“Oh, good, my dog found the chainsaw.”

We watched Lilo and Stitch again the other night. I just love this movie. I’ve had discussions with other parents, who felt the subject matter was a bit much for a kids movie. ‘They’re trying to take her away!’ ‘I don’t like the social worker’ etc. That’s part of our lives, part of our existence, […]

Anatomy review

Back in September I wrote about the steps we go through for adoption. Here’s an update to our checklist: Foster placement (we are foster parents, after all). March, 2004 Time spent with child in care, while mom and/or dad try and get permission to have child returned. This is usually how a case turns out. […]

Rude awakening

I happened to catch on the morning news that the city has added the geographical locations of “registered sex offenders” to a map, accessable on the city web site. This is fine. You know, it’s trendy to keep track of sex offenders. Of course, I personally am more worried about people convicted of drunk driving, […]