A Child’s Right (ACR) is collaborating with Half the Sky (HTS) on their upcoming trip and hopes to be able to install a clean water system into two orphanages that Half the Sky works in (Wuhan and Huangshi). This has been kind of a last minute collaboration though, and they are trying to raise money [...]

I’ve mentioned how much sign language has helped us with TwinkleToes on a number of occasions over on the GlitterGirl and TwinkleToes blog. TwinkleToes has well over 50 signs she uses and she just loves that she can communicate with us.
When I see toddlers who aren’t talking who can’t tell their parents what they [...]

I have two rumors, neither of which tell us anything about the cut off date.
One rumor says they are almost done with matching, the other says that matching is complete but they have not been signed yet.

Someone mentioned in the comments to the Sensory Book that you need to be reading regular parenting books as well as adoption specific books. We need to have an understanding of what is normal for each age, the basic developmental stuff. I guess I’d figured that was a given, but maybe not.
I [...]

If we only knew what was happening in a particular office half way round the world. Right?
We’ve joked around about lots of things - there is the virtual Magic 8 Ball, the virtual I Ching, and we can’t leave out Guru Joe. But we still don’t know what the CCAA is doing right now.
But, for [...]

I would expect to start seeing some more rumors next week. Some months we don’t get much of anything, but other months we get a lot of information. Hopefully we get lots of information that agrees with itself next week.
I’ll say again that if you are new here you may want to check out some [...]