Melissa | January 7, 2012
I was recently asked, “How do you plan to create happiness for yourself in 2012?”
There are, of course, the cliche answers such as take time for myself, live in the moment, get my priorities straight, exercise more, tell corny jokes…you get the idea. But since I hate cliche answers, I kept thinking.
Then there was the [...]
Melissa | August 19, 2011
When Patrick started his own business a year-and-a-half ago, I didn’t expect to cherish the times he didn’t have work. I’m pretty very type A and I expected that the periods of time he was in between c0ntracts to be stressful on all sorts of levels. And they have been.
I stress when he wants to [...]
Melissa | January 6, 2011
If you know me in real life, you know that I despise cleaning. I enjoy a straight, organized, clutter-free zone as much as the next person but it’s so tortuous for me to get there, that I’m often just leave my roost rather than let the clutter stress me out.
Recently, Patrick and I have been [...]
Melissa | November 19, 2010
At the beginning of this month, I had really good intentions of doing a bunch of adoption posts since it is National Adoption Month. It turns out that keeping up with Grafted Families is almost a full time job and blogging has taken a back seat. Don’t be offended…my house has taken the trunk.
Anyway earlier [...]
Melissa | August 24, 2010
I say it often. “Murphy* was a genius.”
*If you have no idea who I’m talking about, click here.
I was reminded again today. “Murphy was a genius.”
As a general rule, we’re very up front and honest with our kids.
If I throw away something by accident (or on purpose) and they ask about it, I tell them [...]
Melissa | July 20, 2010
For whatever reason (probably because God designed us this way), we do not like to feel alone or singled out. There is power in knowing you are not alone. This is blessing and a curse. It depends on what the group is doing.
Helping others. Good.
Jumping off a bridge. Bad.
Finding others who have reconciled a broken [...]
Melissa | July 8, 2010
…almost exactly 5 months ago it was 70 degrees colder with 20 inches of snow on the ground.
Am I the only one that is constantly fascinated that we live in a world where there are such swings in temperature and climate in one place? On the other hand, God put us on a planet that [...]
Melissa | June 7, 2010
Since I’ve been remiss in publishing anything of discussable content lately (I am working on a parenting post though), I’ll direct you to Patrick.
Click HERE.
Read (all of it).
Let me know what you think.
Melissa | May 18, 2010
********UPDATE********
After much discussion on various boards about this post, I chose to change the title (as it was very distracting) and add these words….
For those that claim some parents do not want to parent, I see that as a failure somewhere a long the line. It’s not acceptable to me that people think it’s ok [...]
Melissa | April 17, 2010
It stinks that one person can ruin it for everyone else. The recent return of a little boy to Russia and the subsequent suspension of Russian adoptions to U.S. homes is a perfect example. (I also hate how the general public’s opinion of adoption is based on media reports of failed adoptions but that’s another [...]
