“The role of the nurse in relinquishments and adoptions in Colorado”. 1961

Adoption history of the role of the Public Health Nurse interests me, I also had an Auntie who was a Public Health Visiting Nurse. This booklet describes both the different ways the Public Health Nurse worked back then in Colorado, and the ways people got around the rules. Per usual, I am only highlighting some of the info in the booklet, it’s worth reading in full if you are interested in adoption history. I am bolding direct quotes from the book, link to the booklet here.

 

The World Lost Gordon Lightfoot This Week

We all knew he didn’t have a lot of time left, yet, when he passed it was as if the world all around me stopped for a spell. I love a lot of his songs, but I think The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is my favorite. Another is “If You Could Read My Mind.

Be kind when you can, hold tight to those you love. I’ll be back to my normal musings in a bit, just kind of overwhelmed with to many to do’s and not enough energy to do them all.

 

Happy New Year!

I don’t believe I’ve ever done NY Resolutions, although with my creaky old brain, who knows. The two of us did have a lovely Christmas and New Years, one worth repeating. For Christmas Dinner husband had a Pot Roast with all the trimmings. I had the potatoes, vegies, Yorkshire pudding and gravy from the Pot Roast, then we consumed far too many chocolates.

New Years Eve we splurged and picked up Chinese Food, something we usually did every year, but haven’t done since the pandemic started and it was so good, and now I’ve done it once, I’ll probably do take-out again.

 

The Year 2022 is almost done and 2023 almost here.

We had the Christmas we wanted, very quiet just the two of us plus the two cats. We also didn’t decorate because of the two cats. Tonight we are going to order Chinese food and pick it up, same thing we used to do before the pandemic happened for New Years. We’d do it to get me out of my memories that come to the forefront at this time of year, it has always worked well to have a change of pace.

 

It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

Good Morning my Friends! We have had snow and even more snow, and now, freezing rain – oh yay. The backyard is full of birds looking for a meal and fresh water, so many different birds, they’ve already eaten copious quantities of shelled redskin peanuts and shelled sunflower seeds, plus 4 packs of suet because it’s cold, cold and cold – somewhere between 10 and 15 degrees Fahrenheit.

I tried to make a list of the birds I’v seen: Blackcap and Chesnutt backed Chickadees. Sparrows, Starlings, Black headed Grosbeak, House Finch, Northern Flickers, Spotted Towhees, Dark-eyed Juncos, Pine Siskin’s, Varied Thrush, Crows/Ravens.

 

What has your summer been like?

It’s been a weird summer here on the West Coast after a very wet and chilly spring, summer started out just okay, and now, with a blink of the eye, it’s almost fall and we are finally getting hot weather.

 

Adoption is Complicated

Today on the FB posting of the Washington Post – Dear Carolyn.

“Dear Carolyn: Hi Carolyn, I am 45 and recently found the daughter whom I gave up for adoption when I was 16. My childhood was very traumatic and dysfunctional, therefore I knew that I couldn’t raise her properly or provide the best for her.

 

Sorry for the silence…

It’s been awhile since I had time to sit down and try to create a cohesive post, one day soon I will, I promise. This post is not it, just thoughts flitting through my mind interrupting some heavier non-personal thoughts right now, I’m fine incase I haven’t made sense.

 

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.

 

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.

 

Dear Adoption.com Columnist

From 2017

I read your article posted a few days ago: 3 Reasons To NOT Find Your Birth Parents with the tag line “It’s your life; it’s your choice.” and just wanted to lay out some statements of facts before getting into a nuanced rebuttal.