Parenting Lesson #1

All of the big ideas you have about what kind of parent you are going to be can fly out the window at a moment's notice.
Our once gender-neutral room now has pink dots all over the walls. Oh well...I tried.

Welcome! Here's where we're at...

THE COLOR PURPLE
After reading so many interesting blogs from members of our new adoption community I decided that the Hutchinson Family needed one, too. Especially now that things are taking off. This way you are always in the know about what's happening. I've never done a blog because I thought they were kind of narcissistic, actually. I think I must be turning into a Mom...pretty soon you won't recognize me behind my diaper bag and juice boxes. Pretty soon I'll be forcing pictures of my kids on you. When I say pretty soon I mean within a year, hopefully.
In the meantime, expect exciting updates, like this one about how we painted the room ORCHID MIST this weekend (otherwise known as purple). We're trying to avoid Pink Fever ala Lise Eliot's Pink Brain, Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow Into Troublesome Gaps -- And What We Can Do About It. If you're interested in how our culture encourages non-existent gender differences, view a talk by the author here: http://fora.tv/2009/09/29/Lise_Eliot_Pink_Brain_Blue_Brain (you may want to replace Mars and Venus with a hard copy of this one on your bookshelf).