Ok...so it has been a long time since I have updated this blog. Sorry! We are no longer foster parents! We have adopted 5 children. Our lives have totally changed, but it is for the better!!! Hopefully, I can get back in the swing of things and blog. So much has happened, not sure what I will blog about. Have a blessed day!

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Mother's Day...

Before I became a foster mom, I hated Mother's Day except for being able to honor my mom and mother in laws. Now that I am a foster mom this year, I had a new outlook on this day. I can't have children and there was always a void in my life. Children make life go around. We love it! My children feel that void that I have had for years. My husband cooked and cleaned up for mother's day this year. It was great! I felt pampered and spoiled. Hope you all had a great day... Marlene

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Foster parenting? Yes we are! It is such a joy to see the look of love on a child's face that you are taking care of. When they call you mom or dad, or just out of the blue say those three words.. I love you!.. Then when you are told that you will probably get to adopt them and you get all excited and hopes are built. Only to be torn down by the courts. The judge has no clue what is really going on behind closed doors. Now I know that your goal is to reunify the children with parents, but when the case worker tells you that they will be yours, then you get the news with one phone call. They get to go home for a few hours to visit with no supervision. WHAT?! For the past 5 months they have had visits that were for one hour and always supervised. Wow, the surge of disappointment, anger at whoever said they could visit that long with no supervision, and then you have some children that are small enough to not have a clue who these people are that they are visiting with. You sit around wondering if you will have an angry child who will be mad at you for taking them away from the parents and siblings. You are on an emotional roller coaster. All the highs of having happiness with children, then the lows of not knowing how they will react to you. Then when you see them, they are excited to see you and tell you that you were missed. All your worries disappear until the next visit. I just wanted to let you know that if you are a foster parent and your reading this, hang in there and keep up the good work! I know what you are feeling and I just wanted you to know that you are special! If you'd like to leave a comment, feel free to!... Marlene

Weather...

Everyone gather around the radio or T.V. it is time for a weather alert. The kids stop fighting, everyone stops talking, and we all listen to the weather statement. Tornato warning? Yikes! Hit the cellar kids! We all scatter and hope to get the kids down in the cellar before the adult have to run down the stairs. "Mommy, aren't you coming down here? Not now. But the tornado is coming our way! But you'll get blown away!" Why do us adults think we are faster than the clouds? We send the kids down, but we'll have time to get in when we see the tornado coming our way... all 20 of us can make it down the stairs at the same time! Not to mention some of us are overweight and can't move as fast as others. Some of us have stiff ankles and can't bend them right, so we go one foot at a time. But we'll all be safe and get in just in time... just in time for the storm to hit and suck us all out of the cellar because we waited to long to get in. If the storm isn't coming your way, don't get in the cellar, but if it is and there is a big group, get in the cellar so there won't be a loss of lives. Stay safe this storm season.... Marlene

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Spanked? At age 53, you were spanked? Yes replied Janet Orlando from California. Her employer said this was a team-building exercise. In some states, it is against the law for you to spank your child, but a company in California thinks it is ok for you to spank an employee for an exercise? What is this world coming too??? Employess at a home secuirty company, Alarm One Inc., were paddled with rival companies yard signs. It was supose to be a contest that pitted sales teams against each other. The winners poked fun at the losers, threw pies at them, fed them baby food, made them wear diapers, and swatted their backside. Now I have a question, how could you MAKE a 53 year old wear diapers? I know unless physical force was used, you could never make me wear one. The company said this was a voluntary program to build comaraderie and were not discriminatory because they were given to both males and female workers. If it was voluntary, I would have never been in the diaper line! Alarm One has sinced ceased the practice in 2004, when the lady sued and another employee complained of being injured. What do you say reader? Would you work for a company that spanked it's employee's? .... Marlene

Do you beleive in 'ghost'?

Have you heard the story about a 'ghost' in a London pub? This couple decided to buy a pub that was for sale. The owner told them to watch for the 'ghost'. They lived there a year before anything happened. One night while they were asleep, the alarm went off at the pub. The couple lived above the pub so the man went down to check things out while the wife called the police. When he got there, he checked everything out and didn't find anything so he went back to bed. The alarm went off again. He went down and all of the T.V.'s were on. He went into the woman's bathroom, and there was a woman in there dressed in a long white robe and half of her face was gone. About that time the police arrived and the man told them about the woman in the bathroom. They went in to question her and she wasn't there. However, all of the toilets started flushing! Needless to say, the police ran out of the bathroom. Hmmmm..... Marlene

Just a thought

One of the first Just a thought articles that I wrote was talking about wanting to get out of debt. Well, today, we paid off two of our bills! That is exciting! We just decided it was time to do this and stop dragging our feet. So, here we are on our way out of debt. Dave Ramsey says to live like nobody else so you can LIVE like nobody else. We haven't got the extra two or three jobs that he suggest that you do, we just tightened down and put ourselves on a budget and now we are excited to see some results! If we as Americans did what he said, we'd put the credit card companies out of business and our national debt would no longer be there. Wouldn't that be nice? Oh well, I just thought that I'd blog a few minutes, nothing special... Hope you have a great day!... Marlene