That Sentence Ended in a Whole Other Place Than it Started

So the challenges of adoptive parenting.

Scene: in the middle of a garage sale in our garage. I am sitting in a chair between customers and D climbs up on my lap. We are having your basic conversation about I have no idea what when she says

"We need more kids"

Me: Um, okay, how many more kids are you thinking?

D: Three

Me: Three, huh? And where would these kids come from?

D: Well, Avery, and Audrey and Cindy (all kids from her class at school)

Me: They would be our kids too? Well I don't know if I really want to be a mommy for  someone else's.....

Warning!! Warning!! I realize mid sentence that I am about to say that I don't want to be a parent to someone else's kid which is a problem because while I am raising children that are totally, completely and irrefutably mine, the truth is that some of them are not only mine. Some of them, in another set of circumstances, would be "someone else's kid" alone. So I am about to tell my child, who has another set of parents elsewhere, that I don't want to raise someone else's kid.  Needless to say, I changed mid sentence and we talked about kids who need forever families and kids who already have forever families and that her friends at school already have forever families.  

Sometimes adoption is hard.

I'm sure someone thinks it's funny...

However, I am not one of them

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Weekend Wisdom

"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."

-Mother Teresa

Wordless Wednesday

Summer Wrap Up

Although I am not wiling to admit summer is over yet..... the fact we have turned the heat back on in the pool makes me realize that summer's days are numbered.
(I am also realizing through this post that I did not take nearly as many pictures this summer as I normally so bad mommy points for me today)

But here are some of my favorites from this summer.
(and yes my loyal followers- some of them have been seen before but hey isn't summer the season for re-runs anyway)

Weekend Wisdom

"How we think shows through in how we act Attitudes are the mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking."
-David Joseph Schwartz

Middle School, and Kindergarten with a side of 2nd Grade

Wow- big school changes for us this year.

A began 6th grade and *gasp* Middle School.
Starting the day very early by check out his Schultute (school cone). He now needs to leave to catch the bus 30 minutes before he even had to wake up last year.


Off to the bus stop (also a first for him- we have always dropped him off due to our work schedules)



X heads off to 2nd grade




And of course D was off to Kindergarten.
This was her first year to receive a Schultute (you don't get one until you start Kindergarten). I think she was impressed.



Although she spent a lot of time trying to get hers to stay on her head like a dunce cap (hope it's not a sign of how school is going to go) She actually had an asthma attack that morning so she stayed home from day care in the morning and B took her to kindergarten after lunch (Kindergarten here is only half day- which for today worked out well)

Off to school in her favorite new outfit (and yes, the shoes match the skirt)





After school, I picked up D and X from their latchkey program. D came running over to me when she saw me.
I asked her how school was.
She said
"Great! What am I going to wear tomorrow?"