Today is my 36th Birthday!!! Things are a bit crazy in our house as you can imagine. We spent last night and half of today trying to decide if we should cancel my birthday party tonight, because of our new foster-daughters. We didn't want to overwhelm them or scare them. But, at the same time we didn't want to totally skip my birthday. We did decide that we needed to cancel my other birthday plans. We were going to leave on Thursday to go to Austin and see the musical "Legally Blonde" - and then stay at a Bed and Breakfast for that night and return on Friday. We just can't do that now - for obvious reasons. We do NOT feel comfortable leaving the girls for so long when they just arrived.
We decided not to cancel tonight's birthday party. We had invited 17 people to our house for dinner and dessert. We chose to go ahead with it since the girls were doing well today and we thought they might be fine.
Tonight everyone came over for dinner and fun... and to meet our girls. Everyone seemed to have a great time, and our girls did just wonderfully! They seemed happy and comfortable around everyone. At one point the older daughter seemed to get a little overwhelmed by all the people and Christi took her into the bathroom for a "break" - but then she returned and seemed just fine.
It was a wonderful birthday celebration - and the best birthday gift I could have ever asked for - two daughters!
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