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 […]
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Decoding Ty
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 […]
The Leaf Jumping Pictures
With so many warm days this fall, it would almost be a sin not to do some leaf jumping. Did you jump this fall?
{#46} I wish kids didn't have ages
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 […]
Fall Formals
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 […]
How Ty Hears the World
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. […]
{#44} The strong-willed child from the hard place
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.” […]