I sat up in my hospital bed, still trying to catch my breathe from that very last push, held our baby girl and sobbed exuberantly into my partner, Kayleigh’s chest . I was relieved we had finally done it, finally made our little family. something that seemed so impossible for me before. When Kayleigh and i [...]
Finally, after years of assuming I would be single for the rest of my life and nightmares about multiple cat ownership and learning how to knit I met the woman of my dreams! She is beautiful, funny, we have so much in common, and all of that makes up for the fact that on occasion [...]
Hi everyone, It’s my first post today, so just as an introduction, I wanted to take the “about me” from my blog before I lunge into anything else. I look forward to reading the posts here, and making some great connections. ~ CLM ———————————————————————— An Introduction Okay, so I’m not a mom yet, but I [...]
This next subject is as universal as the human experience and spreads throughout the world in many different forms, both legal and illegal, friendly and stolen, and in the mere disappearance of one child and unannounced appearance of another – no questions asked. There are so many other on the black market and simply sold children for economic reasons in the poorest of regions and the wealthiest of communities as if a child is a simple commodity, not a living, breathing life. In between there exist the most vilest of the child trade for sex, work and any other whim an entitled person might feel to any other thing on the market place to be bartered over as if it were a trinket in the world’s largest flea market. I grew up an adopted person amidst these images and one pondering what made me so fortunate to get the luck of the draw, ending up with upper, middle-class, phenomenal parents through a Los Angeles Superior Court County Adoption, is a tale of randomness in the extreme.
I would like to take this time to thank all the wonderful women that answer the questions sent into the TLL Advice Panel. As we answer our 50th question even more continue to come in. I hope that this means the readers trust our advice and that we are doing our best to provide a [...]