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 [...]
Heather has been crazy busy and has just posted the next prompt for this week’s Open Adoption Roundtable. It’s all about privacy vs. blogging your heart out (so to speak): This round’s topic was suggested by adoptive parent blogger Rebecca: privacy, blogging and open adoption. Figuring out boundaries is difficult when you write about your [...]
The next roundtable prompt for the Open Adoption Bloggers webring is a “simple” one: Since the topic has been stirred up a bit and I’ve seen posts popping out here and there: Write about names/naming and open adoption. Just like with any other naming by parents, naming an adoptive child is a tough one. Everybody [...]
This post is #4 of the Open Adoption Bloggers Roundtable series, started by Heather at her blog. If you’re interested, here are Roundtables 1, 2, and 3. Our writing prompt for this Roundtable was sharing a small moment made possible by our open-ish adoption. It’s something I’ve written about before, but I’d say this counts. [...]