I spent a lot of my first year with my daughter explaining to her that no, she was never going to have a dad.
“But why do you kiss Claudia like that and not me?” she would ask.
“I kiss Claudia like I would kiss a dad if you had one,” I would say.
“But why can’t I [...]
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Blended Families
Mother worries…
Tell me, other mothers out there, are you sometimes paralyzed with worry about your children?
Such anxiety is a fairly new thing for me. Years ago when the little one had been with me about a year, I had a dream that I lost her. Since I woke up panicked, and not wishing I was back [...]
The Band-Aid Crisis
I visited with my daughter-to-be for six weeks before she moved in with me. It was supposed to be a time for her to begin getting used to the idea of moving to a new family. I’m actually fairly sure there was no preparing her for the huge change that was to come. I, on [...]