I Reject your “(Birth)Mother’s Day” Reality and Substitue My Own

As an adoptive mother, I/we don’t celebrate “Birthmother’s Day”…

… I believe in celebrating my son’s First Mother on the same day that we celebrate my motherhood - on “regular” Mother’s Day.

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Where Sleeping Dogs Lie

At least somebody(ies) enjoy clean, as-yet-not-folded, laundry…
…. as for me, I hate folding it - maybe I should just leave them alone (but then I’d have to wash it again!) …

Wordless Wednesday 2008-05-07

Secret Attached Baby - Not so Secret Anymore

I have the handy little Windows Vista side-bar thingy on my computer’s desktop and one of my Gadgets is the feed to the CNN top stories.

I’m thinking I might remove it.

For more than two days I stared at the headline “Girl carries secret baby to hospital, still attached” with an emotion that can only be described as

“beyond angry and ready to reach through the internet and strangle someone”

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Angry

I’ve taken a breather from blogging (not by choice or for lack of bloggy-goodness, but for the priorities that needed to come first) but I think I’m ready needing to start writing again.

If for nothing else, then to get some stuff off my chest.

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WP Plugin Kudos

Kudos to the Search Regex WP Plugin for helping me find/replace a few details I wanted to change in my blog (read: my son’s name).  Seriously, the thought of doing all that work myself - post by post - was just… daunting.  With the plugin I was able to replace his name with the initials ‘ATK’ on all posts (content) , post titles, comments (content), etc.

The plugin page says it’s only compatible up to WP 2.3, however I’m running the latest version of WP and I had no problem installing/configuring/using it.

I’ve read on several blogs recently of other’s doing this to protect their kids (and for other reasons) so I thought I’d pass along the linky love.