GlitterGirl has read all of the books on her summer reading list. Most of them have been read multiple times.
She is both excited and nervous about the start of the new school year.
I’m nervous about how we are going to handle homework with a little one running around.
I am hoping that some of the sibling [...]

GlitterGirl is dealing with adoption issues again. She is currently focused on the fact that in order for someone to have “found” her, someone must have “left” her. She’s known this for a long time, but it seems to have sunk in to a deeper level of understanding.
I get so upset at the people who [...]

That’s what it cost me to fill up my car this morning.
I remember when I could fill up on around $10.00.
Our monthly gas expense is around $400 a month.
Driving is not a luxury for many Americans. We can’t just decide to not drive anymore. I live ten miles from the nearest store, and have to [...]

GlitterGirl asked me to come into her room the other day. She had something to show me.
Her room is very close to our room, it’s not like I don’t see into it many times a day. But, I followed her to see what she had to show me.
She had cleaned it. It was beautiful. All [...]

I’ve been asking TwinkleToes for kisses and I think that is getting it through to her. She came up to me making kissie noises this evening and I gave her kisses and she just beamed. And, there were no imaginary ow’ies tonight, either.
Sometimes the solution is easy. I wish everything about parenting were that easy.
Bedtimes, [...]

As people talk about what part of The Deathly Hallows made them cry, I haven’t been able to do that. You see, the part that made me cry probably did not affect most people.
First, let me say that when I’ve been in the towns that my girls spent their first months/years of life that I’ve [...]

TwinkleToes has started making up “ow’ies” so she can get kisses.
I’ve tried to figure out how to tell her that she doesn’t have to pretend something hurts to get a kiss, but I haven’t managed that yet.
She’ll sign that something hurts and make an “oh” sound to get me to kiss it. I kiss it, [...]

RK and I are not morning people. We just aren’t. It’s one of the things we love about each other. Before kids, we’d wake up in the morning and just grumble at each other until we were both fully awake. And that was fine with both of us.
We have been blessed with two kids who [...]

Someone asked about time-ins on the previous thread.
In a time-out the child goes to sit by their self and either gets their self under control, or thinks about what they’ve done, or bides their time until they are free again, or whatever. The point is, they are “out” instead of “in”, they are off to [...]

TwinkleToes has learned that when GlitterGirl is playing on the computer that she can walk up and push the button to eject the CD and suddenly GlitterGirl isn’t paying attention to the computer anymore!
And when GlitterGirl turns and yells at her sister, TwinkleToes smiles real big and waves. And grins.  She is quite proud of [...]