Hey buddy boy- You sleepwalked for the first time last night. I’m kind of a kook about you getting enough sleep so I was surprised when you threw open your door last night and walked halfway down the hallway an hour after bedtime. Then, you just stood there and looked at us. When I asked … Continue reading
{HUGE disclaimer: If you read this post and don’t believe me and somehow think that I’m going to a counselor because my son’s behavior is just so bad and we just can’t handle it and you’re thinking, “Oh, my gosh, I will never adopt because all of ‘those kids’ are just too hard to parent”, then I need you … Continue reading
Hi boo- Last night, we rode bikes to the nearest snow cone stand. We just found this place and it’s currently your all-time favorite. You can’t get enough. I’m pretty sure you could eat an entire extra large snow cone if we would let you, but your teeth would be vibrating until Wednesday from the … Continue reading
God and I had a (ahem) moment before the kid came home at the end of June. It was around the time that I wrote this post on accompanying my son into the depths of (shit) that he has had to deal with in his short 9 years. I was ANGRY that this kind of stuff was … Continue reading
Hi there, you tiny human- You and I had our very first bad morning yesterday. I wasn’t really surprised because we’ve been expecting it. We knew it would come eventually, because, as I mentioned before, you are a human, and most humans have good days and bad days. We’ve talked about how people can get … Continue reading
Well, we’re one and a half weeks in to the real-deal, home-for-good, “What do we do with this kid in the summer?” parenting. It has been…tiring. The kid’s method of naming things is to give whatever thing we’re naming and then just add a “y”. So, Speedy the fan lizard. Jumpy the bird who bounces. … Continue reading
Dear son, Tomorrow morning, you and your caseworker will get on a plane and fly to Dallas. You don’t know this yet, but your dad is going to be there too to fly home with you because it’s your first time ever to fly and we just could not fathom missing one more “first”. I’ll … Continue reading
