Disgusted said… I have read your blog with a mix of anger and interest. I find it boggling that you would be at peace with your decision to place your child for better than fourteen years until someone online changed your mind. Well then you have not read too well. It was not SOMEONE online, but a completely different viewpoint and new understanding and facts about adoption that I had…
So..our hotwater heater has been leaking.First just a little damp spot, them a bit bigger of a puddle. Not so good when you are trying to sell your house (which no one has been biting as it is…feeling like I shall not be going anywhere ..which is FINE really) Anyway..so after like a week I mention it to Rye, who concures that Yes, we have an issue. He claims he…
don’t you just want to TOUCH him???? i don’t know how you contain yourself. My dear IRL friend KT ( Hi!!!) wrote this to me in a meassge. Regarding Max, of course. And the anwser is a wholehearted YES!!!! Truthfully, I am dying to. I don’t know how I contain myself either. It will be two years in July that I have known where he is. Oh to resist the…
Then you don’t make anonymous comments like this.. Why hide things? My two older children know about my son and that he was adopted by friends of mine. They know the whys, the hows, and everything else there is to know. My birthson now knows that he is adopted and most of why things turned out the way they did. When someone asks me about my kids I tell them….
I have been having a very detailed online and private discussion with an adult adoptee about regarding, amoung other things, whether or not using hindsite to battle the “If Onlys” is a accuate and realitic way for a mother of loss to look back on her experience. Part of the discussion kind of revolves around IF a woman does not have the resources to parent the first child..then how does…
I had to get gas and at the gas station, I realized that my bank card was in my denim jacket pocket. I was, of course, wearing my nice brown blazer since I was on my way to Lobby. Killed the timing, which would have been ok before that, but oh well…I was meeting with three others in my group, and I knew where to go this time, so I…
Thank you to whomever was doing a search on my old agency..with your Google search I found the interesting news… Jury awards adoptive parents $409,000 The couple claimed that Elizabeth Quackenbush, the late founder of Adoptions With Love, lied about the circumstances of their sons’ birth at St. Mary’s Medical Center in 1991. They were told the birth mother, while heavyset, was from a “Fortune 400” family and had an…
Picture this… It’s Friday afternoon and I get in my car ready for work. I have a new really cute denim jacket that I love, my hair is feeling alittle crazy, the sun is lamost shining, and I feel pretty good. So I go to make my 17 minute commute, and pop on Tom Petty’s Wildflowers..one of my favorite CDs and blast it. Now I adore Tom. Saw him live…
PHAIR’S ADOPTION FEARS 2006-05-17 22:32:40 – Singer LIZ PHAIR is terrified by all the adoptions taking place, insisting the process “screws up” children. The ROCKET BOY singer, who is adopted herself, is concerned that a baby forms strong bond with the natural mother, which could be emotionally damaging to the child when it is put up for adoption. She explains, “I don’t think you can be adopted without being a…
Better than certain electronic things that are suppose to notify you! I was looking back in my certain mailbox…updating another space where I do keep all my correspondace from Max in one place and share. Surprise..I had totally missed a message from him! It was about his pirate bandaides package, but also mentioned THE LETTER… “Oh, and Momma and Poppa G got your letter. Yeah… I forgot a very important…
I have been stretched thin lately, so tonight..after working and going to an grand opening to a friend’s new tatoo shop, I wanted to hit the blogs. SoA has eating up my internet time, as has been working on the Origins Websight. I get to Suz’s and I am just stopped dead in my tracks. SLAM…she hits home, straight into my heart and mind with THIS for mother’s day. I…
…will never leave me, I fear. I just closed the back cover. It was a tremdous read. I was obsessed. I took it to work. I read it on the playground. I read it in Freindlies while the kids ate dinner. And though it all, in public, it would rock me so hard emotionally so that I became so choked up inside and tears streamed down my cheeks. It is…
The subtle coercion in adoption counseling often does not seem real. “Coercion” is such a harsh word. Adoption is seen as a decision, a wise choice; made by selfless mothers, for the good of others, for the betterment of her child. We give up our babies for adoption. In adoption counseling, we work on making our adoption plans. Adoption agencies do not truly violently rip children out of wailing mother’s…
God, I am so sick of cleaning. My House has been scrubbed, polished and shined, and washed. And yet,not one person has come to look at this house. Oh well…whatever happens happens. Anyway, this happening, this “getting the house on the market” has eaten up my life. I got tons done, but nelly, I am tired! I am NOT going to tourture you with a big list of my painting…
So Rye and I have been “house hunting” for a while. We have a huge list of criteria. There is nothing wrong with our house now..in fact I love our house…so one of the things that I am hung up on is it must be another excellent house. But….I have agreed with him that it is a good financial move..to move. I bought this house almost 9 years ago ..for…