Wow it has been three months since we have been home with Mahlet (Molly). Monday was actually our 3 month anniversary of "Meetcha day" and today is the 3 month anniversary of "Gotcha day". Our agency requires a report from our social worker after 3/6/12 months. So today our SW made her visit to our home and met Molly. We all love our SW. She has almost been a part of the family for 4 years. She did all our pp visits for Hannah and did our home study for our attempt for baby #2 from China before we dropped out of the program. She also did our home study for adoption from Ethiopia..we started out seeking an infant. So we had to have more visits with her once God put the breaks on that and called us to Miss Molly. Once our SW is done with her reports we have to continue to write a yearly report that our agency will send to ET until Molly is 18.
Of course we had to answer a lot of questions today...we have been through the process before so it was no surprise. Thankfully we have had two pretty easy children and we know our SW pretty well. The only thing we had to report that we were not expecting was Molly's selfish behavior. If she does not get her way or we don't do what she wants to do right when she wants to do it...she throws a pouting or bawling fit. We can not stand this and the only thing that works is totally ignoring her. This behavior really confuses us. We know there is no way she would get away with this in her orphanage or the Transition Home. We know we are not alone in this struggle as other families from our agency have shared that their older children do the same thing.
That's about it for now.
Blessings,
Bliss
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Bliss-- How old is Molly? Our RiSa does the same thing!! We just watch her flail on the floor. She also has a tendency to throw things when we reprimand her. The first few days she hit and pinched without even thinking about it. It is amazing that within only a week of consistent discipline, she doesn't hit Tony or I at all, and I haven't seen her hit a sibling, either. One thing I wasn't ready for was how much JB (our 5 year old we brought home, too) likes to push her buttons and pester her just for fun. And once he gets going, he is VERY slow to respond to our "NO's'. Our boys don't ever really do this to one another, and I'm NOT into it!
Thank you so much for sharing!! I am blog stalking all the families with older kiddos, so be prepared for my visiting you often! :D
Shari (from AWAA YG)
Bliss, your posts are always so honest and open - thank you because you help those of us coming behind you. Even though we will be adopting an infant, we know there will be challenges there as well.
I love the picture collage at the top of your blog! It looks really good.
Also, thank you for your prayers and support for our family during the loss of our baby girl. We can certainly feel the prayers!
You probably already know this but there are pics of Molly on Kari's blog. I remember meeting Molly when we traveled to pick up our kiddos.
Dottie
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