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Re-blogged “Please Don’t Celebrate My Adoption”

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"Today begins National Adoption Awareness Month, and initiative originally intended to raise awareness of the thousands of U.S. children in foster care who are waiting to be adopted because they cannot be reunified with their biological families."  Go read more by Karen Pickell at Between -- A View From The Space That Separates American Indian AdopteesDAniel Ibn ZaydThe Life of VonThe Adopted OnesLost Daughter'sNo Apologies for Being MeAdoptee RestorationLaura Dennis BlogNeither Here Nor There...The Declassified AdopteeMothermadeJaeRan KimSister Read More

“Clouds In My Coffee”

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My husband and I took a trip recently. We went to see his parents, whom we haven't seen or talked to in over 4 years. We decided to take the trip for a few reasons, but the main reason was so they could see and hear how HE felt about what has happened. My husband told his parents this, and more, when we were there. As you can probably guess, things did not go well. In fact, we seemed to annoy them more than anything. I felt as if I was no more than dirt under their feet. My father-in-law even made a point of positioning himself, I presume, to limit his view of me. My mother-in-law first Read More

I Err Therefore I Am

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It's amazing the lengths we will go to so we don't have to admit being wrong. This blog is about me admitting how wrong I was. We are wrong all the time, and sometimes those mistakes cost more than others. Don't let a "feeling" of being right give you a false sense of security. Watch the TED Talk. She says it very well. Read More

Paradigm Shift: Carrie and Camden: Surmountable separation

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I was going to write something for Carri, but I could not say it any better than Margie.  Please go and read and consider giving just a few dollars to help Carri fight to get her son back. Paradigm Shift: Carrie and Camden: Surmountable separation: Carrie Stearns is a struggling mother, like many of us are for one reason or another. Raising five children, the birth of her son Camde... Read More

Would You Be Pro-Adoption?

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Not too long ago Robin, our resident adoptee writer, asked me the following question: "If Olivia's adoption hadn't closed, do you think you would be pro-adoption?”I answered with the following, and she suggested I share it in a blog post: "I’ve asked myself this very question many times, and I don’t believe I would have been pro-adoption even if Charlie wouldn’t have objected in the end.  If she would have said the night before or the day she signed the papers, â€œMom, I’m fine.  This is the right decision.” I still think there would be issues with us Read More

You Can’t Change How Other People Feel

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I've never heard my granddaughter's voiceI've never heard her laugh.I've never watched her run or play or dance.I've never brushed her hair.I've never read her a book.I've never sang her a song.I've never held her hand.I've never watched a Disney Princess movie with her.Instead, strangers have more of those privileges than her biological family.  Those of her biological family who are allowed a relationship, that is.Certain words and phrases were used to convince her mother, and us, our granddaughter would still be a part of our family and the minute her mother let it be known she was not Read More

One Day

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Cats are said to have nine lives.  It is a superstition founded in a cats ability to survive accidents which might have killed other animals.  Using this line of thinking (and modern medicine), one may conclude humans have more than just nine lives.  Knock on wood (and yes, I just knocked on wood) I haven't had any close calls physically, but I’ve had a couple of losses in my life.  If you doubt you can have an experience that equates to a "living death" you haven't truly experienced a loss.   My mother’s death used up my first “life”.  The loss of my Read More

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