Happy (In)Dependent(s) Day

Personal 1 Response »
Jun 292006

We leave tomorrow morning EARLY to go to Milwaukee for a long, celebratory weekend with family and friends, and we have so much to celebrate — not only our new legal status as a family, but also Noah meeting much of his extended family, and our sharing in Ariel and Dana’s wedding celebrations.

I expect that I will mostly be offline until Tuesday, when we come back to celebrate the 4th of July, both in it’s traditional meaning and marking the occasion of Noah’s adoption with a few of our local friends who helped us on that path.

Lucky them, they get to celebrate by helping us move back to our house, which we never did get rented out or sold.

Anyway, I promise pictures and stories and commentary again when I am back. Thank you all AGAIN for how wonderful you’ve been supporting us through this wild journey of becoming parents.

Posted by Liza at 8:34 pm

Official Adoption Picture

The Real Live Boy, Uncategorized 5 Responses »
Jun 282006

Official Adoption Picture
Originally uploaded by LizaWasHere.

Here’s our first official legally both the mommies family portrait, along with the judge, immediately after she signed the order granting Jill’s petition for adoption.

Unfortunately, the pictures with our lawyer in them too didn’t turn out as well.

Posted by Liza at 9:08 pm

No Givebacks

Personal, The Real Live Boy 21 Responses »
Jun 282006

It’s official! Noah now has 2 legal mommies! Jill is his parent under law, now and forever, amen.

I’ll post pictures tonight from home.

Once things got started, the adoption moved forward smoothly and uneventfully. But they did get started slowly.

First, I did the math of how long we still had before we needed to leave the house totally wrong. So we were scrambling at the end. Then it turned out Jill mapquested directions to the wrong address, and when she remapquested, the directions were totally different, even though it was just a different entry to the same whole-block-large building.

When we arrived, the judge had forgotten that we were scheduled for 9 am, not 9:30 when she usually begins her day. And the clerk’s office hadn’t delivered our casefiles yesterday, so she read every single solitary piece of paper in our files while we all sat around her conference table and Noah banged on the table with his teething ring toy.

But eventually everyone was ready, Noah was still being very good and charming, our wonderful attorney Melissa asked us a few questions under oath, and within 10 minutes, we had a court order that declared Jill to be Noah’s legal second parent.

In 6-8 weeks, the post office will deliver us a new birth certificate that lists me as "mother" and Jill as "parent."

And we are DELIGHTED parents.

Thanks, everyone, for all of your love and support and comments and emails and calls and love and support and love and support and love and support through all of this crazy-making journey.

Posted by Liza at 1:43 pm

Naturalized Citizenship Test

Silly Internet Quizzes 3 Responses »
Jun 272006

Here’s another good tough Silly Internet Quiz, stolen from the quizmistresses at Tex & Blondie, where I also found that wonderful US map quiz not too long ago. This one is from MSNBC and has no funky graphics to paste here.

If you had to take the test to become a naturalized US citizen, would you pass?

I got a 90%. What can I say? I had a great education. (Law school probably helped too.)

Posted by Liza at 9:47 pm

Tension and Hope

Personal, The Real Live Boy 12 Responses »
Jun 272006

  How Does That Work? 
  Originally uploaded by LizaWasHere.

Here’s a gratuitous picture of Noah.

I’m too nervous about tomorrow to blog intelligently, and I’m barely thinking straight. In fact, I’m writing this quick from work to get it out of my brain so I can hopefully get some work done.

Intellectually, I know that the official adoption hearing is likely to be a rubber stamp with a photo op. But it’s still hard on the nerves. And we’re VERY much feeling "once burned, twice shy" around the whole experience.

Please send us happy family happy judge vibes at 9 am eastern time tomorrow ! I promise to post pictures and blog about it when it’s over.

Posted by Liza at 9:41 am

The Tallest Baby in the World

The Real Live Boy 5 Responses »
Jun 252006

  The Tallest Baby in the World 
  Originally uploaded by LizaWasHere.

When Noah was first born, we ordinarily changed him with him laying the short way in his pack-n-play. Now, his arms reach that full distance, and he is becoming insanely tall.

Fortunately, he still likes being tickled.

Posted by Liza at 3:10 pm

More Shopping to Do

Personal 16 Responses »
Jun 252006

Yesterday, Jill and I each went shopping, separately, for dresses to wear to a wedding next weekend.

I didn’t look at her dress before I went shopping myself. But I did take her recommendation for where to go shopping.

I went out and bought the exact same dress, only one size larger.

The good thing is that the sale price was so good that together the dresses set us back less than $20. And it’s a versatile wedding-type-stuff dress. We might keep them both. Or we might return mine, which for some impossible to understand reason, was $2 more than Jill’s.

Wish me luck finding a different dress sometime this week.

Posted by Liza at 8:10 am
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