Being an adoptive Mum is...

...using online aliases for your children and hoping to God you get the right aliases AND don't accidentally use their real names

Being an adoptive Mum is...

...not being able to publish pictures of your children online in their cute little Halloween outfits or their Christmas gear or when they get ice cream all over their faces....

Being an adoptive Mum is...

...looking back on your Facebook statuses and seeing that they mostly talk about lack of sleep!

Being an adoptive Mum is...

...updating Twitter / Facebook / MySpace, etc with "It comes to something when it's a Friday night and I'm in bed by 6.30!

Being an adoptive Mum is...

...seeing photos of YOUR children on one of the birth family's facebook pages, with them saying how much they love them and miss them - and feeling sick, especially because there is nothing you can do about it.  The photos were taken before they were placed with us and so are not our (intellectual) property.

Being an adoptive Mum is...

...letting your three year old type her 'name' on your laptop because she has been learning how to type at nursery. And thinking is three too young to be introduced to computers? Next she will be friending and then defriending me on Facebook!