Baseball Lessons

I haven’t had a lot of time to blog about baseball but we certainly have been involved with alot of it!  I will review some of the lessons we have learned this year – sorted by child. After a year in Buddy ball last spring and a great fall in the regular Fall League, I [...]

End of Spring Break…

Life has definitely gotten in the way of blogging (not that I was much of a blogger anyway- hah!) We left last Thursday evening to go up North to visit my family.  I haven’t seen some of my brothers and my father since last summer so despite the fact that I am currently poorer than [...]

Getting Ready…

Leaving soon for a trip to Orlando.  The kids have been counting down the days but I have a lot of stuff to do before we go.  This weekend we have been very busy.  First, the boys’ basketball team and the girls’ cheering squad had their last games.  We ended up being late for the [...]

Incognito…

Riley asked me today about my blog…I had to admit that I haven’t posted for a while.  Then I looked and found out that I hadn’t posted since January 5th…WOW!  Maybe if I say I am incognito then that can be my excuse (instead of just uninspired…) Picture from go-parga.com We have been swamped with [...]

Night of tears…

It has been a night of fighting/grumping/and bickering.  The kids are swinging between playing and at each other’s throats.  I am totally done – wiped out.  I don’t think there will be much done tonight.  First Matthew and Riley…then Matthew and Amalia…then Addison and Matthew —all with an overview of Riley screaming and bothering everyone [...]

Day 30

On this, the last day of November…the last day of National Adoption Awareness Month… I pause to express my gratitude for the wonderful goodness and blessings that I have been given by having the HONOR to parent my children.  I am thankful to the Judge in a small courthouse in Rostov-on-Don who gave me the [...]

Day 28

I am thankful for finally having one of my projects funded with a contract (finally) finalized after a 2 month fight [ where I thought I might have to let go 2 or 3 of my staff ]. I am also thankful for a “good” meeting today where the course of the meeting went from what I thought [...]

Day 27 & 28

Day 27 – I am thankful for my 4 kids who really got into my birthday and banded together to wrap up pictures they had drawn for me in 3 huge boxes from the recycling bin. Day 28 – I am thankful for “The Ginch Who Stole Christmas”

Days 23 & 24…

Yesterday I had a busy day at work but there were no major snafus and I got out early enough to get home and have some free time with my kids before dinner.  I’m thankful for a day like that. Today I am thankful for a visit with an experienced adoptive mom of special needs [...]

Day 21

In the “if it rains it pours” category…we got our first cast of the children today.  Yesterday we spent about an hour at a local playground.  They have a lot of hanging toys and monkey bars.  Amalia was hanging on this handles on rails that you slide down the rail and Riley pushed her down [...]

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