Testing 1...2...3

We're home from a fabulous weekend camping with other adoptive families: the Coffee's, Cyndi's family and Tina's family (not sure of her blog address (ed: added now!)). It was a wonderful weekend, if a bit on the humid side. Kari's husband took the kids out tubing on the lake with his boat, the kids did lots of biking around the campground, and we all enjoyed great food. Jeff is now jealous of Kari's dutch ovens, and is on the hunt for one (along with a "man pan").

We have a quiet week around our house this week - the kids are spending a week at their grandparents' house, one state away. You would think this means no FASD worries for a while... not so!

We've been getting periodic updates of DD's antics while out of our site... and she's only been there for 2 days so far. In that time she has:

1) Snubbed her grandmother as she arrived, refusing a hug
2) Yelled "I won't do it" when she was told to turn off the TV
3) Threw a fit about taking a walk with the family
4) Threw a fit about having to spend time reading, insisting that she had already read for 2 hours in the dark, as well as lying that I had said she shouldn't be doing any reading (when of course, I said the exact opposite).
5) Called her boyfriend long distance twice, without permission, and pretended she was talking to me.
6) Lied to me on the phone about something, even though I had confirmation of the truth from Grandma
7) General snottiness and refusals for just about everything
8) And my personal favorite - Shaved off her eyebrows!

Hmm... all of these are reasonably minor, and we could be dealing with worse issues, but it's a lot to cram into only 2 days, and she has 5 more there. And I know a lot of this is testing to see if the rules still apply when Mom & Dad aren't watching. You can tell Grandma is getting a little frustrated and wanting to know how to "fix it." If only I knew! FASD and teenage angst is like puberty on steroids!

I figure the consequence for the eyebrow thing is pretty self-evident... she will get to endure the teasing of her friends on Monday morning, and will get minimal sympathy from me for the situation. Sigh... did she think we wouldn't notice? At least she didn't lie about it to me when I asked on the phone this evening.

Grandma wants to know if this is the stuff she's come up with in the first 2 days, what will she come up with next?!? If only I knew!

Edit: P.S. - I will try to get pictures of the eyebrowless wonder... not sure if I will succeed, but the attempt must be made ;-)