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random things about Valkyrie 18 Apr 2010 | 03:36 am
*** She has started calling me mommy instead of mama. I don't know if this is a universal developmental stage or something she picked up from the kids at school or what, but I find it weirdly satisfyi...
Untitled 7 Apr 2010 | 01:09 pm
One of the Chinese holidays we're celebrating with Valkyrie is Qing Ming Festival, also known as tomb-sweeping day. This year it fell April 5th, and Easter was the 4th, so we combined those celebratio...
Untitled 5 Apr 2010 | 05:05 am
Dawn Davenport at Creating a Family had an interesting post responding to a query from an adoptive parent who wasn't sure how she felt about a request for contact from her child's foster family. Valk...
Well, now that you mention it ... 11 Mar 2010 | 02:49 pm
Monday Valkyrie and I were walking to the subway after school, and from somewhere up ahead I heard shouting. At first I just assumed it was one of the panhandlers selling Street Sense. (Her day care i...
The Longest Day 7 Mar 2010 | 02:09 pm
One of the many things that makes Mark awesome is his willingness to get up with Valkyrie on the weekends and let me sleep in. Today, unfortunately, he had to work, which meant he was gone by 5:30, an...
A milestones a day ... 27 Feb 2010 | 02:19 pm
Milestone #1: For a week or so, Valkyrie has been complaining occasionally that her head itches. So it was with resignation rather than surprise that I greeted the news that lice were discovered on th...
out of the mouths of babes ... 11 Feb 2010 | 09:31 am
We've been snowbound for *five* days now. Valkyrie is generally pleased to stay home with mom and dad, and we've tried hard to get out and about a bit each day. (And how happy am I that we are just do...
it's a small world (with different lyrics) 7 Feb 2010 | 03:59 am
Valkyrie does not watch a lot of TV, per se -- but we do watch a lot (A LOT) of videos on YouTube. She's a big fan of this version of Wheels on the Bus, but she also enjoys this one and this one, whi...
not a cute parenting entry 22 Jan 2010 | 04:49 pm
It really, really bugs me when people speak disdainfully of women who have multiple kids with different fathers. Because the thing is? Most of those people wouldn't talk that way about Susan Sarandon...
Feeling like a mom(rat) 16 Jan 2010 | 04:38 pm
For several months after Valkyrie joined our family, I didn't really feel like a mother. It just took a while to sink in. I told one coworker at the time that sometimes it felt like we had a tiny, de...
