Someone made a comment a while back in the comments that basically gave the idea that they thought if you do all of the attachment stuff when you get home that it “fixes” everything and you never have to deal with it again. Attachment is a lifelong thing. I think that for some families they [...]

I usually laugh at these quizzes, but I thought this was interesting. It’s a quiz about your romantic attachment, how secure you are when it comes to attachment. http://psychology.about.com/library/quiz/bl-attachment-quiz.htm Here is my result: Your Attachment Style: Secure Based upon your quiz answers, you appear to have a secure attachment style. People with secure attachments tend [...]

I’d like to share and discuss an article today, it’s from Psychology Today, and it helps us understand the perspective of two children adopted as older children. I think some toddler and preschool aged children also have some of these same feelings and thoughts. TwinkleToes was two, and I’m positive some of what she did, [...]

Many of our kids have long term sleep issues. GlitterGirl adjusted splendidly to life with her new family in all ways except bedtime. When it was time for bed she would completely lose it. Every night. For one and a half to three hours. For years and years and years. For the first few weeks [...]

Now that you’ve read the comments to yesterday’s post, you’ll know I’m not exaggerating with today’s post. When we came home with GlitterBaby, somewhere around the second or third day, somewhere around 2:00 in the afternoon, I simply could not stay awake any longer. I sucked on ice, we turned the a/c up so it [...]

There was a question in yesterday’s comments of who is responsible for making sure we are ready to parent the child we are allowed/approved to adopt. Personally, I think I’m responsible for making sure I’m ready. But on a bigger scale, I think that my government (and the government of China) put itself in the [...]