Friday, November 24, 2006

Thanksgiving

I had a really nice Thanksgiving with hubby's family. Hubby's niece and her husband did all most all of the work. We just showed up with pie and good wishes. Their house was beautiful, the food was fantastic and the company was wonderful and I spent some of the day thinking how much easier family gatherings are with his family then they are with mine. I don't carry all the baggage into his family gatherings that I do with my own.

I have been reading tons of adoption blogs recently. The first one I found and the one I have always loved is the Naked Ovary, the blog of an infertile woman who very recently adopted a baby from China. I like her. I like her because she is living a part of a life I always wanted to live-adopting a baby from China. I like her because she is honest and real and secure enough to show her strengths and weakness. I like her because she loves being a Mom. I like her because she thinks that being a parent makes us one of the lucky ones. I like her because I feel connected to much of what she writes about. I like her because reading her makes me feel a bit, just a tiny bit, as if I adopted a baby girl from China.

I am thankful for many things in my life and one of them is people I only know through reading about their lives on the Internet.

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