My name is Lisa, and I’m a 38-year-old mom, wife, and high school teacher. My husband Dave is an incredible person and an amazing, loving dad. Our daughter Carly is happy, healthy, completely silly, and she gives fantastic hugs. She’s described by us and others as an “easy baby,” though I’m not completely sure how to define that. To me, it means she smiles more than she cries, she sleeps and eats on a fairly regular schedule, she seems to play well with others, and she travels like a champ. Someone at day care once told me that she wished all the kids were like Carly.
What makes our family a bit different, especially here in Colorado, is the fact that Dave and I are white, while Carly is black. When we decided to adopt an African-American or bi-racial child, we were told that our family would no longer be anonymous. How true that has become! Also, Dave and Carly are Jewish (Carly was dunked in the Mikvah in July), so we will raise her in that tradition. Dave loves that the two of them have “Jew ‘fros.” (I try not to remind him that her hair is really a ‘fro, while his is just curly.)
This blog is about us, our family, and raising Carly. It probably won’t be a daily, as I teach high school in the morning, take care of Carly in the afternoon, and hang with Dave/grade papers in the evening. It will, however, at least be a weekly. Mostly, it’s for me to vent and rant about life in general.
