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“If You Look for the Goodness in Your Children, Good Things Will Happen”
My dear friends and readers, Please excuse this commercial interruption of your regular reading. My book, with an actual cover and pages with WORDS on them in between, has just been published!!! The...
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With the Wind Just Flying Through My Hair
DIGITAL CAMERA Like many of you when driving, my mind races with thoughts of things I have to do, problems to solve, errands to run, crisis to deal with and so forth. Yesterday was different. As I was...
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The Words Every Adoptive Mom Longs to Hear…
Like most other adoptive parents, I adopted children because I, selfishly, wanted children. (My theory was if I had children to care for, I really didn’t have a lot of extra time to clean the house. I...
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Little Boy Tadpoles
Communicating with a daughter who is deaf can be particularly challenging, especially because my signing skills are not at her level I have always said, however, that I have enough signs for her to...
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Here a Friend, There a Happiness
My daughter, Marie, was severely abused as a toddler and young child. She came to live with us at the age of 7 after being found wandering the streets barefoot at 2 am carrying her infant brother...
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Best…day…EVER
I was fortunate to be chosen to do a presentation at the National Foster Parents Conference in Orlando last week. Sponsored by my employer, two hours were spent educating professionals on the...
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Inconsiderate Moi
Sometimes people are not thoughtful! I am embarrassed to say that this category fits me. Just in the past week, several mishaps have occurred which have demonstrated that my mind is just not aware...
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Time Flies in New Hampshire
We went to New Hampshire a lot when the children were younger, staying in a tent and sitting around a blazing fire, roasting marshmallows and laughing. I loved poking at the fire, which I favored when...
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‘Twas Once a Child
My daughter, Marie, has reached adulthood, having graduated from a residential program that had services for both her deafness and her mental health issues. This is the age of worry for any parent,...
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Differences
Occasionally with my morning tea I play on the website Game Duel. This international site has all of the regular games for free; solitaire, Crazy 8s, Yahtzee and so forth. After waking up, I enjoy...
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