Scenario #1: Parents A bring home Little Girl B from China at 2 years of age. They have two biological children and are excited about providing a home to an orphan. Little Girl B has some moderate, correctable special needs that have to be addressed as soon a she comes home. The surgery does not...
Author: Melissa
Kids' room workflow
I think we’ve been over this before but I HATE cleaning. Since we have 3 kids, we use them a lot to help with the cleaning. It’s really a win-win. They learn life skills and I don’t have to clean. The other day on our fourth snow day home in almost as many days, I...
Mom tip of the day: Food in the car
I don’t know about you, but I get cranky when I’m hungry. For me it’s a sodium thing, but for most it’s a blood sugar thing. Kids, with their faster metabolisms, also get cranky when they’re hungry. Cranky kids usually means a downward slide of bad behavior which results in a cranky mom. If you’re...
{#10} Dichotomy
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...
[dih-lish-uhs]
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 🙂
Easy cheesy chicken and beans
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...
Monkey Man
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.
Thunder Snow
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...