The other day, my dad sent a card to the kids, along with a recent picture of himself. My kids grabbed ahold of that picture and ran around the house, exclaiming “it’s a real life picture! Look! A REAL PICTURE!” They treated it like a long-lost relic from the past. Their excitement over a printed photo was kind of a wake-up call for me. While I do a great job of curating our family photos on facebook, instagram, and on my blog, I am not very good . . .
talking about adoption transition at Together for Adoption
Mark and I are prepping to lead a series of discussions at the Together for Adoption Conference this weekend in Arizona. We will be leading four sessions there. The first two will be about transitioning children from living in a group setting to living in a family session. These will probably be most appealing to prospective or waiting adoptive parents, orphanage or group home directors, or parents with kids newly home – but I encourage all adoptive parents to attend because we . . .
more fun with the HP touchsmart computer
Over the summer, HP asked if I would like to review their new TouchSmart desktop computer. My family quickly fell in love with it, and thanks to my refusal to send it back my enthusiasm about the product, HP let us keep it a little longer. I mentioned in my previous review that I’m a little bit Amish about kids and computers. Yep, I’m one of those moms who thinks that the next generation is having their brains sucked out by the video games. I’m not against technology in . . .
that’s what she said
Some good reads on the web this week. Click on the title to read the whole thing. Why I Don’t Want to Talk About Race | The Good Men Project Black people can’t talk to white people about race anymore. There’s really nothing left to say. There are libraries full of books, interviews, essays, lectures, and symposia. If people want to learn about their own country and its history, it is not incumbent on black people to talk to them about it. It is not our responsibility to . . .
what I want you to know: living with inflammatory bowel disease
What I Want You to Know is a series of reader submissions. It is an attempt to allow people to tell their personal stories, in the hopes of bringing greater compassion to the unique issues each of us face. If you would like to submit a story to this series, click here. Today’s post is by an anonymous reader. I have thoroughly debunked the myth that I'd heard from college male friends who naively repeated, "Girls don't poop." I unfortunately can't stop because I have . . .
it turns out, you CAN get good help these days
I’ve talked a lot here about my challenges with finding good help in my quest to outsource some of my daily tasks. I tried for too long to be a working mom while also doing all of the tasks I did as a stay-at-home mom. At the beginning of the year I made a commitment to use some of my earnings to outsource the things I would be doing if I was at home (the tough ones for me being laundry, organization, and administrative stuff). I felt empowered to stop trying to do it all . . .
do boys really play with toys?
With the new school schedule, I have two days a week where I’m home with just India and Karis. It’s . . . interesting. It’s so quiet. And so easy. I’ve actually been blown away by how different it is, and I think there is one main reason: My boys don’t play with toys. My girls do. My girls will sit for hours and entertain themselves with toys. They don’t need any prompting from me. They create little stories. They play alone. They play with each . . .
cute, cheap photo invitations for slacker moms
Confession: I nearly dropped the ball on Kembe and India’s birthday this year. I don’t know what it is about October, but it always creeps up on me. There is something about the end of summer, the new school routine, and the weather that still feels like it’s August that always leaves me SHOCKED when October rolls around. So on the last day of September, I looked at the calendar and had a little moment of panic that it was one week until the twin’s birthday and I hadn’t planned . . .
the twins turn five
I know this is sort of a cliché thing to say at each birthday, but . . . . whoa. I cannot believe Kembe and India are five. FIVE! That’s so big. I‘ve always thought of five as a milestone age. And even though it is my favorite age so far, it’s just a little sad to feel like more than half my kids are “over-the-hump”, gaining independence (yay) but also losing some of those adorable preschool mannerisms. I mean, just look at how cute and little they were last . . .
the post where you provide me with some faq’s I can answer
I had my blog re-designed about a year ago, and I added an FAQ page to the menu bar. I’m not really sure what I had planned for this page, I guess it just seemed like a good idea at the time. If you click on it, you can see that I’ve really done a lot with it. Ahem. Anyways, I need to pull it together and create something a little more interesting. Except that I don’t really have any frequently asked questions. Well, that’s not true. There were a startling number . . .
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