I’m sure I have missed some, but Nic’s beautiful ( and the modest part of me…want’s to say way overstated) tag, has caused me to have to jump on this bandwagon.

Using my handy dandy Technorati, I can see who else recently has referred to me, and alas, I see I have been tag more than once! My darling K, on Without a Tribe, has given me this honor as well. As also has Wraith…though sometimes rotten fruit would be easy to catch than all these thinly veiled oh-i’m- not-really-insulting-you kind of commentaries.

I have, I know, admitted before of not really understand these meme things…is Thinking Blogger Award a meme? Is it an Honor..an honor meme?? As much as I AM truly dependent on this lovely box permanently attached, much to poor Rye’s frustration  my fingers, I am sometimes scared and unsure of what it all means. 

So late in the game here…I now must figure out WHO makes me think. This assumes that a) I think and b) I have time to read. Now, really of course, I do think.. sometimes all to much, but sadly I do not have enough time to read all that I would like to and comment as I wish I could. Once again, winning Lotto would realy help me be the person I would want to be. Gosh, I could be so muc more connected and in tune if I did not have to go to work 5 days a week. Or if I could fiqure out how not to need sleep.

Yeah, I digress again. Can you tell that I am procrastinating? I’m trying to think of something original here. Late in the game, it seems silly to Kudo the same people again…I mean..haven’t they already done their part and been tagged? Or is it a more personal thing..so it is really who makes ME think, as opposed to who makes me think and has not been tagged already??

Ok..so here it goes:

I have to throw Amy the Angry Adoptee in there with Adoption and it’s Triade. I love the way Amy gets right in there. She reasearchs stuff. She digs. And then she goes for the blood. But she is still human, still real, still feels, but I like a place where I can learn something new too. And I like that I can refer to her sources, her refences, and that it is a trusted source that works with me.

How cheesy is it for me to go right back to Nic’s Paragrphein and with Nic, I have to add Jenna at The Chronicles of Muchkinland. “My” two girls, they go hand and hand, to me. Yeah, I am older than them, but I don’t feel by much, but like a mother..I have this sense of pride for my two beauties. Yeah, I watched them struggle  I was with them as the “broke out” and with a great sense of….way more than satisfaction…with something really unexplained  I relish their voices. Plus, both of them do a real great job of connecting me with the newer faces in adoption…keep me in knowing what it really is like to struggle with an open adoption. Plus they are brilliant and sometimes both have a way of saying things better than I can.

Then I have to go back to the voices that helped me in my beginning.
Robin at Motherhood Deleated, Adoption Roadkill at Screams in the Dark Back to K at Without a Tribe, Julie at Lizard Chronicles and even though she has not added much at all in this past year, LittleBit Jennifer..THESE are the voices that I heard first..the one who taught me, the one who challanged me, the one who I listened to, the one who gave a place for so many to first speak, and another who I could also listen to.

And finally ..even though, personally, I LOVE US ALL here..and putting everyone of us here would be…well…I guess besides the point, Like if you make my Blogroll..then I honor you. So even though I feel this list is terribly incomplete..like we ALL have a place..I still shall finish off with the now gone, but never forgotten “Speaking for Myself”. No links, because she had to hide again form her special pal, but for these of us who had the chance to read her…ahhh. Pure bliss.