The first week of July I shared how my daughter asked if she could be president some day and I had to say probably not. Mommy, Can I Be the President Some Day? tells this story and The Natural-Born Citizen Act tells of an attempted remedy for this law.
Ensuring Our Children’s Proof of Citizenship, and, A Little Ceremony Could Have Been a Good Thing talks about getting a Certificate of Citizenship, and about my nostalgia for a naturalization ceremony even while I recognize that the automatic citizenship law of 2001 is a good thing.
I share yet another profound moment with Meg in Tears in Heaven, and I also share a poem I wrote for her, On the Cusp of the Millennium.
A less profound conversation was had with my husband, and wondering how much is profound is the subject of Is This Really an Adoption Thing?
Book reviews this month included the children’s book Did My First Mother Love Me?, written by a birthmother to show her love for her child. For older children there is The Handle and the Key, a book that gets inside the mind of a foster child who can’t quite believe that his new adoptive family is for real, especially when his adoptive mother gives birth to another baby and his older sister doesn’t want him there.
An adult book is A Euro-American on a Korean Tour at a Thai Restaurant in China about an adoptive parents successes and difficulties in making connections with her children’s birth culture.
Birth is More than Once: the Inner World of Adopted Korean Children is a Korean therapist’s account of her play therapy investigations with eight adopted Korean children.
In the blog And Now for Something Completely Frivolous, I mention the several Danielle Steel novels that have had an adoption theme.