Welcome

We set up our adoption blog so you can get to know our family a little better. I started blogging back in 2007 and have kept up with it over the years. At the end of every year, we print off our blog for that year and give it to Daniel's mom for her Christmas present. She keeps all of her children's yearly journals in a notebook that we will get back one day to pass down to our kids. I try to keep it up to date as much as I can.


When we decided to start the adoption process, I decided to make an identical blog for birth mothers to read. Everything that I write about my family on our personal blog, I copy it over to my adoption blog. I understand that an adoption profile only gives limited information about us and we want you to have the opportunity to really get to know who we are and what we like to do as a family. Our adoption blog will show you who we were even before we adopted our boys. Feel free to read as much as you want or click on the links up above!

Sunday, November 23, 2008

I Just Have to Laugh

So I went home teaching tonight and we dropped by someone's house to introduce ourselves. My companion brought his 10 year old son with us. The man we went to visit has a 11 year old daughter and a 14 year old son. After talking for a while got onto the subject of what school the kids went to. Here's how the conversation unfolded...Br. Companion is my home teaching companion and Br. Nice Guy is who we were home teaching for the first time.

Br. Companion: "So you're son goes to xxxx High School...That's a great school!"

Br. Nice Guy (looking at me): "Yeah, its a good school. Is that what high school you go to?"

Me: "No, I get this a lot, but I'm actually older than I look. I'm 25."

Br. Nice Guy: "No way! Are you pulling my leg?"

Me: "No, I'm married, have graduated college, and have a career."

Br. Nice Guy: "Wow, you could have fooled me..."


I know that I just blogged about something similar, but this was too good to pass up. I haven't had someone think I was in high school in awhile now so I thought I was making progress. I'm getting really tired of having to bring a coworker along to every meeting just so the client doesn't think that my company in entrusting the job to a kid. In fact, my boss has told me to just start telling everyone that I'm the Doogie Howser of my profession when I introduce myself. There has to be some way I can use this to my advantage before I'm 40...Any ideas anyone?
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