Blue Moon (Dip-di-dip-di-dip)

Do you remember where you were the first time you heard “Blue Moon”? The first time for Rique (and possibly Margo) was in Starbucks on Sunday morning. I was amazed at how much of the “baum-ba-bom-bom” stuff I remembered.
More importantly, it was another article of proof that that son of ours really, really [...]

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Lucas Enrique Anderson

Here’s something I forgot to tell everyone a coulpe of weeks ago: Rique’s adoption is finally final in the final jurisdiction that has any significance for him — the state of Illinois. With our type of international adoption, this processing by the state is optional; his citizenship was altered from “Guatemala” to “U.S.” [...]

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Snug ‘em while they’re little

The two-year-old comes down the stairs at 7:20 am, just moments after you’ve saved your last edit and are ready to shut down the computer, and he’s still a little groggy and slightly frustrated at being ignored by his older sisters. He’s mumbling something as he comes over to the couch, and when you [...]

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Quotes of the Year (so far)

[Yet another in a series of posts I started long before I finished...]
There’s been an awful lot here lately about the girls, especially in the QOTD category.  When I’m at home and the girls are around (as they usually are), Rique doesn’t get a word in edgewise very often.  This may contribute to his default [...]

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Come, thou long-expected newsy-update-thing

[Note: I wrote this on several occasions over the course of the past month. I've tried to fix all the verb tenses and date references to make sense. Really, I've tried.
Also, please know that the timing of finally publishing this today is entirely coincidental. The following has nothing to do with [...]

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Boy clothes, part 1

Last Thursday it fell to me to dress the boy. It’s sweatshirt weather–for the first time in his experience, actually, but that’s another story. So I grabbed a pair of gray sweatpants, then a gray sweatshirt. I looked at the sweatshirt briefly to see if I’d happened upon a matched set. [...]

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