We are moving over the next couple of weeks. This is significant for everyone in the family, and although many times I feel like I will be most impacted (I know I will end up doing most of the packing) I think it will have the most significant effect on Little J.

His dad and I, after all, are adults. Plus, we are the ones who engineered this move. His brother is almost seven and although I think it'll be a little hard on him we're going to be able to keep him in his same elementary school until school's out. Big J also helped us decide on the house. We went to see it as a possible... more

One assumption that I made about Little J before he came home to us was that he'd be a great sleeper. After all, the kid had spent the last 7 months of his life in an orphanage. Surely those mamatchkas had him trained to shut his eyes the minute he hit the pillow. Surely he would'n't make a peep. If he could sleep in a room with fifteen other children he wouldn't have a problem sleeping in his own quiet room in his wonderful little toddler bed.

Wrong, wrong, wrong.

Not only did Little J have issues with sleep, the lovely little toddler bed we'd assembled didn't work for... more