I’m feeling blah this week. It’s getting cold here in Ohio. I have this constant sinus head cold stuff, and I have major cabin fever. My husband called me late this morning from work; he was leaving a message on the machine as I picked up the phone. I had just put Livi down for her morning nap. What’s up I questioned? He said he was just calling to see how I was. I’m fine…. Why? There was some worry in his voice. He said, “ Well I noticed you have not blogged yet today and I was wondering if everything was ok?”.

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We have not had a date night since coming home from Russia with our daughter. We have been home since March 30th. My problem is that I am not ready to leave my daughter with anyone. The only time I left her was when John was in the ICU and they would not allow me to bring her to visit. She was not as strongly attached to me then, we had not even been home for 3 weeks before John got sick. I did not want to leave her then either but I needed to see how my husband was doing and talk to the Physician.I did not have much of a choice.

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What if all of the parents that ever parented an adopted child actually united in honor of the adopted child's first parents? What if we all united in honor of one another? Gasp! What a concept. How remarkable would that be?

It is powerful when a group presumed to have more power than another group acts, works, speaks, struggles in unison with the less powerful group. There is something that makes you take notice when groups with seemingly disparate interests band together in the name of a just and worthy cause. That has been the case in political, economic, religious,... more