Open Adoption Roundtable #12

The Open Adoption Roundtable is a series of occasional writing prompts about open adoption. It's designed to showcase of the diversity of thought and experience in the open adoption community. You don't need to be part of the Open Adoption Bloggers list to participate, or even be in a traditional open adoption. If you're thinking about openness in adoption, you have a place at the table.

Publish your response during the next two weeks--linking back here so we can all find one other--and leave a link to your post in the comments. If you don't blog, you can always leave your thoughts directly in the comments.

A number of bloggers have written about their open adoption resolutions or hopes for the coming year, but Debbie gets credit for suggesting it as a roundtable topic. And a great suggestion it is! Open adoption is all about relationships, after all. Most every relationship can benefit from periodically taking a step back and thinking about emotional or practical changes we'd like to make as we care for others and ourselves.

Call them resolutions, commitments, changes, or choices--how will you be proactive in the area of open adoption in 2010?

The responses:

I Can't Believe I'm About To Tell You This

The first day of our jaunt was really quite nice.

The second day--oh, friends, the second day. The second day I got a brush stuck in my hair.

For seven hours.

There was a brush. In my hair. FOR SEVEN HOURS.

Please, for the love of all that is holy, tell me that one of you has done something more ridiculously stupid than that. Please.

We eventually got the brush out, although I ended up losing a chunk of my hair. Would that I could go back to the beginning, lose the hair, and get the seven hours back. Ah, well.

If ever there were a day for a three beautiful things post, it is this.

1. Tonight we baked a peach pie that I had frozen this summer, made of peaches we picked as a family one afternoon. It was so perfectly peachy I almost cried. Every bite was like a burst of warm sunshine.
   
   
2. My husband still loves me, even though I ruined the second day of our vacation. I made him a three-pound monstrosity of a meatloaf tonight as part of my attempt to make amends. With two different meats! Meatloaf is his love language.
   
   
3. The smiles and hugs from the kids when we returned home were utterly delicious.

Internet Free

I'm heading out for a couple days away with the husband--just the husband!--so I won't be answering emails or comments for a bit. Enjoy your three-day weekend!