In my post yesterday I said that our life is not an open book. It is not. However… it is pretty darn open! 
Over the past couple of months a few of my blogger friends have challenged me to the “Open Book Challenge.” I have been putting off doing it. But I think now is the time to step up to the plate! So, my dear readers, here’s the deal:
We have a certain style of writing on this blog. You may or may not have noticed this, but, unlike many bloggers, we do not normally pose open questions to our readers, or crack open the door for lots of conversation in the post comments sections, or encourage our readers into dialogue with us. The brutal truth of it is that we don’t write this blog as a way to converse with folks and we don’t compose our posts in an effort to accumulate comments. Another truth is this: We never in a million years would have imagined that so many people would be reading this blog. It never would have even occurred to us. But now, after 10 months of blogging, we do realize that there are some things about our family that actually interest others. Who woulda thunk it?!! And we also realize that the things that we find interesting about our life aren’t always the things that our readers find interesting about it! LOL!
So, folks, here’s your chance!!! The Open Book Challenge is an opportunity for you to ask me/Braydon/us both any question(s) you want. We may not answer every question (simply because there are indeed things we don’t make public), but we will do the best we can. We blog lots about adoption, about Haiti, about inter-racial family, about twins, about wild-and-crazy-little-twin-boy-antics, about our 2-career-craze, etc. Do you have a question you’ve been dying to ask??? There are also tons of topics that we haven’t covered yet in the life-span-to-date of this blog. Is there something that comes to mind that you’d like us to put out there??? Is there something you’re curious about?! No matter how deep or how shallow… Now’s your chance!
If you think it is nerve-wracking to throw a question out on our blog, imagine what it is like for us — throwing posts out into the blogosphere every day!?!!! — I don’t ask much of you, do I?? So, please, if you read this blog at all, please play along with us — click on “comments” below this post, and ask us a question — we’ll be so bummed if you don’t! And just remember, like your 4th grade teacher said, “No question is a stupid question!” Ask away. Ask whatever. But just do it, please, and do it quick. We can’t take too long of a hiatus before our ‘regularly scheduled program’ resumes and we’ll be back to blogging about whatever the heck we feel like again. At midnight on Tuesday, August 21 we’ll officially shut the door on this once-in-a-lifetime-Open-Book-opportunity. So, my friends, ask away~~~
NOTE: If you absolutely do not want to ask a question (or really can’t think of one), then please just make a comment — even if it is just “hi!” Because, in addition to the ‘Open Book Challenge’ we’d also just kinda like to have a sense of who is actually reading this thing!!!!~~~
In the meantime, we’ll leave you with a couple end of summer photo gems of our two cutie pies with their latest favorite fruit:
