I’m linking up with Amber Strocel to list what I learned this past month:
January is a LONG month. The year’s first month feel like a giant hurdle that I kept tripping on. Post-holiday bloat, dark nights, empty wallets, wet playgrounds, moody people. Glad it’s over.
Foggy January days.
Adoptive parent gatherings are always a refreshing tonic. Several get-togethers with adoptive parents this past month –with and without kids– deepened my respect for my fellow travellers and my understanding of adoption.
Photos don’t come as easily these days. Theo isn’t as game as he used to be to have his photo taken (he’s kind of busy) so I have to snap on the run. Sometimes, the shot works out just fine.
Run Theo run!
I need to start prepping for adoption questions. An ad for pet adoption that implored viewers to observe how “cute and healthy” the pets were put me on edge.
Same-sex parents make great adoptive parents! I learned a lot about same-sex adoption (as in same-sex couples) from the inspiring and moving documentary Conceiving Family.
Filmmaker Amy and her partner Julie with their twins.
Three-and-a-half year olds have no filter. I was challenged and intrigued by some of Theo’s questions and blurtings this month.
Post-swimming ice cream hits the spot. This is hardly news, but for a soft serve for a buck! That’s news!
A deal at twice the price!
You can take a kid to soccer but you can’t make him kick! Theo is pretty much refusing to join in on his weekly soccer drills/game. Oh well, at least he loves swimming … and coffee shops.
Did you learn anything mind-blowing this month? Or just plain obvious?
He doesn’t like soccer because there’s no throwing!
Jacob went to mini basketball when he was three, and he really went back and forth on it. Some weeks, it was his favourite thing. Some weeks, we had to leave halfway through because the crying on the sidelines got to be too much. About 3/4 of the way through he settled on liking it, and he still talks about how awesome it was. Such a short memory!
Wait, $1 ice cream? Is that at Hillcrest? EVERYTHING else there was really expensive, like, $5 for a brownie that looks like it came from Costco.
I’m surprised that ice cream is reasonable.
My oldest niece refused to even try to kick the ball when she played soccer. Until my BIL started paying her a quarter for each time she kicked the ball. Then she was like a machine, in the pack, kicking the ball any which way suited her so long as she made contact to earn her quarters.
Love this!
It might as well be considered something new I learned because I seem to have to relearn it every year – January is a rough month! I need to remember this but every year I get all bedazzled by the “fresh start” aspect of it and it’s not until I’m down and out and on the mat that I remember that this happens every year!