Okay, I apologize for missing yesterday. I intended to write, but my husband has strep throat again (4th time since October) and my parents are here from Ohio. In addition, the painter was here to finish painting our house. It’s almost ten o’clock and I am well aware that day light savings is going to cause me to wake up before my brain wants me too.

I took my parents to Trader Joe’s today. They had never been and wanted to see what it’s like. My husband and I love Trader Joe’s. You can get such healthy food there for low prices. Plus, you can get odd foods that we can’t find at the regular grocery store.

I digress. I realized today that wherever I am, I am always Korean Adoptee Watching. I see an Asian child and I automatically look to see what the parents look like. Is this a Korean adoptee? Okay, it could also very easily be a Chinese Adoptee because I can’t always tell the difference. Do other people do this or this a psychosis of my own?

My next thought was that it was a little disappointing to know that people can’t automatically tell anymore that I’m a Korean adoptee. When I was little and with my parents, it was pretty much self explanatory, but now it’s anyone’s best guess. I like being a Korean adoptee and I didn’t realize how much I liked people knowing it. With a fairly substantial Asian population in my area, there is no way for people to know. It also occurred to me that no one will ever make that leap with my son. Everyone automatically assumes that he is my biological child wherever I go. How interesting.

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