This latest prompt from the Open Adoption Roundtable deals with some things I’ve been reluctant to write about (hard to believe, I know). I have learned the hard way not to talk trash about people online – it’s never a good outcome. But…well…here’s the prompt: We each interacted with at least one professional during the [...]
The latest installment of the Open Adoption Bloggers Roundtable is about sharing. Specifically, what we choose not to share. Are there any things that you don’t want the other members of your triad to know—or that you don’t want to know about them? I’ve heard first mothers talk about not sharing their birth stories with [...]
I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately. A lot of it is due to M’s renewed interest in visiting – and visiting often. Much more frequent visits than we’re used to having, any of us. Part of it is what got me into the “behavioral sciences” system in the first place last fall, and [...]
This OAB Roundtable is about money. Specifically, it’s about how money influences our adoption. Money had a lot to do with our initial interest in foster-care adoption. We were eventually (actually, K was eventually) talked into a domestic infant adoption; we had never even considered that, because we didn’t think we would qualify financially. I [...]
For the Open Adoption Bloggers Roundtable anniversary this month, Heather came up with a great idea, the Open Adoption Bloggers Interview Project. The rest of the blogger pairs are up here. Go over and browse the other ones too, because they look really interesting. I’ll wait. My interview subject was Kelsey Stewart from The Birth [...]
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