Above is a pic of my youngest daughter and me.
My Husband, My brother in Christ
Fun Humiliation
my worst post... just happens to be one that Challies posted on his a-la-carte about a year ago. Yikes. I wrote it with much mis-information and a lack of doing my homework. This humiliating post was especially out there because when Challies puts anything on his a-la-carte, you will get A LOT MORE TRAFFIC. So well over 800+ people visited that day and more for several weeks thereafter... and they all got to see me squirm from my ignorance. I am sure this is the one everyone will click on to once again see me squirm a bit. But some good did come from it... It is NOT erasable because of Google and Challies. Aaaargh. Lesson learned... God-willing. Please learn from my humiliation and DO YOUR HOMEWORK!!!
my best post Happens to be another Challies a-la-carte. It is called Divorcing Your Adopted Child.
post on which I have changed my mind See "My Worst Post" above and make sure you read the comments on that a-la-carte because I posted a link to a modified version of it within the comments.
my post that generated the most comments Well... besides the "My Best Post" above... that would be... oh brother... another Challies a-la-Carte.
This is kinda embarrassing... I didn't think all of these would be Challies a-la-carte posts. Well, let that be a lesson for ya... be careful what you write or the Challies monster might plaster you on his menu. I have written a lot of other stupid things... thankfully Challies didn't point them out. :-D
But if you want to learn from my mistakes go to my Advice on How to Blog... or really how NOT to blog. :-/
Oh... and thank you Brian... I think. :-D
Now I'd like to see Jen, Connie, and the one that said he would NEVER do meme's again expose themselves. It really is fun and humiliating all at the same time.
UPDATE: You know people... I DO have a site meter that shows the "out clicks" and I was RIGHT!!! You ARE clicking my humiliating post more than the others!!! {{{squirm}}}}
ALSO: ... Ummmm... how do I put this? When I wrote "expose themselves" I did not mean... well, you all know what I meant... {{{{right???}}}}
Comments
Exposed!!! That's what I am now that you've tagged me! I'll give this some (painful and humorous) thought and post mine soon!
Posted by: Connie @ Practicing Theology | August 14, 2007 03:57 PM
Lisa, along these lines, Tessa posted this on her Myspace page yesterday and wanted to pass it along when possible, so I will post it here. She has a unique position of having been in our family when all 8 of our adopted kids came into the family. She also works at an animal hospital and can compare some folks' attitudes towards their pets with other's attitudes towards their children, sadly:
A conversation at work today started me thinking. I have seen many people get rid of their animals for silly reasons. One person was going to have their dog put to sleep because it had an easy-to-treat skin problem. One person because they had let their dog get overweight, and it was having joint problems. other people bring their pets back because it stopped being cute, it is tearing things up in the house, etc. etc. etc.
BUT YOU KNOW THE TRULY SAD THING? I have seen parents of adoptive children give them up for much less! They give the child up because they weren't good friends with the parents, because they took the wrong person to marry, because they simply weren't very obedient. People, when you adopt a child you are making a COMMITMENT to treat this child as if it had come from your own body. you are promising to take this child into your home and raise them, to integrate them into your lives and make them part of your family. This is not a puppy or a kitten that you can send back to the pound if you don't like it. This is a child, with feelings, thoughts, and needs. They need you to be their parents, to keep them in your home. Do you ever think what the child goes through when you give them away? Believe me, I know! I have seen the tears of unspeakable pain roll down my sister's faces, I have heard their heartbroken, heartbreaking questions to us "why didn't they want me?" "what's wrong with me?" You couldn't have hurt them more if you'd reached in and torn out their heart. No, in fact this is worse. Have you ever lost a parent? The grief, the pain fills your life as you try to imagine a life without them. Now imagine that you've lost that parent, but they aren't dead. no, you've lost them because they didn't want you. These children aren't perfect--no one is! They probably did bad things. but nothing, NOTHING should ever make you let them go. They are part of your family as surely as if they shared your DNA. To get rid of them is to break one of the three strongest bonds in the world (God's bond to the church, a man and wife, and a family)
So, before you give your adopted child away to another family, please consider what I've said. Think of the agony you inflict on them, the lifelong self-doubt, the inability to trust again. Think of the promise you are breaking to them--a promise so strong it should be broken only by death. Think of yourself, and having to live for the rest of your life with that burden of guilt on your conscience. Think about my words, and please have enough patience and love to keep your child!
-Tessa Edwards
Posted by: sheshe | August 15, 2007 06:24 PM