This week was wonderful and sad. It was full of joy and full of heartache. Isn’t that just like real life? We don’t all live in fairy tale land where everything is perfectly wrapped up each and every holiday with a nice little ribbon. We live real. 🙂 And REAL is what matters in life. The great things about the… (more…)
Monthly Archives: November 2015
And Another One Turns 17
Sweetie one has followed Sweetie three and turned 17!!! Do you know what that means??? In the next year, we will have two adults in our home! Wow! How did that happen so fast? She had a wonderful Birthday today spending time with friends and family, baking a cake, and having Pizza and a Movie for tonight. This particular sweetie… (more…)
Thanksgiving ….
My other blog… 🙂 It has snuck up on us so quickly!!! THANKSGIVING!!!! It is a time of thanks, of family gathering and reflection. I am so thankful for my family and for all the Lord has brought us through this year. I’m thankful for the experiences and life lessons and the simple family gatherings with the grand children being… (more…)
Guess Who Starts a New Job Tonight??
SWEETIE THREE! So now we have a Chicken girl and a Pizza Girl!
Big Court
We surprisingly had big court yesterday. It wasn’t supposed to happen until the 30th, but the attorney managed to get an earlier date. We were given less than 24 hours notice, and yet, our counselor and our pastor were there to be with us. It was awkward. We were sitting behind sweetie, and she was in handcuffs and leg irons.… (more…)
Trauma and Holidays
Originally written in November 2011 with addendum 2015 I have written about our children’s internal clock, and how Holidays can wreak havoc on a child who has suffered much in life. We are not strangers to Trauma, or Anniversaries. Those anniversaries are usually not positive! They bring back memories and our children suffer so. Over the years, I have found… (more…)
A Precious Moment
Today was Sweetie 4’s ARD meeting at the detention center. She didn’t have a very good visit on Sunday with Mike and I was worried that today wouldn’t be a good time either. BUT… the unexpected happened! I was able to go into the room with the other members of the ARD team and she was there, and NOT behind… (more…)
Things I’ve Learned From My Kids
Originally written Sept. 2009 Baby’s EAT A LOT….they do not care if you are tired. They want to eat. They do not care if you are tired. They need to be changed; and then they barf. Toddlers listen to commercials and can repeat them in the most embarrassing of places. Chuck, at 2 picked up a huge package of feminine… (more…)
So PROUD of Sweetie!
She’s tiny but mighty! 🙂 Her flight did great in the presentation.
Veteran’s Day Tomorrow
And, guess who is going to be in the ceremony? Sweetie 2! 🙂 This is her 3rd year in AFJRROTC and she is really looking forward to leading her unit. Each year the veterans in our area are honored at the ceremony and there are still men from World War 2 and the Korean war who come. I was watching her march… (more…)
Meeting At The School
Sweetie finished all her testing right before she went into detention, so we had a pre ARD meeting yesterday at the school. We had such a great meeting. The plans that will be set into place when she returns to the school will start from least restrictive and if she handles that well, they will remain, if she can’t they will… (more…)
CONNECTED!
Visiting Sweetie 4 on Thursday evening didn’t go so well. She wound up leaving the visit asking demanding for me never come back , saying that she would refuse my visits. I have to say, that had never happened before in any of our visits. So this was new. It wasn’t without trepidation that I returned to visit this a.m. She wasn’t… (more…)
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