The World Is Our Playground

So, we’ve had girl 1 and girl 2 now for almost 4 weeks, during which I’ve been present for more than 3. It’s been an incredibly eye-opening 4 weeks; the learning curve goes for all of us. The girls are learning to adjust to a new home, and we are adjusting to a whole new [...]

So, tonight we were trying to go to a pumpkin walk. We had already gone during the day with the girls, but after seeing some of the carvings, we thought that it would be really fun to take the girls at night. We thought we’d be smart and put them in the pjs before heading [...]

Well, I guess there’s some good news: the girls now feel so comforable around us that they feel that can say “no” and go unpunished. There’s been a dramatic shift in mentality over the last few days. While girl 1 is now much more comfortable around me and doesn’t feel so threatened (though she still [...]

Okay, I know this is the 3rd posting in, oh . . . an hour. I’m just not tired. Please deal.

So, there’s this song by Rush, called “Hemispheres”. It’s where I got the title of my blog. Thought I’d share the lyrics with you. Here goes.

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I. Prelude

When our weary world was youngThe struggle [...]

Well, as I sit here and rip CDs, might as well write some stuff, right?

I’m going to stop just short of saying it’s official because it’s not, but the distinct possibility of adopting girls 1 and 2 just became distinctly probable. Weef talked to the previous foster mom tonight for about an hour, and she [...]

Quote of the day:

Michael: “What’s the best advice I’ve ever given you?”Dwight: “‘Don’t be stupid.’ Changed my life.”

That is all.

Okay, I know we’ve only had these two girls for about two weeks, but I think that’s a fairly decent amount of time to ascertain that, somewhere along the line, something horrible was done to one of the girls. During the day, everything’s fine. Mommy and daddy are equals in the butt wiping and toilet [...]

The other day at work, some friends of mine and I were discussing how lucky we’ve been to not be sick the last however-long-we-hadn’t-been-sick. My last drop-dead date was November of 2005. I remember because I literally thought I was going to die because I accidentally took too much codeine cough syrup. “Accidentally” because the [...]

Well, for us, anyway.

*insert drum roll here*

We are now the proud foster parents of two beautiful little girls–Sheradin and Brooklyn. They’re adorable, sweet, and very much 3 and 2. Well, almost 2.

Pictures to follow . . . as soon as I figure out how.

Definitely does *not* make a man healthy, wealthy and/or wise. In fact, it makes this man feel like death, which can’t be good for going to work and earning a living, and really . . . it’s kind of stupid.

Yet here I am again, at the tender hour of 6 am, wondering why I’m up [...]