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Blog entries posted during February 2011

Will You Sleep Tonight?

by: Tish Hamilton

1/6/10 “Where are you planning to sleep tonight?” My 5-year-old and I are strolling down the hallway to the bedroom. She looks at me sideways. Am I joking? “In your room!” Sleep has been difficult for my daughter – hence for me and my husband –...

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Whose Daughter?

by: Tish Hamilton

2/26/10 “Who? Who? Who?” A turbaned, bearded man rested his forearms on my passenger-side window rim and gestured to the backseat, where my daughter sat strapped into her floral pink-and-green high-back booster seat. “Whose? Whose?” It is one of t...

02/28/2011 9 Comments:

Food Issues

by: Tish Hamilton

3/17/10 Thwok! The child, age 5.5, wields a knife the length of her head. She places the blade across a flat circle of sweet potato, presses down on the top of the knife with her right hand and chops the circle into halves, then quarters, then...

02/28/2011 11 Comments:

Travels With Child

by: Tish Hamilton

4/08/10 “Where she from?” The question is not always intrusive. The man asking this time was Chinese, in his late 50s, and our busboy (although what a ludicrous thing to call a man in his late 50s) in the Westin San Francisco Airport Hotel’s dinin...

02/28/2011 13 Comments:

Will You Play With Me?

by: Tish Hamilton

4/22/10 Does a high-pitched plea to play from your small child make your heart sing or sink? “You’re the king and I’m the princess and we’re in a castle and a witch comes and she steals my jewels and she wants to use magic but she is evil and the...

02/28/2011 0 Comments:

Toy Story

by: Tish Hamilton

5/10/10 Last week when I was out for the night, my husband — home alone with the child — sent me a panicked text message: Do you have some kind of paperclip thingy? An airplane??? What’s your child’s favorite toy? What does she most like to play...

02/28/2011 0 Comments:

Hair Today

by: Tish Hamilton

5/26/10 Let’s put your hair up. No! Will you please put your hair up? No! It’ll feel good. No! You’ll be so much cooler. No! It’s hanging in your face. No! It’s getting in your food. No! You used to wear your hair up. No! Please? No! Why not?...

02/28/2011 9 Comments:

You Never Know What You'll Get

by: Tish Hamilton

6/04/10 About this time five years ago, we received an email from our adoption agency with two photos of a round-faced baby, then 7 months old, with bow-shaped lips and a thin patch of dark hair, stuffed into seemingly many layers of thick clothin...

02/28/2011 12 Comments:

Pink Shoes! Pink Shoes!

by: Tish Hamilton

6/22/10 “Well, I couldn’t find the shoes you asked for, but I did find these,” said the (hapless) salesman at our local shoe store. “They’re pretty.” In the early pictures of our child, when she is 13, 14, 15 months old, and unable yet to express...

02/28/2011 10 Comments:

Independence Day!

by: Tish Hamilton

7/12/10 Can I get up now, Mom? Mom? Mom! I want to get up. Let’s get up. How will I know when it’s 6:00? How long is 15 minutes? Will you play with me? If you’re not going to play with me, then WHY did you get up? I’m hungry, Mom. Corn cake AND...

02/28/2011 0 Comments:

Summer Camp Blues

by: Tish Hamilton

7/22/10 School’s out! Too bad work isn’t. Summer may be the most wrenching time of year for the working parent of the school-age child. Or it is for me anyway. This never occurred to me when the child was in the year-round on-site environmentally...

02/28/2011 9 Comments:

The Well-Heeled Child

by: Tish Hamilton

8/13/10 I dug a pair of heels out of the pre-child archives to wear to work, and the child was so overcome with delight that she ran away with them while I was in the shower. What happened to my shoes? I wondered as I got dressed. They aren’t even...

02/28/2011 0 Comments:

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Tish came late to parenthood, after a circuitous journey full of unexpected delays, detours and soul-jarring potholes. In July 2005, she and her husband brought home their daughter, Nina, from China to New Jersey, when she was 11 months old. Tish is an executive editor at Runner's World.

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