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Sweet baby Roo

Sweet baby Roo
Perfection.

Who's Who

Roo - my beautiful baby girl
P and M - Roo's daddy and mommy
S - my LDSFS caseworker
H - the birth father

Story time!

For the straight dope without interspersed rants and bouts of irrelevance, click here to see story-specific posts. I insist on being thorough, so it's still a work in progress. Such is life.

Tell Me About It

I love getting e-mail! And I almost always respond, unless you're a meanie. Don't be a meanie.

Write to me at thehappiestsad AT gmail DOT com

Feel free to comment as well. Comments make me happy. I do moderate, but only to keep spammers and anti-adoption weirdos from wasting bandwidth.

I repeat myself a lot

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I Get Around (guest blogs/features)

Matters of the Heart
BirthMom Buds
Always Something to Talk About
Que and Brittany's Adoption Journal
A Love Worth Waiting For
AARKS Law Birth Mother Blog
Portrait of an Adoption
Genuinely Jarman

Do as I'm doing, follow, follow me ...

If you like me, now you can "like" me

If you like me, now you can "like" me

Captain cluck thinks I'm award-worthy

Captain cluck thinks I'm award-worthy

Sunshine? Must mean I'm hot

Sunshine? Must mean I'm hot

You Like Me! Right Now, You Like Me!

You Like Me! Right Now, You Like Me!

Thanks, Mary!

Thanks, Mary!

i'm extra versatile :)

i'm extra versatile :)

Wouldn't it be loverly?

Wouldn't it be loverly?


What It's All About

By Leelou Blogs Picture of Salt Lake Mormon Temple
United by Love
LDS couples hoping to adopt
Adoption Miracles!
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It's a little goofy-looking, but I made it all by myself

The Happiest Sad
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Open Adoption Blogs


You've Got Questions, I've Got Answers

Good Advice

Leelou Blogs

My Birth Mom Friends

  • Katie
    2 weeks ago
  • April
    3 weeks ago
  • Cami
    2 months ago
  • Heather
    3 months ago
  • Lindsey
    6 months ago
  • Nicole
    7 months ago
  • Tamra
    8 months ago
  • Hannah
    10 months ago
  • Robyn
    3 years ago

Awesome Adoption Blogs

  • BirthMom Buds Blog
    3 hours ago
  • Que and Brittany's Adoption Journal
    17 hours ago
  • LDS Family Services Birth Parent Support Group
    1 day ago
  • Lia - Not Juno
    1 day ago
  • the r house
    2 days ago
  • Families Supporting Adoption
    2 days ago
  • Branches of MY life
    2 weeks ago
  • Carrying A Cat By The Tail
    3 weeks ago
  • Adoptivity
    1 month ago
  • Matters Of The Heart
    2 months ago
  • LDS Adoption Connection
    3 months ago
  • United by Love
    8 months ago
  • Adoption...Changing Lives From Beginning to End
    11 months ago
  • FSA Mesa
    1 year ago
  • Deciding for Life
    1 year ago
  • Finding Success
    2 years ago

Start at the Very Beginning, a Very Good Place to Start

  • ►  2012 (5)
    • ►  February (2)
      • Enough
      • Adoption is Kind of Like an Isuzu Pickup
    • ►  January (3)
      • Here's the Thing
      • The Big Question
      • Grief and Healing, Part 3
  • ►  2011 (68)
    • ►  December (4)
      • The Ghost of Christmas Past
      • Grief and Healing, Part Two
      • Grief and Healing, or Something Like That
      • In Which December is Also Adoption Month
    • ►  November (4)
      • Guest Blog Alert!
      • Out
      • Lucky
      • Guest Post
    • ►  October (4)
      • I'm Old, and Here's Why
      • In Which Jill Counts Her Blessings in a Roundabout...
      • Open Adoption Roundtable #30
      • Up and Away
    • ►  September (6)
      • The Worst Person in the World
      • In Which Jill Feels the Need to Disagree
      • How To Irritate an Adoptive Mother
      • Everybody Hurts
      • Two Years
      • "Real" - a Rant
    • ►  August (6)
      • Just Me and My Memories
      • Happy Blogday!
      • Welcome to the World, Baby Girl
      • Back Home Again
      • In Which a Lot of Whining Occurs
      • I'm a Birth Mother, and I'm Okay*
    • ►  July (7)
      • Footprints in the Sand
      • Time
      • Here's the Problem: A Warning
      • I'm Ambivalent About Blog Awards
      • Visit
      • Two
      • "I Want You To Know I Am Happy"
    • ►  June (5)
      • I will be back to blogging in July, I promise. All...
      • I haven't blogged much lately at all, and I feel t...
      • Unrealistic Expectations, Take Two
      • Boundaries
      • A Few Things ...
    • ►  May (5)
      • Five Days in July
      • Sorry
      • Hey, Peeps ...
      • (Birth) Mother's Day
      • My Biggest Secret
    • ►  April (6)
      • Peace
      • Saturday
      • Good Grief
      • Yeah, That's Right, I'm Everywhere
    • ►  March (7)
    • ►  February (6)
    • ►  January (8)
  • ▼  2010 (160)
    • ►  December (7)
    • ►  November (10)
    • ►  October (10)
    • ►  September (12)
    • ►  August (10)
    • ►  July (11)
    • ►  June (11)
    • ►  May (17)
    • ►  April (15)
    • ►  March (23)
    • ▼  February (17)
      • March 2009, Part One
      • And Then, Some Days ...
      • Some Days ...
      • I'm Not Proud of This ...
      • February 2009, Part Two
      • I Really, Really Need This
      • Time
      • February 2009, Part One
      • Desperate (to be a) Housewife
      • Alone
      • It's the Little Things
      • January 2009 – Depression, Indecision, Adoption
      • Seven Months Old
      • December 2008, Part Three
      • Oh, and by the way ...
      • December 2008, Part Two
      • December 2008, Part One
    • ►  January (17)
  • ►  2009 (123)
    • ►  December (22)
    • ►  November (36)
    • ►  October (22)
    • ►  September (41)
    • ►  August (2)

Me Me Me

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My name is Jill. I'm 28. I had a baby girl, Roo, on July 7th, 2009. I handed her to her mommy and daddy on September 9th, 9 weeks later. This blog is my attempt to make sense of things and it is my hope that when Roo is older, she'll read it, and maybe she'll understand.
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