I loooove writing blog posts and have so much going on with our new teen. But. I want to respect her privacy!
Here’s what I can say about our weekend with her: she’s a nice kid. She adores Tiny and it’s mutual. She seems to fit into our household pretty well. Beans thinks she’s the best thing since kibble because she skritches and loves on her despite Beans’s desperate need for a bath. She’s hesitant about the cats but they’re behaving themselves so far. And she’s a typical 16 year old in lots of respects.
Seth and I are stressing about access to the internet and social media and all the things parents of teens struggle with related to online activity. We know it will be a long time before she will decide she can trust us and can only hope she will decide to. We worry about whether her friends are a good influence. Basically, we have typical parent of a teen problems. They’re stressful in ways toddlers are not!
The most important thing? I think she likes us. She left some of her belongings in her room at our house which means she plans to come back. Hooray! And when she ran into her cottage when we brought her back to her facility she burst into excited chatter about how she “had a blast!” Double hooray!
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