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t me grounded and real and honest it allows that gray fuzzy area between the public and the private to be more transparent but in other ways i look forward to not worrying so much about the who might be reading question photos with a private blog we ll be more comfortable continuing to post photos of our children on the internet we are always cognizant of the fact that nothing on the web is truly secure but a private blog will help us feel a little less vulnerable k o are turning six in may meera is turning two in may they are getting older how will they feel about this old blog when they re teenagers and older going private will feel a little less exposed and for their sakes especially i think that is more and more important as they get older so we re moving on we re taking our party underground the good news is that it is still going to be a big ruckus party based on all the emails i ve been receiving since yesterday s announcement it looks like we ll be taking a few hundred readers with us it is really sad to end this blog as we ve known it the saddest part of all for me is knowing that we won t be out there loud and proud to support in whatever tiny ways our blog has those folks out there in the blogosphere looking for companionship on these crazy journeys so many of us are on i am humbled beyond comprehension by the hundreds thousands actually of people who have read our blog and told me of the very real and meaningful ways that it has made them think or has helped them to feel less alone just in the past day i have read hundreds of notes from people all over the world telling me that they ve been reading daily for 2 or 3 years that is just mind boggling to me the things you all have said to me in these emails are beyond touching they are moving and inspiring and so gratifying thank you so much for reading and following along with our story we re telling it mainly for us and for our kids hopefully they will look at the blog some day but it is amazing to know that it has meant so much to so many more out there for this reason we will be keeping this blog located here for at least a good long while people will thus still be able to find us and if so inclined can always request access to our new private blog so adios for now amigos and hello to a whole new era of our blogging posted by heather at 7 33 pm 38 comments thursday march 04 2010 blog going private on sunday march 14 this blog will be going private if you are interested in continuing reading please email me at hbj2 at lehigh dot edu thanks for reading all this time y all posted by heather at 7 24 am sunday february 28 2010 february funk dear february 2010 good riddance sincerely the j ms february 2010 f reakish amounts of snow and snow days e veryone doing their best to hold it together some times more successful than others photo below taken on a good day making cookies oh and e also stands for e arthquake we re still trembling even though we re time and space away from the january 12 haiti earthquake b asketball and 2 boys love affairs with lehigh b ball games replaced football and baseball at least for the time being basketball basketball basketball oh and b lack history month of course r eally and truly this month felt like an uphill battle every single day all month long u nder unfortunately sad circumstances we had what actually turned out to be a great definitely the highlight of our month impromptu trip to massachusetts grandma lorraine s was k o s first family memorial service profoundly sadly it was meera s third but always the optimists as we left the church chapel kyle proclaimed totally genuinely to the pastor that was the best funeral i ve ever been to later she came and talked with me for awhile about our little religious one we really did wind up having a great trip including a fun 2 night stay in a nice hotel with jackpot an indoor swimming pool in worcester with mormor and morfar auntie stina mark and sadie photo below h with boys in hotel room during meera s nap before boys heading out with braydon for a morning swim please please please do not leave nasty anonymous comments about how ashy their skin is i know chlorine and february do that duh we re aware of it please do not harass me about it because right about now i seriously cannot take the negative commentary trust me i ve got it covered a ntibiotics need i say more sickness sucks at one point three of the five of us were on antibiotics several bottles of various prescription and over the counter meds were consumed by the j m family i don t think there has been one day during february that we ve all been 100 healthy that just totally totally sucks miraculously owen has been the only one in the family who did not get sick at all during february of course he had a broken collar bone but that s a whole other story and a positive note we found out in february that his collar bone is 100 healed so that s good and he s now for better or for worse back to his full range of activities including stuff like dish washing but also including driving all of us crazy with his crazy antics r eliving the lion king over and over and over and over and over oh and there was that r idiculous holiday valentines day in there somewhere too but honestly that kinda got lost in the snow day shuffle plus braydon had been throwing up the night before so that kinda put a damper on it too ugh y ear two is quickly closing in on us as of today our baby girl is 21 months old which truthfully just feels so depressing how oh how can that be can t meera grace just stay a baby forever p s lucky for us our trusty coffee maker went on the fritz during february at first this seemed like yet another thing to hate about this month but no it was a blessing in disguise we finally had a semi decent excuse to buy that keurig coffee maker we ve been coveting and oh how that keurig made our last few days of february sooooooooooo much better than they would have been without it posted by heather at 8 42 pm 9 comments gospel music at river valley on saturday i had the good fortune of brining k o to what is thankfully starting to be a tradition the brockington ensemble s concert at river valley waldorf school although it s a bit strange for me as a white man with two black sons to be at an almost all white school listening to an all black choir who are raising the roof and praising with a lot of eyes on us and how we three handle the entire thing despite that hyper awareness and sense of vulnerability we had a great time and the boys loved the music during the intermission they ran up to the drummer and chatted it up and tried out the cymbals during the final song when everyone got up to get up we got up and were a witness along with the rising euphoria of the ensemble pretty awesome posted by unknown at 8 22 pm 0 comments friday february 26 2010 sleeping together for at least one year february 26 2009 i posted this post click here apparently at that point k o had been sleeping together for 2 3 weeks i would never ever have remembered that if it weren t for this blog they ve been sleeping together every night since then so it has been at least a year solid of sleeping together they still sleep with owen s lovey lion and lovey lion s twin brother and with kyle s honey bunny and honey bunny s twin brother turtle or tortoise as they sometimes call him a light up turtle that i gave to owen also has been sleeping with them for the past few months they still always have sleep music blaring all night long and numerous night lights they almost always choose to sleep in owen s room and they almost always do well at bedtime this doing well at bedtime is a huge improvement over the years prior when bedtime was a serious challenge now more often than not bedtime is pleasant for all involved i think it is so sweet that our boys want to sleep together at night when we check on them before we go to bed they are almost always entwined under the covers i love that they have this posted by heather at 9 45 pm 4 comments notes from the trenches of yet another snow day we re dreaming of vacation that is always the dead give away that we re in the depths of the doldrums of the winter time blues pre kids braydon and i would always start dreaming of vacation right about late february early march it happened every year we d start planning a may trip then and the hopes dreams plans for that spring vacation would keep us going through the end of the school year we never entered the real world and have always still to this day operated on an academic year type calendar well now that we have kids nothing has changed in the right around late feb early march hoping dreaming planning for vacation department except that now our kids participate in it with us sometimes it feels like that may vacation and that alone is what keeps us going how pathetic is that i posted about the less pathetic aspects of this phenomenon here pretty pathetic i m not sure exactly what to make of it that k o are just like their parents when it comes to travel i suppose it shouldn t be such a surprise but still it was surprising today that during meera s nap while k o and i were sitting at the table drawing with a near blizzard outside our windows and nearly 2 feet of new snow piled up i found my boys drawing pictures of our next big trip kyle drew what is for him a very detailed and painstaking drawing of a hotel map note the yellow beach and the blue ocean owen drew an airplane and next to it wrote out a long sequence of numbers which were our airline ticket numbers and our hotel room number they asked me to draw a boat going to an island with starfish and coral under the water nice so that pretty much sums it up at least in some existential kind of way that sort of says it all i think just a couple other notes from this the millionth snow day of the winter of 2010 seriously the biggest most grueling task of being home with the boys all day long i e with them having no school no outings no nothing allllll daaaaaaaaaaaaaaay loooooooooooooong is the food production i cannot even explain how intense it is seriously they eat sooooo muuuuuuuuch and they are onlyyyyyyyyyyy fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive years old i ve said it before and i ll say it again what on earth will it be like when they are fifteen they eat so much they are hungry almost all day long they are bottomless pits lately kyle especially is just always hungry he finishes a huge meal and within an hour he s asking for more food he must be going through a growth spurt but seriously you have to see it to believe it photo above taken at 9 30 this morning after many and multiple breakfast food items between the hours of 7 00 9 00 a m they were ready for a real snack i e what most of us would consider a meal at 9 30 a m while i drank coffee owen had leftover pizza and kyle had leftover ravioli with pesto and parmesan that satisfied them for about a 1 2 hour over the course of the day kyle ate 3 bananas the two of them combined ate 5 clementines owen ate so many oatmeal cranberry white chocolate cookies that i lost track and they along with their sister consumed 1 2 gallon of whole milk that is just in addition to their real meals and many other various snacks for dinner they ate amongst other things an entire family size package of chicken nuggets keeping up with their food consumption is truly exhausting it alone keeps me 100 busy all day long on a day like today by the end of the day i want nothing absolutely nothing to do with food prep ever again in a moment of brilliance we dragged an old toy from the boys toddler hood out of the basement it kept them all occupied for quite some time and it brought back a lot of memories of when k o were m s age it was a lot of fun and probably pathetic as this is the highlight of our day it was not one of our greatest days nobody under the age of six had any major meltdowns miraculously meera continued to pee and poop today in the potty and no parent lost their temper huge accomplishment but mommy cried hard twice and the parental unit was not so unified including one major blow out we are so sick and tired of snow and the novelty of snow days has definitely worn off but thank god today is all done and tomorrow is a new day posted by heather at 8 48 pm 0 comments thursday february 25 2010 peepee on the potty and other firsts yesterday late afternoon while the boys were at kung fu and braydon chaperoning them there meera did her first pee pee on the potty huge huge very big deal it was deliberate and purposeful it was the real deal then again this morning she did a repeat performance for the whole family we all did the happy dance and she got a little chunk of good swedish chocolate as a reward what a proud little 20 month old she is in the past couple of weeks meera s had a few big firsts first time at the climbing wall first french braid first day of school meera and i are doing garden gate together at our waldorf school on monday mornings this semester we ve had two sessions so far and we are both loving it braydon took the photo above just as meera and i were pulling out of the garage to head off to our first day posted by heather at 8 30 pm 1 comments another snow day daffodils are yellow some crocuses are blue we ve had way too many snow days this winter oh spring how we can t wait to see you posted by heather at 8 15 pm 0 comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom party of five the johnson mccormick family blog about our blog the johnson mccormick family blog is a blog spot for sharing the scoop on our little family s big life we are heather braydon kyle owen and meera johnson mccormick kyle and owen are twins born may 8 2004 in cite soleil port au prince haiti adopted january 31 2005 we became a party of 5 when meera grace was born to us on may 28 2008 we have a crazy fun filled life with 3 bambinos and 2 big careers all under 1 roof the point of this blog is three fold 1 to keep friends and family posted on k o and m s goings on s and our life 2 to create an historical document journal scrapbook of this wild ride 3 to be out there in the blogosphere loud and proud doing what we can to support other adoptive inter racial families and dual career families in their journeys thanks for reading and following along as kyle and owen say it s a bumpy bumpy ride in a good way contributors heather unknown the 3 bambinos j m family blog guestbook please sign our blog guestbook favorite posts our readers top 10 favorite posts from our 1st year of blogging our readers top 10 favorite posts from our 2nd year of blogging our readers top 10 favorite posts from our 3rd year of blogging blog archive october 2006 34 november 2006 62 december 2006 40 january 2007 74 february 2007 58 march 2007 53 april 2007 68 may 2007 47 june 2007 50 july 2007 41 august 2007 51 september 2007 50 october 2007 29 november 2007 33 december 2007 31 january 2008 34 february 2008 25 march 2008 41 april 2008 38 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