Our GuestBlogger today is Romee, a high school teacher from the Pacific Northwest and a single parent to an almost three year old boy from Guatemala.

When I first started on my journey of adoption, I was admittedly a little naïve about the overwhelming curiosity of the masses. I had never had a child or experienced pregnancy, so I was unfamiliar with the myriad pregnancy horror stories and highly intrusive questions others often eagerly bestowed on first time pregnant mothers. Besides, I was adopting. What could people possibly say that would rival the “and then they brought out the scalpel” tales that my pregnant friends were subjected to? Oh foolish, foolish woman!

Two years into my “waiting to adopt mode” I had had enough. With fury and frustration (and not a few tears),  I composed the following list of things that I wished well-meaning friends, family members and acquaintances would refrain from sharing, asking or telling me about adoption:

1. Any story that has to do with a failed adoption, a disturbed adopted child (or two), or the problems encountered (bipolar, learning disabled, wacko - yes, someone said this, etc). We do research before we decide to adopt (I hope!)