Good things

This Saturday we went through our first full day of training for foster-to-adopt:  the S.M.A.R.T training, Supervision, Motivation, and Response Tecqniques. Good things to be learned, in fact great things. What's nice is that they have immediate applicability in our parenting with Ella. Once again I realized how long ways away I am from becoming the kind of parent that I want to be (i.e. infinitely patient, never yelling, or getting aggravated no matter what, detached yet so loving and in the moment) but I received more knowledge and tools to help me do it. Good thing because I so needed it!

Another good thing is that we have these wonderful friends who babysat Ella at heir house the whole six hours we were in training. They have two little adorable boys who love Ella and she loves them. Really grateful to them for doing this for us. And we're grateful to her for being so understanding and sweet and never saying no to spending the whole day away from us.

We picked her up and after a quick stop at home, we went to another friend's house for a birthday party. Had lots of fun catching up with them and watching the kids play.

Another good thing.... somehow we got caught up on laundry, folding, and ironing! Hrishi did it all! I took care of the cooking.

Life is good. Oh, and almost forgot, speaking of good things we had some amazing italian food on our training lunch break at this little family-owned restaurant, Vetoni http://www.vetonispizza-pasta.com/. The food was heavenly! I never had such scrumptious meatballs, chicken basil, and garlic rolls! So rich and delish! But I'm going low carb for a few days to remedy the "damage." :)