Just after Christmas, our eldest brought home a kitten, so now we have two pets in the house. Our cat and our dog don't get along particularly well together, but every so often there's a moment like the one above. I think, in some ways, our family feels a bit…
When you've adopted a kid from a culture different from your own, holidays can be a challenge. Both familiar ones and unfamiliar ones. (I mean familiar to the adults in the household.) I've been thinking about this as we've made our sixth attempt to create a satisfactory Spring Festival season…
Where did the adoption stuff go? You may have noticed that there are only a few Kid Stuff posts on this new version of my website, and all the old content has disappeared. (Unlike the Bookshelf posts, many of which have been updated for the new website.) Well, it's like…