SO... you don't owe me anything, right? Possibly don't even know me. So why would I think you'd want to give me money in the first place? Honestly, I don't. You probably have the same possessive feeling about your money that I have about mine. I like it, it's mine, and I plan to keep it.
Of course, the bills indicate that both you and I are not actually going to be able to keep it, or most of it, no matter how happy it would make us to do that. That's the bargain we made when we got things like satellite TV, credit cards and houses. I accept that.
THIS isn't about that. THIS is about family. I (quite to my own amazement) discovered that I'm a good parent when I had my son. I'm a REALLY good parent. God, god, the gods, fate, destiny, whatever you call it, must have meant me to have oodles of kids. Really. How could that not be true, when I'm so good at it that I've virtually adopted several baseball teams worth of my kid's friends?

Enter... cancer... Geez, a person really can't get a break. A diagnosis of cervical cancer and, bam! Just like that, no more kids.

So, I've gone and done the thing I really didn't want to do. I've made my website a potential source of income. I never wanted to annoy people with ads and banners, because they drive me crazy on other sites. But I need to make money, because NOW the only way I can have kids is expensive. We can do the petri dish/surrogate thing and we can adopt... and neither is particularly cheap, because neither is covered by our insurance.

And that, my friend, is where YOU came in. IF you're going to buy the things you see on my site anyway, all you're doing is letting me make a few cents off the sale. If you're NOT looking to buy anything, don't buy anything. Just forgive the ads and try to understand my need to make a couple bucks. I'll do my best to make them at least relevant to the content of the page they're on! You won't find me trying to sell you furniture on a page related to Scottish Genealogy! I have a little shame, after all. :-)

Update, BTW ... I am cancer-free, they tell me. So I'll live long enough to raise all the kids I'd like to have. Yay!

How about a few adoption-related books to consider? They seem to fit here.



And there's HRTs for the ladies without ovaries. Or those who hit menopause in the more traditional way!



And, also relevant, how about some In Vitro stuff?



Nothing there for you? Well, hit your back button on your browser and get back to your family tree. I appreciate the time you took here to consider mine!