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You Know You're An Adoptive Family When...

  • your child's new therapist scares the snot out of her... and you love him for it, and know you've finally found the right guy.
  • you daydream about how to add rooms or re-partition space in your small home to make room for more children.
  • for that matter, you wonder if there's someone who could retro-fit your van with another bench seat instead of the 2 seperate ones in the middle row, to make room for just one more child...
  • you have to remind yourself to let out of town friends and family members know how many kids you currently have, in case they missed a coming or a going.
  • you have to explain why the birthparents they love aren't on their "Safe-Side Adults" list.
  • you overhear your newest children talking in the bathroom, debating about whether they like this home better, or a previous one.
  • you tell your son he's your favorite black-haired 8 year old (since you also have a blonde 8-year old), and he replies with "And you're ONE OF my favorite moms."
  • your children see an advertisement with a baby in it and ask if we can "get that one."
  • your children ask to "keep" the babysitter.

Foster & Adoptive Placements

  • **K (3 days old)
    Picked up from the hospital 10/1/10, not sure how long she'll be here, but we're enjoying her!
  • **Gideon (7) and Malaika (5)
    Placed July 13, 2009 for adoption. A relative came forward and they were removed from our home Sept 26, 2009. Returned April 18, 2010. Adoption Finalized September 20, 2010!
  • L (11 days old)
    September 15-16, 2010 (2 days)
  • S (3 1/2)
    January 2010 (2 days)
  • C (6 months)
    December 2nd-23rd, 2009. (3 weeks)
  • C (8) & J (5)
    March 20th-22nd, 2009. (3 days.)
  • T (2) and A (13 months)
    February 2009 (3 days) Update: adopted by a family in Eastern Washington
  • R (1-2)
    February 4, 2009 - February 17, 2010. (1 year). Native child - tribe wouldn't allow adoption. Moved to a long-term foster home.
  • S (age 10)
    New Year's Eve 2008 (6 days) Update: being adopted by a co-worker of Brian's!
  • J (6) & S (2.5)
    December 2008 (6 days)
  • **Hallie (3 weeks)
    Placed August 2003 - Adoption Finalized December 2004
  • **Sam (13 months)
    Placed August 2002 - Finalized Adoption May 2003
  • J (7) & F (18 mo)
    Father's Day Weekend 2002 (4 days)

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05/05/2011

Lemon

Sam's a big fan of "lemon", and also of cooking.

In the past month or so, he's independently made lemon cookies and lemon poppy seed muffins (though they didn't rise much.  Not sure what the issue was there, since I wasn't in the kitchen)...

So a couple of days ago, I printed out a (fairly complicated) recipe for Lemon Bars, curious if he could follow it well enough for the cookies to turn out.

Wow.  They were perfect!  He came to me with 2 (understandable) questions:

1) What's "confectioner's sugar"?  (We call it "powdered sugar")

2) What do I do if we don't have a food processor?

Perfectly reasonable... and perfectly perfect cookies!

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Well done, Sam.  You're becoming quite the baker!

Posted at 12:21 PM in Children, Homeschooling |

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Carrie

Can I borrow him to make me some of those...they look delicious. I LOVE lemon bars and pretty much anything lemony as well. Maybe I should let Josh try and make some...that is a scary though :)

Posted by: Carrie | 05/05/2011 at 12:45 PM

Kara

That is so funny, Connor loves to bake too and lemon is also his favorite.

Posted by: Kara | 05/05/2011 at 02:44 PM

Crystal in Lynden

That is awesome! They look so yummy!

Posted by: Crystal in Lynden | 05/05/2011 at 03:49 PM

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