We’re wrapping up National Adoption Awareness Month with a short film in lieu of a comic. My 8 year old son CJ and I co-wrote and shot this short film. Our goal was to capture the feelings of loneliness and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
At five months of age, a baby acquires the ability to distinguish between colors. This was very evident with Ollie. When The kids and I would play with him, he’d pull his head back with a start, look from face[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
True, a man’s word is only as good as his actions, but there are so many actions ascribed to some words. It’s bad enough kids have to learn the difference between their/there/they’re (of course based on Facebook posts, they never[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I guess we got an early jump on National Adoption Month, with last week’s Halloween post. That means more adoption fun for you…. and more mining our family dynamic to dig up material for me. One of us has the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There’s a lot of advice about WHEN to tell, WHAT to tell, and HOW to tell your child that they are adopted. I was reading a Facebook post recently that posed this question in an adoption group: “As an adoptee,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Over at my other site, PlaidDadBlog.com, Aaron and I have entered into a devil’s (food) pact to lose some weight. We’re calling it, ‘Fatoberfest’. So far, so bad. It’s not that we don’t know how to lose weight. It’s just[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…