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What Would She Say?

Published on June 2, 2010 By spyderkl

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 [...]

It Makes the World Go ‘Round

Published on April 17, 2010 By spyderkl

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 [...]

OAB Roundtable Anniversary Interview: The Birth Mother Voice

Published on March 22, 2010 By spyderkl

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 [...]

Open Adoption Roundtable #12: Resolutions

Published on January 7, 2010 By spyderkl

The new OAB Roundtable is up at Heather’s blog. It’s all about New Year’s resolutions for open adoptions: Call them resolutions, commitments, changes, or choices–how will you be proactive in the area of open adoption in 2010? I’ve been thinking about this since our last visit with M&C. A couple of things come to mind: [...]

OAB Roundtable #10: Speaking of birthdays…

Published on November 23, 2009 By spyderkl

This OAB Roundtable (I skipped the last one due to, um, extenuating circumstances) is hosted by Thanksgivingmom. It’s about birthdays. This is a topic that is very timely for me (Thanksgivingmom) right now, but is something that all of us in open adoption deal with at least once during the year: birthdays. I know that [...]