delayed Beef

ok, so i know this is a little delayed

as the olympics have been over 

for a while now, but whatever. 

this has been on my mind off and on 

since and I'm just now sitting down 

to right about it.

my family really enjoys watching 

the olympics and this year was 

no different.

sometimes we got sucked in and 

would look like zombies

in front of the tv

and other times we would just 

keep it on for background noise, 

until something caught our attention.

one night i was just walking through

the house and was stopped by 

a commentator talking 

about reese hoffa's (US shot put) "A-mom".

k and i both stopped, 

stunned in our tracks,

and were like 

"A-mom, what the hell is an A-mom....

[insert sudden rage]...why the hell would 

that announcer just call his adoptive mother

his A-mom?!" 

seriously?

i bet he never once

called the mother that 

raised and loved him, "A-mom"

as the mother of an adopted child,

i was supremely insulted and pissed off

that his mother was categorized 

as an "A-mom" rather than just his mother.

we have to deal with 

this sort of stuff 

more often than i like. 

i would like it if people 

were more aware that

no two families are the same.

i thought that the commentator

was tactless. 

i wish that adopted kids 

could just be kids and not labelled..."adopted kids"

or kids with a story!

there's my beef. 

if there's anything 

i would like you to take 

from my rant....it's this:

please teach your children 

that people and families

come in all different

shapes and sizes. 

here's the infamous clip:

until next time,
b