Well, we had our court date yesterday. Which went smoothly. The judge asked us our names, birthdates, about our families, and then out of the blue asked what our incomes, and assets were. We were a little surprised, as we weren't sure we wanted to tell everyone our net worth, but we complied. We were concerned that the girls wouldn't understand that we aren't rich, even though have a decent net worth.

After the court date we decided to go to the city center to get the passport photos for the girls and their new passports. This turned into a major event as the girls didn't want to go, for a yet to be determined reason, after a sort of melt down they complied, we got the photos, met the Dearingers for lunch, and came back home.

Since then they have been well behaved, not quite sweet, but a little closer anyway. Inna stayed the night with us in the apartment, stayed up late, did her laundry, watched TV, talked on the phone, and slept in late this morning. Sounds like all the teenagers I know.

Now we're just waiting for today's events to unfold all of the new surprises. This is not going to be easy, we only hope it will be worth it.