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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]