A sampling of adoption related posts floating around on Twitter this week
We're pulling for the R house. Hopefully next week, their contested adoption will FINALLY be finalized.
therhouse only EIGHT MORE DAYS (full days) to endure before the appeal period is officially over. single digits, baby!
therhouse Bawl with me ....Gavin's birth certificate just came in the mail. Almost makes finalization seem real. Almost.
Saturday was National Adoption Day!
mydadjosh Happy National Adoption day! Today I'm very very grateful for the blessing of adoption in my life.
Izziland Izzi and I would like to wish all the families brought together through the blessing of adoption a very happy National Adoption Day!
natadoptionday After tomorrow, 30,000 foster care children will have been adopted over the 10 yrs of Nat'l Adoption Day!
There were quite a few thought-provoking tweets.
MyAdoptionAdvsr Spoke about adoption at local high school. Someone always asks, "Who named the baby?"
aalexisi A thought...if we make abortion easier to get, then shouldn't we make adoption easier to do too? I mean, multiple choices.
memoriadei: There are unwanted pregnancies but no unwanted babies. adoption the best choice
Kathy_Johnson One in five children who are waiting in foster care to be adopted will have to leave the system without a family at age 18 or 21.
jasonkovacs What are your thoughts on disrupting birth order in adoption? Good, bad, unsure? I have no idea, I'm sincerely asking.
Kathy_Johnson November is National Adoption Month. 129,000 kids in the US are waiting for a family. http://bit.ly/DOoMQ
Everyone is raving about the new adoption/foster care related movie, The Blind Side.
MarcAndreas I loved The Blind Side which brought in $34.5 million in its first 2 days w/ high ratings. Go check it out. What a great adoptionstory!
Some were worried that ABC's new show "Find My Family" would disregard the role of the adoptive family when reuniting adoptees with their birth families. The show premiered last night and most people had positive feedback on it.
ReneeDeLuca I don't think I can watch that "Find My Family" show every week. Five minutes and I was a mess. Plus, I've lived it!!!
MollieK Watching Find My Family. I didnt want to like it. Darn it!
Izziland I hope when Izzi wants 2 meet her birth family it will be done with more dignity This seems so staged, not organic. Really didn't like intro
The show Glee (yeah, we love it too) has a storyline right now where one of the Glee club members is pregnant. The Glee club teacher's wife is pretending to be pregnant to keep her marriage together. She wants to adopt the girl's baby and pretend she delivered it herself. It's weird and impossible, so it always stirs a few comments.
firemom I'm fully caught up on the Glee season. Any other people touched by adoption having an issue with certain things? But, gosh, I love it.
There were some great blog posts related to adoption.
yarnnation Blog post on how to avoid adoption scams. http://tr.im/FgVk
KatieBQ Finally blogged about FSA Regional Conference in Portland...read all about it! http://tinyurl.com/yacoj9y
As always, people shared small, but meaningful pieces of their own adoption stories.
coffeetalkwc Almost aborted; adopted & given great life instead & parents died 2008; reunited w/ entire bio. family since 1998
erinannie *deep breath* just put in application to foster to adopt one specific girl. 4 weeks before I can expect to hear back!
jamieworley Not one, but two caseworker visits today. But less than a month til Lindsey's adoption!
vitafamiliae Last home study interview, TONIGHT! And this time, she's talking to the kids. I want a voice recorder...
mattbooshwaa It's getting hard 2 keep my heartless image when I'm crying every week @ our after school prog. b/c we r watching Lifetime adoptionmovies
angeecolvin So grateful for the spirit and how I have been led to the point I am at. SOOO grateful for adoption and the joy I feel when I talk about it.
yarnnation still working away on our new profile. It has to be printed first thing tomorrow am. adoption is a lot of work.
adoptionart Just got done writing a Christmas letter to my youngest child's birthmom in Guatemala
