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13 years ago @ http://unofficialmom.b... - Happy Hallo-way too late · 0 replies · +1 points

So excited to see this post...been waiting for it! Hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving season en route to a wonderful Christmas season...and then a Happy 2013!

14 years ago @ New Mom Survival Adven... - Making Memories: Memor... · 1 reply · +1 points

Oh no...please tell me I did not get you in any trouble....

14 years ago @ New Mom Survival Adven... - Making Memories: Memor... · 3 replies · +1 points

Hubby fails on my stocking usually, but is doing better now that girl-child is old enough to make him shop for me.

I tweeted this to you, but feel so dang strongly about it I must post here, too: EVAN'S FAMILY DOES IT ALL KINDS OF WRONG.

14 years ago @ http://unofficialmom.b... - OAR #29 {Favorite} · 0 replies · +1 points

So beautiful!

14 years ago @ http://unofficialmom.b... - PYHO {Adoption. Why is... · 0 replies · +1 points

Just say "daughter." She looks enough NOT like you and hubby that people may ask, which then opens that door for discussion. But as an adopted child (of Taiwanese descent, to white parents; it was clearly obvious my sister and I were adopted), I have to say just leave off the "adopted" part. Because that's not important. And sometime when I was a tween/early teenager I asked about the time "before you had me" and it was one of the best moments of her life, she said. Always, always remember that you waited for this child just the same as if you had conceived and carried her in your body. That longing and "move mountains"-attitude to make her your daughter is ALL that matters. I often felt like I didn't "fit in" in my school/community because of the Asian thing, but I NEVER EVER felt I didn't "fit in" with my family, nuclear or extended; adoption wasn't what defined my familial relationships, LOVE was. You can be open and frank about the adoption without making it a qualifier of her relationships.

14 years ago @ http://unofficialmom.b... - PYHO {Adoption is Tric... · 0 replies · +1 points

I have to agree with racilous, DM & Erin--YOU & Husband are Pie's PARENTS. The FP gave her life, gave you a full family, but they also gave up "parent"-status. I agree that you should kind of treat the situation like an in-law situation, or even as if the FPs are older siblings of Pie--keep the communication lines open, but at the end of the day, you get to make the decisions about her well-being.

Oh, and I'm an adoptive child. Granted, not an open adoption because my birth mother abandoned me in a Taiwanese hospital and I was adopted by Americans and have lived here since I was 2, but I know that my MOTHER is the one who rocked me, took care of me when I was sick, hauled me to piano & baton lessons, and was there when I gave birth to my two babies. :)

14 years ago @ http://unofficialmom.b... - I can\'t stop looking ... · 1 reply · +1 points

I got one of my favorite colors! :) Periwinkle (although it was called "Lavender Lustre")

14 years ago @ http://unofficialmom.b... - Flashback Friday {Who ... · 1 reply · +1 points

It's a really beautiful town. I don't think so. I know the Bragg family and Shawna Cawley, the photographer. And the Gavanarova family. :) Oh, and the owner of Blackbird Coffee & The Brick. Jimmy...I can't remember his last name.

14 years ago @ http://unofficialmom.b... - Flashback Friday {Who ... · 3 replies · +1 points

The "small" reference. I live in WR and have friends who live in M'ville and my daughter's voice teacher is an alum.

14 years ago @ http://unofficialmom.b... - Flashback Friday {Who ... · 5 replies · +1 points

Wait...did the two of you go to GC&SU?

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