That’s right, today is my one year anniversary of blogging at Adoptionblogs.com, as hard as it might be for even me to believe! In place of the usual New Year’s eve party last December 31st, I was home watching the ball descend at Time’s Square on television, and posting my very first blog entry. I admit that I missed the ringing in of the new year because I was so anxious to get started on what I hoped would be a very exciting adventure sharing my personal perspectives on adoption.

The year certainly has been all that I thought it would be in that respect. I met a lot of wonderful fellow bloggers, as well as some terrific readers in 2007. It has been a really positive experience for me to be able to share some of how adoption has touched my life. I have enjoyed hearing from others when something that I wrote made sense to them, or even when they really did not agree. While there have been times when I wish I could crawl under a rock and never be heard from again in adoption land, I have slowly come to appreciate those times as well. Learning more about the unique adoption journey of others has helped me to look differently at my own.

I will say that looking back I am very proud of myself for taking the opportunity to do something that I was not so sure I would be very good at. As a young girl I had always thought about being a writer of some sort, so this has been a bit of a realization of that dream. When I left my previous job I remember my therapist asking me what I would like to do next, and I said writing. Little did I know that less than 2 weeks after that conversation I would be making my first post here! It has been very interesting for me to stretch myself in this new direction, and being that the topic is adoption, and open adoption, something I live every day, the stretch did not seem to be so far. I want to thank my friend and co-blogger Coley too. Without her I would not have known about the opportunity, and I would have really missed out on an interesting 2007 here.

My biggest disappointment of the past year is that more of my own family and friends do not venture to read what I have written here. So much of what I write is about them, about how we relate, and about how adoption has created so many complex emotions in our lives together. I really wish that they would take the time to come and read my deepest thoughts about what those experiences have been for me. I think they might learn to appreciate our family even more. I suppose that would be my big wish for the new year, that my own loved ones would read what has often been written from my heart, and that it might bring our family even closer together.

One whole year! That old saying that the time flies is no lie! While I feel badly that I have lost some of my momentum in December, I am really looking forward to all the promise that the new year will bring. I am hoping to get things back on track mentally, and to be able to have some great posts for 2008.

Thank you all for being a part of my first year as a blogger here, a very interesting 2007!

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