[Saya]

I wrote NBC and the sponsor:

I am writing in regards to NBCs "America's Favorite Mom" competition. I am a really easygoing person and usually don't write these kinds of e-mails. But your categorization of adoptive mothers as "non-moms" is completely offensive.

No, I did not give birth to my daughter - her wonderful birthmom did that. I adopted her when she was a baby. But if the legal systems of two different countries plus my state say that I'm her mom, who are YOU to call me a non-mom. My daughter is my very own daughter and I am her mom. I am not her babysitter or her foster mom or her caretaker or her teacher or her aunt. I am simply mommy and we are simply a family, like any other. It is unfortunate that NBC is responsible for perpetuating stereotypes that rate adoptive families as somehow second class to so called "real families." Trust me, we are as real as you get.

I am extremely disappointed in NBC and in Teleflora, and I will be recommending to my friends and family that they boycott both this Mother's Day, unless this is changed.