If I ever become a movie director, you’ll know it because of two things: 1) I will begin work on a red carpet dress that is made out of bath towels. To my knowledge, it hasn’t been done before and my years of Project Runway watching and curtain-sewing experience have proven that it is a … Continue reading
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Transitions
Man. There is nothing like moving to remind you that you need to be a better housekeeper. Every time our movers (AKA our friends who volunteered to help us move) picked up another piece of furniture, I was mortified to find out what was beneath. It looked as though we had purchased a small, hairy … Continue reading
Run Like You Mean It
Alright. Alex and I are committed- to one another, to this adoption, and…to running a half-marathon at the end of October to raise money for aforementioned adoption. Wowee. If you knew my long, tawdry history with running, you would be surprised that I would commit to running anything anywhere. To be honest, some times I … Continue reading
The Waiting Game
Anyone who says adoption is easier than building your family through pregnancy is cuckoo (that’s coo-coo for those of you who have never seen that word spelled before). Although we’ve only just started the process, I’m already getting used to the familiar ache that I feel all day because the process isn’t moving forward, the … Continue reading
The Emperor’s New Clothes
I’ve been duped. Tricked into thinking, “I am rich, powerful, independent; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing” not realizing that I am wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked (Revelations 3:17). Tricked into believing that I should clothe myself in success and acceptance and pride and money and fame and fortune and beauty. Tricked … Continue reading
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
#FirstWorldProblems
“I bought a bag of chips but it was mostly air.” “My housekeeper gave me a birthday card but she takes out the trash so I have nowhere to put it.” “Just found myself complaining about wifi speed on an airplane.” “The restaurant didn’t have Coke so I had to order Pepsi.” “When my dishwasher … 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
Swinging with your eyes shut
It’s amazing to me that I still feel exactly like this six years later. “For me, life right now is like swinging with your eyes shut. You can feel that you’re moving but you don’ t know where…. at least God is pushing.” (originally posted 3/6/2006) Continue reading
Vow of Shhhhhhut It
I don’t think I’ve made it any secret that I have trouble controlling my mouth. Sometimes I have a filter and sometimes I let it all hang out. Sometimes I make little girls cry when I scold them in the grocery store and sometimes I accidentally ask my checkout lady if the little boy in … Continue reading
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