On every message board I belong to, Disney’s “Meet the Robinsons” is the all the buzz. I haven’t seen it yet and probably won’t until it hits our dollar theater. My three year old doesn’t sit well through movies in general and this one doesn’t sound like one that would keep his attention. However, I have found everyone’s comments to be fascinating.

I do not like movies that make fun of adoption. I remember that there was a specific quote in the movie, Dodge Ball, that annoyed me and I’m hearing that the new movie, Blades of Glory, has one of the characters being “un-adopted” which I think is terrible. It worries me that these things are in movies and that I have no way of knowing... more

I was reading an older post on the ReadingWritingLiving blog. She posted about a comment that was recently made to her mother that stemmed from the fact that they don’t look alike. The person said, “We didn’t know Susan wasn’t your daughter!” My first thought was how tactless that person was and then my next thought echoed the title of her post – “Does it ever end?”

I am a parent so I am well aware of the fact that most of our... more

Here’s a news flash that I just received in my e-mail (actually on Wednesday, but I overlooked it) and I wanted to share it with everyone who might be interested. The Joint Council of International Children’s Services (JCICS) has been chosen by Build-A-Bear Workshops for their international awareness effort. It’s called Stuffed With Hugs: Hugs Sweet Hugs.

Follow the link for the full details, but here is the summary. On May... more

One of the things that I always try to do is to make sure that my Korean adoptee hat and my adoptive parent hat aren’t on at the same time. It seems inevitable that they will crossover since both hats are an integral part of who I am. So, when Jan on the Adoption Search blog asked me what I would do if my son wanted to search for his birth parents,... more

Though Korean adoption is tied to South Korea, we can’t forget North Korea. They were one country a lot longer than they’ve been two countries. Our adopted children share a piece of that history.

I heard about Seoul Train last year and I wrote about it, but you can’t simply read about it. You have to watch the documentary. It is potent in its simplicity – the... more

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Now, I know I’ve touched on this before, but I really need to repeat myself in this case because I think it’s important. One of the keys to how I felt about my birth family is how my parents approached the subject.

1. It was never a secret. (I realize that it is difficult to keep the adoption a secret with Korean adoption,... more

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It’s funny. When I was little people were always throwing around the “abandoned” term when they were talking about me. It was before “politically correct” became a buzz phrase and everyone was making lists of positive adoption words. To me, abandoned was a term that described how I came to be adopted and I didn’t actually ever feel that I was abandoned.

That sounds a little funny, but I think that it speaks volumes about how I came to feel... more

Jan at the Adoption Search blog asked me why I thought some adoptees search and why others don’t. I can tell you why I haven’t searched.

I have always wondered what my birth parents were like before me and what happened to them after me. I have wondered if I have siblings, aunts, uncles and cousins. However, I have always been the most comfortable with them as a fleeting thought. I don’t feel like I’m incomplete. They are a part of me...a part of who I am today.

I’ve... more

Last year as I was writing about Korean holidays, I focused on the “official” Korean holidays. This year, for some reason, I started wondering how the Korean people celebrate some of the holidays that I celebrate. Are they the same? How are they different?

In my family, we’re getting ready for Easter. Easter was not listed on the Korean official holiday list, but I am aware that over half of Korea is currently Christian so I figured there had to be something out there about it. Here in the United States, Easter is often associated with the Easter... more

The KAAN newsletter had a link to an article that was published by USATODAY in 2003. A little old, but they only run the census every ten years so the data is the same today. I thought it was interesting that the 2000 census was the first time the government has really studied how adoption has changed the structure of the “traditional” family.

Link: Census

The Census Bureau's first profile of adopted children,... more