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8 years

AmericanFamily — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 02:50:42 +0000

I just realized I missed my blogiversary. Would you believe I have been doing this for over 8 years now? I started when M was nearly 1 and now she is 9.

Instead of writing a decent post tonight (sorry! I am tired from paining the basement for the past 2 weeks.), I gussied up [...]

Replies

AmericanFamily — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 03:07:42 +0000

I have a bunch of people I really want to email about the comments on my recent posts, but I have not been online, so I can’t. I don’t know if I am going to get to them or not, but I will try. If not, please know I am reading them and I really [...]

Uncertain future

AmericanFamily — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:36:17 +0000

This happens from time to time. I lose my blogging mojo and I have a hard time getting back in the writing groove. Sometimes, it is because I have said everything and I can’t think of anything else to say. Or because nothing interesting is happening. Or I am just too busy to write a [...]

Blog Suggestions

AmericanFamily — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:41:52 +0000

Someone was just asking me if I could recommend some good adoption blogs. And by good, she meant snarky, smart, and funny. Not preachy or religiousy.

I was looking through my feed reader, because I thought I had a bunch of blogs like that. Sadly, I found that many of my old favorites are long [...]

Yucca Yucka Yuck

AmericanFamily — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:28:08 +0000

Even though my blog is loosely speaking a mommy blog with a side focus on adoption from China, my most popular post of all time has nothing to do with parenting, kids or adoption.

The most popular post in the whole history of my blog is this one: How to Kill a Yucca Plant.

When [...]