GlitterGirl and I carved the pumpkin this afternoon while TwinkleToes napped.
GlitterGirl still deals with sensory stuff, but I insisted that if she wanted to help carve the pumpkin, she had to help gut the pumpkin. And she did. And was completely grossed out about it, but by the end she was laughing about how gross [...]

There is this boy in GlitterGirls’ class who is very socially backwards. Very. Socially. Backwards. I really feel sorry for him, he tries, but it’s like he has no filter that tells him what is socially acceptable and what is not. His mom is a bit of a socialite, so it’s not that he [...]

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 [...]

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 can’t stress enough how much the use of sign language helped/is helping both of my girls.
GlitterGirl took a while to get caught up on certain motor skills, and this delayed her speech. She only had about 10 signs that she used when she started talking at around a year and a half old. She [...]

I started a blog on Blogger long ago to talk about more personal things. I’ve pulled many of those posts over here and closed that blog.
The blogger blog was called “At Last…A Family”, but I really wanted my personal blog to just be about my girls. Not about my adopted girls. Yes, they were adopted, [...]

What is it with clowns and kids? It seems that lots of kids nowadays have this unexplainable terror of clowns.
My daughter saw some in the park and we had to leave. They were doing balloon animals, and I saw all of these kids far away from them freaking because there were clowns present. A few [...]