Positive adoption language is to the adoption community as politically correct is to the rest of the world. While I agree that adopted children and children who physically grew in your womb should not be valued differently, there is a distinct difference between the adopted children and the non-adopted children in your home that no...
Author: Melissa
Peanut-Crusted Chicken
What you’ll need: Enough thinly sliced chicken breast meat to feed your family. I prefer boneless skinless. I had 2 honkin’ pieces that I cut thickness-wise to make 4 pieces. Then I pounded them with a meat tenderizer to make them even thinner. Enough honey roasted peanuts to cover the chicken. I used about 2...
{#30} Draggees
In adoption stories, more often than not, there is a dragger and draggee. For whatever reason, spouses are rarely on the same page at the same time when it comes to adoption. The good news for draggers is that your draggee has a good chance of catching up. I talk to a lot of folks...
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End of an Era
I’m not really sure words can explain how we feel about the past 5 years we had the privilege to be part of the school our older kids are leaving. It was so much more than a school. It was a community. It was a partnership. It was a family. It was an Eden where...
{#29} Save those receipts!
It turns out that if you filed for the Adoption Tax Credit for 2010, you were audited. Period. End of story. And you probably still don’t have your full refund from Uncle Sam. I can’t help but think that this will be a continuing trend in future years now that the credit is so high...
Lesson Planning and OneNote
I’m a control freak. Combine that with a history of curriculum writing jobs and homeschooling and, well, I’m sure you can use your imagination. What I love about the Classical Conversations Curriculum Guide is that is gives me a framework around which to build my week. For instance, the first week’s history memory sentence for...