Etc., Etc., Etc.

Lots of lose ends.

First here is the response I received today from Parade Magazine. I am not hopeful the columnist will ever address the "trendiness of international adoption" again. Apparently, enough angry families wrote in that they generated a form letter response.

Dear Reader,

Thank you kindly for your recent letter regarding last Sunday’s Personality PARADE item on international adoption. We sincerely regret that the item troubled you; we certainly did not intend to disparage the millions of caring families who have chosen to adopt children from abroad. We have forwarded your comments to our columnist, and we will take them into consideration as we report on future articles on adoption.

Thank you again for writing. We value our readers’ opinions greatly; you help us make a better magazine.

Sincerely,

Reader Service Department
PARADE Magazine

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Day 3 of Magster's Porcelain Adventure went extremely well. She had only one minor accident. We purchased 14 new panties as she needs back ups for preschool. She chose Princess panties, Dora panties and Hello Kitty panties. And she insisted on carrying them to the counter at Target all by herself. The checker, obviously experienced in such purchases, congratulated the Magster, who just beamed in reply. I have put the diapers away and we are going with all panties all the time, except at bedtime, of course. I am still in shock she potty trained herself.
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La Nina decided not to take a nap today and I decided to let her give it a shot. She is almost 4 for crying out loud. She did great until 5pm and then she went bad. Real bad. She ended up getting sent to her room for the night at 6:30. She was out by 7pm. Hmmmm....may be that isn't such a bad thing.

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