The Richardsons

The title of the blog is in honor of Eman's pilot costume for Halloween. Updating Eman's life will take much, much longer. But I know someday I will want to look back and remember all this so here goes: Last week, our priest gave a homily on love. He said, "love is not a warm and fuzzy feeling, it is an orientation of our actions." We have really been doing our best to love Eman. Eman had an extremely rough August. So physical, so violent, so much so we were concerned about the next minute, the next hour. How will we be able to keep doing this? After an intense five days, an increase in medication finally helped. Then, I went to my adoption support group. (there are support groups for everything aren't there?) There was a woman there who had never been before. She spoke just before my turn and said, "we've been doing biofeedback therapy with our 18 year old son. It seems to help." I interrupted, "What's biofeedback? Where do I get...

Abegail joined a new soccer team this summer and the fall season is almost over. Two parents on her team are excellent at taking photos so I have a lot of good ones of her. They really are amazing pictures, since getting the kids in a split second is difficult. Abegail is all about the friends and likes the girls on the team as well as the coach. I constantly am calling her Abs when she's on the field. So that's my new nickname for her. She is liking 5 th grade and again all about the friends. She will be an 80's dancer for Halloween, she liked the costume apparently. Abs is again playing violin at school and loving it. She and Annie are still best buds. Still having a slumber party every night and Abs still dresses Annie every morning. It's cutest of all when they sing together.

So I have not blogged in a long time. How to catch up? One child at a time. When it comes to Annie we have very exciting news. She made the All Star Soccer team. When the coach told me I said, "you know she isn't one of the adopted ones right?" He said, "yes I figured that. She is doing well at defense." I will say Annie has improved a lot since the days when she never touched the ball in a whole game and now she is very excited to be playing in a tournament. "Now, Eman and Abegail will have to come to my tournament. Well unless they have a game, " she said when I told her the news. Eman is especially proud and likes to train her in the family room. Annie on the other hand works to get him to behave saying, "if you do your homework, I'll play soccer with you." "If you don't get ready for school, I won't play soccer with you." It is quite cute actually, that is when Eman isn't injuring Annie with one of hi...