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My trilingual son
Bublis se dnes vycural na nocnik. Na povel. Nedoslo zrovna na donucovaci metody, ale kdyz Ignacovi rekl ze nechce, Ignac rekl ze on si teda taky nechce hrat s Bublovymi vlacky. Za minutu byly v nocnik skoro dva centimetry ( Read more... ) -
maminko v bříšku
Bubla zacina chapat ze miminka jsou v brisku a zacina se o to zajimat. Poslednich par dni obcas vyfounkne brisko (pak uz opravdu vypada jak smrtelne podvizivene dite z rozvojoveho sveta) a prohlasi "maminko [miminko] v bisku." Parkrat jsem s nim zkracene probrala, jak to bylo s jeho narozenim a jak se dostal k nam, a dnes jsem se ho co nejveseleji ( Read more... ) -
She's home!!!
Well, I didn't update for Bubla's megasurgery, I didn't update for all the adoption and biological sibling drama (that's private, anyway) or anything else that has made life highly, um, INteresting for the past couple of months ( Read more... ) -
on second thought
Now that I think about it, maybe the rabbi's language and the fact that she's associated with a synagogue evoked a knee-jerk reaction on my part. (Not that being associated with a synagogue is a problem for me, since my husband's Jewish :-)...but I guess I assumed she meant Jews.) She's probably (hopefully) referring to the community at large, and ( Read more... ) -
Walking a couple of miles in other people's shoes
In particular, I'm referring to a)people with disabilities, and b)preadoptive parents who have to wait and wait until they can be sure they can have a specific child placed and/or keep him/her (I got a slight taste of this during the 3 1/2 months we had Bubla in preadoptive care - the ever-so-tiny chance that someone higher up would find the very ( Read more... ) -
ups and downs, and spending away my guilt
I think I only burst into tears twice today, and I got through a Target trip with very little emotion, largely thanks to the understandably cranky Bubla. I'm happiest when I find a new victim, someone who's not in the department (which is almost completely off-limits for now until the job search is over) and can be subjected to my photo-flashing. ( Read more... ) -
It's official
I'll go to the orphanage on April 13th, assuming the social worker can get the director to agree, then I'll spend the night there and meanwhile Ignac and Bubla will fly overnight and we'll all meet back at the Prague apartment ( Read more... ) -
z dopisu Kapuletovi
Ja jsem asi pred pul hodinou mame rekla o holcicce. Myslim, ze to dopadlo tak nejak jeste hur, nez jsem cekala, protoze sice nejdriv rekla, ze jsme se "uplne posrali" (posrali??), ale potom byla uplne zticha, celkem nic jsem z ni nevypacila, akorat nakonec rekla ze to musi jit stravit. Chtela jsem ji to rict az po Bublove operaci nebo tak nejak, ( Read more... ) -
On parity and diversity hires
Oh how self-serving we all are, changing our staunch political beliefs at the drop of a hat (and this goes especially for Jews, liberal women, and the like). (Ignac got a Harvard interview. I won't be on the market for another year or two.) But seriously - I consider myself a) a woman, and b) a member of an ethnic (or racial, where I come from) ( Read more... )