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A Spooky Room for Sprout

We’ve been foster parents for almost 8 years, always in the same three bedroom house. Well, now a four bedroom house! There’s a master bedroom, and that’s stayed ours all along. But the other two bedrooms on the second floor have gone through a million different permutations. Kiddo was our first foster kid, and sheContinue reading “A Spooky Room for Sprout”

Racism 101 in my Household

Sunny learned about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in school. On the Monday holiday honoring him, she got up bright and early and asked me enthusiastically, “Are we going to go see Dr. King Jr. today?” My heart thumped extra hard. I explained to her that he is dead now, and that he’d been shotContinue reading “Racism 101 in my Household”

Forever Twos

Forever Twos We have been parenting two-year-olds for 3 1/2 years. Most parents get to get THROUGH the two-year-old stage and into the threenage stage and then the eff you fours and then come out the other side with kids who can wipe their own butts and not have a meltdown about having taken offContinue reading “Forever Twos”