While sitting on the potty last night before bed, Bean says to me
“Sometimes I wonder about my birthparents”
She is just parroting a line from one of her books (not one I have a heck of a lot of love for, but was a gift to her) but I realize that the time is coming where all those questions will come into our conversations. I replied with ”You do have a Mom and Dad in China, what do you think they are doing right now?” She looked up out the skylight and commented on the bird poop that is up there and has been bothering her for some time. That was the end of the first discussion about her Chinese parents.
The good news is that I can talk about this topic without tears, something I really had to work for. I do need to get her some better books on the subject. This one is a bit ridiculous, and the entire story is written in the little girls voice, but from the APs perspective. That bugs me.
Juliette said
Did you look at Motherbridge of Love? We love it here.
I am getting better at speaking about it and keeping all my cool too. But when she saw my parents this past month and she said proudly “I am a lucky girl because I have 2 Mommies and 2 Daddies and not every kid has that”, I had to hide.