This post is #4 of the Open Adoption Bloggers Roundtable series, started by Heather at her blog. If you’re interested, here are Roundtables 1, 2, and 3. Our writing prompt for this Roundtable was sharing a small moment made possible by our open-ish adoption. It’s something I’ve written about before, but I’d say this counts. [...]
Those of you who are on Twitter probably know I’ve been obsessing over School Girl’s family tree project. It wasn’t as bad as I had originally feared; the tree itself was designed as…a tree, with apples to represent members of a student’s family to be glued in the branches of said tree, in (apparently) no [...]
I got the weekly newsletter from School Girl’s teacher yesterday morning. Prominently displayed among the “what we’re doing in class” news were the words I’ve been dreading. Family. Tree. Assignment. I decided, for obvious reasons, to email her teacher to see if we can come up with something else. I was pleasantly surprised by her [...]