Family Blog
Emily was fifteen when she left her Russian orphanage to join our family and her biological younger sisters. (We had adopted them a year-and-a-half earlier.) The Russian social workers informed us that…
Her name was Marina. She was one of the sweetest, prettiest, shyest little girls I had ever met. She was almost seven when she handed me a beautifully completed sheet from a…
Amy Celeste and Denney show you how to make Tie Dyed Easter Eggs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL1FWMeOnBg Cut up some of Dad's old ugly silk ties or get some from a thrift store. Bright colored…
Our family is big on traditions; especially around holidays. Easter is no exception. My wife, Amy started our main Easter tradition when our oldest sons were just tiny. We had a…
As Seen on Huffington Post Oh, I talk the talk. I try to walk the walk. When it comes to difficult circumstances, I always try to focus on what is best for…
Introductory video to Life in our Kinda Normal Family https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MRFMw4M2Yg Amy and I thought that adding video to our blog would help you get to know our family better. Here is…
Because some of our children have Reactive Attachment Disorder measuring success is hard to do and that leaves us, as parents, frustrated. My wife sprang a leak. Water ran from both eyes, down…
As Seen in Huffington Post What is the situation at your house? Do you have crates, boxes, baskets, bags and shelves stuffed with school assignments and even projects like clay ashtrays (though…
As Seen on Adoption.net Recently, my Google alerts for “adoption” and “international adoption” went crazy. It seemed that every news outlet in the U.S. had picked up on the story. International adoptions…
Why+can’t+I+sleep… About 487,000,000 results (0.79 seconds). Thanks, Google. Four hundred and eighty seven million; a bit much, even for you. I’m not typically an insomniac. But the last week or so, I…
My oldest daughter hadn’t been home from Russia for a month before we noticed her pointing pencils or other objects at us while contorting her eyes and face. Emily had come from…
Psychologists call them triggers. They could be events, objects, sensory stimulations or even words. When a person who has experienced severe trauma is confronted with anything that they have psychologically associated with…