this summer to a location where staff and space would be more efficient. Without getting into any details now, it might become very likely that Gary’s work…
Bangs and Updates
Emma got bangs cut for the first time the other day. Something about how her dark hair looks made us think that a Kaz cutie might look very much like Emma. In fact, we already know a Kaz cutie who looks very much like Emma! Eden on the other hand is a blue eyed, reddish…
Momentum
When thought of a possible snafu actually made me think for a second that perhaps the possibility of an adoption would not be able to take place, my heart clutched at the thought. All was clarified finally and I breathed a sigh of relief and then realized, my god, I’m really emotionally invested in this!…
Moving Along
Today my parents went to their lawyer in regards to including family members in their will and actually asked the lawyer next steps in regards to the will if their daughter has another child. Certainly they were talking about a child through adoption as I have not mentioned wanting to get pregnant. I played Devil’s…
Attitude is Everything
There once was a woman who woke up one morning, looked in the mirror, and noticed she had only three hairs on her head. “Well,” she said, “I think I’ll braid my hair today.” So she did and she had a wonderful day. The next day she woke up, looked in the mirror and saw…