ayat: a year ago today

A year ago today I was posting pictures from our first day in Khabarovsk and reporting on our progress through the famous eight doctor medical exam.

you just never know . . .

. . . what you might find on this blog. Today we have a techie wonderment:
(wait just a minute for it to load and then click in the middle of the image)


I found this on Brian Zollinhofer's blog. He's on my Techie blogs list.

ayat: a year ago today

A year ago today I was posting Greetings from Seoul on our layover on our way to meet our children.

what I wish I had said

what I said:

Inquisitive Woman at t-ball: "How did you pick [at the orphanage]?"
Me: "blah blah blah Ministry of Education blah blah blah Russian official selects blah blah blah."

what I wish I had said:

Inquisitive Woman at t-ball: "How did you pick [at the orphanage]?"
Me: "The same way you did."
Inquisitive Woman: "Huh?"
Me: "We took who God gave us and knew they were perfect."

ayat: a year ago today

A year ago today I was still a brand new blogger posting instructions on how to comment for my brand new readers who were mostly new to blogs themselves.

Apparently it is time to repost instructions, as many of us seem to have forgotten.

Step 1: Click on the words at the bottom of the post that read "not a single comment yet. sad." or "one lovely and intelligent comment" or "# words of encouragement, thus far".
Step 2: A little pop-up window will pop-up. Don't be alarmed. It is a nice friendly pop-up window eager to receive and cherish your every utterance.
Step 3: Type your name or alias into the name box.
Step 4: Type your email address into the email box (no-one will see it but me and you can always type in a phony one if you wish).
Step 5: Type your comment into the box that reads "comment".
Step 6: Click the "Preview" button; admire your contribution.
Step 7: Click on the "Publish" button.

Ready. Set. Go.

Poetry Friday

15 cherry tomatoes
lined up in the gutter
on a hot dry day in the city:
somebody's salad
making a get-away.

-- S. Chandler 2004

The Poetry Friday round-up can be found at Big A little a.

ayat: a year ago today

A year ago today I was posting about being 30 hours away from departure to go meet our children in Russia. A year ago today we were still strangers to them.

(brace yourself for a whole slew of ayat posts.)