the "Robplane" is a thing of beauty, Daisy Jane. i love that you guys drew a face on it and left him notes. hilarious!!
'War Stories'
Natter 59: Dominate Your Face!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
well that and the timing with Father's Day. Wife is coming off the license too, and mother/father SHOULD come off birth certificates. parent parent parent.
hi there soapbox, how I've missed you.
amych, of course rich white men have it hard! why, they're a minority! and they pay more in taxes than, than, some people make in a year! why, they're talking about making it illegal to buy your own Member of Congress!
They want to give me a laptop at work. DO NOT WANT.
Especially since it'll most likely be a mac, making my current, ancient laptop at home seem all the more dated.
and mother/father SHOULD come off birth certificates. parent parent parent.
Your point is valid. I hadn't thought of it that way, that the fear was equality. Didn't Kat make a similar point a few days ago?
And the meeting I just came out of? That's why my friends should not be jealous of my job.
yep she did. The fear has been presented as the sanctity of marriage, but that seems to be (at least for some) a thinly veiled fear of men's position as boss being challenged.
bah - I would be worse than less of a person in these people's minds they do not deserve the energy of my rage. I can focus that energy into raising a beautiful compassionate boy who loves people not types.
Birth certificates are weird to me. In theory, they would seem to identify the biological parents of the child (though infidelity or donor gametes on the male side, or surrogacy or donor gametes on the female side, make this dodgy already). But am I right that if you adopt a child you can have their birth certificate amended (or re-issued) to include you as the parent? I think this is what the other woman I know with an Ethiopian-born son went through.
Day 2 and I am so sick of documentation that I am glaring at all instructions, even the awesome one on vending machines about how you shouldn't accidentally kill yourself for those stuck Cheetos. I only have 7 more days to complete a rough draft of this manual and my motivation left the office early.
I got a birth certificate listing me as the only parent from Ethiopia, and I think I will get another one issued from the US when I finish the readoption.
I do not think a certificate exists with mac's birth parent information, I do not think most children in Ethiopia get them when they are born.