Hey there blog readers! Just a reminder that March 1st (tomorrow) is our goal date for our fundraising push. Thanks to everyone for being patient while we awkardly ask for money. I’m sure many people at least raised eyebrows at the concept, but overall the response was positive to such an unusual request. As I’ve […]
If you would like to make a tax-deductable donation towards our adoption fund, we thank you! Bringing our little kiddo home would not be happening if not for your support. There are 2 ways to go about it: 1) You can write a check to Lifesong for Orphans, and write TOMPKINS 1664 in the memo […]
So, a few weeks ago on Wendy’s blog, she awarded me as one of her Irresistibly Sweet blogs. Such an honor! Which I have not lived up to, what with me hardly blogging lately. Plus, I never followed through on the honor, which included listing 5 guilty pleasures and 5 fave blogs. (Of course, when […]
I don’t have anything brilliant floating around in my head to blog about, but I remembered this one pic from Cali I forgot to post. I was with some of my girlfriends, enjoying one of the “SWITCH” hours, where the moms and dads switch off the kids so each group gets to go on a […]
*At the end of April, Trent has to go to a work conference about 5 hours from here. It happens to fall on the weekend of our 10th anniversary. So, we’ve decided to make a weekend out of it, go up a day early and pay for just one night in the hotel, and work […]
So, I’ve been holding back with the “push,” but just a reminder, we still have a little less than 2 weeks left in our old-fashioned fundraising letter push. Except, for most of you reading this, it’s a new-fangled-blog-fundraising-push! If you need a refresher about the process, or would like to read our letter, click HERE. […]
Carson is in a phase. He likes to hear stories at night–not just read books. He wants to hear stories about when I was a kid. It started with “Uncle Mike” stories, about when Mike broke a window, a toilet, a bathroom door, accidentally stabbed a neighbor kid’s neck with a fork…you know. The usual. […]
We got an email from our agency a few days ago that had lots of routine information and also the news that something extremely rare and unusual had taken place–a single referral outside of the quarterly groups. It happened in January. Which means that we have moved from #6 to #5 on the waiting list! […]
Whereas our Precious First Born does everything with flair and drama, our (soon-to-be) middle child has become one that does not choose to express her emotions very often in public. (Exceptions, OF COURSE.) The bummer is that she did not gush and awe over things at Disneyland–even things that we knew she liked. She didn’t […]
There’s no doubt our little man had a great time at Dland. But it was a bit of a bumpy ride. With this kid, the highs are HIGH and the lows are LOW (and loud). I mentioned in one of my other posts that Trent talked Carson into riding Space Mountain on day one. I’m […]