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“To save adopted girl, California couple gives her up.”
Please read this article. Especially if you have adopted internationally or are in the process. Adoptive parents need to stop looking at solely filling their own desires and go into things with eyes wide open. We are not entitled to children. We are especially not entitled to [...]
Archive for November, 2008
guilty guilty guilty pleasures
Posted in Adoption, Brangelina, Celebrity, General on November 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I lurve me a little Brad Pitt. In fact Brangelina is probably the only celebrity couple I follow. God, that makes me feel so shallow writing that…. But dude, the hotness of those two. Well it’s quite sickening actually. Friends and I have jokingly wondered aloud if in some alternate universe we could ‘pick’ one [...]
Alive
Posted in Faith, General, Mental health, Mental illness on November 19, 2008 | Comments Off
She made it back to her condo. The police have checked on her and they say she seems okay. She does not answer the phone and has not contacted anyone. She is not paying some bills. Looks like power of attorney aquisition is imminent so maybe we’ll have a better idea what is going on then. The [...]
Kindergarten sadness
Posted in Adoption, General, Squirt, Uncategorized on November 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Oh the woes of junior kindergarten for my little tyke….
“Mama, why did G call me a poo poo head? I think those are bad words and I think that is making a poor choice. “
She pauses for a minute then asks,
“Mama will Madame P give him a maturmal comsemquence (natural consequence)?”
Mara ~ my words are being reflected [...]
Tears and closure
Posted in Death, Faith, General, Grief on November 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I went to a funeral today. It was the first one I could force myself to go to since my dad died. My dad did not want a funeral, or a service or anything. We had a small family gathering two weeks after he died and that was that. As I was sitting in the [...]
Thanks and an update
Posted in General, Mental health, Mental illness, WTF?? on November 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You guys are the best! Thanks for the notes both private and here.
She has now signed herself out against medical advice.
And now there is a missing person’s report in TWO cities with her name on them. And what happens if/when she gets back to the condo and wonders what the smell is, and oh I dunno…. [...]
