The girls started ballet lessons a few months ago, and boy o boy, have they ever enjoyed it.
There dance show is in two weeks, but I captured a bit of their dress rehearsal today - too cute! They don’t practice at home or anything - yet they still obviously have picked up a thing or [...]
I know from talking to a lot of people pre-adoption, that a common worry is “what if we get matched with the WRONG kid(s)?” After all, they kids aren’t made of your DNA - if Jrock and I had chosen to make a baby, no doubt the offspring would have burnt easily, been smart cookies, [...]
In response to the Hansen case, EMK Press and a number of other adoption professionals put together a 50 page guide for new adoptive parents. It’s called Realistic Expectations and can be downloaded at
our website by following this link: http://www.emkpress.com/realisticexpectations.html
A number of the articles have been reprinted from the Adoption Parenting book, while there [...]
My poor old camera got knocked off my desk by an errant cat foot about a month ago, and the lense was scratched. At first, I just put up with it, but then everytime I took a picture or video in daylight, there was this white blur on the top lefthand corner.Â
So, I emptied my [...]
The girls really love going out gardening with us - which is good, because it’s like their father and I’s favourite summer hobby.
For example, I took a nap this afternoon and told them not to interupt me unless they were hurt. When I woke up an hour later, I found them outside - happy as clams [...]
I’ve been setting aside clothes and collecting items to be sent to Ethiopia in a container over the next couple of months. The girls know I’ve been doing this but have’t paid much attention. But last night we were talking about how lucky we are as a family, and how lucky they are to have [...]
Back in February, the girls found a small radio in a geocache. For a month or so, whenever they would travel, they would split the earbuds and listen to the radio. But the old little thing broke. So I suggested to the girls that they try to earn some money and buy a new one.
They [...]
Funny thing - I was looking for another blog (I found some old pics of some kids and was looking to pass them on..) and I stumbled on this review of Canadian Ethiopian Adoption blogs by Angela Krueger. Thanks for the glowing review, Angela!
Rowan Family Tree Adoption Blog – Helpful Ethiopian Adoption Resources
The Rowan Family [...]
My girls and I took a long road trip together - that’s why you havn’t heard from us for a while.
We drove just over 3000km up north to see my parents and back again. Now, lots of people do this type of driving all the time (and I used to be one of them) but [...]
We’d been looking at the calendar, and here just a few days into May, the summer seems all booked up already - crazy!! The warm months always go by in a whirl.
Soon the traveling will start, but for a few days - calm. Dad is in town visiting/at a conference, we celebrated Mother’s Day at [...]
The world of adoption is fraught with peril - your hearts are often at stake. Our friends A and D had a referral for a boy from Florida for months (this is after they got caught in the Imagine Adoption bankruptcy and had to leave the Ethiopia program…) when, shortly after he was born, his mom decided [...]
Sincce we had the trainer come and work with Laughlin, the girls have decided that they sometimes need to “work” with Laughlin or Maggie too. I personally think its good for them to learn to politely haul the dogs around… and good for the dogs too!
Spice
Sugar
Our girls were pretty stoked when they learned Auntie Ena and Uncle M were going to China… after all, that’s where their friend Tigger is from! So it must be a really cool place…
Their gifts arrived via Grandpa-mail yesterday, and boy, were they excited. They will use the little brushes on their “babies”, but for [...]
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Well, ok, in all honesty, I gave them their blog names before I met them.
But Sugar and Spice actually seem to fit. Sugar is honest and forthright… and very genuinely affectionate. She’s also as stuborn as her mother, hard on herself, academically strong and vulnerable to rejection. (Ok, so that’s all like me too.)
Spice is a [...]
