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Last weekend, I had plans to sleep in. And I mean SLEEP IN. As any mother knows, that really translates to laying in bed until 9, ’cause key-ripes 5:30 am, everyday? Sucks. Because my children are 6 and 7, and well-trained, I can occasionally do this. Having a relaxing morning experience with Aftermath is a […]

Our son M was two and a half when we met him at his orphanage in Moscow. When we brought him outside to the playground, one of the first things he did was pick up a stick, assume a shooting stance, and yell, “Ba-ba! Ba-ba! Ba-ba!” like a machine gun. That’s right: he was just […]

There have been too many times over the last year where I’ve stood at the doorway to my son’s play area (not a real room, just a small space behind the living room) and felt pretty sick over the giant mess of toys.
I’ve felt sick over the mess - the enormous, tangled mess of little […]

Two years ago, when we opened our first photos of the toddlers we were considering adopting, we saw a grinning blond boy with merry eyes and an auburn-haired girl who looked like she was trying not to smile. We noticed that both had smooth skin, clear eyes, and chubby hands. We noticed that the girl […]

It is fascinating to watch two children of the same age and that are exposed to the same home environment develop into two distinct little individuals. Every now and then someone will say “Don’t compare them.” While I agree that it is not good to compare one child to the other, I think it is […]

When you are the parent of twins you experience some benefits of having two the same age as well as some drawbacks. I won’t get into how traumatic my girls early arrival was and how having two infants was more stress than I could have ever imagined, so maybe another time. What I’ve noticed, though, […]

We’re scheduled to finish our lessons in two weeks, and then summer vacation will commence. I do have some academic plans for the summer months, but they’re very light-weight and shouldn’t take more than a few minutes after breakfast. If we keep fresh on all they’ve learned then my hope is that next […]