Girlfriends Rule!

This week I went for a quick visit to see my BFF and 2 other girlfriends from highschool! It was fun taking a break from mommy land and reconnecting with friends!
I have to admit this was one of the first times I was ready to get back- I enjoyed my visit but I missed my baby bear - umm probably like I have never missed anyone before! Girlfriends are great and so was all the lovings I got from baby bear when I got home!!!!

July Fourth Visit!

We are just getting in from our 3 day visit with babybears biomommy - Goldilocks.
We went to the town that babybear was born and stayed and had lots of time to visit!
One really cool thing is we got to meet her great-grandfather and gets pictures of him and babybear together. With all this talk going on with the forums and other places about being scared of open adoption and the biomom not really mattering much after placement --DON'T BUY IN TO THAT!!!!!!! I can not imagine our lives with out Goldilocks, she is such a special part of our family and I know this is going to help baby bear soooo much in the future! It is great, but hard to say goodbye -- I have like this mini-depression thing going on when I have to leave Goldilocks--- I know that may sound wierd to some people it is just hard to say goodbye--- but we had a wonderful visit!!! just wanted to share a pic of us!

Twist of fate....

So with all the talk on ethics and adoption reform -- I have been thinking alot about it and to what extremes we should take to encourage mom's to parent. I have heard it said that unless the child is in danger that parenting is the best option and heard all other views in between. I remember having a conversation one time with someone who is near and dear to me that had a really bad childhood, and they expressed to me that they wished they had been adopted and they felt that their life would have been so much better. I started thinking of this the other day, I know that children that are adopted will grieve the life of the bio family but do children that had a bad childhood grieve or maybe a better word is fantasize about another family that would have treated and respected them better? Is it a case of the grass is always greener? I don't know just something I was thinking about....

Baby Bear is 11 months old!!!

Baby Bear is 11 months old today! Only one more month and we get to have a great big first birthday party!!! Wow time flies!!!

Who started it?

It, being the myth that there are so many babies that need homes. I have heard this 2 times this week from random people. So , o.k. - I bite -- I say really, why do you think so? And usually it is the oh I know so and so that knows these kids that blah, blah, blah, and then as the conversation deepens I realize that they are only open to a healthy white baby. O.K. - for real? Do they really think that there are these "perfect" babies just waiting to be adopted? Is this why I still see the same waiting families year after year? But I really am curious to know how this got started, I think that if you are open to a variety of situations your wait time could be less, but this notion on "waiting babies" just confuses me.

I need a drink!!!

Who wants to meet me? Things have been soooo crazy busy lately, I feel like I have 300 things going on right now and when I look ahead at July and August it is just as hectic! In a way I love it because, well I get bored easy so busy is good, and in a way I just need a girls night out and sit and have a drink and a good appetizer -- anyone wanna go -- anywone else need a break too?

Wardrobe malfunction

Well Kassidy had her first experience in the water today and loved it!!!!!!The only problem is that in just about every picture we had a wardrobe malfunction!!!!! Not to worry the FCC was not outraged and it did not trigger much controversy in our backyard. The blueberry bushes and pear tree may have been a little bit offended but soon forget once they started recieving sprays of cool water. The results from this event was tons of fun for all present!!!!!

*the pic is kinda far away - if you click on it you get a better look of the little beauty queen*