Several members of my husband’s family, including DH himself, are very into geneaology.  They have a pretty interesting family history.  They’ve just traced one branch all the way back to Charlemagne–they’re direct descendants!  Through another line, they’re directly descended from Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland.  They also have connections to Thomas Jefferson and Daniel [...]

Aristotle is one of the most important philsophers in the history of civilization.  He lived from 384-322 BC.  His father was the physician to Athenian King Amyntas II, but both of his parents died while he was very young.  He was adopted by Proxenas, who then sent him to the Academy, Plato’s school of philosophy [...]

Carole Turner over at The Wardrobe and the White Tree (seriously, how cool a name is that…you get the references, right?), linked to an article by missionary Voddie Baucham, the father of both adopted and biological children (like so very many of us are).  He is addressing an issue that some Christian families have that makes [...]

We have some friends who are kind of a cross between second parents and second (fourth?  fifth?) grandparents to all our kids, but especially to David.  David and his buddy John do everything together, especially those things that involve fish, worms, turtles, crawdads, snakes, mice, or nightcrawlers… all of which David adores, and Mom and [...]

It’s not always easy to come up with the perfect name for a child, and with an adopted child there can be other issues in play as well.  A blog called Nameisms talks about this subject a lot.  The article I just linked to gives some general guidelines for things to consider when you adopt [...]