We made our last trip of the year to Shriner's Hospital for Children in Sacramento, CA last week.
Our little Lightning Hope needed "new feet" (we had molds made a few months ago). The sweet Orthotist called and said he could mail them to us instead of driving all the way up there just to pick them up. We were ecstatic when we go that call! We are SO THANKFUL for Shriner's and their work with children but the timing of the appointment was not great and would have added a ton of stress to our lives that particular week. We agreed, of course, that mailing the "new feet" would be great. When we got them in the mail we tried them on her feet. They were WAY TOO BIG! Shoot! So much for not traveling this time. We rescheduled the appointment and were on the road again.
(this leads us to last Friday)
It was Fashion Faith's turn to travel with us (we take one big kid with us each time and they get to choose the lunch spot and have some time with just us parents and baby-boo). We love to watch Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives on the Food Network. Daddy-man had a great idea to look up restaurants that were featured on that show in the Sacramento area that were close enough to Shriner's for lunch. FF ended up finding this cute little sandwichery called Cafe Rolle. It was delicious! It's a French-seafood-sandwich shop. Of course Fashion Faith, being the food that she is, picked a French place. She hopes to travel to France when she's older and wants to study French ASAP. Funny girl.
French sparkling soda
happy girl ready for some lunch
I ordered a hot ham sandwich with some special French cheese (I forgot what it's called. It started with a "g") and pesto mayo.
Daddy-D ordered their special Hot Salmon sandwich with the same cheese and basil-mayo.
Fashion Faith got the Jumbo Prawn sandwich with the same cheese and basil-mayo.
All of them served on a delicious fresh baguette.
...and of course Raspberry Creme Brule for dessert.
This is the inside of the small restaurant. We are all the way to one end and the open kitchen is on the opposite side behind that blue wall.
There is the chef working away. It was fun to see him right there doing his thing.
On to Shriner's
The appointment went very well and the "new feet" were fixed up in about 30 minutes. This particular Orthotist will be retiring in December so we (I) just had to get a picture. He helps with kid's mobility ALL DAY. EVERYDAY. figuring out how to make their lives easier, more accessible and get them doing what they really want to do. We are sad to see him go but looking forward to who we get to know next as he moves on. After the appointment I asked for the picture, then asked Lightning Baby if she would give him a high-5, she did, then we said,"Hug?" She graciously leaned in for a hug, he held on tight to this tiny girl for a long hug. I'm pretty sure he had tears in his eyes when he let go. What a great guy!
Thank you GREG!
Waiting for her "new feet" to be fixed up. She was looking SO BIG to me on this day. She wore her new shoes around the room the whole time, even without her "old feet" in them.
She's one determined girl!
News on Ty:
We are waiting on our I800. After we received that, any day now, we will apply for three other papers and wait for our Travel Approval (TA). Getting closer and closer. Looks like we are about 6 weeks away from travel.
I hope we get an update. Our agency requested one last update. We hope for new pictures, measurements and answer to the five questions we were able to ask of his care givers.
Eeeek! Getting to excited!!!
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Thank you to all who have come along side of us these past few years to get our kids out of their orphan situation into a real family who loves them and cares for them!
We will never be able to thank all of you personally or with a little thank you note but please know that we are so grateful to your support both financially and through prayer! We would have loved to write individual notes to each and every one of you but with 9 months of paperwork getting our girl set here after arriving home, homeschooling the older three, being taxi-mom for the big kid's activities and getting all of the paperwork for Ty's adoption completed as well as applying for grants for his adoption, while Daddy-D taught extra classes and counseling on the side, it has been quite a year of adjustment. So here you go...
THANK YOU!!! from the bottom of our hearts!
