My daughter just turned eight in late July and today we toured the new school will be starting on Monday. This new school is for academically gifted children and Andy and I are so proud of all the hard work it took for her to test into and be accepted into this school. I was [...]
Filed under: General adoption information, Mid Life Parenting, Mindful Parenting, Mindfulness on August 23rd, 2012 | 2 Comments »
I find myself very moved emotionally by a sermon this morning at my spiritual home – Palo Alto Unity Church. We had a guest speaker Dr. Fred Luskin who is both a psychologist and the founder of the Forgiveness Project at Stanford University. Fred spoke first of the subject frequently spoken of in the Buddhist [...]
Filed under: General adoption information, Mindful Parenting, Mindfulness on June 4th, 2012 | No Comments »
In July my beloved daughter will turn eight 6 days after I turn fifty three. I walk around in denial most days about the age I am until our birthday month starts to loom and then I start to ponder my thoughts about being a mid life mother. I find myself still somewhat self conscious [...]
Filed under: General adoption information on June 3rd, 2012 | No Comments »
The past four years since I started my business Parenting by Adoption and my work as an Open Adoption Coach, I worked hard to learn all I could stuff into this mid life brain about the process of open adoption. I worked with another adoption professional that had been pivotal in our adoption. I read [...]
Filed under: Adoption Coaching, Domestic Open Adoption, General adoption information, Mid Life Parenting, Mindfulness in Adoption, Parenting An Adopted Child on January 24th, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The issue of Life/Work/Play balance takes up a lot of my time. Actually many days I feel I think about it so much, I would be better off just jumping in to one of the three areas and not over analyze the whole balancing act. In truth I know many of us struggle to find [...]
Filed under: General adoption information on October 1st, 2011 | 2 Comments »
As a part of getting the word out to people about the work I do as an Adoption Coach, I have used various forms of social media. I am currently on Twitter, Linked In and Facebook. This is just for my adoption coaching work, I also have separate pages on Facebook for my personal friends [...]
Filed under: General adoption information on August 14th, 2011 | 4 Comments »
I am the very blessed Mommy to my now 7 year old daughter, a daughter we adopted at birth in an open adoption. Summer has been a blur of activity with trying to work from home while caring for Ariel, manage some minor health issues for both of us and help my husband coordinate some [...]
Filed under: General adoption information, Mid Life Parenting, Mindfulness in Adoption, Parenting An Adopted Child on August 3rd, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Well I knew before we left for our time at the beach a week ago I was going to need a serious bathing suit to suck me in, pull various parts up and be socially acceptable. I am about 20-25 pounds over my optimal swimming suit weight and am just starting a regular routine at [...]
Filed under: General adoption information, Mid Life Parenting, Mindfulness on July 28th, 2011 | No Comments »
My daughter’s 7th birthday is this Wednesday, July 27th. Her birthday always brings forth a variety of feelings for me. I am so very happy and grateful I get to be this wonderful little girl’s Mommy. I am also keenly aware that on that day her birth Mom and birth father are probably thinking of [...]
Filed under: General adoption information on July 24th, 2011 | 2 Comments »
As both an adoptive Mom and an Adoption Coach, I am always very interested to talk to all those who’s lives have been touched by adoption. Couples/singles looking to adopt, birth mothers and those who were adopted. As an adoptive Mom to a 6-1/2 year old who we adopted in an open adoption, I have [...]
Filed under: Domestic Open Adoption, General adoption information, Infertility, Mindfulness in Adoption, Parenting An Adopted Child on May 9th, 2011 | 5 Comments »