No, not mine, thank heavens. So because I’ve got so much to do – and I’m pulling off a lot of my most favorite things from Facebook – here’s yet another meme.

1. WAS YOUR FIRST ADOPTION OF ONE CHILD OR SIBLINGS/OTHER?
One child.

2. WAS YOUR FIRST ADOPTION DOMESTIC PRIVATE, FOSTER-CARE, OR INTERNATIONAL?
Domestic Private Agency

3. HOW OLD WAS YOUR FIRST CHILD WHEN YOU FIRST MET HIM/HER?
6 weeks.

4. HOW OLD WAS S/HE WHEN YOU BECAME A PERMANENT FULL-TIME FAMILY UNIT?
It was six months between our placement and finalization hearing.

5. DO YOU HAVE AN OPEN OR CLOSED ADOPTION?
Open with her birth/first mother, M and her parents, closed on her birth father S’s side for the foreseeable future.

6. WOULD YOU PREFER TO HAVE THE OPPOSITE?
Not at this time, no.

7. IS YOUR CHILD THE SAME OR DIFFERENT RACE/ETHNICITY AS YOU AND/OR YOUR PARTNER(S)?
Same-ish.

8. HOW DO YOU REFER TO THE WOMAN WHO GAVE BIRTH TO YOUR CHILD?
M. School Girl calls her her birth mother.

9. WHAT WAS THE HARDEST THING FOR YOU ABOUT THE ADOPTION PROCESS?
Our first failed placement, primarily thanks to the actions of our agency.

10. WHAT WAS THE BEST PART?
The first time my mother and father got to meet School Girl.

11. HOW LONG DID YOU WAIT FROM SIGNING UP WITH AN AGENCY TIL BEING MATCHED WITH THE CHILD YOU ENDED UP ADOPTING?
2 years exactly from the time we filed our initial application until our placement.

12. WHAT DID YOU DO TO KEEP YOURSELF SANE WHILE YOU WAITED?
That would imply that I was sane at all…

13. HOW MANY “MATCHES” DID YOU HAVE BEFORE THE ONE THAT LED TO YOUR FIRST ADOPTION?
2.

13. WHO NAMED YOUR CHILD?
Evil Dad and I did.

14. WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CHILD’S SEX?
Female.

15. DID YOU WISH (OR PLAN/SPECIFY) FOR ONE SEX CHILD OR THE OTHER?
We chose not to be sex-specific, although we were told throughout the wait to expect a boy.

16. DID YOU KNOW BEFORE MATCH WHAT RACE/ETHNIC BACKGROUND YOUR CHILD WOULD BE?
No.

17. IF YOUR CHILD HAS “SPECIAL NEEDS,” DID YOU KNOW ABOUT THEM BEFORE THE ADOPTION?
We were told about that possibility, but it’s turned out not to be the case.

18. WHEN YOUR CHILD ARRIVED, WHO DID YOU INTRODUCE HER/HIM TO FIRST?
My mother, 3 days after School Girl came home.

19. DID YOU HAVE A BABY SHOWER?
Yes. Evil Dad’s boss and his wife threw us one a couple of weeks after we were placed. There’s nothing that beats seeing a bunch of warehouse guys and too-cool-for-the-room recent business school graduates getting all goofy over a baby.

20. WAS IT A SURPRISE, OR DID YOU KNOW?
We knew.

21. WHERE WAS YOUR CHILD BORN?
Colorado Springs, CO.

22. DID YOU TRAVEL AS PART OF YOUR ADOPTION?
Yes. 60 mi. from Denver to Colorado Springs.

23. HOW OLD WERE YOU WHEN YOUR CHILD ARRIVED?
40

24. WERE YOU MARRIED/PARTNERED?
Yes.

25. DID YOU CONSIDER BREASTFEEDING YOUR ADOPTED CHILD?
At one point; however, I was told that certain health issues with me/medications I take daily would make that impossible.

26. DO YOU CELEBRATE THE ANNIVERSARY OF YOUR CHILD’S ARRIVAL IN YOUR FAMILY? WHAT DO YOU CALL IT?
Yes. It’s our Family Birthday.

27. WHAT’S THE REMARK OR QUESTION YOU HEAR ABOUT ADOPTION THAT BUGS YOU THE MOST?
When people ignore M, or when they go on and on about how “saintly” and “wonderful” we are for allowing her access to her child. Oh, if I could talk about it without swearing like a motherfu…Hey, look! Over there! Something shiny!

28. HOW OLD IS YOUR FIRST CHILD NOW?
At the end of this month she’ll be 7.