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Sep. 12th, 2019 09:20 pmHappy birthday to my beautiful biggest niece, four years old today!
What a rollercoaster the last four years have been, but through it all, Layla-May has thrived and grown strong. As she turns four, she is the height and weight of the average six-year-old and is bursting with energy and creativity. She loves words and names and stories, and can create intricate imaginary adventures for her toys to act out. This summer just gone she learned the name of every flower in my garden, and can even distinguish the different fuchsias by name. She stays with me each weekend and we have tremendous fun together.
In Other News, D&R are now three days into introductions with their children and it is going well so far! This was the first longer day, the process starts with two short visits before slowly increasing to full days. The transition process takes 16 days in total - the children are scheduled to move in on 24th September.
It's been a long, hard road getting here - they are planning to make a formal complaint, when it is all over, because the agency have been awful, in the end stages especially, failing to adhere to their own deadlines and procedures and causing all kinds of heartache and stress in the process. But after all the setbacks and delays, they are into the final strait at last! Two weeks from today, the children will be living with them and they will all be adjusting to life together as a family :)
What a rollercoaster the last four years have been, but through it all, Layla-May has thrived and grown strong. As she turns four, she is the height and weight of the average six-year-old and is bursting with energy and creativity. She loves words and names and stories, and can create intricate imaginary adventures for her toys to act out. This summer just gone she learned the name of every flower in my garden, and can even distinguish the different fuchsias by name. She stays with me each weekend and we have tremendous fun together.
In Other News, D&R are now three days into introductions with their children and it is going well so far! This was the first longer day, the process starts with two short visits before slowly increasing to full days. The transition process takes 16 days in total - the children are scheduled to move in on 24th September.
It's been a long, hard road getting here - they are planning to make a formal complaint, when it is all over, because the agency have been awful, in the end stages especially, failing to adhere to their own deadlines and procedures and causing all kinds of heartache and stress in the process. But after all the setbacks and delays, they are into the final strait at last! Two weeks from today, the children will be living with them and they will all be adjusting to life together as a family :)
