There is a photo of Kyle and Owen in the May 2007 issue of Working Mother magazine! I actually really like this magazine, so I’m happy to have them in there. They are on page 60, the opening page of a big article on international adoption. We knew it was coming because the editors of the magazine had contacted us out of the blue a couple of months ago to ask our permission to use the photo of the boys. They had found the photo in another magazine and wanted to use it — the photo they had found was a photo of K & O that we had submitted for the “Family Album” section of Adoptive Families magazine. I was getting so sick of never seeing any black kids featured in Adoptive Families, and was really happy when they notified me that our photo of K & O was chosen for their December 2005 issue. The same photo is now in this month’s issue of Working Mother. It is kind of bizarre to get a magazine in the mail and open it to see your own kids on the page! But the coolest part of this Working Mother “appearance” is that right next to the boys’ photo is a little image of a HAITIAN FLAG!!! (see bottom left hand corner, below) I love it that on the opening pages of their article on international adoption there is a photo of two Haitian kids (mine!), and a HAITIAN FLAG!!! 
This is the fourth time a photo of Kyle and/or Owen has been in a magazine. The third time was when Twins magazine published a photo of the boys in their January/February 2007 issue. Again, I was getting so gosh darn sick of never seeing any black kids in Twins — so I wrote a letter to the editor complaining. They ended up publishing the letter along with a photo of K & O. Twins magazine’s actual response to my complaint, though, really bothered me and I decided to no longer subscribe to their pathetically-lily-white mag (the whole magazine is pretty pathetic, actually, but the lily-whiteness of it is what totally pushes me over the edge). We have since cancelled our subscription. The fourth time a photo of the boys appeared in a magazine was definitely the best… One of our absolute favorite magazines is Caribbean Travel and Life. This past summer I entered my first photo contest — Caribbean Travel and Life magazine’s 2006 Photo Contest. I submitted a photo of Kyle that I took while we were on vacation in the Turks & Caicos islands. I was totally shocked when I ended up winning 3rd place for the category of “people”! The photo was published in the October issue of Caribbean Travel and Life and is also on their website (if you want to see the “winning” photo of Kyle, click here, double click on “winners,” and then click on “#10 on the bottom of the box).