Quote: Originally Posted by hpfreak080 This was probably the one speech I've given where I felt like I REALLY knew what I was talking about. It's a personal subject for me and, obviously, for everyone here. I definitely hope I did everyone involved in adoption some justice even though it was only a college general education comm class. lol HP, By picking this...

roll call ! anyone out there????

While DD is way to young for a cell phone yet. I know that I will be such an overprotective parent when it comes to cell phones and texting. Mostly because of my job. IF she is allowed texting, like you all have mentioned there will be certain times allowed. There will be NO camera on her cell phone though. I refuse. I work as a victim advocate in the court system and way too many teens are...

I am homeschooling one child. She was getting behind and seemed to be falling through the cracks at school. I pulled her out midway through fourth grade. I put together a curriculum that year. It was OK but not as througough as needed. It was also easy to get busy running errends and such and doing other things that we tended to get behind. So this year we are doing a virtual acadamy. It is a...

Quote: Originally Posted by SomethingSerene I love the sunshine, triangle of love and mouse tatoos! I came up with a plan just last week to get a tattoo of his right footprint from the hospital on my abdomen where he would push that right foot out while he was inside and I would rub it. That's beautiful!

I have seen folks adopting independently domestically a toddler. They were listed on a site for parents to find each other (not sure I can link here, but if you PM me, I'll be happy to share). This site lets you indicate your criteria, with both minimum and maximum age limits, and at least one family on there adopted a 2 year old daughter without going internatinal and without foster...

Thanks so much for the welcome! That is awesome you have been reunited with both birth parents! I know my birth father is a touchy subject with my birth mom, so I never got much info from her regarding him. But this time, when I find her, I hope to get more info:)

Tamara, birth-mom looking for Morgan Krystine, born March 16 1986 in Denver. You are 23 years old, Mike and Brenda adopted you (also Taylor, your younger sister). Last update I received was that you moved to Aurora and you were going to trade Cosby, (your horse) in for a roping horse. I live in Florida now and want to meet you again! Please respond to bachrockon4tami@gmail.com XOXO

Thanks for the heartfelt feedback! I am touched. Well, we have had our FD for over 2 months now, and boy have things gotten better! I was forced to take over the night shift when my DH traveled for work (bless his heart, he had been on night duty every night before then), and after turning to a verse in Samuel about God calling him as he slept, I never again got upset when I had to get up in...

I've been racking my brain to try to find some common denominator between ds hallucinations and what else may be going on. He started on 10 mg of Prozac in January and did well with it, but still had social anxiety. This summer they bumped it up to 20 mg....hallucinations that lasted a month with bizarre behavior and aggression. In August he went up to 30 mg of Prozac for anxiety with his new...

Crick, I definitely hear what you're saying....but I do think that more brings up the exploitation issue. People will be up in arms about exploiting the drama. It really seems like a lose-lose. Or at least that there are people (not saying you) that will never be happy with the show, purely because of it's basic premise. Which I at least think is a good one - because the general population...