China or Bust! 22 Oct 2011 | 09:17 am

We leave on Tuesday for China! I'm excited to meet our little girl in China. Adopting a two year old is so different than an infant. I'm worried about how her first day, weeks and month's will go as ...

Changes 28 Sep 2010 | 04:04 pm

Birthday Sadness 7 Aug 2010 | 09:44 am

This weekend is my daughter's birthday. She is very excited and we have a full weekend fun things to do as a family. But I continue to sit here in sadness. You see it is 7am in Vietnam. Shortly I wou...

waiting it out 21 Apr 2010 | 06:54 am

Well, we are close to 3 years waiting it out again.. Hopefully we will know more on the future of Vietnam adoptions in the next few months. I the mean time we will hold tight.

Early Stages of Talking About Adoption 10 Nov 2009 | 08:08 am

Before I become and adoptive parent I read books and blog posts about talking with your kids about adoption and challenges that lay ahead. Making sure my daughter has high self esteem always has been ...

Fall 17 Oct 2009 | 07:25 am

Fall is here and we are getting plenty of rain here in the bay area. It's a nice reason to get out some of those warmer clothes that have been hiding in the closet. Dinker do is riding a two wheel bi...

Princess 19 May 2009 | 08:55 am

My daughter somehow knows who the Disney princess are. I don't really know how that happened since we don't really watch T.V. I guess she is picking this up from daycare. So now it's all about princes...

Potty Visits 4 Feb 2009 | 08:31 am

We now have a new favorite pass time, visiting the potty. Our daughter isn't doing anything on the potty, but likes to spend time going to and from the potty. I have spent about five times as much tim...

parenting 29 Jan 2009 | 06:00 am

I want to try to get in the habit of posting again, life is so busy but I have found in the past writing is away to slow down and make sense of it all! So, here it goes. dinker do is 2 1/5 now, and ...

amazon 12 Aug 2008 | 03:42 am

We do all our shopping on Amazon, and recently got Amazon Prime. WE love it! Everything we order comes to the door in two days no matter the price of the item. I get great deals on stride rite shoes, ...