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Kathy
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12 years ago @ http://www.amsimplysuz... - Layovers Are Fun: PMM · 0 replies · +1 points
12 years ago @ http://www.amsimplysuz... - Unemployment 101 · 0 replies · +1 points
12 years ago @ The Stars Apart - Decisions - Time Warp ... · 0 replies · +1 points
12 years ago @ All In The Family Adop... - The Sound of Hope Book... · 1 reply · +2 points
I have never connected with a "first grandmother" of an adopted child. What interesting perspective to have, as I have often wondered how adoption effects the first grandparents of the child. Thank you for sharing.
Also, I love this:
"Instead of 'protecting' women we should be allowing them to make their own decisions and suffer their own consequences. This includes understanding the child you gave up for adoption did not have a better life, but a different life. "
I think that distinction is so important between better and different. So many people (at least those without first hand connections to adoption) seem to get caught up with which parents (first or adoptive) can give the child(ren) a better life. But I agree it is just different and not the most pivotal factor in a child growing up healthy (physically and mentally) and well adjusted.
13 years ago @ http://notafertilemyrt... - A Golden Moment: PMM · 1 reply · +1 points
A very happy 22nd anniversary to you and Ike! Bob and I just celebrated our 12th yesterday on the 23rd!
Finally, I am not sure if we have ever discussed this before, but HHI is one of my favorite places in the world! I am so jealous, I mean happy, that you got spend this past week there! My maternal grandparents retired there in 1979 and my family and I visited them annually for at least two weeks until my grandpa died in 1998. Since then we try to get there every 3 - 5 years. We spent a week there last summer and it was awesome. It is such a fun, beautiful and nostalgic place for me. So glad you got to be there with such special people in your life and had such a wonderful time!
You certainly had a Septemberful of Perfect Moments! :)
13 years ago @ http://notafertilemyrt... - Remering · 0 replies · +1 points
I don't know that I have ever really thought about how 9/11 changed me specifically, rather more so our country and our world. I will have to ponder that and get back to you.
As I shared in my comment on the post you chose to revisit, I really appreciate what you choose to take away from your experience on and since 9/11. I also get how we can proclaim that we are going to try to do certain things like Random Acts of Kindness regularly and don't always follow through. But as long as we are living there's always another day, another chance to try to do those things. It's never too late.
I agree that there is something about last year's anniversary and the word "decade" that hit many of us harder than this year's milestone. But I will never forget, like you said, and find it healing (as Lori said in her comment on one of my posts today) to read other's accounts of their experiences on and related to 9/11.
Thanks again for doing the Time Warp with us this month! It was wonderful to have you and would love for you to join us again next month or another time in the future.
13 years ago @ http://notafertilemyrt... - I Will not Forget · 0 replies · +1 points
So much about your post resonated with me. I appreciated reading your account of your experience that day and being reminded about the stories that took place outside of NYC, that were just as important, devastating and scary as the Twin Towers falling.
"Most of us remember where we were and what we were doing on 9/11. If you're like me, you can barely remember what you had for lunch last Wednesday. But in life changing moments you remember every single thing."
So true.
Your's is the fourth set of Time Warp 9/11 posts that I have read and commented on tonight and I found something really interesting about that, some of the others seemed to focus more on the negative things that came out of 9/11, which of course there is plenty. But I really like that you chose to focus on the hope, unity and the positive things that such a tragic day in our nation and world's history led to. I see both perspectives and as I shared in my comment on one of Miss Ohkay's posts, I tend to often be somewhere stuck in the middle.
So excited that you are doing the Time Warp (for the first time) with us this month! Heading back to the future to read and comment on your new post.
13 years ago @ http://notafertilemyrt... - Fairy Godmothers: PMM · 0 replies · +1 points
13 years ago @ http://thefertileinfer... - Gonna Be "BlogHer... · 0 replies · +1 points
13 years ago @ http://thefertileinfer... - Randomosity · 0 replies · +1 points
LOVE the glasses and jealous you got them free!
So excited that this time next week we'll be togther in NYC at BlogHer! It is overwhelming to prepare for, but I trust the expeience will be more than worth it. :)
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