Bubby came to visit on Friday night and watched the children for us while Patrick and I met w/ a counselor who specializes in families who have adopted older children. It's kind of like "Nanny 911" or adoptive families... Over the summer we spent a day at an adoption/family bonding clinic in
Charlottesville. They interviewed Patrick and I, observed us with the children, and now a counselor will be coming a few times a month to show us the tapes and give us parenting tips. Parenting in itself is a demanding job, but parenting children with a history of neglect and institutionalization presents it's own challenges... so we figure we can use all the advise we can get! Thanks to our parents for helping us out with this program.
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Margaret and Abby had a girl's week while A.P. was in
Fredricksburg at
Bubby and Grandfather's house. Since they work full time, he attended camp during the day... and one day they took the kids to a Nationals game!
I love this pic! We're still in the driveway... about to set off for our trip to MD and we had to bring "
Bouncey ball" the beta fish with us for the long weekend! Noah and the outdoor cats got to stay home, but we were worried that
Bouncey would get hungry and lonely while we were away.
Unfortunately, we got stuck in horrible traffic Sunday while we were coming home from MD. A storm knocked a huge limb across the beltway and were sat there for hours on end... Then the car started making funny sounds, and we realized our rusty muffler was dragging.
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Margaret had a doctor's
appt. on Monday that I couldn't cancel... so I had to have the Expedition towed and we had to take a shuttle to the doctor's! Then Enterprise picked us up and gave us this rental car for the day. The girls thought the adventure was pretty cool... I was less amused by it all! But hopefully, my car will be in better shape to make the trip to NY this week.
We bought too many bananas and they were starting to go bad, so I searched some cookbooks and found a recipe for banana cake, banana filling and banana frosting! We made two cakes... and I am no Fanny Farmer! It's been two weeks and we still have leftovers in the fridge... oh well...
Bubby came to visit on Friday night and watched the children for us while Patrick and I met w/ a counselor who specializes in families who have adopted older children. It's kind of like "Nanny 911" or adoptive families... Over the summer we spent a day at an adoption/family bonding clinic in Charlottesville. They interviewed Patrick and I, observed us with the children, and now a counselor will be coming a few times a month to show us the tapes and give us parenting tips. Parenting in itself is a demanding job, but parenting children with a history of neglect and institutionalization presents it's own challenges... so we figure we can use all the advise we can get! Thanks to our parents for helping us out with this program..JPG)
Margaret and Abby had a girl's week while A.P. was in Fredricksburg at Bubby and Grandfather's house. Since they work full time, he attended camp during the day... and one day they took the kids to a Nationals game!
I love this pic! We're still in the driveway... about to set off for our trip to MD and we had to bring "Bouncey ball" the beta fish with us for the long weekend! Noah and the outdoor cats got to stay home, but we were worried that Bouncey would get hungry and lonely while we were away..JPG)
Margaret had a doctor's appt. on Monday that I couldn't cancel... so I had to have the Expedition towed and we had to take a shuttle to the doctor's! Then Enterprise picked us up and gave us this rental car for the day. The girls thought the adventure was pretty cool... I was less amused by it all! But hopefully, my car will be in better shape to make the trip to NY this week.
We bought too many bananas and they were starting to go bad, so I searched some cookbooks and found a recipe for banana cake, banana filling and banana frosting! We made two cakes... and I am no Fanny Farmer! It's been two weeks and we still have leftovers in the fridge... oh well...