Just wanted to pop in on this Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.  All the kids are home and we ate Mickey Mouse waffles for breakfast, have played 32 games, have cleaned house, read books, food prepped and I’m currently watching Solomon do pushups while Hudson yells, “Give me 60 pushups on your knuckles.”  We watched Karate Kid this weekend hence the 60 pushups on his knuckles.  I keep cracking up watching it all go down.

Sidenote:  It’s been a looooooooonnnnnnnggggg time since Josh Kelley and I have seen Karate Kid.  In the beginning it was almost unbearable to watch, but 20 minutes in and I was hooked.  So good…minus some new profanity we had to tell the kids was not okay to say.  Sheesh, doesn’t Daniel Son know it’s my job to accidentally introduce curse words to my children when I drop an entire jar of poppyseeds on the floor.  End sidenote.

Okay so a few housekeeping items I wanted to write about:

A. You guys, my site it currently all kinds of jacked up.  How long has it been like this?  Good question.  Who knows at this point, but my contact button is not working and it was just brought to my attention.  Also, some people’s email subscriptions have ceased…I don’t even know.  And I am not receiving notifications of comments which means I have to log in and then go and look up any comments to answer questions, etc.  All that to say, if you have tried sending me a message and I have not responded I promise I am not ignoring you…I never got the message.  I always answer emails…it may take me a few days because, well, life and a hubs and 5 kids and everything else, but I will answer your email.  I’m looking into getting everything fixed and maybe even a complete re-do after we get our newest little guy home…we’ll see.  In the meantime, if you need to contact me please just email me directly at pitterpatterart at gmail dot com

B.  Our Usborne Book Fundraiser is still going on.  Today Harper, Hudson, Solomon and I all went through the books and made our final selections.  We are getting several of their awesome activity books for our airplane ride to China.  On Thursday night Suzanne is going to be doing a live portion of the party on Facebook to show off some of their books and all week long she is sharing more information about the books, highlighting certain books and giving away free shipping for an order.  If you would like to be added to the FB group just leave your Facebook name in the comments section of this post, email me at pitterpatterart at gmail dot com or message me on FB and I will add you to the group.

You can also order at anytime by heading over to SuzanneSharesUsborneBooks.com and snagging some great books.  As you check out you will be prompted to “Select An Event.”  Choose “Kelley Adoption Fundraiser.”  And check out.  Crazy easy and our family will receive 25% of your purchase to go towards our adoption fund.  Please feel free to share this information with family and friends and strangers 🙂

And C.  I did want to report back that I finally used my Instant Pot and it was like magic.  Perfect white sticky rice in just 22 minutes.  Consider me impressed.  I used the rice to make my SIL’s traditional Chinese rice.  So yummy and I text her approximately 41 times while making it to let her know how it was going.  Everyone ate with chopsticks as well…we’re in practice/prep mode right now.  This week I’m making the fried rice again along with pork pot stickers.  Can’t believe we have another little boy with a story only God could write to call our son.  God is so good and I am the luckiest mama in the world.

That’s it.

Hope you’re enjoying this special holiday.  What a dream Martin Luther King Jr. shared with us all.  What an honor to remember and celebrate.  And how much more work there is still to be done.  Let’s get to it.

“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality…I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love with have the final word.”

-Martin Luther King Jr.