The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow


Today Chris and I went to see a play at the Seattle Bathhouse Theater. The play was all about a brilliant adopted girl from China with agoraphobia who designs a robot to travel to China to find her birth parents. Still with me? It was a great play and it was well acted and directed. It actually kept Chris awake the entire time! It had some startlingly brutal scenes between Jennifer and her mother about finding her "real mom". It definitely made me flash forward to the inevitability of these scenes in our family in 10 years or so. One thing I keep hearing from WACAP and the adoptive parents on the yahoo groups is about keeping the subject of adoption open with our child. It seems the kids that have the hardest time dealing with this subject are the ones that aren't allowed to grieve for their birthparents and have honest conversations with their adoptive parents. There are quite a few books on the subject and more classes to take. It is a good thing I have all this time! :-)