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| It has been a very long while since I posted last. (this is why I never kept a diary.) A brief update of my life.... I am finally a senior, graduating next December with a degree in Early Childhood Education. At this point, I plan to return to Maine and substitute teach during the spring semester getting a full time teaching position in the Fall of 2010. My family hasn't changed since the last time except in official status. Travis will be adopted in December 30. Abby and Anthony will be up for adoption later this week we think. The judge hasn't made his decision regarding the termination of parental rights for the father. New issues have been cropping up, so be praying for that. We might be getting Abby and Anthony's biological baby sister who is 11 months old. I have a bad case of senioritis. I have no desire to be in college anymore and really have to push myself to get my work done. Not because it is hard, but because I don't want to do it. I really need to get over this because it happened to me in community college and that is the reason I am still in college at 23. I am busy working, and being and RA, helping with church stuff when I can, but I really need to make schoolwork more of a priority. I'm just ready to be done. I have really enjoyed my time in Missouri, and wouldn't change anything about it. I have grown a lot, and made a lot of new lifelong friends, but I'm ready to be home. This has been rambling, but I hope you learned something about me. Please pray for my family. | | |
| I know I haven't updated in a while, but right now I kind of need to vent. My family has 2 small children who are biological siblings. They have lived with us since last June, and even though they are in the reunification process with their mother, she has repeatedly told my mom and DHHS that she isn't ready to have them home full time yet. That is ok with everyone involved, the kids can stay in foster care until she is ready. Well, her lawyer is saying that my mom isn't a good parent because Travis fell and cracked his skull and Abby broke her leg. They are both fine and the injuries they sustained are fairly common among young children. They are clumsy, they heal, they move on. The social worker for Anthony and Abby is unwilling to let the lawyer taint my mom's reputation, so because the lawyer is pushing for the kids to be returned to their mom, they are going home with her next week. Jessica (the mom) isn't ready, she's going to be thrown in full time with the kids, going from 1 infant to: an infant, a toddler and a preschooler. DHHS will be watching and providing some support, but it up to her. If she fails, and the kids get removed again, the department won't pursue reunification again and the kids (all 3) will probably come back to us. This is sad for everyone involved, I'm hoping Jessica can handle it, but I don't think she can. | | |
| So, my family is pretty big. My parents, 2 biological children, 2 adopted children, and 3 foster children, but for the next week we'll be even bigger. DHHS called us this morning and asked us to provide respite care for an 18-month old little boy, and my mom said "ok." So now Brandon is here and sleeping in Abby's bed in Semaj's room, Abby is sleeping in a playpen in the guest room (where I sleep) and the other 3 boys are down the hall. If you're counting, that 5 boys age 5 and under and 1 girl. That's 6 kids under the age of 6. In addition to the 4 adults currently living here. We'll see how it goes. Abby goes to the dr. on wednesday to get the cast off her leg. She fell the week before I got home and broke her tibia 2 inches above her ankle. She's started to walk on it again. I got a WONDERFUL Christmas present. I got 2 tickets to the Steven Curtis Chapman concert at the end of February. I'm so excited! Its actually the only thing that I asked for, so I'm glad I got it. Christmas was very chaotic at our house this year. Lots of presents, wrapping paper everywhere, and a crowded house. But everyone had a good time. Got to go take something to my mom (who's getting a massage.) Later.
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| Finals are coming and I'm not ready yet. I have a huge test tomorrow, and I'm too tired to actually study and accomplish anything. I need to go to bed, but studying comes first. I'm supposed have to work tomorrow at 630, but it is sleeting and freezing rain, so if Parkway School District cancels, I don't have to go in. I'm hoping they cancel school. I'll still have to get up early to check for cancelations, but then I can go back to sleep. I get to go home in 209 hours (or 8 days and 17 hours.) I will be on a plane headed for home, my dad is driving all of my siblings to the airport in Manchester, and then I'll be home!!! Three whole weeks. We're doing Christmas at home this year instead of the Samoset, so I get to decorate when I get there. I'm not planning on working when I get home and plan to simply relax. Being an RA is fun, and somewhat tiring. The nights on duty are the worst because we have to sit in an office, so we can see everything that is happening in the lobby, and we have to sit there for like 6 hours. It gets pretty monotonous. ITs a little better now because we have a new 61 inch TV in the main lobby, so we can sit there and watch it while monitoring the lobby. I also have to find an activity to do for the month of December, before final week. I have 2 girls not coming back next semester and both are girls that I haven't seen for the majority of the semester. One of them actually moved her stuff out this afternoon, but didn't vacate, tell any of ResLife staff, or leave her keys, so now she will be in trouble and her account will have a hold put on it, and we'll probably never see her again. She's only slept in the dorms 4 times this entire semester. OK, so now I'm exhausted, and rambling in my typing, so I'm going to bed. Later. | | |
| So I haven't had the time to update in a while, right now I have nothing but time. I'm on duty for the weekend, so I have to stay on campus and in the lobby. It's fall break, so the dorms are DEAD! Almost everyone has left for the long weekend. I was going to watch the 3 original Star Wars movies, but I forgot that the Red Sox game was on, so I'm watching that instead. They're winning! at the moment. very exciting. I'm hoping to sleep in and do homework tomorrow. I don't have school on Monday, but I still have to work at 630. Hopefully the guy that's supposed to be there with me will actually show up. Friday he didn't show, and I had 9 kids by myself and they were all completely out of control. I wasn't very happy with him. Hopefully Monday will be better. I work at 2 different school sites, 1 in the morning, and 1 in the afternoon. I was supposed to become a site director at my morning site and stop going to my afternoon site altogether. But, I gave the site coordinator my schedule, and it won't work with me being there full time. I have to leave early too many days, and they can't put 3 people at that site so there would be 2 left after I leave. Oh well, not a big deal. ResLife things are going well. We're getting ready for the Pumpkin Carving contest and the Halloween party. I'm not really sure why we're doing anything for Halloween, but that's what the other RAs decided to do, so I'll go along with it. I just haven't done anything AT ALL for Halloween since I was, like, 7. We just don't do Halloween at my house. It will be fun anyway. Classes are going well, got midterm grades on Thursday, and I got mostly A's , but 1 B. My technology class that I was worried about the grade, wsa just fine, I was worried for nothing. I start my observations and field experience on Monday. I'll go prepared to teach the first Jr, Achievement lesson 3 times, but I'm not sure if I'll actually teach it this week or not. Not much homework to do this weekend, but I do have to go do rounds. Later. | | |
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