A Little of This With a Lot of That Added In

I just typed a whole post on education before kindergarten and then deleted it because I thought it may be too controversial. Besides it read more like a newspaper article than a post, and most people don't come here to read newspaper articles. Let's just say that when it comes to a lot of formal education before kindergarten (and even in kinder), I'm not a big fan. I'm more of the school of thinking that feels that until approximately age 6 education should be more about learning through play and life experiences. So those are my feelings in a, very small, nutshell.

Anyway switching subjects entirely, I've been messing with my blog. In case you haven't noticed or don't really care, I thought I'd tell you. I named this blog "Waiting for Bulgaria" with the intention of keeping people posted on the adoption progress. But guess what? There is a lot of down time in adoption. So then I started filling in the gaps with life's happenings, and my somewhat crazy and disjointed stories (you know about being attacked by water hoses and the like). Plus, there are people that actually read all my insanity. Which always shocks me if you want to know the truth. But then I've become paranoid that someone will come here thinking this is an adoption blog, and get mad because it's about a mish-mash of things, a lot of which are adoption related, but some of which aren't. Have I mentioned that I'm overly analytical? Thought so. This is why I've changed my profile and the header 27 times in the last week. I thought about changing the name, but that didn't sit well with me. So instead, I feel I should give people fair warning that yes we are a family "Waiting for Bulgaria", but this blog is not only about the adoption process but about our daily lives as we go through this process. Hence the new info line under the title (if you really want to read it scroll up). Any opinions on the subject?

Now for the Act 3. I'm pretty sure that it would be in our benefit to learn at least some Bulgarian. Seeing as how our daughter will not speak English and will most likely spend her first weeks, maybe even months, trying to figure out how to adjust to her new life, it might behoove us to learn at least a little of her language. For some reason, I mistakenly thought that Rosetta Stone had a Bulgarian Language program. They don't. Our caseworker has given us some information about a set of c.d.s that teach you common phrases. I think this is probably the way to go (at least for me). I'm horrible with languages. Most likely, because I over analyze everything (remember?) and end up other thinking what I'm doing. Not to mention that Bulgarian has a completely different alphabet. And the pronunciation? Don't even get me started. Let's just say, I grew up in Central Texas, where Spanish is widely spoken, and I still can't roll my "r"s. Anyway, so it looks like I'll be ordering those Bulgarian Language c.d.s. Anyone care to join us for Bulgarian 101? (If you can't sleep and want to know more about the history of the Bulgarian Language you can look here.)