I’m Still Alive

I am here…I haven’t been scared off…I didn’t runaway…I am not hiding…just busy…I started a new job…I am still working my old job…Juggling…Juggling…Juggling I still have lots to say…don’t you go worrying about THAT! What are you juggling these da...

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CoCo’s Big Gym Adventures

On Wednesday I work during the day. Mr. Sunday has to work and the big girl has had summer school. I bring the two little ones to work with me. They do day camp while I coach. Well, Amélie does day camp and CoCo sits off to the side and watches everyone else play…that is the way it has been going all summer. img alt="" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('5a586f89-c0e1-43cf-ab6b-5d79a2941b23'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = "";" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDtz4lxEvdW99jSK1XhDzsaWMF2h48W3oZZN7ysaHOCxyVJXSLSnMDy899RBqYxCWFS4-9_h6wAcNBxFCKiH9K3znCJ8Ze5oSVNGA4h2ZPmhVh1CvkTh9zlIQO1qC8vn8qBLYmk85ul60/?imgmax=800"...

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Full Circle: The Talk

  We told him it's okay to feel the feelings that will come up.. he can be angry, sad and happy, reiterating as we always do that it's not their fault.  Their mom loves them dearly she just can't keep them safe.  We talked about me being adopted and my family, as well as their older brother (9 year old "Freckles") and what it all means. Full Circle: The Talk August 6, 2011 I meant to link to this post a week ago when Melissa first posted it…I think it goes a long way in explaining the complexity of emotions that surround foster care adoptions. And ya’ll know I DO support adoptions from foster care, and the amazing parents who work hard to help their kids through a sometimes ruthless system, and lasting losses. But today I am linking to this post because last week Melissa...

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The Little Things

Sometimes you just have to stop to smell the roses..Or watch the biggest spider you have ever seen kill and eat stuff. The pictures really don’t do her justice!...

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The House That Built Me

It was a country music kind of day… You leave home and you move on and you do the best you can I got lost in this old world and forgot who I am I thought if I could touch this place or feel it This brokenness inside me might start healing Out here it’s like I’m someone else I thought that maybe I could find myself If I could walk around I swear I'll leave. Won't take nothing but a memory from the house that built me. written by Tom Douglas and Allen Shamblin   The thing is there is no house that built me. There is only a collection of places I never really belonged. They say you can’t go home, but I don’t even know where that’d be. Yes, it has been that kind of day, if I had a home I would have gone there. ...

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Fostering Connections

“Under proposed legislation named Fostering Connections, I would have been able to enter an independent living environment, where I would have had access to a variety of resources. Additionally, DHS would have helped me establish a support system, sent a caseworker to see me, aided me with my job search, and helped me with other services. If I'd had that help, I would be in a different situation than I am in now.” From The Detroit News As a sixteen (about to be 17) year old going into my senior year in high school I was granted independent status by Michigan’s Family Independence Agency (DHS). At the time that decision was made there were no independent living programs in the state. I was seen as too old and independent to live in a foster home placement, I had out stayed the usefulness...

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Maybe You Should Do It Yourself

You know that thing our husbands do where they do something so bad that you would be an idiot if you ever asked them to do it again? Well, my 13 year old girl is apparently trying that strategy on for size… Because this is her idea of how to put dishes away and…. Yester day: “This bathroom is STILL not clean” “I have told you I cleaned it three times and you keep saying it is not good enough. Maybe if you want it done right you should do it yourself.” “Maybe if you wanted to do anything other than clean the bathroom today, you would have done it right the first time.”...

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I Don’t Belong Here

Those of you have followed along for a while know that Algebra 1, was the bane of my parental existence for the entirety of my big girl’s 8th grade year. I mean I tried everything I could think of to get that kid to just turn in her work. I begged, I pleaded, tried empathy, I remained calm, I lost my cool, I threatened, I followed through, nope, it wasn’t gonna happen, she would do her work but she would NOT TURN IT IN. I emailed the teacher, I set her up with a tutor, I took her to a professional tutoring place, both of which informed me she didn’t need help…she completely understood how to do it. But still she would not turn in the work. I...

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What Were They Thinking?

I’m not sure they ordered my big girl’s warm-up big enough… I am not even sure it will even fit her as a senior…four years from now. Because it fits ME…over my clothes. ...

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Shhh!

Kitty is sleeping. Does the shot remind anyone else of LeBron James?...

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