Our blog has been the recent recipient of a flood of attacks… again. So, until Jeff gets a chance to look at it and fix it… It’s been reset to require moderation and registered users. Sorry for the inconvenience. It’s not like we post here a whole lot anymore anyway. 🙂

Dear Friends & Family~ It’s Christmas Eve and it’s been an interesting year in the Burkholder home. We’ve grown in a lot of ways, the most obvious of which is, of course, the fact that Zoë is 13 months old now and Dante is five (although we’re not sure if that’s his age or his…

Forget shopping on Black Friday! You couldn’t drag me to the mall today. The amount of people and chaos can never make up for any fabulous deals the stores may try to entice me with. For years, the day after Thanksgiving has been Annual Cookie Baking Day for my family. This continued after I got…

Zoë’s birthday was yesterday and Dante’s birthday will be on Monday. So we had a bunch of family over this evening to celebrate by eating cake (blueberry at Dante’s request) and opening gifts (even though they were all told they didn’t need to bring any). Unfortunately, Zoë has been teething and just got her one…

Well, the kids are growing and changing so fast and I’m horrible at keeping this blog updated for some reason. Here’s a quick update on how they are doing, because I frequently have people asking! Dante Dante is as precocious as ever at nearly five-years-old. He’s highly sensitive and a perfectionist (taking after mommy), as…

We appear to have begun a new tradition in the Burkholder household: Friday Family Fun Night. This normally entails having dinner in the living room (either picnic style on a blanket or surrounding the coffee table) of fun finger foods (popcorn, chicken nuggets, pizza bites, etc.) and milkshakes or smoothies while watching tv (usually our…

New blog: Laughing at the Moon This blog will continue to be our family blog. The new blog (above) will be my personal reflections as mentioned in the previous post.

To follow up from the last post, NO We’re not looking to add any children to the family at the moment. 🙂 And now… to share about something I’ve been recently pondering… This blog is about our adoption, our family, and the overall journey that parents take in raising their kids and building a home…

So… Why did I stop blogging about our vacation? Because, well, sharing ONE computer amongst two computer geeks leaves little time for blogging, particularly in conjunction with an activity-filled vacation. That, and the Little Man came down with a horrid cold with fever sometime late afternoon or early evening of Wednesday. I guess that explains…