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fortune cookie follies may luck be a baby tonight fortune cookie follies may luck be a baby tonight who knew socks could be so much fun april 7 2009 va blondie of do without doing sent me a lovely package that arrived this past friday when i was having a bit of a frazzling day what a nice surprise to find something fun in the mailbox rather than more bills and not only did she send me socks for the sock exchange she sent three pair wow that is the height of sock it to me generosity thank you va blondie i love them all first we have a lovely spring themed pair next we have my favorite of all the mother son socks how cute are these thank you also to the fabulous kymberli for coming up with this idea and arranging it all posted in uncategorized 4 comments sock it to me march 10 2009 posted in news in blogland uncategorized leave a comment show and tell july 14 2008 my happy ending my joyous new beginning my baby boy for more show and tell posted in uncategorized 1 comment we finally made it to the other side july 5 2008 i m a mommy to the sweetest little boy ever xo beagle posted in adoption option 4 comments go vote march 10 2008 go vote posted in uncategorized leave a comment and then their eyes glazed over march 4 2008 i had a thought today that might explain some of why adoption has felt harder to me than art did even though the average person doesn t get how painful infertility is they can get that going through ivf sucks or iui or what have you everyone can gasp at the horror of having a foot long needle stuck through your vagina into your pelvic cavity egg retrieval in case anyone reading hasn t reached that point nobody likes injections much less giving yourself three of them a day people can get some of that with adoption this capacity to put themselves in your shoes is a bit different what little empathy and or sympathy i was getting for enduring art went away only to be replaced by excitement excitement excitement it really threw me people were no longer sorry for us they were excited for us trouble is from where i stand there is nothing tangible to be excited about there are still no guarantees my arms are still empty and my heart still aches but now my aching heart has to face excited faces instead of sympathetic ones and my look of exhaustion and my lack of giddy joy really seems to puzzle them i find it hard to face people these days i dread the questions the eager inquiries about any news have you heard i just want to say do you see a freak in baby huh do you can you imagnie the reaction don t people realize that if when we get that baby we ll announce it loudly but i don t want to lose the few irl friends i have left nor do i want to get myself locked up in one of those big hospitals surrounded by a huge green lawn aka the nut house i ve actually avoided social situations in order not to have to deal with this whole aspect and it s getting lonely i ve tried going anyway and answering their questions honestly and sanely with explanations of how we are hopeful but it s still really hard right now that there are no guarantees and a lot of anxiety involved in the process etc etc blah blah blah their eyes glaze over and the conversation drifts to a safer topic i just don t have the patience for it or the stomach so i stay home or at least stay quite when i go out i nod and smile and scream inside their ignorance pains me i feel envy i want to be that ignorant again too i want my reasons for knowing better to have just been a bad dream i want to wake up to my baby s cries instead of my own tears in addition to the as perceived by me differences between infertility treatment and adoption as family building options there is the factor of time and age added to my story i ve been at this too long no matter what order you want to put the efforts in and i am nearing an age when doors to motherhood slam shut both those factors seriously color my views so theses are only my views from my perspective writing is not really my strong suite so i may not always express what i mean in ways people can understand i can promise you that i never mean to say that my journey through hell trumps anyone else s we all measure out pain with a very unique and individual yardstick posted in adoption option uncategorized 13 comments another aggravating read january 31 2008 i bookmarked this blog awhile ago when we were considering donor insemination as our route to parenthood i mainly avoid it because it s another aggravating read we have since chosen adoption which has an even larger lobby of opposition but art is a medical advance that has created many loving familes and here it is portrayed as an afront to children s rights as far as i can tell the blog author has no vested interest in the subject she is just appalled by the reprotech industry and has made it her mission to get the word out that we should stop the baby trade yes it is a baby trade like the slave trade of old babies have become consumer products accessories to our lifestyles they are like pets those cute and cuddly babies and like pets they can be made to your liking just buy the sperm at your nearest sperm bank purchase an egg from your local egg dealer and rent a surrogate womb oh there s my favorite word again just and in 9 months bring home a baby without a pregnancy without even a dent in your schedule hmmm it s been five years and i m still waiting and don t even get me started about my schedule there is supply and there is demand babies are disposable their value and worth depend on being wanted what is there some study that shows these art babies are being recycled by the age of five or something as embryos they can receive a life or death sentence based on a screening of their genetic traits they can be frozen indefinitely donated for research or simply killed in the womb they can be selectively reduced they belong to whomever they were intended for apparently adults have a right to a baby and before they are born babies have no rights at all ummm reality check here they are embryos not frozen babies they can be bought and sold or traded from person to person kind of like spouses should we outlaw divorce now even after they are born some of their natural rights are not recognized or respected they had better not complain about not having their natural or biological parents if they mind they are ungrateful after all we cuddle them and spoil them and shower them with love just like our pets well it s time to stop the baby trade infertility is tragic so is being panhandled by your own genetic parents and being raised by biological strangers so is being created in a laboratory only to be frozen as surplus or screened out and left to die because you are unwanted i cannot think of children more wanted than those of infertility patients and adoptive parents children have not consented to these things children don t consent to their birth at all not in poverty not in war not in abuse or neglect how do you view those children s rights their own parents their supposed protectors have allowed these things to happen to them adults have selfishly there s that my other favorite word selfish allowed their reproductive urges to trample on the fundamental rights and needs of their own children but now as many of these children come of age and we hear their cries of pain it is time to admit that what reproductive technologies have given to parents they have also taken away from children sometimes doing the right thing requires a lot of sacrifice this is one of those times we need to set aside our adult desires in order to protect children s rights let s see babies as human beings who are our equals before we manipulate them through reproductive technologies let s imagine them as 20 year olds let s admit that we have no right to harm others to get what we want let s stand up for those who don t have a signature line on the consent forms yet who will be forever affected by the decisions taken we will find that by protecting the weakest we are also protecting ourselves the rights of children are tied to the rights of adults children have a right to their own parents and those parents also have a natural right to know and to educate their own biological children these natural rights cannot be eliminated only violated let s stand up for the natural human rights of children their right to life from the moment of conception their right to be carried in the womb of their own biological mother and their right to know and be raised by their own biological parents as if all that wasn t enough to get me hopping mad the blog author also lists a number of blogs who in her words are living and spreading injustice if you have used donor gamete or even plain old ordinary ivf you might want to make sure you re not on her list under the heading blog stops along the baby trade several of you are on there sites like this one may be why and how the loony tunes and meanies find us referring to my comments and questions lately about how and why the mean fertiles are leaving comments on if adoption blogs in the first place so since she s called us out on the carpet free to go return the favor the author is canadian a country that believes in free speech as much as the rest of the free world as do i but i have to wonder what motivates a person to stick her nose in where it doesn t belong into other people s private lives isn t that the governments job insert sarcastic tone here posted in widespread ignorance 6 comments weekend plans january 11 2008 won t you join me in reading posted in uncategorized 2 comments juno january 9 2008 there has been some buzz about the new movie juno as a work of fiction it is getting much praise for being a fresh new comedy as a depiction of open adoption in the usa today it is getting some harsh words from others there is also a bit of a radio silence in blogland from those afraid to see it and or afraid to say what they think of it once they have i am including myself in the latter resolve offers this commentary and from there you can link to a discussion if you like registration required anyone want to speak up here about what you thought of the film one question the controversy leaves me with is whether we can really hold filmmakers responsible for depicting anyone s version of reality in their fictional works i mean is there a rule that says that blonds can t be portrayed as dumb in movies or rural folks as hicks and so on is there a rule that says we can t portray certain cultural stereotypes in films it happens every day it bothers me when i see unfair stereotypes but we ve all laughed at a blond joke or newfie jokes for my canadian friends sure we hope that negative images aren t perpetuated but hollywood has never been my source of education or realistic portrayals so is it fair to expect juno to be more than it is might it just be another comedy vying for our laughs and our movie going dollars or is it an insult to real life members of the adoption triad everywhere thoughts posted in the media bias 3 comments lucky seven january 4 2008 ally at life in the catpad and ohn at only half nuts tagged me to tell you 7 interesting things about myself i suppose interesting is subjective but here you go 1 i was born in one country emigrated to a second then emigrated to a third all by the age of 6 we moved about every three years and when i tell my story most people say oh you must have been an army brat brat probably army no just a restless father i tell them it made for an interesting childhood more in a good way than in a bad one as an adult my main regret is not having any lifelong friends my oldest friendship goes back to junior high school and we are still as close as you can be when separated by 5 000 km as a hoping to be parent i can t imagine dragging my kid s around that much for no good reason 2 i speak english well though technically it is my second language i like to think i have a better grasp on it than the average american but i m not that s saying much i speak german fluently and french passably i hope to add spanish and at least take a beginner course in a language that does not use the anglo alphabet japanese appeals to me 3 i wish i could draw or sing or dance 4 i talk to my pets like they are people at least so far it s all rhetorical 5 i have traveled to 23 of the us states 5 of the canadian provinces a handful of tropical islands and several european countries at least two of which have changed their names and or borders since then i ve been lucky in how much of the world i ve seen see item 1 6 i consider myself an independent woman maybe even a moderate feminist but i find myself doing some very like my mother things since becoming a wife i work at staying true to myself without being inconsiderate of my one true love sometimes it a tricky balance 7 infertility has made me stronger more empathic more tolerant less tolerant grateful for things that others take for granted and pretty bitter too i d trade any and all of these lessons in a minute for my previous ignorant bliss and a baby posted in tag you re it 1 comment older entries search pages about archives april 2009 march 2009 july 2008 march 2008 january 2008 december 2007 november 2007 september 2007 august 2007 june 2007 may 2007 april 2007 march 2007 february 2007 january 2007 december 2006 november 2006 october 2006 september 2006 august 2006 july 2006 june 2006 may 2006 april 2006 march 2006 february 2006 january 2006 categories adoption option 5 all things art 4 all things feline 1 blogtavism 1 get happy 1 moody blues 3 nablopomo 2 news in blogland 7 tag you re it 1 the media bias 4 the sisterhood of the traveling book 2 uncategorized 216 widespread ignorance 1 wihth 3 blogroll wordpress com wordpress org meta create account log in xfn wordpress create a free website or blog at wordpress com entries rss and comments rss subscribe subscribed fortune cookie follies sign me up 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