So yesterday the Child Protective Services lady came by our house to do a 'home visit' and she interviewed all of us separately and at the end told us that she didn't see any reason to open a case file on us. Phew.
Nut Brown and Rose Pink helped us make the point, however inadvertently. When she asked Nut Brown how he was punished when he was bad, he said, 'I'm never bad.' Never? she asked, surprised. 'No,' said Nut Brown. 'Sometimes I need to be corrected, but I'm never bad.' Kudos to Mr. Brown, who's constantly told the kids that a bad decision does not make them a bad person.
When the doorbell rang, Mr. Brown left his farina (hot cereal) cooking on the stove because he was expecting it to be the neighbor girl at the door. He got into a discussion with the case worker on the doorstep, and when he finally agreed that she could come in, he thought for sure the farina would have burned in his absence. But Rose Pink had stirred it, finished cooking it, and turned off the stove, so it was done and edible instead. Mr. Brown pointed this out to the case worker as an illustration of why we trust our eight-year-old to walk around the block with the baby.
We are so relieved that it sounds like all this is over and through. Hopefully.
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