Motherhood At Midlife

Performing Failure Analysis on Our Parenting

05.17.2010

What’s done is done, and I definitely will not be throwing out my first set of kids as if they were the cussed-up first waffles that didn’t form correctly and now I can cook up a batch that comes out better.

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Abercrombie & Fitch: MidLife Fashion Fail

08.12.2009

They have some nice looking stuff, but most of it requires layering (because it’s too skimpy to be worn without something under it or over it).

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International Adoption: The Wait

04.13.2009

Now, this waiting for a referral feels a lot like that waiting to jump. I’ve spent months preparing…and I’m starting to worry that I’m going to forget all of it while I wait and won’t have a clue what to do when I finally bring Actual Child home!

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International Adoption: Choosing A Country

03.12.2009

At that point, I turned to international adoption. I learned that not every country will allow single parents to adopt, which eliminated several countries from consideration right off the bat.

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MidLife Moms and their Boomerang Kids

03.08.2009

I rented his room, set my remote permanently to Lifetime Television for women and curled up in bed with an enormous bowl of popcorn….Just as I was discovering the joy of silence he announced he was coming home. “It would only be for a few months,” he said. He would get another job and be out before I even realized he was back. That was 3 years ago.

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Adopting At Midlife: Telling Your Family

02.06.2009

Dear Family…I am not adopting because it’s trendy. Did you decide to get pregnant and give birth to your children because it was trendy? No? Then maybe you can understand that level of trendiness, or lack thereof, was not part of the equation when I was deciding to adopt. I want to be a parent, and this is the way that is open and available to me at this time in my life. Let’s agree that I won’t accuse you of trying to imitate your favorite pregnant celebrity and you won’t accuse me of wanting to adopt because I’m following in the footsteps of Madonna or Angelina Jolie or anyone else. Okay?

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Letter to my son

12.07.2008

by Judy of Five Husbands My son is participating in a leadership conference this weekend. Parents were invited to send letters to their children to be opened as a surprise during the weekend. One of the many stresses of long term unemployment and poverty is that opportunities like this get jumbled and mixed up. His [...]

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Adopting At MidLife: Finding An Agency

10.30.2008

by Liz of Inventing My Life On Saturday I went to an information session for Wide Horizons for Children, an adoption agency; today I filled out their registration form and will drop it in the mail on Monday. One step down, about a thousand left to go! I’ve been collecting information on agencies for about [...]

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Adopting At MidLife: The Decision

10.10.2008

by Liz of Inventing My Life I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about nature vs. nurture, genetics vs. environment. When I first started thinking seriously about becoming a single mother, I was really leaning more toward getting pregnant on my own through donor sperm. For one thing, I thought I wouldn’t be able [...]

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