When I was given the opportunity to be a guest-blogger while the Silly Old Bear and his family vacationed, I immediately knew just what I wanted to write about.  Because, I felt it necessary to point out the one absolutely super thing in this world that Ben would most likely never write about, or at least […]
dad and da kid Originally uploaded by silly old bear. I love to read birth stories from other parents, I love to see what they recall and what made each moment for them. Here’s one from me. Eight years ago, tomorrow, I came home from work and found three messages on my answering machine. Before […]
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) […]