Adoption Forum

Wow...it's nearing 1030 PM and hubby and I are still up!  I know, it's a complete shock, but hubby has a 12 page paper to write for his masters class.  Poor guy, but I guess that's what he gets for waiting till the day of to write all of it...can you say procrastination?!?
I frequent an adoption forum from my agency in VA, however I think I'm going to back away from it.  The ladies on it have gotten rude in replying to comments this week and it's discomforting.  It's a christian agency, so you'd think the women would be a little polite...you can't leave your opinion on their without being attacked!  I personally haven't been attacked, but there have been 3 incidents this week were 3 different ladies were attacked.  I found it to be rude and uncalled for and DO NOT want to be associated with the forum if that is how they will be treating people.  People have a right to their opinions and should be able to voice them without being attacked.  Sometimes, people are just curious about something and want to know more, innocently.  I'm afraid to post anything on there because I'm afraid of being attacked.  It's suppose to be a place to go to ask questions, get others views, learn new things, meet new people, and share ideas.  Because I'm new to adoption, I have a TON of questions, but don't feel I can ask without looking stupid for asking the question or being attacked because someone don't agree with my thinking.  Oh the frustration!  I wonder if I will be able to stop looking at the site?  Maybe if I take a short break, then longer, then even longer I will eventually be okay with stopping.  I feel addicted to the site though because I love reading other people's experiences and learning from them and their dealings with things.
On a bright side of things, I went shopping today in Saarbrucken, Germany.  I went with my friend and her girls, and it was a lot of fun!  It was my first time in a mall over here so I thank her for asking me to join them.  The mall was filled with a lot of trinkets and Pier One type stores.  I loved it, if only I had shelves to put stuff, I'd be buying!  Hubby already thinks I'm a trinket collector, so why not really start collecting them.  He'd really have a cow then...LOL.  The stuff was SO cute though...I did buy my youngest brother a cute moose, his nickname is moose, so I saw it and it fit him well. 
Hubbies birthday is tomorrow and I'm going to have him a surprise party with 2 families we know, just something small since he's not into this type of thing.  He's turning the big 30, so i wanted to make it a big deal.  We are going to go to a pizza place and I bought some decorations with the theme of Elmo...LOL.  It's Yippee for You and Hooray for You...meaning finally you are 30 and a big boy now...I can't wait.  I wasn't going to do anything for him because of fear he'd be mad and embarrassed, then that would make me feel sad.  But I decided to and will take the grunting if I have to.  I'm SO excited!  I'll post pictures on Monday probably.