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[ringsandcoffee]

Where does the time go?
It's 7:30 already! ACK!

I don't get some childfree people's attitudes.
A week or 2 ago, a conversation occured on the baristas community where a childfree person said people who want children of their own are selfish, and they are bad for not adopting needy children from overseas. o_O ??? What I'd like to ask the holder of this particular opinion is what they think of the parents oversees who have kids they don't want and/or can't afford, or those who give their kids up for adoption.

Work is crazy.
I'm surviving, and it's slowly getting better, but man, it should be easier than this!   I'm still not touching the bag of papers I brought home - just like last night. 

My new book, as if I need more to read.
The Secret Diary of Charlotte Bronte.  I think that's the title, but it's in the bag behind me and I don't feel like getting out of my chair.  It was in the fiction section but is supposedly based on Bronte's life.  The author also wrote a book about Jane Austen but it wasn't available.   I've been reading parts of Jane Eyre before bed recently.  Still love that book. 

Blah  :)

Comments

[laurasia-mystik.livejournal.com]

You make me want to read again really badly!

[nomdelamer.livejournal.com]

I saw a book called Mr Darcy: Vampyre the other day.

it made me think of you (in a non-creepy friendly way, of course)

started reading it, seems like something you might like! =D

Childfree

[larksong.livejournal.com]

I had someone say the same thing to me when I was a the mall about two weeks ago. I was in the food court with Leah and the women next to me was watching the kids in the playground there and she said to me "While I don't support your choice to have a child it is great to see you've chosen to only add one more mouth to feed to this planet." O_O I was sitting so I guess she didn't see the clearly pregnant belly. I was intrigued and asked that she explain herself further...so she went on about overpopulation (not a theory I actually support. We have plenty of resources in the world they just aren't distributed fairly throughout...and there are plenty of people choosing not to have big families that if someone does have a big family it all kind of evens out anyway) and she went on about all the unadopted international children (completely ignoring the millions of them right here in the US).

That type of thinking is flawed I think.

[mashena.livejournal.com]

I kind of get that mentality. I really want to be a mother - and I know that I won't pay for any type of fertility treatments to make that happen - I'd rather spend money on adoption. However, I'm also not going to stop myself from getting pregnant the good ol' fashioned way if I'm married.

[jmp0114.livejournal.com]

I think what bothers me the most about that comment is that people think since they feel a certain way it must be the absolute and she must broadcast her opinion a very disrespectful way. People can be so self-righteous.

After I had my first son I wanted to adopt a second. I always wanted two or three boys. I knew for me personally that I didn’t have to give birth to my own to love him like my own, and I knew there were children that needed good homes. It was just something pulling on my heart at the time. When I told some close friends and my boss that they all thought I was weird. Didn’t matter anyway, while on birth control I got pregnant with my second son. I still think about fostering someday…

“Work is crazy….” I hear ya! … that is all I can say at the moment, no words for you. I guess it is just the nature of the beast of being a teacher huh.

[bowiechaser.livejournal.com]

What I'd like to ask the holder of this particular opinion is what they think of the parents oversees who have kids they don't want and/or can't afford, or those who give their kids up for adoption.

I don't know why you don't just go ahead and ask - I would happily do so, if I knew where the post was!