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Good Day Sunshine

Published on July 31, 2010 By spyderkl

We had a visit this morning. It seems like we’ve been visited by a lot of people lately, but this visit went much better than the other one this week. So, so much better. M & C met us at the house and we all went up to town together. M seems much better and [...]

Our Agency: OAB Roundtable #18

Published on July 30, 2010 By spyderkl

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 [...]

Choke

Published on July 23, 2010 By spyderkl

Our guest decided that she had second, third and fourth thoughts about meeting School Girl’s other family. She doesn’t feel comfortable. She doesn’t want to see the National Monument as much as she thought she did. Along with lots of other talk about “School Girl must feel confused (um, no; the relationships that she has [...]

All the Parts

Published on July 20, 2010 By spyderkl

So. Sometime over the next 10 days or so (unless somebody blinks) at least 2 parts of School Girl’s extended family will meet for the first time. Mr. Goth’s mother will be here at the end of the week. One of the places she’d like to visit is very close to C’s house. I talked [...]

Phone Calls

Published on July 7, 2010 By spyderkl

School Girl talked with C on the phone last night. Which is both a big deal and not – we talk on the phone an average of 2x a month, average for how often we stay in touch with other members of our families. School Girl decided to call her, which is a pretty big [...]