THE ADOPTION SHOW Voices Ending the Myth Sunday December 9, 2007 9:00 PM EST OUSA STUDY MOTHERS’ VOICES: SURRENDER EXPERIENCES AND LONG-TERM EFFECTS BERNADETTE WRIGHT Bernadette Wright is a mother who lost her only child, a son who she named Sebastian, to a grey market baby broker in 1990, when she was 19. She has not seen or known anything about her son since he was taken from the hospital…
Tomorrow, I shall get up at the crack of dawn. I have my choice of buses to get on.. 6, 6:15 or 6:30, the latter being the last one I can get on and be in NYC on time. By 9:00 am, I shall be sitting in a meeting with other like minded ones…discussing the EBD Open Records paper that garnished so much media attention and trying to come up…
sniff… My second baby, Garin, .. who is 16 and taller than me.. lives for his band. They actually do NOT suck which is amazing. I can totally recall beING a girlfriend of a band member many times in my younger years and hating “band practice’ as they DID suck. Sitting through hours of torture, just waiting for the end, it sucked being a groupie. These kids do not torture…
I was watching Brad Pitt last night being interviewed by Larry King live in New Orleans. Only for a minute really, since it got really painful. I mean, Brad is real purty like, and I think he means well, but he doesn’t seem to do so great when someone has not written his lines for him. Or he was stoned..lol. Anyhoo, aside from him hanging out with Angelina and thier…
Message from Ethica Dear Ethica Supporter: Ethica has submitted comments on the U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services (USCIS) new administrative procedures for the ratification of the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption. The USCIS comment period ends this Monday. We encourage adoption community members to contribute their thoughts on these procedures which can greatly influence the way adoptions are conducted. Ethica’s comments can be downloaded here: http://www.ethicanet.org/DHS_RegComments.pdf Your own comments…
In the midst of the conversation, we touched upon that just bad feeling that we both have, that we in a certain way, did this to ourselves. Though she was up here at the time, and I on LI and in NYC, being the same age, getting pregnant at the same time, having boys 5 days apart, it was the same time frame and the same social order that we experienced. The greatest difference is that I went the agency route and she fell in with a private lawyer/ private adoption. And as she said “I did this.. I found them”.
“So did I. I called my agency. I sent myself away”
I’m going to the mooovviessss! Ok so I say that in a sad sing song way because I never get to the movies anymore, but I just got to go to this one! Getting Ready to See August Rush So we already had plans..we, as in Bonnie my mom friend who lives a parallel life to me..but we had said next week…i don’t care that I am still flashing fever,…
I don’t usually get too upset over other people’s inane commentary. OK, that’s a bit of a lie, but for the most part, I expect stupidity when I dare to read “regular” folk saying things about adoption. And, I have to admit, it seems like lately, things are a bit better…it’s that hope thing again, I was really looking forward to seeing what the New York Times had for their…
But before I give the linky, yeah there are some things that are a bit off. Not enough to freak out really.. Like Rye was annoyed that they call me “Corrigan” alot, but Ido not care about that. I feel bad that they say Origins-USA operates the data base to search…which is way off and not true. Obviously, we are referring to the ISRR here, but they don’t mention that…
Annual Birthmother / Adopted Child Birthday Blues Today is the last day of the “Max’s Birthday Week..let me live in the past..thank you”. Unfortunately, it is now piggybacking on real PMS and, as always, Thanksgiving blues. Coupled with Holiday Blues Thanksgiving always makes me miss my own mother really, really bad. It is not uncommon for me to be cooking the brussel sprouts or stuffing from her handwritten recipe book…
A Case of Birthmother Blues Sitting here now.. feeling all nasty. I din’t know why. Feeling on edge.. like something is about to happen..got so much to do, but not really… should be doing more, but what? Rye is after me to find some job that I can do one handed… I want to laugh.. every thing I find that is work from home sounds like a pyramid scheme and…
I am at work tonight. We had over a hundred people on the books and the hit was very early for some odd reason, so we were all keyed up to move fast and make it happen. My night starts out great. My first table is this couple that I use to wait on years ago at the old “Clove Valley Trading Post” and I am thrilled to see them….
Bare with me becasue I think I am still trying to fiqure this out. After I wrote out last nights post, I was still thinking a bit about it all. Especially that conflicted feeling that I have…the thrill that Max and I do have this connection, yet coupled with the sadness that even for three seconds he felt out of place in his life. Now I have had internet “discussions”…
Tristan came home today with Scholastic’s Parent & Child in his backpack. So somewhere as I put off making dinner, I did my best to ignore the sounds of Pokeman as they explode form the TV, and took a gander at this nice piece of fluff. What Make Your Child Tick? Interesting enough, I actually found an article that peeked my interest, “What Makes Your Child Tick?” and within that…
Motive for death of US troops…democracy?? NO..Oil money.
Motive for the needless separation of mothers and children..save the children? No..profit from the transfer of parental rights.
Media coverage for both outrage? The war wins…though barely. Who wants to hear that depressing bit anyway? Not when we can read about Hollywood starlets behaving badly..much more amusing.