Entries from October 2008

October 18, 2008

A Day Off

I took a well-deserved day off from work today and I think I need another!  Here’s what I did on this beautiful fall day.

woke up at 6
got my boy up and dressed and to daycare by 7:30
went to W*al M*art
went thru the car wash
did 3 loads of laundry
shampooed my carpets upstairs
cleaned out my living room [...]

October 14, 2008

Ten Years Ago…

Marci ”memed” me last week, and I never got past the first question, “What were you doing ten years ago?”
Wow, was I in a different place, on so many levels.  In the fall of 1998, I had just started my Master’s program.  I had been married for five years, had been working for six years in [...]

October 7, 2008

Adventures in Beddy Bye

Okay, so this isn’t adoption related at all, except that some of my adoptive parent freinds with similar aged kiddos might find it helpful to see what worked for us in getting the Woob transitioned from crib to big boy bed in a relatively short time, with relatively few problems.
Woob is a little over 2 [...]