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Big Kids

Published on August 4, 2010 By spyderkl

Today is School Girl’s first day in 3rd grade. Our school has solved their overcrowding problem by splitting up the school into 2 separate units: K-2 is at one school, 3-6 is at another school. If that sounds strange to you, perhaps it will make more sense if I tell you that our annual state [...]

Field Day

Published on May 28, 2010 By spyderkl

Once again Field Day reared its ugly head yesterday. Our school has 3 days worth of field days, certainly if you’ve got children in more than one age group; which can make for some, um, excitement. Fortunately, we don’t have to worry about that. The day started around 9 or so. It was already hot [...]

Abandoned

Published on April 12, 2010 By spyderkl

I’ve been thinking about the story of Artyom Savelyev, the 7-year-old adopted from Russia who was put on a plane – alone – by his adoptive mother with a note saying she couldn’t parent him any longer. There are a number of questions that have come up for me about this story. First, where the [...]

Not Sure What to Say

Published on April 6, 2010 By spyderkl

This Thursday is the 8th anniversary of the day we met School Girl, 6 weeks after she was born. Two days later, M put her in my arms for the last time, and we took her home. There’s more that I want to say, including a conversation that we had Sunday evening, but I’ll let [...]

Birthday Parties

Published on November 22, 2009 By spyderkl

We’ve been to quite a few birthday parties over the past 3 years and counting. And by “we”, I mean School Girl and me (in almost half of the cases). We’ve been to birthday parties in people’s houses (a couple of the more elaborate home parties were ones where School Girl went alone), parties at [...]