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The Well-Heeled Child

8/13/10 I dug a pair of heels out of the pre-child archives to wear to work, and the child was so overcome with delight that she ran away with them while I was in the shower. What happened to my shoes? I wondered as I got dressed. They aren’t even...

02/28/2011 0 Comments:

Summer Camp Blues

7/22/10 School’s out! Too bad work isn’t. Summer may be the most wrenching time of year for the working parent of the school-age child. Or it is for me anyway. This never occurred to me when the child was in the year-round on-site environmentally...

02/28/2011 9 Comments:

Independence Day!

7/12/10 Can I get up now, Mom? Mom? Mom! I want to get up. Let’s get up. How will I know when it’s 6:00? How long is 15 minutes? Will you play with me? If you’re not going to play with me, then WHY did you get up? I’m hungry, Mom. Corn cake AND...

02/28/2011 0 Comments:

Pink Shoes! Pink Shoes!

6/22/10 “Well, I couldn’t find the shoes you asked for, but I did find these,” said the (hapless) salesman at our local shoe store. “They’re pretty.” In the early pictures of our child, when she is 13, 14, 15 months old, and unable yet to express...

02/28/2011 10 Comments:

You Never Know What You'll Get

6/04/10 About this time five years ago, we received an email from our adoption agency with two photos of a round-faced baby, then 7 months old, with bow-shaped lips and a thin patch of dark hair, stuffed into seemingly many layers of thick clothin...

02/28/2011 12 Comments:

About me

Tish came late to parenthood, after a circuitous journey full of unexpected delays, detours and soul-jarring potholes. In July 2005, she and her husband brought home their daughter, Nina, from China to New Jersey, when she was 11 months old. Tish is an executive editor at Runner's World.

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