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Dollars and Sense of Family Building (our story)
[This post is part of an on-line discussion being hosted by Write Mind Open Heart and Baby Smiling. Talking about money is very hard for me. Please keep that in mind.] There are many interesting...
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Not knowing the difference
I have recently been answering some questions for people about things that I seem to be a bit of an “expert” on. Mostly the questions center around either becoming or being a single mother. First I was...
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Becoming a single mother by choice (as opposed to by circumstance)
Making a choice to parent on your own is huge and it is scary. It is also liberating. You are making a decision and acting on it on your own timeline. You are calling the shots about when you will...
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Single Mom (by choice) Guide
It dawned on me the other day that I had done a HORRIBLE job in organizing my posts to help other women that may want to research how to become a single mom by choice. Ok, it didn’t so much as dawn on...
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Details: How I Decided to Become a Single Mom
This interview appeared in yes and yes on October of 2011. I have made some clarifications and updates. When did you begin to think about having a baby on your own? I had a moment in college I imagine...
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Father’s Day with Donor Conceived Children (What Makes a Baby?)
I didn’t put it together until Thursday night that the IVP gathering was happening over Father’s Day weekend. For those who have not been reading since the beginning of the beginning, the IVP is the...
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Oprah’s email and the call from the gynecologist
It’s been a crazy week. Yes, the snow has been crazy. And yes, then the ice was crazy. And OH MY GOODNESS was it rough being home with a kid who was still climbing out of his cold and my mom who was...
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So maybe I will be on TV tonight
All of a sudden it is Friday and it hit me: Oprah’s on! As in the Single Mom show I did (part 2) airs tonight. I have a friend who was in part 1 and a lot of the content that I watched on the live feed...
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Looks like I made it after all!
Waiting to see if you are going to be on a show, after you have told people, “hey! I’m going to be on a show!” is very anxiety inducing. The clock of, “NOPE” starting ticking around 9:45. I started...
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Where do I fit in W’s donor story? Part 1
I am going to be treading lightly here as I feel like I am on the fringe of things. One of the more challenging aspects about writing about life in an online medium is properly figuring out where your...
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Where do I fit in W’s donor story? Part 2
Read Part 1 of Where do I fit in… The first thing I did was talk to my friends in the IVP. These are internet friends I have known for nearly ten years. Most of us met in a donor sperm thread on a...
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Where do I fit in W’s donor story? Part 3
Read Part 1 of Where do I fit in… Read Part 2 of Where do I fit in… What was presented to me on the DSR was information, numbers, data, and reporting. A family reveals small nuggets to share, little...
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Where do I fit in W’s donor story? Part 4
Donor Story Links: Read Part 1 of Where do I fit in… Read Part 2 of Where do I fit in… Read Part 3 of Where do I fit in… The absolutely comical bit about this happens to be the fact that my mother...
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Filling in the blanks
Before I dive in I would like to disclose that W gave me permission to write about filling in the blanks. That being said I will be vague around some edges. A few weeks ago, when I picked up W from...
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