Comments for The International Mom's Blog http://theinternationalmom.wordpress.com parenting a multiracial multicultural family created through birth and adoption Fri, 02 Nov 2012 22:52:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Raising Dad by Christina Waschko http://theinternationalmom.wordpress.com/2012/06/14/raising-dad/#comment-1088 Fri, 02 Nov 2012 22:52:28 +0000 http://theinternationalmom.wordpress.com/?p=2733#comment-1088 Beautifully written! Thank you! Are you sure you are NOT writing about MY husband? Ha,ha

]]> Comment on Gotcha Day? Not in my family… by Judy http://theinternationalmom.wordpress.com/2009/09/27/gotcha-day-not-in-our-family/#comment-1083 Fri, 13 Jul 2012 13:53:20 +0000 http://theinternationalmom.wordpress.com/?p=772#comment-1083 So cool that you’ve come back and shared 2 1/2 years later, Mandy. Congratulations!

]]> Comment on Gotcha Day? Not in my family… by Mandi http://theinternationalmom.wordpress.com/2009/09/27/gotcha-day-not-in-our-family/#comment-1082 Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:27:39 +0000 http://theinternationalmom.wordpress.com/?p=772#comment-1082 My how much has changed since I commented 2 1/2 years ago…. We have added 2 sons to our brood! One was born to us October 11, 2010 and the other we are gearing up to formally adopt later this year. No matter when his “gotcha day” is, we have decided not to celebrate annually. Just like you said, we don’t want any of our kids to feel excluded. (A bit of a back story, this newest addition is the half bio sibling of our daughter. He has been with us nearly a year and is 9 years old) Between their actual birthdays, the day they came to us, and “gotcha day” on top of that, that would be an awful lot of celebrating that our only bio kid wouldn’t be able to have for himself. We do mention those special days, talk about how they were great and important days for our family, but we only party on birthdays.

And, in the spirit of not having anyone feel excluded, any time we drive passed the hospital where the baby was born, we say, “That’s where Harrison was born!!” and any time we drive passed the courthouse where the adoption took place we say, “That’s where Iliza was born! And where Carson WILL be born!” lol And the great thing about it is that our 2 big kids chose new names for their lives with us, so that courthouse literally is where they were “born”!! :D

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