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Now I am not a huge commenter on blogs. I lurk, alot. I’m just as shy on the internet as I am IRL. I didn’t used to be. Its just something that happened over the years.
Two blogs I liked….ALOT….are gone. I never really commented but I LOVED reading the 2 ladies writings. In the last [...]

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One thing that amazed me about choosing adoption is how many roadblocks I came up against. When I was pregnant I was set on it. When I am set on something, I don’t change my mind. Although I am not sure I made the right decision NOW. All the counseling in the WHOLE WIDE WORLD [...]

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Our house was cheap. A nice for the money. But once the decision to go with adoption had been made and I had chosen BR and BA, things were tense to say the least.
I was afraid to tell L about my decision. I had told R and he agreed, based on how L was acting [...]

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My family had also denied me any help financially or in any other way. My mother later denied that and said that she bought various “baby items” when I planned on parenting. She never told me of this until a few months ago.
So here I was……stuck in a bad position. I had no insurance, a [...]

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B, the constant in my life. Who I still write about does fall into this story.
In fact in MOST of the stories in my life there is a place for B. Although in this story I don’t remember where exactly he falls. So I chose to add him here. It was sometime around this time, [...]

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D, our manager, found out I was pregnant. She also found out a couple of other things too. About the parties that had been happening. Although now that I was pregnant the partying had stopped altogther. We realized our actions DID have consequences! SURPRISE!! She also found out R and I had been sleeping together and that. [...]

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DISCLAIMER—–So I’m going perpetuate the birthmom myth, “Birthmothers have wild and crazy out of control lives, with drugs and alcohol.” SIGH. I hate doing it, but to tell my story I have to be truthful. The things I am going to tell are not things I am proud of.  They are not pretty. But they changed me [...]

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When you look back on your life, its funny the things you remember and the things you don’t. How something so small and stupid can change your life forever.
When I met R, my favorite local radio station was running their yearly tele-a-thon for Saint Judes Childrens Hospital. I remember that like it was yesterday. He [...]

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It was a hard weekend.
My feelings have been affecting my relationship. My Saturday evening ended in a huge explosive fight at my boyfriends parents house. No communcation. I have a hard time expressing how I feel. So does he. This is a problem we have battled with in high school. Damn it……will we EVER work [...]

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Open

This is something that is very hard for me to write about.
I am supposed to have an open adoption. Well, I guess in a way its kind of open. They send me pictures. We met a few years ago. They live quite a distant from me so it was just by chance that we got [...]

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