The course of my life is not defined by my completely useless reproductive goods. Someone please pass that information along to Children and Family Services. I’m too busy wondering if I’ll get in trouble for parking in the ‘Expectant Mother’ parking spaces at Babies ‘R Us.
I am neither demonizing nor canonizing the adoption process. I’m just writing it down, because there are days when I wonder if I would ever have believed any of it.
January 9, 2010 at 6:31 pm
Very good point. I think you definitely deserve to park in the expectant mother parking space! Thanks for sharing your insights!
January 14, 2010 at 1:44 pm
Really am enjoying your new blog. Just starting to consider adoption as an option and find that your blog is hitting my thoughts/concerns right on. Thanks for posting!
January 29, 2010 at 2:13 pm
In my opinion, parking in the expectant mothers’ spaces is just tacky when you aren’t pregnant. I understand that it must be exciting to be waiting for a child through adoption (much like it’s exciting for pregnant women) but it’s not the same thing. I’m sure you were posting this with tongue in cheek, but it’s just odd.
January 29, 2010 at 2:43 pm
It was a joke. I think everybody else got that.
In *my* opinion, it’s mildly tacky to hover over a blog expressly and overtly designed for adoptive parents, using terminology you HAVE to be bright enough to realize is bothersome to many adoptive families. (Per your other posts, ‘natural’ parents implies that we are, what, ‘unnatural’? Artificial?)
March 9, 2010 at 12:44 am
I’m a “waiting” adoptive expectant mother. Your blog was passed on to me by a friend. I think we share a lot in common … thanks for sharing your views with the [innocently?] ignorant world.
March 9, 2010 at 12:45 am
woops – our blog :
http://nikolasfamily.wordpress.com
March 11, 2010 at 6:14 pm
Thanks! I can’t find how to subscribe to your blog — am I just not seeing it?
June 30, 2010 at 2:33 pm
Standing ovation is due to you for responding with an ignorant Cricket with wit and dignity. Love this blog. I get a little giddy when a new installation hits my inbox and my murloc ring tone sounds signaling that I have mail.