We’ve been luckier than a lot of people with regards to the kids’ dental needs. They have strong teeth, very few cavities, and things are generally pretty straight.
ahem. or so we thought.
So, Rockinrolla has a crossbite. One tooth on the bottom is in front of a tooth on the top. The dentist said this is [...]
Archive for May, 2009
orthodontia
Posted in Uncategorized on May 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Fishmasterpalooza
Posted in Uncategorized on May 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Fishmaster, my thirteen-year-old rising 8th grader, won an honorable mention in a county-wide essay contest. Here’s his answer to the question What is a farmer?, printed with his permission.
A farmer is an apprentice of the land. He learns everything he knows from the land itself. It teachers him patience, the very [...]
maturations
Posted in Uncategorized on May 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Little Rainbow has undergone a couple of milestones that are good in the long run, I guess, or at least inevitable, but kind of make me sad.
Milestone 1: I guess he’s weaned now. I’m pretty much not producing any milk at all, and have only tried to nurse him a few times in the [...]
A Very Good Year
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged family on May 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve had a few Bad School Years between Rockinrolla and the Fishmaster, and they are awful, awful, AWFUL when they happen. When there are issues with other kids in the class, or conflicts with a teacher who just doesn’t like your kid one little bit, it makes the school year a sludgy mess to flounder [...]
giggles
Posted in Uncategorized on May 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We’ve got three pretty happy, silly boys around here. It’s pretty great.
I don’t know if it’s the greeny-spring freshness, the fact that school is almost out, or if the mood of the whole house is just lighter since the adoption stress is lifting.
(if mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy.)
Not that things have been so terrible [...]
key change
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged spiritual stuff on May 18, 2009 | 7 Comments »
This weekend, after spending some time with Daddy J and the sculptor at the park figuring out the statue’s orientation, I walked with Rainbow downtown to meet the Fishmaster and buy him a treat. It was a glorious, glorious, warm, bright day.
We passed by the house of a very recently widowed neighbor. She [...]
Rockinrolla roxx
Posted in Uncategorized on May 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Rockinrolla really loves his new drum set.
installation
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged remembering our butterfly on May 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Today we moved Ward’s sculpture from our backyard, where it’s been for about a year, to its permanent home at the town park.
the view from our living room a couple of days ago, shot by Daddy J:
For those of you who don’t know the story, after Ward’s accident we requested that donations be made in [...]
post placement #2
Posted in Uncategorized on May 15, 2009 | 4 Comments »
T, the social worker, came yesterday for our second of three post-placement visits. She was scheduled to come at 6:30, yet arrived about 6:10, so I’m high-fiving my tidy-tidy-tidy spurt of yesterday afternoon.
(Thank you, OCD impulses! You made me go ahead and light the tealights on the mantel and get the boys’ dirty socks off the [...]
tempest in a teapot
Posted in Uncategorized on May 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
So, I am totally pro gay marriage. I understand that some religious groups are anti, which is fine: they don’t have any requirement to condone, recognize, or perform gay marriages. But I think that same-sex unions should be as legal and binding as opposite sex unions everywhere outside of churches (or temples or mosques or [...]
