Comments on: Wow… a New Low…Non-Mom

By: lifeisacookie

lifeisacookie — Tue, 13 May 2008 19:59:50 +0000

Count The Cookie among the outraged as well.
http://lifeisacookie.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/non-sense/

By: The Green Witch

The Green Witch — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:18:58 +0000

Ridiculous. Surely the whole point of adoption is to give children parents? So how does that make you not a mother?

The most crass, insensitive, bean-counting, pigeonholing bunch of tossers ever. They need their credentials examining and to be shown the door.

By: Mandy Houk

Mandy Houk — Tue, 13 May 2008 01:33:43 +0000

Holy smokes. My eyes are burning, and I’m not being figurative.

I had a lovely dinner yesterday with my two daughters and my mother. Not once in the entire day — not when I was writing on her card, nor when I was hugging her and thanking her for being generally adorable — did I for one second stop and think, “Well, she’s not my actual mom, of course.”

Mom and Dad brought me home from the hospital when I was 5 days old. I didn’t grow in her tummy, but that has never mattered. In fact, I wrote an article about this very issue, which wound up being purchased by and published in “Chicken Soup for the Adopted Soul.” (I know that sounds like self-promotion, but I already got paid, and I don’t get royalties, so this is not salesmanship.) I related how my mother defined “adoption” for my sister and me when we were too little to completely understand. She said, “You were loved enough to be given up, and loved enough to be taken in. ‘Adoption’ means ‘twice-loved.’”

I am thoroughly disgusted with Teleflora and NBC. Clueless ivory tower elitists. Seriously.

By: unnikuttan

unnikuttan — Mon, 12 May 2008 21:12:40 +0000

I hope that things will improve next time.

By: Coco

Coco — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:35:05 +0000

Teleflora sucks for so many reasons that I won’t even try to list them here. I wasn’t aware of this particular travesty before I sent them a blistering e-mail detailing why I will NEVER use them again, but rest assured, they’ll hear from me on this issue as well.

By: michellespagefornonni

michellespagefornonni — Mon, 12 May 2008 00:02:25 +0000

As the mom of both biological and adopted children, and the granddaughter of an adoptive mom, I can tell you that “real” is what really happens. “Real” is raising them, being there for them, getting up at night with them, sacrificing for them, loving them and teaching them to be loving people. I can say from personal experience the love for a child is the same whether you bore them or adopted them. You BONDED. You grew together through the thick and thin of life. You even in some ways grow to look alike. You sound alike. You act alike–not exactly, but probably as much as siblings do. I have an adopted child who looks more like me than one of my biological kids does. What makes a mom? I will say if you are a woman who has a child and that child has a bedroom in your heart–you are a mom. And there need be no adjectives in front of the word mom.

Michelle

By: wovensunshine

wovensunshine — Sun, 11 May 2008 05:54:20 +0000

I was stunned when I read your blog— I wish I’d seen it BEFORE I used Telaflora to order my mom’s flowers! You are a MOM. Not NBC, not Teleflora can say otherwise. Happy Mother’s Day to YOU. JIG

By: jenn11970

jenn11970 — Sun, 11 May 2008 00:49:44 +0000

“Non-Moms” and supporters against TeleFlora Mother’s Day Campaign

is the name of the Facebook group.

By: jenn11970

jenn11970 — Sun, 11 May 2008 00:49:04 +0000

Thanks ladies and Happy Mother’s Day to all of you!!!

By: Susan

Susan — Sun, 11 May 2008 00:39:47 +0000

What a moving post. I got here via Ann Marie’s blog. I’ll be emailing the Today Show as well.

What’s the name of the Facebook group, btw? I tried finding it…

Most of all – idiots aside – a wonderful Mothers’ Day to you!