I think it’s time to revive this topic:

Give me a few more days and hopefully I’ll be able to spend some time here. Work was already taking more of my time since one of our assistants is out on maternity leave and no one was hired to replace her temporarily. But now the “hiring freeze” they announced a while back is really [...]

The State Department has released a pdf file showing worldwide stats for the 2008 fiscal year (October 1, 2007 – September 30, 2008). According to the pdf, total adoptions from China on IR3 and IR4 visas were 3,902. There were 7 adoptions on an IH3 visa, which I believe means there were 7 adoptions that [...]

I’ve talked before about my favorite parenting book, Siblings Without Rivalry. One of the things stressed in this book is to not limit or define your children based on what they can and can’t do. So, you don’t say “this is my athlete and this is my brainiac”. You want them both to be good [...]

Looking over our calendar for the next six weeks is scary. It’s going to require a lot of organization and planning and squeezing homework into available spaces. Little TwinkleToes has proven good enough in her dance class that she’s been invited to be in a production of The Nutcracker. She’s only got three eight counts [...]

One week until Twilight comes out. I was pretty much thrilled with the casting, and what I’ve seen of the previews so far has also been impressive. First below is the official US trailer for the movie, and next is a clip from the Twilight site. But below that is a trailer that previewed in [...]