Melissa | January 29, 2011
Fill in the blank:
Adoption is a _________.
a. grief-filled tragedy.
b. beautiful miracle.
If you are asking, where is c. All of the above, we are on the same page.
Too many times, I witness (or am part of) the debate between answers a and b. There are birth mothers who feel they were manipulated to give up their [...]
Melissa | January 28, 2011
Ty just said, “Wow, this is really delicious!”
If you’ve ever had a language or speech delayed child, you know how delicious those words are to my ears
Melissa | January 28, 2011
Remember when I talked about Gourmet Club? Well tomorrow’s that time again. This time it’s crock pot dishes…everything from appetizer to dessert. In honor of Crockpot Gourmet Club, here is an easy crock pot recipe. Easy. Crockpot. Is that redundant?
Anyway, you’ll need:
Enough chicken breat to feed your family. If you use more than 2 pounds, [...]
Melissa | January 27, 2011
It’s so apropos that Ty’s favorite character is Curious George on so many levels. This is one of them.
Clearly he’s not biologically related to us. He’s the only one in our family with any upper body strength.
Melissa | January 27, 2011
If the 4 or so inches of snow we got yesterday morning wasn’t enough, at around 6PM last night, we got a snow thunderstorm complete with lightening.
This is the snowman the kids made when they got up yesterday morning.
This is the snowman Patrick made at dusk last night in the middle of some of the [...]
Melissa | January 24, 2011
Valentine’s Day approaches. Normally, I try to make a concerted effort to ignore this over-commercialized, Hallmarked holiday. However, this year, I stumbled across an activity I couldn’t pass up and it just so happens to fit February’s love theme.
The idea grew from an activity that Focus’ Thriving Family website promoted–LOVE BINGO. They recommended reading 1 [...]
Melissa | January 22, 2011
Dear Anonymous Letter-Writer,
Thanks for taking the time to care so much about the appearance of our house that you would come to us and approach us in a neighborly matter to find out what was really going on–oh wait, you didn’t. Thanks for making assumptions about how much we care about our property value and [...]
Melissa | January 22, 2011
It seems many adoptive parents agonize over whether to send their internationally adopted child to language and/or culture school.
Honestly, I don’t think there’s a right or wrong answer, but here are some things to think about.
Does your child want to? I did about 3 years of Saturday Korean school in grade school because my best friend (also [...]
Melissa | January 18, 2011
January seems to be the month to give the state of anything (Union, State, school, etc) so here’s the State of our Family in list form because that’s how I roll write.
PJ’s into anything written as a comic book, Star Wars, and LEGOs. He constantly amazes us with how much he knows and his amazing [...]
Melissa | January 15, 2011
Typically I think social workers are more intimidating to adoptive parents than RAID is to insects.
Why?
Because the person who has the power to place a child in your house is assumed to have the power to take him away.
Although meant to promote adoption, last Saturday’s FOX movie, Change of Plans, was another media portrayal of [...]
