halloween09

zombies drying their nails
oh kiko
cutest lil famingo ever!
off we go!
my costume is called “dead tired mama”

as i look again at medical records

wow.
every so often i go back and read the kids’ family assessment from dcf or their medical records from when they were born and when they were in foster care….and it’s different experience every time.
from the first time, skimming them while our social worker and their sw sat at a long table, across from us, [...]

a most perfect moment

yes. i’m typing this a 5:48 am because i’ve been up since 3 with my son. screech decided that 3 am was wake up time this morning and no matter what i did to try to get him back to sleep (including bringing him in our bed) just wasn’t working. he’s UP! so here we [...]

screech’s ridge has a name. a long one.

feverishly planning adoption party. get weepy every time i look at the invite. will scan it for you all to see once it gets here.
in the news: i was randomly googling stuff at work the other day and decided to look up “forehead ridge” as i feel that screech’s ridge had gotten a bit more [...]

life these days

well let’s see. since last i blogged….
we ate a lot of apple infused desserts pies, crumbles, more pies, applesauce in the works…..
with the crisp, cool weather, we’ve done some re-organizing of kid clothes and it was like christmas mornings. lemme preface: i buy kid clothes in all sizes – if i like it [...]

apple picking!!!!!!!

new year – rosh hashanah pics.

we started the holiday off just right on friday afternoon – cooking, cooking, cooking. then we all sat down for a nice shabbat/new year meal followed by lots of singing. then we filled up the air mattress and had a slumber party in the living room. it was lots of fun. this morning we made [...]

“mama, godlana was in your ‘puter???”

i gave up on waiting around for friends to help me disassemble the exped.it and reassemble it in the basement office. i finally decided i would just do it myself and that if it all fell apart, so be it. figured it was better than looking at it take up all that space in the [...]

some scenes from the new house

conjoined twins?
oh SASS-A-FRASS
some sort of moon dance?
always on a mission to find a worm.

it’s been a while…

it’s been so hard to post lately. so much going on and most of it is just relishing in the joy of having a house with a yard and a basement.  life as we knew it is just so different now. the kids come home from school and are able to play in the yard. [...]