We’ve had a few things happen this past week. Last weekend we finished our hosting orientation meetings and missions training. We had to attend missions training because hosting is actually considered a mission. It’s good that we got that extra training under our belts because it’s required if we ever decide to travel to Latvia with one of the mission teams to help select children for a future hosting. That’s way down the road though. Right now, we’re getting ready for Olegs and Kristine who will be here June 27th!! Oh, we found out that they both had birthdays recently so they are each 11-years old now.
Yesterday morning, we had our carpet installed in the basement so that was a big accomplishment. We still need to paint the baseboards and doors but once that's done it'll be perfect. It's great to now have some extra living space we'll be able to utilize with kids in the house.
We had our mini home study (the one for the hosting) last night which was pretty painless. The social worker was very nice, asked us a few questions and took pictures of various rooms of the house. Of course, our animals always have to make themselves the center of attention so last night’s star of the evening was our cat, Midnight. The art of being annoying is his specialty. He repeatedly jumped on the social worker and put his tail in her face so she’d have to stop our interview every few seconds to shoo the dummy away!! She seemed to take it all in stride though. Next we took the social worker out on our back deck so she could see our backyard. As we were coming back inside, Mario, our outside cat, got his share of attention by plopping himself in front of the door as we were trying to go back inside. That was much easier to ignore. We simply stepped over his fat belly and kept going.
We also introduced the social worker to Grandmother who gave her the tour of her room, telling her the life history of each and every family member whose pictures are displayed on her bookcase. Those of you who know Grandmother know that she can tell those never ending stories that have many tangents which never seem to relate back to the original story…just one of her many endearing traits. Rob and I chuckled when the social worker asked Grandmother if she was excited about the children coming. Grandmother thought she was asking about her children at which point she guided her over to my dad’s picture and began to tell the story of her younger days when she was raising her son. Oh and she just had to tell her favorite story about how she's waiting for us to get her a cat suit so she can become one of the cats. Don't ask! That's actually her version of a joke but you should see the puzzled looks on people's faces when she tells that one. Too funny!
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