Today:
I got to see McKenna today. It had been six long months. She's great! Smart, funny, and now wants to take piano lessons. She told me she had outgrown Barbies but Vicki, her adoptive mom, says otherwise :)

McKenna's Annual Christmas Letter - Dec. 2009:

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2495861/my_birth_daughters_annual_christmas.html?cat=25

David Letterman

David Letterman

I wrote this as my birth daughter was about to turn nine:

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2016044/adoption_used_as_an_option_for_many.html?cat=25

How Assemble A Prospective Adoptive Parents Profile Book

http://www.ehow.com/how_2309125_assemble-prospective-adoptive-parents-profile.html

Being an Involved Birth Mom

http://writingcontest.thenovelette.com/terri-rimmer/

Introduction

It's been ten years since I moved into the Gladney Center for Adoption in Fort Worth, TX, MLK Weekend.

In that time I've written and had published a lot of articles and "Diary of a Birth Mom" on several sites detailing my experience.

I also published an e book on booklocker.com under the family heading called "MacKenzie's Hope."

Here are links to some of my work between 2000 and now of my birth mom stories:

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/50162/things_never_to_say_to_a_birth_mom.html?cat=46.

http://www.adopting.org/adoptions/diary-of-a-birth-mom-reader-submission.html.

http://www.adopting.org/adoptions/diary-of-a-birth-mom-reader-submission-8.html.

http://adoption.about.com/od/birthfirstmothers/a/diarybirthmom.htm.

(The picture with the blog is me at 13 twirling my baton).