June 7, 2005
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Unless a potential adoptive family is located within the next few
weeks, we'll be hosting a pair of brothers from Russia at the end of
July.
The upside, of course, is Dmitry having - for ten days - a couple of
live-in video game players, and maybe even checker opponents. He
wheedles me into the latter game occasionally, which I simply
loathe....checkers is one step above tic-tac-toe on the boredom scale.I've been assured checkers is very popular in Russia, and these boys are
Russian, so with any luck whatsoever he can get his fill for a
bit. Of course, watch them not like checkers, either.
The downside are the obligatory meetings for the host families.
The only thing worse than meetings would be meetings where checkers are
played.Ah, for those halcyon days when I thought meetings were nifty. Go to enough of 'em and one gets disabused of that
foolish notion, lemme tell you. Oh well! It's not forever,
and I evaded them when adopting Dmitry so I suppose it sort of balances
things out for me to be stuck attending them now. Talk about
locking the barn door after the horse has escaped, though.Here's a photo of them:
The eldest is, I believe, 13 (or 14 - I've heard both), and the younger
is 9. Is it my imagination or does he look a little like a young
Jimmy Cagney?
Comments (4)
Checkers! Amen, girl!
Meetings where checkers is played. Oh, Anne! You slay me!
I can remember liking checkers as a kid, but out grew it. Teach him dominos, after one plays a while, it becomes more interesting as you learn what are traps and what might not trap etc.
There's a Russian dominoes game we used to play, AAMOF....haven't played it in ages. Darn good game, too.
Only I can't remember where on earth I put the dominoes.
Hey, your birthday is coming up! There's a gift for your wish list. Those boys are adorable. I wish I could adopt them!
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