Family
Sister Bear and the Princesses
My middle daughter brought home a plush Berenstain home from school. The Kindergarten teacher selects a child each weekend to take the bear home. That child’s homework for the weekend is to add an entry, from the bear’s point of view, in its accompianing diary describing what the bear did that weekend. Since it is […]
Gender by chance or choice
Last October I posted an entry mentioning that parents, even in modern America, have a slight preference for boys. Well, it turns out that is only true for biological children. The U.S. Census Bureau has a special report comparing the ratio of boys to girls, for adopted, biological and stepchildren. The ratio of girls to […]
INS catches up with the law
Next week we have our final meeting with the Citizenship and Immigration Services. Claire will finally be recognized as a U.S. citizen on December 3rd. CIS used to be called INS, but after congress realized how ineffective they were, they moved departments around and changed their name. Dealing with the INS/CIS has been the least […]
Pledge of Allegiance and Headgear
Marissa reported this past week: “Boys have to remove their hats when they say the Pledge, but girls don’t have to remove their ponytails.” She doesn’t miss a thing.
Not exactly a fair description
My wife and I took our girls to the Ohio State Fair. My middle daughter just loves horses so I made sure I took them to a horse judging competition. Our youngest was asleep in the stroller, so my wife stayed with her outside under a shade tree. Inside, my daughter would point to one […]