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!

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Before and After

My house is very clean in the morning before the boys wake up and in the evening after they go to bed. During the day....well it looks like a tornado went through it.
This is what their room looked like in the morning before they woke up.
Nice and clean and everything is in it's place.

Anyone who knows me, knows that I am big into organizing. Everything that I have has a place that it belongs. I'm still trying to teach Daniel how to organize his stuff (:
This is their room right before bedtime. I love that they have their own room where they can make a total mess. This used to be what my family room looked like before I turned this room into a playroom. It still gets messy with toys but it isn't near as bad now. I've learned to rotate toys around and it works great. After seeing this, I decided that they still have way too many toys out.
So I put away their tent, tunnel and a few other toys. In a few weeks I will get them back out and put these toys away. It works great and to them it is like they have a whole bunch of new toys.
Now they have a lot more space to play or use their riding toys. It's crazy to think that two years ago we didn't have any kid toys. Now we have more toys than I know what to do with!