Comments on Production, Not Reproduction | A blog about open adoption and home of Open Adoption Bloggers: Opadoptapalooza

Best wishes for a gratifying and FUN trip! We shou...

2010-08-17T11:40:04.705-07:00

Best wishes for a gratifying and FUN trip! We should be putting on some great beach weather for you.

I've been trying to comment on your recent pos...

2010-08-16T18:17:51.570-07:00

I've been trying to comment on your recent posts with no success--I'll try a new method and cross my fingers.

Good luck on your California adventure! Too bad that it comes just as we're finally getting the gol durn car tuned up and will be able to drive out to where you are; once it is really actually done, I'll drop you an email and beg for a second chance. Safe travels!

Wow, lots of adventures rolled in to one. Hope it ...

2010-08-15T22:40:54.952-07:00

Wow, lots of adventures rolled in to one. Hope it all goes well. Safe travels!

and for what its worth, I can't figure out N.&...

2010-08-15T06:57:48.441-07:00

and for what its worth, I can't figure out N.'s mom to save my life, which makes me so sad. She's having major heart surgery later this year and I wonder if she'll be around in the long term honestly.

and Reid would likely pee himself if we got within a mile of Lego land. He's been crazy about Legos for awhile now.

Wow all of that sounds so fantastic, and tiring an...

2010-08-15T06:54:53.016-07:00

Wow all of that sounds so fantastic, and tiring and emotional and fantastic. I can't wait to hear all about it. Praying something really really good happens with the grandmother.

About 10 years ago an older colleague told the ass...

2010-08-15T05:54:19.687-07:00

About 10 years ago an older colleague told the assembled department that they were off to visit their daughter's birth mother (also, as it happens, in CA). Even though I had already had accidental experience as a foster mother, this still struck me as incredibly weird. I had no idea where I'd be going on my journey to (less temporary) parenthood, but I will try and remember that feeling - that it doesn't seem logical to most people.

Legoland AND Luna? Sounds divine. Eager to hear h...

2010-08-14T20:37:49.537-07:00

Legoland AND Luna?

Sounds divine. Eager to hear how things go.

I often say to people that open adoption seems str...

2010-08-14T19:27:15.940-07:00

I often say to people that open adoption seems strange when you're on the outside looking in, but makes a lot of sense when you're in the middle of it.

I absolutely LOVE this statement - it's so true! We have built an incredible relationship with my children's (previously hesitant)greatgrandmother, and last Xmas I gave her a picture that said "Somehow, together we make a family." It is her most prized possession!

wow, I didn't even realize how many visits you...

2010-08-14T13:40:22.725-07:00

wow, I didn't even realize how many visits you were making this trip. so excited to see you SOON!

Sounds like a super good time! Have fun with all t...

2010-08-14T12:05:41.594-07:00

Sounds like a super good time! Have fun with all the opadoptapalooza stuff. Sounds like Firefly's birth grandmother might be a bit of a tricky situation, but try and remember that even if you're feeling old, she is SO MUCH OLDER. Telling my grandma I'm pregnant was interesting because she disapproved SO MUCH. Not of adoption, or open adoption, or anything like that - but because premarital sex was involved. And yeah, okay... but c'mon. So maybe there's some 1940s stuff going on in her head that makes it even harder to deal with this situation. I mean, can you IMAGINE trying to have open adoption way back when? What a scandal! How inappropriate! How... unthinkable!

Anyway, I hope she changes her mind immediately when she sees Firefly, and opens her heart to all of you. Wishful thinking, perhaps, but hopefully you can get it going somewhere on a positive spectrum.

That all sounds like so much fun. I know that our...

2010-08-14T10:48:17.513-07:00

That all sounds like so much fun.
I know that our daughter's biological grandfather had a hard time trusting that we wouldn't just run away and hurt his daughter. It took awhile but he trusts us now and has started being a grandfather to her. It's such a blessing to be able to watch.

Sounds like a great trip! I have always wanted to ...

2010-08-14T04:35:13.814-07:00

Sounds like a great trip! I have always wanted to go to legoland and the zoo out there.

And you're right about it being Opadoptapalooza. I hope it all goes well!