Stahlke Adoption

Changes

We have friends who host a party every Memorial Day and Labor Day--the wife is a colleague of Jonathan's in Concordia's music department. Our family attended their party on Memorial Day 2006 and also yesterday. The differences in the children's behavior has changed immensely between these two visits.

In 2006, we were just ending our first school year. Discipline had improved to the point that we were able to attend the party. But I spent a good deal of time that day down in the basement with the children, watching them closely to make sure nothing was broken and no fights broke out.

Yesterday, Jonathan and I were able to sit upstairs and converse with our hosts while the children played in the basement. Jonathan checked on them every twenty minutes, and I went down at one point when we heard some crying. But he and I were able to handle adult conversation with someone while simultaneously doing child care.

Oh, life is starting to return to normal. That's nice!

posted by Stahlkes @ 11:59 AM