Nov 4
People ask me all the time if the twins have different personalities. From now on, I’m just going to pull this post up on my iPhone.
Here’s where each has spent the last 2 1/2 solid hours of the afternoon. Upon their own volition; Mamacita had nothing to do with it, except for not-interrupting-them.
Exhibit A: ‘Berto:
Nov 4
I keep reading that there are tons of blog posts about this being National Adoption Month here in the U.S. But my personal Google Reader is fairly silent on the matter. So apparently I’m not running with the cool kids, with a couple exceptions.
So here’s some info and my personal take, for what it’s worth.
History of “National Adoption Day/Week/Month”
The idea of generating a public awareness of the need for adoption of children who would otherwise simply “age-out” of foster care seems to have originated in the State of Massachusetts in 1976 when then-Governor Michael Dukakis declared an “Adoption Week.”
That idea spread and finally hit the national level when President Reagan designated the first National Adoption Week in 1984. [Side note: Reagan was himself an adoptive parent of his son Mike, who he and his first wife adopted as an infant 40 years earlier.]
In 1995, President Clinton expanded “Adoption Week” into “Adoption Month.”
Nov 2
I’ve hit that mid-semester point where I’ve run out of my pre-planned home schooling stuff, so day-to-day prep is taking up most of my time and brain space. Hence my posting tardiness … just a couple weeks behind!
There is ONE thing for which I am not allowed to be late, however: our family’s quirky tradition of putting up our Christmas trees before Halloween hits. We made it again this year, with only hours to spare! (Wouldn’t have been so close if we hadn’t beaten all the stores selling the string-lights we needed!)
