A journal of one of my adoption "cyber" best friends-

[NEVE and TRISTAN]

In progress and they just accepted their referral...
This is a lovely mommy, who has been so excited and has visited our boards here to pick her car seat etc...
She is using my team...

http://www.onehappyfamily.us/journal.html


Neve and Tristan born Feb 25, 2003
* EDD 3/19/05 IT'S A GIRL
* DOSSIER IN THE HANDS OF TRANSLATOR

http://home.nc.rr.com/ourbabytristan

[slknight]

Yippee. You know I love reading journals. It's what I do when I'm supposed to be working. Oops.

[Melanie]

That is so wonderful!

I always want to tell people things, though, and I wonder if they really want feedback, or just want us to read their opinions. Like her thing about the eyes being straight sometimes, and not others. She said she thinks it's b/c they have nothing to look at and their eyes get lazy(or something like that). It's not, and I know why her eyes are like that sometimes and not others. But does she really want to know, or rather think she is right?

What do you think?

[icunurse]

I usually don't like the journals, as most people tend to criticize their child's homeland. It's one thing to say that things are different, it's another to make fun of things and criticize. I am bothered most, however, by the "questions" section. Their daughter didn't "cost" anything, the adoption did. And she is their own child, she's just not biological. Maybe I'm being too sensitive, but it is something that children will pick up on later and that people not in the adoption community learn from.
Traci
~Connor's Mom~

[NEVE and TRISTAN]

I have torubles with journals and the criticizing of the homeland too...I know folks are tired, many have left children at home to make such a travel, many are nickle dimed the whole way and many do not know where the next bump in the road will be...

But I too have major problems with words like "weird food, weird smell" etc... I am pulled more to the nice journals about the people and area. Sadly we are traveling (we hope) in the winter, with icy roads etc... but when people describe driving by fields of sunflowers seeds for acres and acres I just can't beleive that is not some GORGOEUS sight.

I am lucky that I lived in Europe for 7 years and have traveled it extensively so I can imagine cows with HUGE cow bells on that are a hundred years old, or geese lined up at a gate...or baboushkas protecting their stuff. I would hope that those who have not traveled to this part of the world before would also take this in.

One person wrote my favorite advice recently...
"enjoy your children's country...you are giving a gift to your children to enjoy it and to beable to share it one day with them"...


Neve and Tristan born Feb 25, 2003
* EDD 3/19/05 IT'S A GIRL
* DOSSIER IN THE HANDS OF TRANSLATOR

http://home.nc.rr.com/ourbabytristan