It's kind of a cop out for a blog, but for those of you who are still interested in keeping up with us, here's a link to our Christmas letter, which has a little paragraph for each of the kids!
***Someone requested photos of Goldberry Rose. She's grown a lot since these photos were taken, but it gives you an idea, and they're SO CUTE!!
Krassi's still going strong with his things in rings theme! Here are a sampling of what he's been up to since the last post I did on the topic.
I'm grateful to all of you who have asked me to post. I've wanted to, but with the myriad of things waiting for my time, not everything gets done. :) But, the squeaky wheel gets the grease, right? And there's been enough of you "squeaking" to make this worth my time!
So, today is a little tidbit on Bobbi, who graduated from "Branch Out," which is our school district's transitional program for young adults with disabilities. She had quite an interesting tenure there, with all of the COVID lock downs and distance learning impacting much of her time there, but we made it through, and she had some beneficial experiences through her years there. She now has officially earned her high school diploma, and they had a nice, small graduation ceremony in the spring.
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| With Rose and one of her favorite paras. |
Each student had a little framed description of themselves that they put together with their teacher for the back table to display next to their photo.We thought Bobbi's was pretty representative of who she is!
(She's making decent progress on her dreams, since Dad did get her ceiling fan installed soon after graduation! Maybe not the biggest of dreams, but achieved nonetheless...and much appreciated in our un-air-conditioned house!)
Moving forward from here, she's hoping to find another part-time job. She's still going strong at Kwik Trip as a Food Product Demonstrator, getting close to her two-year anniversary there, and although the 9.5 hours a week that she works can sometimes drag along for her, she is a faithful, committed employee, and is well appreciated on the job. She (and we!) know that she doesn't do well with too little to do, so we're hoping that a lead her job coach has on a job at Goodwill will turn into something real. I'll (hopefully!!) keep you posted on what comes of that. Ideally she'd be able to put in two 4-hour shifts or something like that, which would give her something productive to do almost every day.
First of all, thank you to those of you readers who keep gentling prompting me to post something! This isn't much, but hopefully enough to show that we're still alive around here. :)
Anyway, today is a milestone day! Krassimir is...EIGHTEEN YEARS OLD today!!! I snapped a photo of him as he and I were waiting for his occupational therapist at the therapy center this morning.
I'm so dreadfully behind on keeping you readers anywhere near up to date on everyone, but hopefully this is better than nothing! And I'll share one more photo - kind of fuzzy, but it captures a moment from after supper when Krassi was opening his presents from his siblings:
He is such a confident, contented go-getter. His world may be small and severely limited, but he's the king of his world, and he's good with it, and that's something that all of us are better off being able to do!
