What are some of my talents?

The first one that comes to mind is singing. I sing. I miss singing. I sometimes get to sing to Jack, but often times, he prefers to sing to himself. He's definitely got the "I randomly burst into song" thing that I've got. I once told him, "Mommy almost knows a song about almost everything." If I had the time and money ( Read more... )

I just wrote this. Why? Go here.

I just thought it was cute and I wanted to share:

Jen and Jason are totally keen
on raising their little one totally green.
Hand-me-downs welcome, gifts need not be new.
They know when the baby comes, they’ll need help too.
Time and attention, if you’ve some to spare,
are gifts from the heart we’d love you to share.
 

US Infant Adoption
I'm really happy with my first post, so if you have a moment, please do try to stop by:
http://domestic-infant.adoptionblogs.com/weblogs/new-blog-on-the-block-u-s-infant-adoptio#comments 

After three tries, I'm now officially a blogger at AdoptionBlogs.com. I'm very excited about this!

My first post is to the Transracial Adoption blog:
http://transracial.adoptionblogs.com/weblogs/who-s-the-new-girl

But I'll also be doing Hoping to Adopt and US Infant Adoption.

I have to go to a full day of meetings  now, but I hope you'll take a look at ( Read more... )

Some of you may have heard of the HP Magic Giveaway. Some of you may even be entering. For those of you who don't know, HP and Microsoft are giving away $6000 worth of computer equipment and software, 50 times. Fifty blogs are participating in the contest, and each has its own rules.

As soon as I heard about the contest (on Stop, Drop, and Blog, ( Read more... )

So, I'm working on work stuff, and I look up the term "color set" at dictionary.com. No results. So, I went to Ninjawords. It asks me , "Did you mean closet?" and then defines closet. Under the definition is an example of usage...

"the closet can be a scary place for a gay teenager."

I'm all for homosexuality. But the writer in me can't handle ( Read more... )

Long story short, a friend of sm00bs created a new writing group, of which I am a part. The writing started the same week that work got crazy-go-nuts, so I'm not participating as of yet. Last week's topic (the 2nd) was Pain ( Read more... )

So, I have this manilla folder labeled "Web Journal." In it are all of the things (mostly articles from Newsweek) about which I have an opinion and want to write. I started collecting them last year after we moved. I'm just now getting to the folder ( Read more... )