There was a moment today when Ara caught my gaze and looked straight into my eyes for what seemed like a minute. As I looked into those dark dark brown eyes I was almost startled by her depth. I see such intelligence, curiosity, and love inside those eyes. Ara has been sort of complaining lately [...]

Book: Goblet of Fire (yes again) Activity: Playing FFXI tonight. BLM Ka-Boom. We recently reactivated our characters since we stopped playing a while ago. Not our old old characters though, sadly. Music: Evanescence, I haven’t listed to them in forever (so don’t call me an emo). Karma: So this lady sat in a chair next [...]

We have our second session of our Parenting Class tomorrow night. At our first class last week we learned about the 3 basic styles of parenting.1. Authorative2. Permissive3. DemocraticWe discussed each style and it was clear that we were supposed to come to the conclusion that Democratic is the way to be. We did actually [...]

And so the endless chasing begins! Ara is like a wind-up-toy now; you have to constantly take her back to a starting point so she doesn’t get too far out of range. We even got out this giant tent-like fort that Joey has and she squealed with joy as she crawled through it. Ara is [...]