Life...

It’s been a difficult year for us. 

For years mini -engineer has struggled with gastric issues. We’ve been to several doctors and tried a few things with not much success. Finally, we made our way to a pediatric gastroenterologist. They’re planning a scope, but they think it might be celiac, which would mean some big changes to our family. Our sports guy, or Jekyll and Hyde, which is a better name, unfortunately went through a lot of trauma before we adopted him. This trauma will have life long consequences. He’s been having a very hard time of it starting first grade. We are fortunate to have the teacher we have and several other people that are all working together to try and help him, but it's been a rough road. Miss independent is keeping to her name quite well. She also got her first round of braces off. Our Foster child which I will call joyful, because she brings me so much joy, is 14 months now. We were picked to be her adoptive family, but a distant bio relation came forward and says he will take her and now we are waiting for the courts to decide.  Sometimes we get foster kids on emergency placements, meaning it happened fast, it often happened in the middle of the night, and kids need somewhere safe for a few days while the department sorts things out.

We have three adopted kids and our one foster child. Even if we lose Joyful, even with the difficulties of Jekyll and Hyde, I do not regret being an adoptive parent or a foster parent.   They have brought so much to our lives and our family. Even though some days are so hard I don’t know if I’ll survive, and some are so hard I don’t know if I want to survive, they have made me a better person and I don’t regret any of it. Just know, that if I don’t keep up with the blogging it’s because I’m taking care of them.