After reading Debbie Allen’s Dancing in the Wings (totally great book about an empowered little girl - yes, it’s in my bookstore!) the girls really really wanted to learn how to dance. Spice was actually the keenest, which surprised me, becuase she’s the least coordinated of the two.Â
So I took them to a class in [...]
Jrock clipped this out of the paper for me. Ya think he’s making fun of me?
(Not wanting to risk copyright infringement, I linked to the original on the artist’s blog.)Â
We went over to my friend N’s house the other day - funny, we hadn’t seen them since November! and had sandwiches and dress-up. So nice to catch up; she’s a lovely lady.
When I was there we did N’s younger daughter’s hair too -Â N, like so many moms, finds her daughter’s hair a bit of [...]
Ok, so she gave me a heart attack when I went to wake them up a couple days ago. I looked in her bed, in the bathroon, UNDER the bed, in her sister’s bed…
…Â when finally I saw her!
Sugar had been there the whole time - just tucked in with the stuffies at the end of [...]
We’ve all been following the terrible news from Haiti, and in the adoption community we’ve definitely been thinking of all the kids and parents caught in the crisis. We just got word that 80+ of the kids in the latter phase of adoption as flying home RIGHT AWAY, and then rest have also been given [...]
When Jrock asked me what I wanted for Christmas, I said “just get me out of the house, please! Anything - pottery lessons, whatever…”
So he bought me three cooking lessons at Mission Hill, the grand vineyard up top of the hill in Westbank.
My first cooking lesson was themed around the Terrace Restaurant and it featured five [...]
You’re probably thinking “well, duh. That’s what you’ve been saying all along.”
Well, in Ethiopian adoption, it’s really common to have one age on paper and your kids be another age. Especially for kids older than 2. Certainly there is occasionally a little age fudging by birth parents, but much more common is simply not knowing [...]
My mom plays bridge with a soon-to-be granny, whose son is adopting from El Salvador. She connected me with him, and he asked if I would (via the Ethio Adoption grapvine) see if there is anyone else out there adopting or who has adopted from El Salvador.
So… know anyone adopting from El Salvador? Or who has [...]
I was compiling some video clips for my relatives today, and I just can’t believe how far along the girls’ language has come. Some people are also surprised at the things we talk about - and most of the time they start the conversation.Â
Like today when we were driving past the hospital, Spice says “I [...]
I guess every family has their own customs about eating, and family traditions. In my family, for example, we always used chopsticks growing up for Chinese food, and then sushi when it came en vogue. It actually started when my dad was in uni and her had a Chinese roommate - and only a wooden [...]
The girls just love reading - and they pay such close attention. I think we’ve read this one two or three times, and she gets the jist of the story just fine.
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PS: the battery charger arrived! So expect better newer fantasticer pics soon!
Continue reading about Sally Goes to the Vet - read by Spice
We had to keep it under tight wraps since October, but as of last month, it’s public knowledge. My Best Friend (since grade 4/5, so she retails the title even into adulthood) is preggers with twins! We’re so very happy for her and her hubby.  And it’ll be so nice to have someone else “in the [...]
He may be a rooky, but he did a great job!!!
Jrock helped me do hair for the first time today - yipee! He did twists all over Sugar’s head. No braiding experience required, right? After the initial part he was all on his own. It cut the braiding time almost in half, which was so [...]
