I haven't been writing

I haven't been writing this summer. Partly it's because our summer was very busy. A did a great job describing it here. The one thing I would add is that this was the summer our boys started playing with each other. They rarely did that before, but now they're always giggling and wrestling and cracking each other up. I love it. I also partly haven't been writing because I wrote a post about the George Zimmerman verdict, and when I didn't publish it, it became a mental block against other posts. But mostly it's because lately I've been feeling less and less like an adoptive family, and more like just a family, who does ordinary family stuff and deals with ordinary family issues, which really aren't that interesting to read about.

I'm going to try to start writing again. I do occasionally have thoughts that I'd like to record for my memory-challenged self. One change I'm making is that I'm turning off the anonymous comments, because all I get are random Bible verses or nasty notes about my kids. Seriously, people, you have nothing better to do?

To kickstart the restart, I'll leave you with some of D's greatest hits of the summer, reposted from facebook:

• Insults the kids traded today: "You like Abraham Lincoln." "You like Jomo Kenyatta. " "You're a butler." 

• D: Do you get how flexible you are from your first parents? Me: Yes, it's genetic. D: Genetic? I thought it was gymnastics.

• D has invented a country called D_land. It has a lot of billboards, and people there are greedy. Its current president is named San DeMoy. The country fought a civil war in 1961 over how to share the country's three mountains.

• D, yelling out from the bathroom: "White men, you've had your turn!"

• D is going to get a job that he describes as "I will look at people's belly buttons and screw them."