The International Adoption Simplification Act has been signed!!! http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/signed-legislation If you missed the discussion about this two weeks ago and have no idea what this is, you can go here for a summary of what it does.

One of the large U.S. agencies has announced that matching has begun. I haven’t seen word yet of a possible cut-off date yet.

I will be away from the computer for a good portion of the day, but should be able to briefly check in a few times. So if anyone has a rumor, please share it in the comments, or send me an email if you’d rather I report it for you. We’ve had server issues again [...]

Back on October 19th, when I went out on a limb and publicly stated I was going to try to do NaNoWriMo this year, I had no idea what I was in for. I thought I had an idea, but once I threw myself into it… it’s not what I imagined it would be. In [...]

I’ve made a quick round this morning and don’t see any new rumors. I do hopefully expect to see cut-off date rumors this week, but I’m just not seeing them yet. Re: Dexter and Lumen. I stand corrected. Wow. Apparently she just needed to take back her power in order to heal. And how cool [...]

Which toys have stood the test of time? I’ll start out today by pointing to two previous posts: Review: Toys for little ones From that page — the easel still gets a ton of use. In fact, the girls did a beautiful menu on the chalkboard side, like you see in the restaurants, and put [...]