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  1. She comes home...part 8

    4/8/12 8:33am by jennifer.watson
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  2. She comes home...part 7

    3/20/12 9:21pm by jennifer.watson
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    "I don't know how you did that! Taking care of a newborn all by yourself in a hotel room! I couldn't have done it."Numerous people express these sentiments to me upon our return home with Esme."Well...I didn't really have a choice," I reply.I'm sure before all of this craziness happened if someone had told me that I'd be spending 10 days with an infant in a hotel room, the majority of those ten days alone with her, I probably would have fainted at the prospect.Fainted dead away.  Read more >

  3. Hello and Goodbye: The Bittersweet Enormity of Adoption

    3/15/12 6:35am by jennifer.watson
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    "How are you?" I ask K. "I'm OK," she says looking at me and then back at the TV. "I'm OK." Again, I wonder if she is trying to convince me or herself that she truly is OK. "Are you sure?" She nods her head. I try one last time. One last time I'll say it and then there's no going back for either of us. "There's still time to change your mind," I say. The statement...a question really...hangs in the air between us for a minute before K says, "No. I'm OK. I'm OK."  Read more >

  4. She comes home...part 5

    3/5/12 9:54am by jennifer.watson
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    "I can't get her to wake up to eat," I say quietly to the night nurse, B. "She is sleeping so deeply. I've tried everything, but she just won't wake up.  Read more >

  5. She comes home...part 4

    3/4/12 7:35am by jennifer.watson
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    "Wow..." I say softly to the bundle in my lap, "you are a very tiny little person,"The very first thing I ever say to my daughter.I'm sitting on the low, pink couch next to K's bed. The baby lays along the length of my thighs. One of my hands gently cups the back of her head (her little head barely filling the palm of my hand at all) while my other hand rests gently on her tummy. My hand covers her entire body she is so little (I learn later that she is 5 pounds 9 ounces...pretty much the smallest a newborn baby can be without needing to spend some time in the NICU.)  Read more >

  6. She comes home...part 3

    3/3/12 6:54am by jennifer.watson
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    I don't understand how airplanes work.  Read more >

  7. She comes home...part 2

    2/27/12 11:27am by jennifer.watson
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     Tuesday, August 30, 2011. Late evening.The extra-large purple LL Bean duffel bag on wheels is sitting in the nursery where it has remained  (fully packed with all things newborn baby....diapers, onesies, swaddling blankets, pacifiers, car seat base, etc.) since early March. Since our other adoption fell through.Chris and I never had the heart to unpack the carefully packed duffel bag once we found out that we would not be going to Arizona on March 11 to meet the little baby we thought and hoped would be joining our family.  Read more >

  8. She comes home...part 1

    2/25/12 12:20pm by jennifer.watson
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    It's 2:37 a.m. and before our 5 week-old daughter can wake up her daddy with more "I'm hungry!" cries, I scoop her up out of her bed-top co-sleeper and whisk her off to the nursery for a bottle.  Read more >

  9. A new kind of life

    7/6/11 6:28am by jennifer.watson
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    My first day in eight years without a paying job.It feels...odd.Yesterday people at work tell me that I must be so relieved. That it must be nice to be getting rid of my stress. And, yes, it is.But I haven't totally gotten rid of stress in my life...just the stress of working in a job at which I was pretty good for a long time, but on which I had burned out some time ago.Now there's new and different stress...  Read more >

  10. Maybe next year

    7/4/11 6:00pm by jennifer.watson
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    Most days I'm OK. I do not spend much time these days obsessing about the adoption that fell through earlier this year or the one that has yet to happen. Most days I'm OK. I go about my business. The business of living. The business of trying to be in the present moment. But then it creeps up on me. Stealthily. The sadness. The longing. Like yesterday.  Read more >

Jennifer Watson

Full Name
Jennifer Watson
Member Since
July 2010
About Me: 

Wife, daughter, sister, friend. Adoptive mom. Owned by a cranky, elderly feline. Long-time blogger, artist, writer. Student of Buddhism. Not exactly a domestic goddess.  Trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up.

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