Results are coming in

27Feb2008 Filed under: Adoption Author: Dawn

Survey results are trickling in and they are giving me a lot to think about. I’m really anxious to get a whole bunch more responses so I can look hard at trends and hopefully learn a thing or two.

Again, if you’re a member of an adoption-oriented community, will you please share the url? I’ll write about the results after I get back from the AAC conference (I’m gathering the information for my presentation).

Speaking of which, the whole conference thing is a big mess for me because I’m an idjit. When I agreed to present I was thinking they were asking for me to be there on 3/26 because I somehow transposed the 9 in 3/29. Well, 3/30 is Madison’s fourth birthday, oops. And I’m in Ohio and the conference is in Oregon so getting home in time for a party was going to be a hardship. Pennie offered to move the party (and then admitted that there was a big shindig going on that night that she was hoping to make) and we were both relieved that the OTHER person also had plans. Anyway. Since we have family in Portland and Eugene, we decided all four of us would fly out there (especially because we missed our Florida vacation). Only the cost of us all going out — even if we stay with friends/family — means that I can’t get to the first two days of the conference. Plus if we’re out there in part to visit said friends/family, we won’t have time.

Only the conference looks GREAT and I’m feeling very sorry about missing it.

I’m registered for the day I present (presenters get fifty bucks off registration but otherwise need to cough up the fee) and between you and me, the people presenting against me look interesting enough that I’m a little gloomy about having to actually show up for my own!

But the people I’m missing! Nancy Verrier. Joe Soll. Sharon Roszia (the person who inspired me to start OpenAdoptionSupport.com). Rats and rats again. But I will get to see Barbara Bisantz Raymond, author of The Baby Thief!

I feel pretty stupid about creating this big mess for myself but am hoping I can quit punishing myself (ask Brett — I’m insufferably self-punitive around this) and enjoy the friends, the family and the conference (what I get to see of it).

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3 Responses to “Results are coming in”

Susan
February 27th, 2008 at 4:09 pm

Dawn, I am so excited I am going to get to mmmeeeeeeeeeett you!!!!! Woo hoo!! And believe me, out of that whole lineup, YOU are the superstar *I* want to see.
Poor_Statue
February 28th, 2008 at 4:18 am

I took it. Yay to openness!

I will meet you one of these days!
HeatherS
February 28th, 2008 at 11:40 pm

I think “Yay to openness” should be the Open Adoption Support motto.

"A book ought to be an ax to break the frozen sea within us."

~Anton Chekhov

About Me

I have two kids and a delightfully odd husband, Brett. My children are Noah (born to us in 1997) and Madison (born to her first mom, Pennie, in 2004 and brought to our family through a domestic, open adoption). They are my inspiration and also the reason I don't get more done around here.

I'm a writer and sometimes I get published, which is a nice thing. I write for joy, I write for money and when I'm very lucky, both things happen at the same time. My work appears in national publications including Yoga Journal, Disney's Family.com, Utne, Wondertime, Brain Child and Salon. Currently I am working on a book about my daughter's adoption and seeking representation for the proposal. I also own Smart Cookie Communications with my husband.