For ages now it’s been a real struggle to find age-appropriate reading material for Adam — he quickly ploughed through Captain Underpants (thank goodness that’s over — my threshold for bathroom humour is very low) in kindergarten, correcting spelling mistakes in the “kid-created comics” as he went, and this year he has sped-read his way right through… Continue Reading
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Questions from Adam
With Adam around, I’m always on my toes. Do not be fooled by this innocent smile — an inquisitive mind lurks behind. In the past few days, I’ve been asked the following: Is there anything to learn in math after division? How old will I be when you die? How old will Leah be when I… Continue Reading
Easy Fit Pants
This morning I woke up with the brilliant plan that I was going to sew a pair of pyjama pants for Adam — he’d picked out the fabric ages ago (blue with buttons!) and then all my (overly ambitious) sewing plans went up in smoke when I lost my dedicated sewing space. Oops: another Bad… Continue Reading
Homework Fun
Adam so rarely has homework that when he does have a project to do, we’re both a bit out of practice. Honestly, I would love for him to come home with worksheets (and so would he!) but he manages to finish everything in class so, aside from his daily reading, we’re mostly homework-free. Over March… Continue Reading
Happy Adam Day!
Can you believe that exactly six years ago, our first photo as a family of three was snapped? Here we are at SWS office in Seoul, receiving Adam from his foster mother, Mrs. Kwon. And now, six years later, it’s nearly impossible to get a photo of all of us together, but I did get… Continue Reading