Drama King and I had a call from our lawyer last night, but it wasn't the call we were hoping for. No, Drama Prince isn't on the way, at least not yet. Turns out Ontario Ministry of Chilren and Youth Services had a minor concern with our social worker's report. Drama King suspects that nitpicking is par for the Ministry course. The issues ( Read more... )

I bought a mayan style baby-sling off eBay awhile back and today it came in the mail. As I type this, I have a plush bunny craddled against my torso. I'm trying to get the hang of doing thing a deux Yesterday in a very small moment, something very big happened for me. I was going about my day, when my thoughts turned, as they often do ( Read more... )

And so another year begins anew.

I'm back in Ottawa after a holiday week spent doing holiday things in Toronto. I enjoyed seven days of staying up late and waking up whenever the hell I felt like it. I didn't get to see everyone I wanted to during my visit, but I did manage to hook up with starfishchick and cswisschocolate. I also got some good time in with my mother ( Read more... )

I keep forgetting that I'm expecting a baby. I'm more like "Huh? What? Oh yeeah"-ing a baby. I mean, I DO think about it. My parents and parents-in-law are all very excited and ask for updates on a regular basis. When I start thinking about longer-term plans for the upcoming year, there is a voice in my head that goes 'Wait. We need a ( Read more... )

The official review have yet to come in, but I think yesterday's fellatio workshop went really well. My co-facilitator, Steve and I played to a packed house of all women. They were an attentive, responsive crowd and really I couldn't have asked for a better inagural experience.

Tangent the First As I said, yesterday's Fellatio workshop was ( Read more... )

Drama King and I have started doing preliminary research into adoption, in the hopes that we can start the process later this year. We're working on putting together a list of agencies and a list of a questions we'd like to ask those agencies. To that end, we took some books out of the library, including The Canadian Adoption Guide: A Family At ( Read more... )

A new year is upon us, which means - you guessed it - resolution time! Normally, when I put together my list of intentions for the year ahead, my ultimate goal is to finally bridge the gap between the person I am and the person I feel I should be ( Read more... )

Now this is an adoption option I hadn't considered before. Although I shudder at the possibility of attracting Brad Pitt.

This weekend Drama King and I had a series of intense discussions, not the least of which was the So What About This Whole Kid Thing Anyway talk ( Read more... )