“I know an adoptee who loves being adopted!”

And?

And yes, this is a grumpy rant thanks to people who try every possible option to get pregnant to have “one of their own”, and when it doesn’t work, suddenly think adoption is the perfect solution, and only a baby will do, and how beautiful adoption is now they can’t have their own.

 

Deep thoughts this morning

We are up every day long before dawn even thinks of showing up. This morning, after I made a cup of coffee, I stood at the kitchen sink drinking my coffee and looked out the window mesmerized by the dense fog that had rolled in, the beauty it offers in the dark, the way it obscures and also softens reality, yet doesn’t fully obscure the physical shapes present, nor cover the eerie golden glow from the street lights, or the shadows of the trees.

 

Music

I started a post the other day about how music helped me in my teen and early 20’s, how music has always my solace, it’s sitting in my drafts. Today, I found out that Meat Loaf passed away yesterday, so I’m listening to his music that I listened to when I was young and struggling so hard with being adopted. Driving around in the middle of the night for hours after working swing shift listening at full blast to all the best of the best at the time, including Meat Loaf. R.I.P. 2022

 

2022

January is half over, already, and I haven’t even acknowledged another year has come and gone, lost to the history books, another year that was filled with great loss. So much loss, grief, pain. So many questions unanswered, the big one for me – will the virus sink into oblivion or will we have to live with it as part of life.

 

Comments from Adoption and breastfeeding – touchy subject post. Part 2.

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Comment From “A Friend” last fall when a group found this post, I’ve broken it into 3 parts for ease of answering. The full comment below because it’s all over the place:

 

Comments from Adoption and breastfeeding – touchy subject post. Part 1.

It’s taken me a while to respond to two comments left by different upset readers on the Breastfeeding post. I was going to just ignore them, but this post keeps getting wide circulation on FB, so maybe it’s time to respond.

 

New Year’s Day 2022

“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” — Alan Alda

We’d all be better if we took the advice above, myself included.