tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-321412432024-03-13T16:34:24.938-06:00Triebenbach AdventuresOur lives in a nutshell...Ok a big nutshell.Triebenbachshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10035401190228112750noreply@blogger.comBlogger356125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32141243.post-9054553168915980902013-01-29T14:42:00.001-06:002013-01-29T14:42:18.982-06:00Win an iPad Mini Today Only! 1/29/13<a href="http://www.smartappsforkids.com/2013/01/celebrate-our-second-birthday.html?utm_source=Constant+Contact%3A+Endless+Alphabet%2FBeginner%27s+Bible&utm_campaign=CC1&utm_medium=eail">Smart Apps for Kids</a> is giving away an iPad Mini to celebrate their 2nd birthday today! but you can only enter today Jan 29th. Quick get on over there and enter. Wait.....maybe you shouldn't, that's one more person I'd have to compete agains to win. :)<br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The best part of this experiment/egg coloring activity is that when we were done we dumped all the left over paint into the bowl and then poured in the vinegar. It was very very cool!</span><br />
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<br />Triebenbachshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10035401190228112750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32141243.post-60592629714689623682011-12-26T11:57:00.000-06:002011-12-26T11:57:28.264-06:00Sesame Street:Song: I Love My Hair<iframe width="480" height="270" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/enpFde5rgmw?fs=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><div><br /></div><div>We've watched this quite a few times this morning. :)</div>Triebenbachshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10035401190228112750noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32141243.post-69738627503133061522011-12-07T14:33:00.000-06:002011-12-07T14:33:42.286-06:00Quick Catch Up<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table>Triebenbachshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10035401190228112750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32141243.post-54299068769075843882011-10-26T13:42:00.001-06:002011-10-26T13:53:47.866-06:00Great Grandpa Crosby<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4evoJxL7p3k/Tqhg9cN6gMI/AAAAAAAAEQ4/PSU9Ud_4WVM/s1600/great+grandpa+007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="240" ida="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4evoJxL7p3k/Tqhg9cN6gMI/AAAAAAAAEQ4/PSU9Ud_4WVM/s320/great+grandpa+007.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"> We were in Kansas City over the weekend and had a great time! We spent the day with Great Grandpa at his house. Autumn explored the backyards of the neighborhood and found some great bird feathers and sticks and rocks. She had fun playing with Grandpa's pattern blocks. She pretended they were a birthday cake and we had to take turns blowing out the candles and singing Happy Birthday. She also discovered that one of his chairs goes WAY up and you have to work hard to keep from sliding off of it. I'll put more pictures in another post, I just wanted to get these up.</span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ud3vCpp1vbc/Tqhg52x29lI/AAAAAAAAEQw/mHolyZOYVTU/s1600/great+grandpa+006.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="240" ida="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ud3vCpp1vbc/Tqhg52x29lI/AAAAAAAAEQw/mHolyZOYVTU/s320/great+grandpa+006.jpg" width="320" /></span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Drag home from church because the coffee never did kick in. Make lunch for Autumn and then crash on a bed and attempt to take a nap. Autumn and Shadow are making lots of noise, ignore and try to sleep anyway. Kurt comes in and needs help getting a chicken bone from Shadow: forget nap, ain't gonna happen. Get bone away from dog and make myself lunch. Discover the dishwasher needs to be emptied, ignore it. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Try to get a couple of things done on the computer, end up turning on a game for Autumn to play instead. Get Kurt to help Autumn so I can go start laundry. Get all the laundry downstairs and start to sort, can't find any laundry baskets. Go on a hunt and have to empty them of all the things that don't belong and put them all away. Back in the laundry room open the washer to put a load in only to discover there is already a load in there. Open the dryer to put wet sheets and only to discover there is a load in there as well. Apparently I actually started laundry yesterday! Fold dry sheets, put wet sheets in dryer, toss load of clothes in washer. Take hamper back upstairs with intention of setting timer to remind me to go check laundry. Get upstairs and have to take the dog outside, help Autumn with some thing or other, answer a question for Kurt......discover it's supper time, so I start supper only to hear "i don't want that" "i don't like that" give up and make popcorn. Get Autumn in her pjs, read a couple of books, sit at the piano and play through a few tunes, take a shower and head to bed.....oh, wait.....there's wet laundry in the washer....fold dry sheets toss clothes in dryer head back upstairs. I think I want some ice cream, discover the dishwasher still needs to be emptied.......Throw up my hands and go to bed.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">And yet at the end of the day, the spontaneous hugs, the singing shows on the deck, the "special rock just for you mommy" and snuggling at bedtime......it's totally worth it!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Definitely</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> worth seeing the neighbors faces when your child is singing at the top of her lungs on the deck "every dinosaur poops"</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now what was I going to do yesterday? mend a costume for Autumn, work on some prep for school, go for a walk (by myself!) and play a game with Kurt and Autumn. :P Good thing today is a holiday!</span><br />
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Triebenbachshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10035401190228112750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32141243.post-346446385836656972011-08-20T20:31:00.000-06:002011-08-20T20:31:25.824-06:00Autumn's Story<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vsSZqaUL3IE/TlBtFPUsRLI/AAAAAAAAEKM/EUCDtKel-sg/s1600/trex.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="186" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vsSZqaUL3IE/TlBtFPUsRLI/AAAAAAAAEKM/EUCDtKel-sg/s200/trex.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Autumn has told me her story a few times now and the more she tells it the more it is the same each time so I thought I'd let you all read what she has been telling me :)</span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Once in a time there was a little girl with a green cape, a cookie boy, and 3 little pigs. One day the little girl was going to her grandma’s house with soup cause she was sick and then Rexy knocked on the door of the 1<sup>st</sup> pigs house and said “little pig let me eat you” and the pig said “not by my hairy chin” and he jumped out the chimney and ran with the cookie boy to his brother’s house. Then<span> </span>the spinosaurus ate the grandma and when the green girl came in she said “grandma what big eyes you have” and the spinosaurus said “the better to see you with” and the girl said “grandma what a big nose you have” and she said “so I can smell the soup”. Then Rexy knocked on the 2<sup>nd</sup> little pigs house and said “little pig let me eat you” and the pig said “not by my hairy chinny chin” and then Rexy roared and stomped the door down but the brothers ran through the window and went to their brother’s house made out of bricks. The cookie boy kept running saying “running running can’t catch me” and there was a cow and a duck and a dog and a old grandma and old grandpa chasing him. He runed and runed to a river where there was no boats. Then the little girl said “grandma what a big spine you have” and the spinosaurus said “so I can eat you up” and he gulped her right down to his tummy. She found her grandma in there and they jumped and yelled “HELLLLPP” till a tree man came and told the spinosaurus that he can’t eat people and he’d just have to throw them up. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rjYs6L_uT90/TlBs-MGDA8I/AAAAAAAAEJ8/zAuHr6RVbcs/s1600/16459.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="144" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rjYs6L_uT90/TlBs-MGDA8I/AAAAAAAAEJ8/zAuHr6RVbcs/s200/16459.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bu8TZJYlzE0/TlBtANV_b5I/AAAAAAAAEKA/B8gJoqyDgvM/s1600/grh.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bu8TZJYlzE0/TlBtANV_b5I/AAAAAAAAEKA/B8gJoqyDgvM/s200/grh.JPG" width="174" /></a> so he did and the little green girl gave her grandma and the tree man the soup. Then the Teratops saw the cookie boy and said “I can help you get over the river” but the cookie boy said “nope you’ll eat me” and the teratops said “no I promise” and so the cookie boy jumped on the teratps’ back and the went into the water. The cookie boy said “I don’t want to go under” and the teratops said then jump on my frill so you are taller. The cookie boy did and then Rexy said to the little pig “little pig let me eat you” and the pigs said “not on our chinny hairs” and Rexy tried to stomp the house but the bricks was too strong. So he climbed in the chimney but the pigs were making soup in there <span> </span>and he fall in and got burned so he jumped out the window and ran away. A End (wait what happened to the cookie?) Oh, the cookie jumped on the teratops frill and fell onto his horn where he was stuck.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-07x7dcrNom0/TlBtBsRBO4I/AAAAAAAAEKE/6f0S1lB-gAE/s1600/MCj04321770000%255B1%255D.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-07x7dcrNom0/TlBtBsRBO4I/AAAAAAAAEKE/6f0S1lB-gAE/s200/MCj04321770000%255B1%255D.gif" width="144" /></span></a></div><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div>Triebenbachshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10035401190228112750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32141243.post-80774164055228352702011-08-13T19:57:00.000-06:002011-08-13T19:57:20.989-06:00Autumn's New Room<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">The switch took a few days. One night to move everything out of the downstairs room, one day to paint said room, one day for a friend to help move the heavy stuff up and down, one day to get the new spare room mostly set up. :)</span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-g-vkaX6JRT4/TkcouWvV4NI/AAAAAAAAEJc/S-TLJ0OjE30/s1600/IMG_1059.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-g-vkaX6JRT4/TkcouWvV4NI/AAAAAAAAEJc/S-TLJ0OjE30/s320/IMG_1059.JPG" width="240" /></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Autumn has officially moved downstairs. She's been sleeping downstairs in the "guest room" for almost a month and a half and we finally got it painted the way she wanted and her things moved down. We can't put the dinosaurs on the walls yet because the paint has to cure. Who knew? (I sure didn't). So it's all done except for the decorating. Autumn picked the colors and the curtains. We were at Target one day and she picked the green curtains. They are almost a perfect match for the wall, I just need to hem them. :)</span><br />
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Triebenbachshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10035401190228112750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32141243.post-74441969805112353872011-08-13T19:23:00.000-06:002011-08-13T19:23:41.845-06:00A Rainy Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YFT3LkWt3vw/TkciMVM3-9I/AAAAAAAAEIo/tkoxdIl8kpQ/s1600/IMG_0996.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YFT3LkWt3vw/TkciMVM3-9I/AAAAAAAAEIo/tkoxdIl8kpQ/s320/IMG_0996.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"> We had a good storm the other day and when the rain calmed down a little Autumn and Shadow went outside to play and get wet. They found a great mud puddle in the drive way and watched stick boats float down the gutter. </span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oZiN79Ry2QA/Tkciekb4DvI/AAAAAAAAEIs/xeK1jsAUs8E/s1600/IMG_0999.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oZiN79Ry2QA/Tkciekb4DvI/AAAAAAAAEIs/xeK1jsAUs8E/s320/IMG_0999.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">They were both soaking wet by the time they came in, and both muddy as well. Autumn thought it was funny that she took a shower in the rain and then had to take a bath to get all the mud off. :)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KP3PFtriyD8/TkciyZ-ke7I/AAAAAAAAEIw/3yovn3KdwjI/s1600/IMG_1000.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KP3PFtriyD8/TkciyZ-ke7I/AAAAAAAAEIw/3yovn3KdwjI/s320/IMG_1000.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><br />
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Triebenbachshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10035401190228112750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32141243.post-27977428264469122852011-08-13T19:04:00.000-06:002011-08-13T19:04:03.785-06:00Autumn "in" the Ray Tank<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyTExTS-poKtbPbtjRoQqCpwJK0O3Bo7ClIrPnuAgiw0015KbG1QExNU8B0ogB7qmK73WJAhhjqaZ4' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />
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Triebenbachshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10035401190228112750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32141243.post-68228774279910542342011-08-01T13:31:00.001-06:002011-08-01T13:37:38.587-06:00Sea Live Aquarium<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Autumn and I went to the aquarium at the Mall of America today. As a teacher I get a free membership and discounted family membership so I take advantage of that offer and we go as often as we can. This spring they remodeled and I really love what they've done with the new exhibits and rearranging the old ones. She had so much fun when we got to the end we started all over again. :)</span><br />
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</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Oh, yes, we can work dinosaurs into just about any activity. :)</span>Triebenbachshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10035401190228112750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32141243.post-60626555479401733042011-07-31T20:41:00.000-06:002011-07-31T20:41:48.678-06:00Little Fish<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here is my little fish</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">Someone posted a comment under her letter to the effect of "when people ask me what my hair feels like I tell them 'It feels like HAIR, what else would it feel like?'"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have to agree with the mom who wrote this letter, we do teach our children that they have their own personal space and they don't have to put up with touch they don't like, but I can't tell you how many times complete STRANGERS come up and touch Autumn's hair all the while talking to me! Still working on helping Autumn tell people not to touch her hair without asking first. But really, why should I have to hang a sign around her neck saying "please ask before touching me!" ? There are people she doesn't mind touching her hair and they know who they are. :) This summer we went on vacation to Michigan and a neighbor asked Autumn "can I feel your hair sweetheart?" Autumn said "yes" and the woman (a grandmother) got down at eye level and complimented Autumn on how soft and curly it was. I was so thrilled that someone had not only asked first but asked Autumn instead of me! Thanks Mrs Nemier (I know I just botched that spelling!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: large;">On Easter we spent the morning at church so we hunted eggs after naps. It was so nice outside Autumn went barefoot (so did I). The next week we had SNOW falling from the sky!! Crazy weather lately.</span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Triebenbachshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10035401190228112750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32141243.post-89760858355857440702011-03-28T13:24:00.000-06:002011-03-28T13:24:00.507-06:00Hand Crafted Beads<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-j2hUmuAjxJA/TZDeIkXleZI/AAAAAAAAEB0/WtXHDT-4RX8/s320/Autumn+1+006.jpg" width="320" /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here are a few beads I've created for Autumn, don't have a great picture of the snowman beads, she isn't the most motionless child I've ever seen. :) I'm going to be making beads and selling them as part of our adoption fund-raising efforts. If you have something special you want please let me know. I'll post pictures as I make things and can certainly make more of anything I've already figured out. I believe Iron-Man is next on Autumn's agenda, Easter eggs are my next thought. I'm going to work on a tiger stripe something since she likes tigers. I figured I can do just about any animal stripe, I'm playing with the spotted animal prints. Most sports balls are completely do-able and pony beads are very easy.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;">These are the snowmen that you can hardly see and I can't find the good picture I took. But she has 6 snowmen hanging from the top of her head and then the candy cane pony beads on the smaller box braids.</span><br />
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</span>Triebenbachshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10035401190228112750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32141243.post-3667378089470677582011-03-21T19:42:00.001-06:002011-03-21T19:45:14.276-06:00A Soapbox Moment part 2So that last post leads to this one: Unbelievable things people have said to me over the course of the adoption process and after we brought Autumn home. (I'm leaving out the things I said inside my head because most of the time the thoughts aren't very appropriate or just overly sarcastic)<br />
<ul><li>Is she your real child? (YES she is!)</li>
<li>She's beautiful but don't you wish you could have one that looks like you? (not really this is the child God created for us, why would I change that?)</li>
<li>Where is her real mother? (excuse me??!!!?!?! standing right in front of you!)</li>
<li>Why did you adopt her? (that was God's plan)</li>
<li>Couldn't you have your own children? (um....she is my own child!)</li>
<li>Do you know anything about her real parents? (yes, I have blonde hair and blue eyes....)</li>
<li>Does she know who her real mom is? (yes, it's me!)</li>
<li>Does she call you mom? (i can't even dignify that with a response--out loud anyway)</li>
<li>When did you get her?</li>
<li>Why did you wait so long to have kids?</li>
<li>Why didn't her real mom want her? (oh PLEASE don't ask that question around her birth mom, how insensitive can you get?! Of course her birth mom wanted her, and it's none of your business why she chose this option for her daughter)</li>
<li>Why didn't you adopt a white baby? (oh, I'm so not going there)</li>
<li>Oh my goodness what do you do with her hair? I'd never be able to figure that stuff out!</li>
<li>Does she know she's adopted? (nope, it's a state secret.....of course she knows, she even knows she grew in her birth mom's tummy because Mommy's tummy is broken)</li>
<li>Didn't you know that Asian babies are cheaper? (in what reality?!?!)</li>
<li>What did she cost? (about the same that your baby cost)</li>
</ul><div>Oh and this list just keeps going! (pause to once again say the Serenity Prayer....)</div><div><br />
</div><div>Do you know that my daughter HEARS these questions?!?! Honestly people, THINK before you speak!!!! I have no problem talking about our experience with adoption, actually I love talking about it but not to every Tom, Dick, and Harry that is just being nosy. If you really want to know about adoption and have some serious questions about the process itself, I'm happy to sit and talk to you. But please don't ask stupid questions when my daughter is standing right there, she's going to hear enough of these from her peers as she gets older, she shouldn't have to hear it from the adults she respects (or even adults she doesn't know), adults are supposed to have a little more care for children's feelings than that. On the other hand I work with lots of families and see how they talk about their own children right in front of them! Unbelievable!!!!</div><div><br />
</div><div>Our daughter is an amazing gift from God, her birth mom is also a wonderful gift from God, she is a very important part of our family. I can't even begin to imagine the emotions she went through before and after Autumn's birth and every time she sees Autumn; but I do know that the same stupid questions that hurt me and my daughter also hurt her birth mom. I would not trade Autumn for anything in this world, and no, I don't wish she looked like me. I love the way she looks, she is a beautiful little girl, inside and out. I enjoy learning about how to care for her hair and all the fun things we can do with it. I love the joy she has of life and every little thing about the world around her. Autumn loves God and talks to him as if she were talking to a friend, she knows that Jesus lives in her heart and that the angels sleep with her and keep her and her friends safe at night. I think that she even talks to her angel sister and her angel grandmothers from comments she has made.She is so creative and imaginative and smart and adventurous (sometimes a little to much for my taste, there are days I cover my eyes and pray), she is curious and caring, she is very musically talented and I can't wait to see where her talents and interests take her in life. Why would I want to miss even a second of any of that?!</div>Triebenbachshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10035401190228112750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32141243.post-31000375002524983972011-03-21T19:13:00.001-06:002011-03-21T19:44:34.050-06:00A Soapbox Moment part 1A few days ago I was at a party and all of us mom's were talking about our kids (because what mom doesn't?) I mentioned in the course of this casual conversation that I can't have kids and honestly, I'm not looking for stupid platitudes and "empathy" from someone who's never been there. It has taken me YEARS to be able to say that casually, and accept that it is part of who I am. So I thought I'd share some of the unbelievable things people have said in the past:<br />
<ul><li>It just wasn't meant to be</li>
<li>These things happen for a reason</li>
<li>Maybe you weren't trying hard enough</li>
<li>You just need to relax</li>
<li>If you'd adopt then you could get pregnant (WHAT!?!?! um....I have adopted...)</li>
<li>You can have mine, they are driving me crazy</li>
<li>Oh, parenting is such hard work</li>
<li>You are so lucky, my husband just has to look at me and I get pregnant</li>
<li>Did you try the backseat of a car?</li>
</ul><div>and on and on it goes! Here's the thing......try listening to what you are about to say before you say it. If these are the direction you are headed please just keep your mouth shut. Or rather try "I'm so sorry, that must be hard". And don't say "i know just how you must feel" if you've never been where I am because you actually have NO idea how I feel. I have come to terms with the broken parts of my body but that doesn't mean that I still feel sad or grieve and that these things can't hurt me anymore. Do I feel little pangs of sadness and jealousy when friends and family are getting pregnant around me? Of course, but I'm also thrilled for them and can't wait to meet their new little one! (ok now I'm off to say the Serenity prayer a few times)</div>Triebenbachshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10035401190228112750noreply@blogger.com0