One of the unusual things about adoption is that sometimes developmental milestones don’t happen when you think they will. For example: my daughter is usually fine with one (or both) of us leaving the house. She’s been this way for, oh, the last sixteen months or so (she just turned two a couple months back) […]
I yelled at my son a little while ago. (my older boy, not the fella that was sick today). He used some rather choice language against his mom and then, um, “decorated” with a sharpie, something he knows much better than to do. Then I asked him to do something, he smarted off, and I […]
I’m sure some of you have little rituals around your house. One of ours is that when we arrive home at the end of the day, the kids go get the mail. Since there are three kids and only one mailbox, well, we kinda take turns. (the baby can’t even reach the mailbox, but she […]