Melissa | January 4, 2012
With my family here and his family there, we’ve always had to be intentional about how we split time for the holidays. Years ago we decided to do Thanksgiving in one state and Christmas in the other. Every year we switch which one we do where. Our families have been very gracious about “sharing” us [...]
Melissa | December 15, 2011
Five years ago, even though we didn’t know it, our bouncy, pouncy, Ty-ger of a child entered the world albeit 15 weeks early. He joined our family at 2 1/2 years old and our lives haven’t been the same.
Unlike our other two, he didn’t respond to cause-effect discipline or intuitively learn anything. We still have [...]
Melissa | November 30, 2011
With so many
warm days this fall,
it would almost be a sin
not to do some
leaf jumping.
Did you jump this fall?
Melissa | November 23, 2011
Because November is National Adoption Month, I’d be remiss in not blogging about it or at least giving an update on Ty (and our current adoption process).
On paper, Ty’s almost 5.
There’s one camp that see him as 5 and expect him to act that way. They lay out how he should be acting based on his [...]
Melissa | October 30, 2011
I cringe at formal pictures. Mostly because I hate paying for backdrops and pasted on smiles that get thrown in a box in our basement after they hit the blog.
But sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and pay for the pictures, post them on the blog, relegate them to the basement and move [...]
Melissa | October 20, 2011
Melissa | October 11, 2011
Nearly every night Mia ends her prayer with “and I pray for everything I am missing. Amen.” She’s a little paranoid and likes to cover her bases. One night Ty prayed for a toy Mia had lost weeks ago. It seemed out of place but Ty is usually pretty random so we let it slip. [...]
Melissa | October 2, 2011
This is kind of a post-in-progress. We find ourselves with a strong-willed child from a hard place in our home. I’m hoping there are more of you out there.
For our purposes, I’m going to define the key words like this:
Strong-willed: Thrives on conflict. Has difficulty obeying right away…ever. Always fights to be “right.”
From a hard [...]
Melissa | August 10, 2011
Recently, teaching the kids the Lord’s Prayer (what is says and what it means) has been part of our bedtime routine. If you know Ty in real life, you can appreciate how amazing this is.
P.S. No one knows why he does those hand motions but he consistently does them at those parts.
