#non-biological

[disk28]

[wildflowers-of-southern-ontario]

Attempts to Photograph a Snowflake

Mind you, I don’t have an actual macro lens and had to compromise with a magnifying lens.

Photographs taken on December 2016 in Mississauga, Ontario.

[weroyals]

♛:: @casqet said,   ❛   You've really changed my mind about... non-biological people.                                          Sorry about anything I said before.  ❜         ―robot starters // eagerly accepting

            ❝ Don’t worry about it, ❞     Valentine responds kindly, in the tone of voice of somebody who has heard the very same and worse some countless thousands of times before, and has more or less gotten used to it,     ❝ I know you were scared. Tends to get people lashin’ out. Especially when you reach a place like that. ❞

          He scratched his jaw thoughtfully. In spite of the detective’s thick skin and empathy both, he knew as well as she did that apologies were well in order. He’d be lying if he said that being treated that way didn’t still sting, no matter how many times he did hear that kind of thing. He smiled anyway.

           ❝ I’m glad to help. And if you got a new perspective, so much the better. ❞

[thenextfamily]

Loving Your Non-Biological Child

By Meika Rouda

A mother's wisdom: "giving birth to a child is a huge bond, but so is raising one."

I am a bit obsessed with the NY Times article about the French woman who gave birth twenty years ago to a baby girl that was switched with another baby at the hospital. The woman Sophie Serrano was eighteen years old when she gave birth in a small village in France. Her newborn baby had jaundice and needed phototherapy so she was taken from Ms. Serrano and placed in a bassinet with another newborn baby girl who was also receiving treatment in the nursery. When her daughter, who she named Manon, finished treatment and was brought back to her Ms. Serrano noticed the baby looked different, especially her hair. When she asked the nurses why the baby suddenly had so much more hair, they assured her that the light treatment can make hair grow quickly. So, she went home with the baby. 

Her boyfriend, the father of her baby had doubts the baby was his since the girl did not look like him and asked for a paternity test. When the test came back, it turned out neither he nor Ms. Serrano had a biological connection to the girl. After a lengthy court battle with the hospital, Ms. Serrano recently met her birth daughter and said she felt no particular connection to her. She said that after learning that Manon was not her biological daughter, her connection and love for her only grew stronger. And when Manon, who turns out to be Creole, met her biological family she had a similar feeling, she said she could not connect to them even though she looked like them.

Continue reading here. 

[absolutlysara]

I love my mom!!

Such a good night! We laughed and joked and teared up and ate good food and are going on an adventure tomorrow again! I miss my mommy and it is nice to see her.  We talked tonight about my biological family tree and got to hear about my mom’s biological mother and my Papa John and his parents. We talked about so many different things. It really makes me value the family I have in my life who have made an effort to stick around. I really appreciate them. And I wish I had been able to meet my Papa John, and I am sad that he passed before I was born. Sometimes I wish I were closer with my mom’s mom, but at the same time, if she wanted to she could make an effort too. And I have SO MANY people in my life who I value and appreciate and who make my life grand, that in no way shape or form do I feel the lack. I have many Grandmother’s who have been there for me since birth. My Mom is such a good person. She could have left me with my Dad and hit the ground running. She had no experience of having a mother or being mothered. She was scared she was going to screw me up. But she stuck it out and did a great thing and is the best mother I could ask for. I love her with all my heart.

[lushwanderlust]

Today.

Today is the day I dread every year. It's a day I take for myself to cry and wonder what it would be like having him in my life. This year was different, I woke up and immediately sent a long sentimental text to my part time father. From the very first day I stepped into his house he acted like I was his own. This is the absolute greatest feeling ever to be able to say Happy Fathers day and to post about "my dad". He is my ex boyfriends father but acts like the opposite. He called me at 7 o'clock tonight and asked if he could come pick me up and we could all go out for dinner and ice cream, sadly I had to decline because I had already made further plans but just the offer made my night. Even though I'm not biological I love him like I was. I appreciate everything he's done for me and "adopting" me. I love you Craig, thank you for giving me something that I never had to chance to experience it's wonderful to have a father (:

[solonganak]

December 06 2011

hannah and yours truly :)) my non-biological sister like crizetter sio. ahehe! we feels each other ahe only child lang din kasi siya e. kaya ayun naiintindihan namin yung isa't isa. pareho kaming di maka-relate pg about sa mga kapatid na ang pinaguusapan ng tropa. haha bigla kaming tatahimik.. ahehe! love ko tong taong to. kahit na minsan/kadalasan nasusungitan ko siya pero ayun iniintindi niya lang ako. LOVE YOU PREEE ^__^ 

[solonganak]

seriously i really want/wish i have brother (older brother much better) and a sister.)

ako lang kasi mag-isa e (only child ba). though madami akong maituturing na mga kuya and ate like my cousins as well as yung mga classmates ko nung high school and yung mga friends ko din ngayung college. pero iba kasi talaga di ba pag may kuya ka or ate e.

yung iba ayaw nila kasi kaaway daw or what pero normal lang naman siguro yun sa mga magkapatid di ba? mmp.. (di ko rin alam ang feeling ng may kaaway na kapatid e..ahe!)

yung tipong pag may problema ka sa mga girls pwede ang humingi ng advice sa ate mo. and vice versa naman pag dating kay kuya. mmp.. yung feeling na may nag aalaga sayo pag wala yung parents niyo. lalo na pag may sakit ka tapos busy both parents. (hindi yung ikaw mismo mag aalaga ng sarili mo. haaay >:|) basta yung feeling lang na alam mong may masasandalan ka pag may instant problem na dumating syo.

natutuwa ako sa mga friends ko pag nagku-kwento sila about sa mga kapatid nila di man ako maka relate at least kahit papano nalalaman ko yung feeling na may kapatid/ kaya minsan lalo tuloy ako naiinggit. ahe! sa hospital nga lalo na pag sa DELIVERY ROOM or sa NICU kami nag duduty kulang nalang ipuslit ko yung mga bata dun para lang magkaroon ako ng kapatid ok ng baby brother/sister at least may kapatid diba? ahehe XD kaya lang hindi ganoon kadali mag puslit ng bata dun e..ahehe! XD

pero thankful narin ako kasi andyan mga HIGH SCHOOL FRIENDS KO na masasabi kong mga KUYA AT ATE ko at ngayong COLLEGE. andyan yung mga ISBU (tawag namin sa group namin aheheh! ang baho lang e no.) na ahit papano nararamdaman ko na may mga kapatid din ako.