Marc Brown's Buzznet

2005 has been a pretty crazy year all the way around.  Work has been very busy, as you may have noticed we've hired a number of employees at Buzznet, and have been adding many new features and doing lots of work on the site (new servers, new features, new employees, and many other good things to come in 2006).

But this post isn't about Buzznet.  It is much more personal. See, I have always known that I am adopted.  And in 2005 (35 years after I was born) we found my birth-mom.  It has been an emotional and amazing thing.

It has been wonderful emailing back and forth and seeing photos from her and my newly found sister here on Buzznet.  I've been made to feel completely welcome in this new family, and my parents (The Browns) have been totally amazing through all of this (as I would have always guessed).  They have been sending email detailing every year of my life to my birth-mom and I've learned a lot about myself  and my amazing parents (those first few years are a little fuzzy).

Wow.  So, Azalea and I are going to visit.  Although I was born in Los Angeles, my birth mother now lives in San Antonio, and my half-sister, Stephanie, also lives in Texas, and we are all spending Christmas together.  My new family, my best friend (Azalea) and me.    I don't think the emotions have totally hit me yet, and I don't think that it is possible to prepare for this visit (other than bringing some christmas gifts and things...) 

We leave on December 23rd.