vintage (vin’tij): characterized by excellence, maturity and enduring appeal; classic
The Day We Met You, written and illustrated by Phoebe Koehler
This little book about adoption is one of my favorites. It chronicles the journey of an adoptive mom and dad as they get “the call” about their baby-to-be and quickly prepare for baby to come home.
It’s a sweet and gentle book that celebrates adoption [...]
My daughter is seven years old today. I’ve been pretty weepy all week, which is my usual reaction to her getting another year older. I don’t know if other moms are as sentimental as I am about this; I know for me it’s hard to think about my one and only “baby” growing up.
I often [...]
This is how I sometimes feel in groups where the other parents are either 15+ years younger than I am, or they’re my age but their children are grown and out of the house. In other words, I feel like I don’t really fit.
I’m thrown into the first group more often than the second because [...]
PHOTO BY Daisy1984
Vintage Girl has mood swings to rival any menopausal woman, and she flares up quickly. Luckily she recovers quickly too, but not before she flings all kinds of threats: “I’m not gonna invite you to my birthday party”!; I’m NEVER coming downstairs again!”, punctuated with crumpling up her spelling words, slamming her bedroom [...]
I had a burst of inspiration today – an hour of quiet solitude on a rainy morning is all it took – and finally wrote my ABOUT page.
So glad to check that off my list.
As part of my ongoing effort to feel less like a schlumpy mom and more like a hip, chic mom, I tried to actually wear the clothing I had in my closet this summer, rather than the same tired old t-shirts and shorts every day.
Now that school has started again, and I’m surrounded by moms [...]
AKA . . velcro, bungie cords and the mirror.
Vintage Girl is still young enough to mis-pronounce quite a few words. Combined with her snaggletooth grin it’s awfully cute!
One day I’ll wake up and she won’t be misprounouncing anything or making funny grammatical errors – and she’ll have all her teeth! I think that will be [...]
Do you remember learning to say that? I do! VG (Vintage Girl) watched Mary Poppins for the first time this past week, and it’s brought up so many memories.
I saw Mary Poppins in a movie theater when it first came out in 1964. It’s a particularly vivid memory for me, because I had stepped on [...]
Recently, in my search for other older adoptive moms, I came across the term “early adopter” over and over again. It took me a while to realize that this did not refer to adopting children!
Once I understood that it described someone who takes to new technology quickly, I had to laugh. No matter how you [...]
I imagine that most of us can remember exactly where we were and what we were doing when we heard the terrible news.
It’s all still so vivid to me; my husband and I were visiting the east coast for a 10th wedding anniversary party at my Mom’s house, and we were anticipating the birth of [...]
