Jeremiah and Steph hope to Adopt

We have an open adoption from Feb. 2010 and would like the adventure to continue by adopting again. Please Learn more about us at our adoption website: http://stephandjeremiah.blogspot.com/

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Peeked at tumblr for first time in pretty close to a year.  You guys are awesome still and I am so glad!

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yeah you know me

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Today's craft brought to you by toxic melting plastic fumes and crumbs from the table. Bodhi was having such fun scooping and dumping the pony beads again and again that some breakfast crumbs (or let's face it...dinner two days ago crumbs) got subtly baked into our sun catchers.

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Jason Segel and Neil Patrick Harris singing “The Confrontation” from Les Misérables

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He said what?! Just got back from a great date night- our first in six months, since baby Isaac was born. I am grateful the grandparents could babysit while we trekked into the city and let our little lights shine. But we arrive back home and my father-in-law says to me, "For what it's worth, Bodhi only asked for his dad at bedtime, not once for you." Hmmmm, for what it's worth, I guess I can take that statement as further evidence that children, in this case my husband, can grow up just fine even when their parents say or do stupid things...

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Teacher gifts...

An original print of an astronaut/intrepid explorer peering upon a brain- made for me by a graduating senior- so awesome to see someone get their geek on and possibly even be a part of it.

For students, when they take their last final they are D-O-N-E, but for professors (especially those of us particularly skilled at procrastinatory diversions) the end of the semester is like slowly peeling off a band-aid.  It takes forever and can be rather painful.

I took a break (aka procrastinatory diversion) today and assembled gifts for the teachers at daycare (the boys go three times a week. We Love the school, and I must admit I love missing the kids).  Homemade bath bombs, bath salts, and beeswax lip body balm- my nose is so stuffed up I am hoping I did not create any horrible essential oil combinations.  Also got a book on Ambigrams for our favorite teacher, whose visible body art was what sold us on this daycare center- odds are if the employees are made to feel comfortable being who they are, then that attitude will be communicated to the little ones as well.  And can't forget the peppermint bark made by the hubs.

Now time for a snack...it works in favor of those students' papers I will be grading with a bit of a chocolate buzz.

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IN THE FIFTH GIF HE PATS THE CUPS WITH HIS LITTLE PAWS TO MAKE SURE IT’S IN. BRB, DYING.

forever reblogging this, my most favouite gif EVER

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<3

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ARE YOU KIDDING? LOOK AT THE 7TH GIF HOW HE JUST HANDS THE CUPS TO THE PERSON AND IS LIKE, “HERE HUMAN, YOUR FEEBLE TASK FOR ME IS COMPLETE. NOW LEAVE US BE.”

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Simply, this ^.

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I WAS JUST ABOUT TO SAY THAT. ^

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<3

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this looks just like the boys in their bath!

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didn’t even make it past the first line before i had to reblog

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You know you should hit the hay when your only friends on chat are on a different continent/in a different time zone!

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The perfect description of being a mother :)

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I’ve realized why being a mother is the most difficult job in the world. You spend all this time falling completely in love with someone, all the while knowing it is your responsibility to make sure they leave you one day.

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vote button is in right corner of video screen.  video is 3 minutes.  worth a watch!

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Would you believe I howled like a banchee in the car? Luckily this face makes my mom forget too!

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If you were following coverage of Sandy last night, you may have seen photos of nurses and firemen transporting babies from the NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) at NYU’s hospital. If you didn’t, you might consider looking them up. They’re very moving. They show courageous…

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Tips the National Guard Won't Tell You

Power outages call for precautionary measures...we learned the hard way that when in near total darkness the wine should go in sippy cups

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Sometimes too many cooks make the pretend broth super delicious and perfect for a hunkering down against the elements kind of day

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Dear Ann Coulter of the Day: After Ann Coulter referred to President Obama as a retard in a tweet during Monday night’s presidential debate, Special Olympics athlete and global messenger John Franklin Stephens penned her this open letter:

Dear Ann Coulter,  Come on Ms. Coulter, you aren’t dumb and you aren’t shallow. So why are you continually using a word like the R-word as an insult?  I’m a 30 year old man with Down syndrome who has struggled with the public’s perception that an intellectual disability means that I am dumb and shallow. I am not either of those things, but I do process information more slowly than the rest of you. In fact it has taken me all day to figure out how to respond to your use of the R-word last night.  I thought first of asking whether you meant to describe the President as someone who was bullied as a child by people like you, but rose above it to find a way to succeed in life as many of my fellow Special Olympians have.  Then I wondered if you meant to describe him as someone who has to struggle to be thoughtful about everything he says, as everyone else races from one snarkey sound bite to the next.  Finally, I wondered if you meant to degrade him as someone who is likely to receive bad health care, live in low grade housing with very little income and still manages to see life as a wonderful gift.  Because, Ms. Coulter, that is who we are – and much, much more.  After I saw your tweet, I realized you just wanted to belittle the President by linking him to people like me. You assumed that people would understand and accept that being linked to someone like me is an insult and you assumed you could get away with it and still appear on TV.  I have to wonder if you considered other hateful words but recoiled from the backlash.  Well, Ms. Coulter, you, and society, need to learn that being compared to people like me should be considered a badge of honor.  No one overcomes more than we do and still loves life so much.  Come join us someday at Special Olympics. See if you can walk away with your heart unchanged.  A friend you haven’t made yet, John Franklin Stephens Global Messenger Special Olympics Virginia

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hell yeah

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Hey, Anne Coulter, here is some commercially available burn cream.