Monthly Archives: October 2013

“How was I adopted? Where did you find me?”

The question, unexpected but not unanticipated, came from the back seat on a cool fall afternoon, as we were en route to a Cub Scout event to watch a soccer game at the local YMCA. We were listening to “I’m Adopted,” a song written for an adopted son on Randall Goodgame’s amazing Slugs and Bugs album Under Where?. The question was unexpected because—although we’d discussed his adoption with him many times previously—Wolverine had never previously expressed an actual interest in his story.

Here he was, a month shy of 6, and now, finally, it became clear to him that his story was different from that of his other siblings. We’d been anticipating questions like these since the first time we held his tiny preemie body in our arms five Decembers ago. And still, despite the fact that we’d had literally his whole life to come up with answers, I was caught dumbfounded. Continue reading →

Beloved readers (all 7 of you!),

As we get further and further into what we’re doing with this blog, we occasionally find the need to change the way we do things. Sometimes this is because we want to take things in a different direction. Sometimes it’s because we’re just bored. And sometimes we discover that we need to make things more sustainable over the long-term. This is one of those times.

Up until now, we’ve refrained from discussing our kids on the blog in a very public way. That has been an intentional decision, based on both anecdotal and research-driven evidence, as well as  personal conviction that this is a good thing for our family’s security and safety. However, we understand that many of you love our children dearly and would be more than a little disappointed if we never talked about the really cool things they do, or the funny stuff they make, or their “creative” room-painting sessions, etc. This will only get more significant when we ultimately go to our assignment, and you don’t get to squeeze their rosy cheeks as often as you do now. Continue reading →