I love the end of a year.  If it's been a great year, I love looking back at the wonderful memories.  If it's been a particularly pa...

I've laid low on the extra curricular stuff thus far in Caroline's life.  Every parent knows the crazy pressure there is to enroll y...

Oh man.  We have just survived a week without daddy.  That's a big feat around here.  And as soon as he came back into town, I (Amy) hav...

I think I've had my first brush with racism. I mean, I hear plenty of racial comments regarding our son, and it is what it is.  Like t...

Today the topic of race came up with some of my new mama friends.  Particularly how and/or if you should talk to your children about race, w...

Adoption is beautiful.   But the road to adoption is often not.   The journey is filled with tears and grief on all sides. An u...

In some ways it feels like he can't be 3 years old already.  (Where's my baby boy??) In other ways, my life is so vastly differe...

It's one of our favorite holidays of the year. And this year, it was a super hero Halloween. And boy, did they get into chara...