Here I am posting my first post of 30 for the month of november. I have yet to post every day for a month since I started my blog. I have posted quite a bit but never every day. This will be a test of determination.

I’m sure that Minnow will never forgive me for dressing him up as a rooster….but he sure is cute.

Our Halloween was quite uneventful. I dressed Minnow up in his costume and we went to visit his grandpa and bonus grandma at work. He was a huge hit. Everyone was very happy to get to meet the baby that gets talked about all the time. Needless to say that my dad and bonus mom are proud grandparents. After that we went to visit my grandma and that was great. We had a few trick or treaters. It is so hard to plan for each year. I just never know how much candy to buy. Thank goodnes hubby takes the left over candy to work, or my bridemaid dress would never come close to fitting on Dec. 1.

Happy Halloween all of you out in blogland. Trick or Treat…please just send my candy to me here–I like snickers with almonds and dots or twizzlers.

This past weekend Minnow go to meet his last set of grandparents. Hubby’s dad and bonus mom live in Georgetown, Texas–just north of Austin. They are retired but hubby’s dad is having some health problems and we really wanted to introduce Minnow to them. It is really important to us for our children to know thier grandparents, no matter how far away they live. We had a really great trip. Minnow loved his grandparents and had a great time. He also got to meet a Great Aunt, Great Uncle and Great grandma. It was really nice.

Of course after 2 days of being fawned over and showered with constant attention, I am feeling the pain.

That is what I am telling myself since not only have I signed on for NaBloPoMo, I am also taking part in nanowrimo. Yes, as though taking care of a now 7mos old is not enough, I am going to post every day and write a novel. Also on my list for November is to lose 10lbs–I’m in a wedding Dec 1. So, please bear with me if my posts start to sound a lot like the ravings of a loon…I very well may be come one.

(photo from stltoday.com)
For the 10th time. Awesome. 500,000 turned out yesterday to cheer and celebrate the long awaited championship. Congratulations Cardinals!!!!

Today I signed up for NaBloPoMo. I am feeling ambitious. Maybe I can post everyday. It will be intersesting. I am excited. Join us fellow bloggers.

Madonna will be on Oprah today to discuss her adoption. In an article it talks about how Madonna blames the media. I have to somewhat agree. When did it become the media’s job to police adoption around the world. When did it become their job and not a governments job to track down a birth parent and talk to him/her about the adoption? Didn’t they do this with Angelina’s adoption of Zahara? Maybe I’m mistaken. But the media has no business involving itself in private family matters and then airing them around the world and using that information to shape peoples opinions about a particular issue. When did the media/reporters become the morality police? Oh wait I think that happened right after they were paid millions of dollars for some piece of info by a network/magazine. It sickens me that this can happen. I would hate for the media to find/stalk/harass my son’s birth mother and then put her words out there. Who knows what she would say. Maybe she would say she regrets abandoning her baby and wishes she could have him back. Would I then be persecuted in the media? Would my intentions be questioned. I am not a Madonna fan. I am a fan of families and why do some families matter more? Why does her child matter more? I am not naive; I know the power of celebrity. I did live in So Cal for 9 years.

I understand that it is hard for us to accept that a living parent in an African country can give up their child for adoption. I mean why would any parent do this? Well why don’t we ask the thousands (I’m so sure it really is more than that) parents who do it in this 1st world fully developed nation. I mean, if we expect all impoverished people to keep and raise their children then why don’t we expect all middle-class people here to keep their baby? Why should the people of African Nations be different? Why don’t we ask the million plus women who terminate their pregnancies why they do it? There are lots of people, living and fully capable of raising the child, who decide that adoption is best for them. Would their be this much publicity if Madonna had adopted a child from a black woman in Detroit?