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Just wanted to put up a brief update of our weekend before the week of orientation begins for Christo at Parkland. We had another busy weekend with lots of activities and plenty of home improvement including finishing painting the downstairs portion of our house. We will try to tackle the upstairs rooms this week. Daisy has been doing great with us so far. She has had lots of time this weekend to explore our backyard and our neighborhood on our walks. Read more…

Daily Living, Family, Foster Care, Medicine, Pictures, Residency

Sorry about the lack of regular updates on the blog recently. We are still working on projects around the house that we hope to have done before Christo starts his residency orientation on June 23rd. This past week was filled with lots of cutting, sanding, staining and assembling of our new built-in book shelves that have taken the place of the TV/Entertainment area in our living room. We thought this would be a better use of that space since we don’t own a TV and the books we have on the shelves often are a source of conversation with our guests. Read more…

Daily Living, Foster Care, Medicine, Pictures