1 - I wore shorts last weekend! And we went bike riding yesterday! Love early springtime in the desert!
2 - My friend, also a single foster mother, is in deep trouble. She spanked her very misbehaving 11 year old foster son. A huge no-no. She reported on herself and all that. She's been asking for respite for several weeks, she's had a 100 degree fever all week and her foster son is in trouble every day in school. I understand, but you can't do that and how do I help support her? I hate to think of the two foster sons getting moved because they're in the pre-adoption phase. It's just... you can't do that!
3 - I'm doing online training at home today. Kindof cool but the pace of training is pretty slow and I'm bored! (so I blog)
4 - AV got beat up at school!! I'm still getting the details from the school's investigation. AV walked from her classroom door (outdoors) to another 3rd grade door to wait for a friend. A female middle schooler was waiting at the door for her younger brother. The middle school girl asked AV what she was doing there. AV said she knew her brother (what was actually said is a bit murkey at this point). For some reason the girl got mad and kicked AV in the legs and pushed her to the ground. When I saw AV at childcare right after school, she was limping and still very teary. She's pretty upset.
Here's the thing though. AV is now scared of everything. If I try to sympathize, her emotions escalate to near hysteria. When I try to remain detached, her feelings get hurt that I don't understand and I'm not helping her. Grrrr. Trying to be a good mother is hard work!
5 - Did my taxes and I'm getting a refund in spite of cashing out an IRA. yeah! Head of household and additional dependent deductions are very nice!
6 - We're planning a family vacation in Jan 08 and I think it might actually happen! Grandma and Grandpa, my brother and his wife and two girls, and AV and I. 4 days on a Disney cruise ship and 3 days at Disney world. Yeah!
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4 comments:
Wow. Things are HAPPENING!
Sorry about AV's woes. But lots of kids get that kind of stuff and live through it. Still her life has been hard enough already, and it's too bad.
The vacation sounds great.
The friend: You can support her without approving the behavior.
Wow you have been busy. I was thinking that you had been. Motherhood is keeping you busy! The vacation sounds like so much fun. I need to update my blog. It has gotten so crazy around here. We are looking into adopting. Our family all thinks we are crazy.
Oh I forgot to sign my own comment. Jenn
Hi TLP! Thanks for the comments.
Jenn - you should totally look into adopting! You guys would be great! I've read lots of adoption books lately because of the guardianship. You guys will do great just go in with eyes open!
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