I am too busy to even think about blogging
So I will blog without thinking. I don’t even have anything to say — I’m just taking a break from writing book reviews. I’m not getting anywhere on essays really but I have writing group on Tuesday and I’m hoping that someone’s got some useful stuff to say for the one in-progress that I shared. I should have shared two because I’m thinking of winding a second narrative into this first one but I forgot and now I’d be cutting it too close.
Madison has a cold and is a snotty, miserable mess. Noah is coming down off two slumber parties in a row and several more upcoming (January is birthday month in our world with March running a close second).
Does anybody have anything they want me to talk about? I’m running short on blogging inspiration, which is ok with me but if there’s something I should blog about, I’d be happy to oblige.
Okay, now this is really not something you’d be likely to blog about, since you don’t have a four- or five-year-old anymore, but do you have any recommendations for first chapter books for that age group (to be read to by me, not read by him)? We’ve read the AA Milne books, and then all I have left are things like the Enid Blyton books I read as a child (Magic Faraway Tree etc), which he loves, but are so full of sexist sterotypes, amoung others. When did you start reading chapter books to Noah, and what were they?
I’d actually kinda like to hear about the chapter books, too, since Hannah’s attention span is better.
Also, what’s Noah been doing lately as far as school goes. (Is it bad that I waffled over whether to use the word “school”?)
Let’s talk about why people in Columbus drive like idiots. Go.
Dawn… I read a comment of yours over on another blog, something about wishing for a “different happy ending.” You said you’d feel better about Madison’s adoption (relinquishment) if the appropriate reform laws were already in place.
I know this is a tough topic. And maybe you don’t want to write about it. But I would like to hear about it. In part, because I just directed a potential amom to your blog, who said she is struggling with the possibility of feeling like she’s “taken” a bio mom’s baby, should she adopt, and should the bio mom end up regretting the adoption decision.
And also, in part, because I’ve not heard amoms talk about this much. I want to know how you live with the knowledge that Madison was adopted with less than ideal laws; how you make peace with that; and how you do it all without letting aparents off the hook in terms of fighting for ethical adoptions.