Everybody says how they know how you must feel about adoption. Only you know how you feel, and maybe a few other mothers in your same situation.

I don't envy you. But let me tell you that people who adopt are not average people. They are required to pass psychological examinations and interviews, open their homes to professional baby-proofers, get certified in CPR, take health courses, parenting courses, and education courses. All parents should be so thoroughly qualified to be parents.

So, you don't need to choose us to raise your child. You can pick any adopting parent or parents.

We have some unique qualifications, though. My wife is a practicing MFC (Marriage, Family Counselor), who has extensive experience in child psychology. Beyond that, she is a product of a horribly normal childhood and involved parents (they're involved to this day).

I had an average childhood, with parents who were not as perfect as my wife's. But what they did do right, they did well. My mission is to raise my child using their example of what to do and especially what not to do.

I graduated with a minor in Education, which focused almost entirely on early childhood education. I'll be going back to school this year to get a second bachelor's and ultimately teach college - hopefully math.

There's not much that doesn't interest me. Shopping for shoes is a challenge for me. Everything else is a hoot. I love science and have a soft spot for great literature; being an English major helps (note the correct usage of a semicolon).

I believe that a six-year-old can do algebra, and I plan to find out.

Pretty much, both of us are ready to mold a child into an example of perfection - at least, perfection as we define it.

The number of web hits we get is based on keywords, so let me insert here some hit magnets: adopt, adoption, open adoption, birthmother, birth mother, parents, adopting. Ah, I feel better now.

I'm a little concerned that people in the US are focusing on the wrong things: money, cars, clothes, youth, horrible pop music. Personally, I try not to wear clothes with name brands emblazoned on them. And neither will my adopted, adopt, adopting child.

I love the Simpsons. And no, I don't think it's a child's cartoon, but then neither was Bugs Bunny. Was Bugs adopted, adopt, adopting?

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