Poison

The poison of the lies engrained in the worldview that develops in a child who is abandoned and then left to grow up in an institution runs deep. And that's all I'm going to say about that.

On a lighter note, three of our girls performed with the Bulgarian dance group this past week. Leah's in the back row, Rinnah in the middle row on the far right, and Gloria's in the front a little nervous with her hands up by her mouth.

Bobbi continues to delight us with her artistic skills. She prefers coloring to drawing, so finds line drawings on the internet that we print out for her, and then she gets to work, layering on crayon, marker, colored pencil, oil pastels, until she ends up with something like this:

zoomed in a bit so you can see some detail

And, believe it or not (well, we always say we'll know it's going to happen when it actually happens!), Matt and I are going to get our two days away to think with no interruptions at the very end of this month! We've only been thinking this was critical since September, and here it's finally happening. I find it humorous that it will overlap with leap day. Can't think of a better thing to do with an extra day of the year! We'll be coming home for the night time stuff, but Matt and I *should* get 8am to 10pm one day and then 8am to 5pm the next day.