I kind of love this new Open Adoption Roundtable, mostly because I’ve finally been hit with the New School Year Ick and this one kind of lets me scrimp on creating new content.
I thought it could be fun to do an open mic style roundtable. Our group is growing and a lot of us haven’t “met” each other yet. So point us to a favorite post on your blog. It doesn’t even need to be about adoption. And tell us a little bit about why you picked the one you did.
My favorite post on Chronicles is The Woman Upstairs. I wrote it in 2009, and though I’ve written some great stuff since then, it is still that one I return to time and time again.
A snippet:
She lived in the apartment above mine. She walked heavy and had an even heavier case of insomnia. Pregnant and on bed rest, unable to sleep at night myself, I’d hear her feet hit the floor at one o’clock in the morning. She’d stomp into the bathroom and run herself a hot bath. For awhile, the sounds would cease as she likely attempted to relax herself back to sleep. She’d stomp back to bed, waking me yet again. I’d roll to my other side, hand gently touching my belly as the Munchkin kicked me. My precious daughter was a night owl as well.
There are many reasons why that post is my favorite, so I can’t narrow it down to just one. It remains my best piece of writing about the memories of my pregnancy, as I shut them down and push them aside so often. I let myself “go there” for this particular post and the result was something that I was intensely proud of, though completely drained after writing it.
I’m going to go blog-hopping and read the amazing posts other people chose… as soon as this New School Year Ick lets me sit upright for more than an hour at a time. Oh, germs.
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