Back Off! We Just Got Home!
Posted on 09 29, 2009 under Predad by schneidermike | View Comments
International Adoption often includes traveling to far off countries with upside down time tables. You know what I mean. China for instance is 12 or 13 hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time. The good people of your adoption agency understand this. Acclimation is one of the (best) reasons that they schedule a few days in Beijing before you go to your baby’s capital city. If you decide to travel to Korea, Russia, Kazakhstan, the same could easily apply.
While you are spending 2 weeks in China getting to know your new baby, the excitement builds at home. When we went, we literally had a few thousand hits to our blog while we were gone. We also had a gallery on the site and uploaded about 100 pictures while we were overseas. Then the scary thing started to happen. We
started to get emails from family and friends telling us that they were looking forward to seeing us after we got home. They were even proposing dates to do so. The excitement of the moment clearly clouded their thinking as many of these messages mentioned the week that we got home as “good” meeting times. At the
time, even my wife and I did not appreciate the magnitude of the problem. We added additional stress to our situation that we could have prevented with George-Bush-style preemptive measures.
When your dad was a kid he and his buddies used to run around the yard shooting each other with slingshots and pellet guns. They would happily plunk each other in the ass or neck or eye with BBs, rocks and marbles. Of course YOU were never allowed to do the same. Your dear old folks would never allow it. My dad used to talk about how his friend blew his thumb off with a cherry bomb. I bet that he and his friends were allowed and encouraged to play with explosives. In contrast to them, we were stuck running around the yard "shooting" each other with toy replica AK47s and stabbing away with our plastic bowie knives. Of course you cannot do that today. Now all of the guns are pink and orange and fire water, while all edges have been converted from Bert to Ernie.
Here”s a game you and your wife can play with your baby or toddler. It”s competitive, has sweet rewards, and your kid will get exercise. Now what”s better than that? Learn about the fun new craze that will sweep baby nation, Super Blockmasta Kidestructo: The Game
You and the family have just sat down to a home cooked meal. You both are battle scarred from long days at the office and or child care. Your 3 year old is presently giving you a recap on important days events like nursery school, gymboree, gymnastics and swimming lessons when she says: "Little F@ckers".
Dawn Olsen has published a good article at Blogcritics on the
After 4 months of content and lots of love from other sites, we felt it was time to return the favor. The following are a bunch of sites that dig what we do and we dig them for digging us. So after you spend some time getting through our site, take a side trip to these guys. They offer great content for parents and most specifically dads. Enjoy!
