Dear Daughter, Your pops and I spent a few hours purchasing a house this morning. It’s big (not too big!) and beautiful (also, not too beautiful- it’ll get there!). It’s just down the street from your elementary school (which is attached to a park WITH TENNIS COURTS, btw) and across the street from a community … Continue reading
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Dear Daughter: Your Dad
Dear little girl- Today is Father’s Day. Americans celebrate by giving tool chests and foot rubs, lunches and homemade cards. Pops and I are celebrating today by continuing to slog through the adoption paperwork. We’re celebrating by thinking of you. Your (new) dad is currently only thinking of himself as a half-dad, but we’re fretting over your … Continue reading
Dear Daughter
To my sweet daughter, At this moment, you are 8722 miles away from Dallas sleeping in an orphanage in Thailand. You are older, old enough to know what has happened to you, to remember your birth family, and ache with longing for them. And you are HIV+. We don’t know why or how you came to the orphanage, but I … Continue reading
