The other day at a GG function one of the other moms said “who’s this?” and pointed to me. Twinkletoes said “mama” and the other mom said, “Do you love your mama?” And TT gave me the biggest hug EVER, she’s never held me that tightly before.
I almost started crying right there in front of [...]

I have asked GlitterGirl’s teachers to let me know if they are going to be talking about family or genetics or anything along those lines, so we could have a conversation about it at home as well. So far I’ve either gotten a note or an email letting me know about such things and there [...]

When I choose to talk about it, I prefer to say that my daughters were “born in China”, not that they are “from China”. My mother thinks it is just silly that I prefer to word it that way, but I think there is a pretty big difference.
I’ve asked her – when you are on [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

A few times on APC someone has made the comment that they don’t see their child as Chinese, or sometimes it is worded that they forget she is Chinese. I think that what they are trying to say is that they just see her as their daughter, not their Chinese daughter. But invariably a [...]

Earlier today GlitterGirl and I had the “fair” conversation again. And this time she brought up that TwinkleToes had to live in an orphanage longer than she had to. I agreed that yes, she did.
And then there were lots of questions about what she (GlitterGirl) could and could not do when we brought her [...]

I’ve talked some about how we American’s don’t see clean water as a luxury, but as a necessity. It’s pretty eye opening to discover that many people in this world consider it a luxury that they don’t have.
There are other things that I think we (or our kids, at least) see as necessities that are [...]

GG: It’s not FAIR!!!!
RQ: Who told you life was going to be fair?
Wow, that’s a hard one. Kids want everything to be fair, they seem to be born with this sense of fairness, and when they learn that life doesn’t always seem to be fair, it’s sometimes hard for them to take.
Right now the talk [...]

The attachment books and sites all say that no one but the parents should hold the baby, and they all give a variety of times for this.
With GlitterGirl no one held her but us for a long time. Maybe six months? I don’t remember exactly, but it was a long time. My parents probably [...]