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A Couple of Stories (OA Bloggers Roundtable #4)

Published on July 25, 2009 By spyderkl

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. [...]

How it all turned out

Published on September 6, 2008 By spyderkl

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 [...]

Families and trees

Published on August 27, 2008 By spyderkl

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 [...]