2006 is about to wrap up. I've only been blogging here on AdoptionBlogs since October but I've found my own little niche. With that, as I make plans for topics to cover in the first half of the year, I come to ask my readers what kinds of things they would like to see. (And don't any of you dare say "only positive stuff" or "more big-bad stuff.")

I've got adoptive parents, birth parents and adoptees who read this blog. I have some relatives who have not adopted or placed but are attached to the triad by someone else in their family. And others. What do you want to read? Learn about? Be inundated with?

I have some tenative series in the works for 2007. I am starting to work on a series about birth parents who go on (or continue) to parent other children after placement. It has been a big issue for me in the past year and, as I've found out, remains an issue for birth mothers and birth fathers across the board. Obviously, on varying levels. I plan on getting the surveys completed by the middle of January and hope to launch the series in that last week.

I have a few other ideas floating around my head but, as you are my readers, I come to ask your opinions on what you'd like to see more of in this blog. Obviously, I am going to continue with the Love Thursday meme/series. It's a bright spot in my week as I hope it is in yours. I will also continue to bring you news articles and other timely, relevant news regarding adoption and birth parents. I had originally wanted to start a blog post of the week but, as the holidays neared and then over took us all, it got pushed to the back burner? Would you like to see a featured post by a birth parent blogger from places other than AdoptionBlogs? I would also have to ask for your participation on this one to alert me of important, pertinent or amazing blog entries by birth parents on any given week as I can't possibly cover the whole internet on my own ten fingers!

I think that perhaps in the next year, I should commit my personal adoption journey to words in this blog. I've done it in bits and pieces in various entries so that readers can understand where I'm coming from but never in a chronological order with the little details that make a story a story. Honestly, even though I've blogged and journaled about the Munchkin's placement for three years now, I don't know that I've ever truly "written" about the subject. Instead, I've mostly just detailed it for the reading masses. Interesting project at hand right there.

And so, I leave you with the question: what would you like to read about this year? What do you want to/need to learn about regarding birth parents? Open adoption? Birth parents in open adoption? Grief? Guilt? Loss? Shame? Depression? Therapy? Do's and Don'ts? Etc? Give me your ideas. Share your desire to learn with me.

And we'll see where 2007 can take us!