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My Last Blog

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This is going to be my last blog as the Adoption Blogger for Families.com. I’m looking forward to spending the summer with my kids, possibly working at their school, and taking on new writing projects. I may well guest blog occasionally for this or other Families blogs. It seems the Adoption Blog will continue, so I hope this blog, along with Families’ forums, can be a source of information and community for adoptive parents, adoptees, and birth parents. Yesterday I could think of a million things to say in my last few blogs and wondered how I would fit it … Continue reading →

Somebody Meant This To Be

I’ve always considered myself a religious person, but I’ve always put more emphasis on free will than on God’s sudden intervention into our lives. Nevertheless the events of our adoption journey seem to show a divine pattern that’s hard to miss. In kindergarten I played “house” with two classmates. I was the mommy and they were my children. I continued the play long after the school year ended, long after losing contact with these girls. I played for several years in fact, adding to my “family” by adopting imaginary children. Each of my adopted children had names and many had … Continue reading →

Flood Insurance Bill Delayed by Unrelated Amendment

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The current flood insurance program will expire at the end of July of 2012. The Senate has been working on a bill that would reauthorize the program. Unfortunately, Senator Rand Paul decided to add an amendment about abortion to the flood insurance bill. This is causing a delay, right before a national holiday. A typical homeowners insurance policy excludes coverage for damages due to flooding. If your home is located in a flood zone, then you may be required to purchase flood insurance. Many families get it from the National Flood Insurance Program, (or NFIP). The current insurance program from … Continue reading →

You Can Make a Difference

A smile, a hug, a kind word, the smallest act of kindness can make all the difference in the world. You have the power to make a difference in somebody’s life. As a single parent, sometimes I feel like my life is nothing to look up to. I’m divorced, I’ve made a fair amount of mistakes in my life, and from the outside looking in my life is less than “ideal.” But through my experiences I have been able to reach out and help people that I would never have been capable of helping before. My experiences have shaped me … Continue reading →

The Mommy Meltdown

My son started daycare about a week and a half ago. The kids are great, the lady that watches them is fabulous, but it has been a big adjustment for him. This is the first time I’ve left him with someone other than family. All of the sudden my little angel child isn’t being such an angel anymore. He’s throwing temper tantrums left and right, he’s hitting and kicking and screaming for no reason at all, he’s just not his usual happy self. Today when I dropped him off he sobbed and wouldn’t let go of me. He clung on … Continue reading →

Thoughts of Another Adoptive Mother

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My last blog was a review of Jana Wolff’s memoir Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother. It led me to reflect: did I relate to her thoughts as she went through the adoption process? Did I have other secret thoughts? I do sometimes wonder how Wolff’s now-teenage son feels about this book. I think that, although Wolff shares her conflicting, not-so-socially-correct thoughts like we all have from time to time, her love of her son and her appreciation for his birthmother come through. Her son may well value this record of his mother’s experience. Still, adoptive parents now are advised … Continue reading →

Gisele Bundchen–Loving Stepmother or Insensitive Troublemaker

She’s a drop dead gorgeous multi-millionaire with a super star new husband, and now women of the world have one more reason to hate supermodel Gisele Bundchen. Apparently, marriage has made the rich (rhymes with witch) more arrogant than ever. If you missed the headlines (and the thousands of subsequent Internet posts), Bundchen is speaking out for the first time about being more than just a stepmom to John Edward Thomas Moynahan, the 18-month-old love child of her new hubby New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and his ex-girlfriend model-actress Bridget Moynahan. In the latest Vanity Fair issue, Bundchen let … Continue reading →

Christie Brinkley’s Ex-Husband’s Infidelity Confession

The Barbara Walters interview with Peter Cook, Christie Brinkley’s ex-husband, has stirred up all sorts of controversy between the couple (she filed an order with the court to make sure he doesn’t let their children see it when they’re in his custody), but it’s also riled the public. The controversy is similar to the one that brewed during Oprah’s “Why Men Cheat” series. Cook’s Confession Cook claims Brinkley’s lack of attention drove him into the arms of his 17-year-old lover. I can understand why he strayed. I believe lack of attention is a factor in why men stray. But I … Continue reading →

John and Jen Split and Ellen and Portia Wed

Did anyone seriously think they’d last longer than six months? If you predicted that John Mayer and Jennifer Aniston’s romance would fizzle out after four months then buy yourself a lottery ticket because you were exactly right. The high profile pair never officially confirmed they were dating, but pictures don’t lie. The couple was snapped cuddling, canoodling, and cavorting from Miami to Los Angeles (and just about everywhere in between as Aniston joined Mayer on his cross country concert tour). Personally, I am not the least bit surprised that Jen and John split. What does shock me is the fact … Continue reading →

A Broccoli Facial

Broccoli is good for you. It’s chock full of fiber and healthy vitamins… and hey, I think it tastes pretty good, too. I love broccoli with cheese sauce, broccoli with tomato sauce, broccoli steamed with a little garlic, and even broccoli raw with a nice low-fat ranch dip. If I had to pick a favorite veggie, broccoli would be a top contender. (It might come in second place behind string beans.) But broccoli may be popping up outside the dinner table in the near future. A study from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine found that an extract in broccoli … Continue reading →