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.

 

Christmas Holiday Time 2021

I was looking back at the different Holiday posts over the years and reading the comments from all my friends here on the blog. I want to thank everyone who stops by for a spell, you’ve made my life so much better than you will ever know, and I’m thankful for those folks who have recently stopped by as well that I’m just getting to know. And those who haven’t commented, please do, join in and get to know everyone.

 

Memories

It’s been a trying couple of days in adoptionland on twitter and now someone else is trying to stir the pot. Oh Yay! I’m ignoring the sheer nonsense of the kept assuming they know more than the ones adopted on whether adoption is good.