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Sticky Mango Feet: Who am I?
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Adoption. Motherhood. Life. Everything in between. Why Sticky Mango Feet. I don't know.but I'll tell you as soon as I figure it out. I know my name, actually. That would be Bridget. And the fact that I'm 35 years old. But is it our name and our age that define us? Oh God. Flashback. I'm writing a match(dot)com ad, aren't I? Been there, done that. Got married. Check, check. We love to craft. And bake. And not get out of our pajamas until it's absolutely time to walk to the coffee shop. Make It and Love It.
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Sticky Mango Feet: April 2013
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Adoption. Motherhood. Life. Everything in between. Why Sticky Mango Feet. Saturday, April 20, 2013. I would say something profound if I could muster the energy. I would try to explain the last 5 month absence away from my own words if I myself understood the why. Alas, I don't and I can't so I won't. I'll just start with the now. So, I scored nap time with a laptop. And I'm not tired enough to nap myself so basically, I'm on a mini-vacation. That right there means life is o.k. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Sticky Mango Feet: Sticky Mango Feet
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Adoption. Motherhood. Life. Everything in between. Why Sticky Mango Feet. Wednesday, May 20, 2009. Same me. Same blog. I just keep changing the name. This one, I like, though. Maybe it'll 'stick' (sorry, pun either intended or not, but it's there.). Mangos. They are beautiful and wonderful regardless of where they are. on a stick cut like a flower in the zocolo, cut into pieces with cayenne pepper, or in tonight's case, sticky (the dried variety) and stuck to the feet of my child. July 5, 2009 at 1:08 PM.
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Sticky Mango Feet: Life
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Adoption. Motherhood. Life. Everything in between. Why Sticky Mango Feet. Wednesday, October 31, 2012. I'm supposed to be making a sun costume right now (per my daughter's instructions) for myself. She's dressing up as a rainbow tonight. Her little brother a rain cloud. I just don't feel the creative cardboard juices flowing, so I think I'll blog. What? My little typey fingers don't even know what they're doing here.it's been so long. And she also struggles. The tools in my toolbox are depleting. I h...
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Sticky Mango Feet: June 2012
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Adoption. Motherhood. Life. Everything in between. Why Sticky Mango Feet. Monday, June 25, 2012. BBC Article - In the Heart of the Home. I want to acknowledge that we are extremely aware of the trauma and loss that is associated with adoption and we will do anything we can to help ease our son's burden. This will include returning to Ethiopia whenever possible to help maintain a connection to his birth culture and family. Thursday, June 21, 2012. At four months home, Teshy. Hot dogs (1 in the same, yes?
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Sticky Mango Feet: January 2013
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Adoption. Motherhood. Life. Everything in between. Why Sticky Mango Feet. Tuesday, January 1, 2013. The Evolution of Sleep. He's always been hyper-vigilant to noise, but his hyper vigilance is now on edge tremendously more. Every.single.noise is "What's that? What's that, mama? Comforting him is a full-time job. He's happy and thriving and a beautiful soul. It just pains me to see his fear so raw. So close to the surface. Like everything else, it's just tiring. And yet. I know it is what he needs. Where ...
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Sticky Mango Feet: Our Adoption Journey
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Adoption. Motherhood. Life. Everything in between. Why Sticky Mango Feet. In putting this together, I feel like I need a life button that is a disclaimer: I am really a very happy person, I just play a really sad person as a prospective adoptive parent. Like it or not, this journey has been a difficult one. I am indeed wrung out. I am tired. And I am also very, very ready. I also literally feel like I'm on a roller coaster just reading through all the yellow link words.apropos. And I felt loads of hope.
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Sticky Mango Feet: December 2012
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Adoption. Motherhood. Life. Everything in between. Why Sticky Mango Feet. Friday, December 28, 2012. Whiney, whiney, whiney, Woe is me. I have stayed away from my blog (and everyone's blogs) for months. Not because I want to. No, no, no. It actually makes me desperately sad to be so distant from my own words. And my friend's words. Survival mechanism. And what exactly am I surviving, I ask myself? You need to fill my bucket! This after I had sat right next to her, cutting her pancake, watching her lick h...
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Sticky Mango Feet: November 2012
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Adoption. Motherhood. Life. Everything in between. Why Sticky Mango Feet. Friday, November 23, 2012. What the World Needs. Would he stop crying? I sang him you are my sunshine or hummed it over gulps of pain in my own voice. I tried. Tesh would get to "see" her thinking and would have her orally transcribing everything she was seeing. Perfect. Until it was over. She came undone. She became hysterical and unreachable in her pain. "Why! Why did you take him from his nannies and his friends? Completely out ...
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Sticky Mango Feet: What the World Needs
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Adoption. Motherhood. Life. Everything in between. Why Sticky Mango Feet. Friday, November 23, 2012. What the World Needs. Would he stop crying? I sang him you are my sunshine or hummed it over gulps of pain in my own voice. I tried. Tesh would get to "see" her thinking and would have her orally transcribing everything she was seeing. Perfect. Until it was over. She came undone. She became hysterical and unreachable in her pain. "Why! Why did you take him from his nannies and his friends? Completely out ...
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