A Little Bit About This Blog...(for the UBP '09!)

This blog began May 6, 2005...originally titled "Three Peas in a Pod" (at a different address). I wasn't even sure what a "blog" was a few weeks prior to beginning my blog (even though my little sister had been blogging for years by that time). When I finally dove in and and began a blog of my own, I was pretty clueless about the computer in general and a bit wary of blogging in particular. It has been, though, an overwhelmingly positive experience.

Right around the same time I launched the blog, I also began experimenting with digital photography using a borrowed camera (my father-in-law's).

It soon became apparent to me that blogging and digital photography are rather addictive! Nearly four years later, I am still here! Stories of our family are the fabric of this blog. Sometimes humourous, sometimes serious, sometimes just plain mundane. Over the years, this blog has become a place where our friends and relatives from afar can stay connected with the day to day life of our family. It has also been a safe place for me to work through, in my own heart, the struggles involved with attachment in adoption and the guilt, doubts, and frustration that sometimes haunt the parent of a child with special needs. Most of all, it is a depository of stories for our children about our life together.

My husband and I have been married nearly eighteen years. We have three children. Our oldest joined us when she was eight and a half months old, born in JiangXi, China. Our youngest joined us when she was nine months old, born in AnHui, China. Our middle child, joined us last, when he was six years old, born in Taiwan. The children are now 13, 10, and 7 years old. We have written about our adoption journeys at another blog, Trails.

Finding that I tended to write way too much about our German Shepherd puppy on this blog, I allowed Ransom (the pup) to have her own blog. "Ransom" has quite enjoyed this creative outlet!

(There is a far more detailed profile of each family member in the side-bar.)

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