As much as I love Cindy Chupack, I was kind-of mad when she wrote that she sometimes feels as though adopting a child is a white flag of surrender. I disagree. Raising a child at all is not an act of surrender. You don't need a boyfriend or husband to have a child, and that's an amazing testament to women's empowerment. I fully plan on adopting a little Asian girl with or without a husband, mainly because I like to rebel against societal norms, or promote better ones.
Okay, I am done being a feminist. For now.
I don't really have much to add after that tirade, which is probably a really bad sign. I was going to write about how certain things are practical (a $60 Marc Jacobs bag) whereas other things are impractical (a $60 Vera Bradley bag).
But when I was thinking about adopting a daughter, I realized that no matter how much I profess to love handbags, shoes, dresses, and makeup, any and all of those things will forever be impractical, but I don't mind.
Maybe not shoes.
Yeah, let's go with that.
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I think she was talking about maybe surrendering on trying to have a child without artificial insemination, perhaps? Apologies for the random post. Anyway, I finally jumped on the blog bandwagon and was looking through facebook profiles to see who had blogs (Yeah, I totally facebook stalk) :) So far I've found you and Jeff Halliday. Mine is: http://byrnesbj.wordpress.com/
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