Sara, Tyler & Jay came Trick or Treating by.
The Cousins Invade Ikea
TIGGER DALLINSunday, November 02, 2008
Tigerboy Pooh and Isis Piglet
Bonnie Holding Tigerboy Pooh and Isis Piglet
Tigerboy Pooh and Isis Piglet Hunt For Halloween Treasure
Tigerboy Pooh and Isis Piglet Find Delicious TreasureElephants and Mushrooms
Abuelito Plays Under The Mushroom With Tigerboy and Tigger Dallin
Tara Tried To Convince Us That The Elephant Was Her Newest Baby
Abuelito Plays Under The Mushroom With TigerboyThe Joker
The Joker Scared Tigger Dallin as Tigerboy Looked On
Tigerboy and the Joker became fast friends
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
It has been 16 years since Jeremy died
Mushroom sharing an ice cream cone with Jeremy on the Long Beach City College campus before Mushroom went to Viet Nam
Jeremy & Orlando at the University of New Mexico at Halloween time
Jeremy & Orlando at the University of New Mexico at Halloween time
This is one of my favorite photos of Jeremy and Orlando together
Jeremy and Orlando together as we were building the greenhouse in our Albuquerque home.
October, changes its green sequined dress for a multishade coat of oranges, ocres, browns and yellows. But she hides her salted swords and just when I am caught in her beauty she slices a deep cut into my heart and I cry, deep, deep inside for a long, long time.
It was a charmingly sunny October morning when we received the call that Jeremy was in intensive care and the hospital needed our permission to provide medical care. Jeremy had been hit while riding his motorcycle, which he loved to do. Our son died 23 October 1992.
But that very week later, four families were saying prayers of thankgsgiving for Jeremy's life saving organs. I miss our son, very, very , very much, especially when October dresses in gold and rubies.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Bonnie & Jiho Returned to the USA
Happy family home in the US, at last.
The Original Starbucks is a good place to visit as we showed Mirae and Yeoungho the sites and sounds of Seattle.
Mirae buys a bracelet as Bonnie and Roger look on.
Denise is so happy to have them home.
The Celestial Being is glad that her sister is home, along with her brother-in-law and niece and nephew.
It is a mixture of joy and sadness whenever loved ones leave. Bonnie, Isis, Tigerboy and Jiho came to America and left Jiho's parent's behind.
Goodbye Korea, we will miss you
Sunday, July 13, 2008
Front Yard Summer Garden
The yard is beautiful with bright orange lilies and purple lavender and purple wildflowers. I paid a young neighbor to remove the lawn, thus giving Denise a pallet with which to paint her garden. It is beautiful. And no one has to mow it.
Monday, July 07, 2008
Celeste's 20th Birthday Party
Celeste’s 20th birthday party
Elli watches Celeste light the candles
Celeste cuts the cake
Celeste is JUBULANT ! ! 
Krystal enjoying the party
party participants
Party Dog
Suppressing the party girl 
CELESTE is HAPPY
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Debi throws a birthday party for Denise
Happy 58thbirthday
DENISE ! ! ! !
Debi created the best birthday party for DENISE. Way to go Debi !
Orlando
Dallin to have fun Playing Croquet.
Orlando is Goofing around to the delight of Celeste,
Why not gravel angels
Why not make gravel angels
when snow is not available
Joy and fun should not be suppressed just
because the ideal situation has not presented itself.
Make Joy, be Joy ful.
Why, because you are Playing with the Creator
And that is sooooooo cooooool!!!!!!!
Friday, June 06, 2008
Ethnicity can flow in both directions
Adoption is a blessing for both child and parents. It is also a lot of work. My spouse and I are a mixed couple. I am Hispanic, she is Irish and German. We have two biological sons and two adopted daughters. One from South Korea and one from Siberia (Russia).
When parents have children biologically, they may impart their ethnicity and culture to their children. When parents adopt transracially, an opportunity arises for ethnicity to flow the other direction.
My spouse and I have learned so much about Russian and Koran culture. The whole family is richer for it. We all learned a little Korean and a little Russian. We eat Rice and kimchee, borscht and pelmeni. We go to local Korean and Russian events. During the Olympics we cheer for the US, South Korea and Russia. We do that because that is who we are, as a family. We are a global family.
America is not so much a melting pot as a tapestry. People from all over the world have come here to make America a beautiful tapestry of world cultures.
It is the responsibility of all parents to help their children maneuver through those identity questioning times. Racism is still pervasive in America. When parents adopt children who are from a different ethnic group or race, it is their responsibility to learn what they can, enlist help, and to celebrate their children’s unique attributes.
As for sending your children to language school, be careful that you are not isolating them. Don’t send them to Chinese language school, for example, unless you take Chinese classes also. That way, you are being inclusive rather than pointing out their “differentness”.
I could not understand why our older daughter did not want to go to Korean language school? I did not understand, then, that she wanted to be like us, a “real” part of the family. Thus, our sending her, by herself, to Korean language school, only accentuated the fact that she was “not like us”.
Children need loving parents. Parents, who adopt transracially, have the added opportunity to enhance their own lives by creating a loving “tapestry” of family cultures.
Children look in the mirror. They look at family photographs. When their differences are celebrated as enhancements to the family, they grow up with a healthy tolerance of everyone else’s unique attributes, especially their own.
When parents have children biologically, they may impart their ethnicity and culture to their children. When parents adopt transracially, an opportunity arises for ethnicity to flow the other direction.
My spouse and I have learned so much about Russian and Koran culture. The whole family is richer for it. We all learned a little Korean and a little Russian. We eat Rice and kimchee, borscht and pelmeni. We go to local Korean and Russian events. During the Olympics we cheer for the US, South Korea and Russia. We do that because that is who we are, as a family. We are a global family.
America is not so much a melting pot as a tapestry. People from all over the world have come here to make America a beautiful tapestry of world cultures.
It is the responsibility of all parents to help their children maneuver through those identity questioning times. Racism is still pervasive in America. When parents adopt children who are from a different ethnic group or race, it is their responsibility to learn what they can, enlist help, and to celebrate their children’s unique attributes.
As for sending your children to language school, be careful that you are not isolating them. Don’t send them to Chinese language school, for example, unless you take Chinese classes also. That way, you are being inclusive rather than pointing out their “differentness”.
I could not understand why our older daughter did not want to go to Korean language school? I did not understand, then, that she wanted to be like us, a “real” part of the family. Thus, our sending her, by herself, to Korean language school, only accentuated the fact that she was “not like us”.
Children need loving parents. Parents, who adopt transracially, have the added opportunity to enhance their own lives by creating a loving “tapestry” of family cultures.
Children look in the mirror. They look at family photographs. When their differences are celebrated as enhancements to the family, they grow up with a healthy tolerance of everyone else’s unique attributes, especially their own.
Sidney Kidney
Sidney Kidney took advantage of a photo opportunity with Chef Graham Kerr at the Breakfast of Hope for the Northwest Kidney Foundation. Graham was the keynote speaker. He is shown here with his wife, Trina and Sidney Kidney.
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