Harley Quinn and Hermione Granger

This is an epic battle for total control and domination. One is brains the other is brawn. One has tricks and strategy the other uses her cuteness for misdirection before she pounces. This may sounds like the most amazing claymation special or celebrity death match ever, but it is unfortunately the epic dilemma of our two dogs:





Harley Quinn

and

Hermione Granger

While I love them and they are my babies, there are times I have envisioned taking them to a nice farm somewhere and letting them terrorize some farm animals for all eternity. I'm afraid though that they might cause an "Animal Farm" style uprising that would then divide into two nations each ruled by one of them. Eventually an iron curtain would form between the two of them. How would we fair with a canine style Cuban Missile Crisis? I'm not sure what to do about their epic love hate relationship. Their interactions makes the Fraiser Ali rivalry look like a Village People  reunion. One day hopefully they will both let bygones be bygones and share the couch, their food, chew toys, our undivided attention, and home in peace. Please little ones, I'm begging.

Perspective from a family on the path to adoption

I recently saw this story on NPR: “How Evangelical Christians Are Preaching: The New Gospel Of Adoption”. The following is my response to it. 

The recent story on “How Evangelical Christians Are Preaching: The New Gospel Of Adoption” begins in a way that may seem innocuous to most people, stating, “We're used to thinking of adoption as a way for infertile couples or single people to start a family or take in a child in need of a home.” While I cannot argue that many people maybe “used” to thinking this way about adoption, statements such as these perpetuate a way of thinking that places adoption in a second class tier of family ties.

Adoption is as beautiful and caring of a way to bring a child into a loving family as any other means. You would never say this is my son who was born via cesarean section, or this is my daughter who was born premature, because it only describes how they came into your family. Likewise “adoption” only describes how a child came into a family, and should have no bearing on how a family’s relationship is viewed.

Whether you bring your child into your family the traditional way or by other means, every story is different and precious to that family. Undermining one form of “bringing a child home,” because it does not conform to “tradition,” is a disservice to all families.