I love Halloween. I love walking in the fall leaves, the Caramel apples, carving pumpkins and toasting pumpkin seeds. I can recall every costume I ever wore; I fondly remember my first store bought costume. It was Scooby-doo. My Mom picked it out for me and I remember she came home and gave it to me. A store bought costume was a big deal as I typically wore some homemade creation of my grandmothers.

Pink footy Pjs were transformed into a pink bunny rabbit with a cotton ball on the butt and ears on a headband. I still felt like I was... more

From Black Cats to Pumpkins. Candy and Sweets. Tonight is for giving our children good treats.As you visit the party's or Walk all the streets. Remember your safety....Is more precious than Sweets.Happy Halloween To Everyone....

Safety Tips Reminder

1). Never eat any candy without it being... more

Although we've yet to carve our pumpkins (!) we've been in the Halloween spirit for several days now. It started with a party on Saturday night - I was a construction worker, Little J a pirate, Big J a vampire, and Daddy had to work - Sunday night we went to see a display of beautiful carved pumpkins at a local shopping center - yesterday Little J had his Halloween party at school - and tonight, of course, is the night.

We will have candy coming out our ears after tonight. We have a saying in our house, originated by me: candy makes you bad.

Obviously,... more

No ghosts or ghoulish goblins, not even a costume unless the attire of an intrepid explorer counts, but Sam did Halloween, nonetheless. He went on a Halloween adventure with Gay.

The weather is lovely right now, so the views from up high in the mountains is pretty darned spektak, as they say in Creole ... well, not the 'pretty darned' part. It would be more like bez ... as you can see in the photo of Sam at the summit. (Is that kid adorable,... more

Grief is something we have all felt in life. Whether it was not getting a promotion we badly wanted or loosing a family member, grief is universal. Everyone has experienced it.

Grief is a normal emotion for birthmothers. You are grieving the loss of your child and the loss of your motherhood to that child. Below is a brief explanation of the different stages you may experience as you are grieving.

There is no time table to grief and you may be in one stage longer than the other and you will probably go back and forth between stages. Grief is sort of... more

Happy Halloween to all of you out there!

I thought, in light of Halloween, we’d not talk about a heavy subject and talk about something fun… Halloween!

Are you dressing up as anything this year? I haven’t dressed up as much as an adult as I did as a child of course, but there have been a few years I have donned a costume for parties and what not. I think my favorite costume as a child was a strawberry and as an adult Little Red Riding Hood. We used to dress up at work some years.

Pregnancy may make going in costume a little trickier... more

Happy Halloween.

There's no celebration here ... no costumes or pillowcases-full of candy or jack-o-lanterns, no tricks or treats. I'm not going to let a little thing like the culture of the country I live in stop me from getting into the spirit of Halloween, though. No way. As I type, I'm wriggling into my costume. By the time the next sentence oozes from my fingertips I will have transformed myself into ...

Ta Da!!!

Adoption Advocate Blogger Chick!

Festooned with Baby Bjorns and Huggies and sporting... more

Lani (co-founder of BirthMom Buds and my best friend) and I were working on something and I thought I would share part of it with you all.

This is called “Remember When,” and it kind of takes you back in time to when you first found out you were pregnant, making an adoption plan, and relinquishing your child.

* Remember when you first found out you were pregnant, the shock you felt? The “what am I going to do now” thoughts that raced through your mind. * Remember when you had to tell others you were pregnant... more

When I first glanced at this headline , I was thinking "Iraq" and wondering if this president was totally bonkers. The idea of encouraging babymaking in Iraq given the unstability of the country, which is summing up their current situation rather kindly I believe, certainly would be a hard sell.

At a second glance, I noticed that it was the President of Iran, not Iraq. Somehow, I still find it almost offensive that a president of a country feels obliged to announce to his countrymen... more

. . . . . . . . Adoption.com has their own photo listing search site where you can search for children waiting to be adopted from the foster care system.

The site breaks down searching by state or you can search by race, gender and – or age.

Here is one example of a waiting child on the front page of the photolisting site:

Joshua Age:12 Gender:M State:Florida Siblings: ... more