Well another week has flown by and we are all still alive! The termites have calmed a bit, thank goodness. I only find them occasionally which is way better than they were so I have much to be grateful for.
This is the girls during one of the Termite filled nights. It didn't really help to sleep on the coach, but I guess it made them feel good that they were all out on the coach together with the Termites. I was thinking about making a post and wondering if I had taken any pictures to put up, so I got my camera down to check and low and behold the kids had filled my camera with pictures. I only put the best ones up so you can just imagine all the pictures they had taken. Actually I think I had gotten my camera down before I left for work and had instructed them to take a picture of Kara and her project before she took it to school, but there was not one picture of Kara and her project.
This week Brent had training in New Orleans all week. It was about 80 miles from our home and so getting kids to school and moms and dads to work all at the same time was a bit tricky, but we did it!!! I think Brent looks tired here. I think the morning rush is getting to him a little! We get up at 4:30 and I keep saying we need to get up earlier this is not enough time, but he gives me that look like your a crazy nut and there is no way I'm getting up any earlier. So I guess my mornings will continue to be a crazy rat race: )
I'm not a big fan of hot chocolate, but it sure makes my kids jump out of bed in the morning.
Halle split her nose open last week but it is healing up nice. She climbed up to get one of Hayden's trophies and the trophy fell and hit her right in the nose. She had a real nice gash.
Everyday I go to school and I look at the kids and I think of my Hayden and it scares the you know what out of me. The other day a boy went to the bathroom and got beat up by 10 other boys. They followed him into the bathroom between classes and then just started beating him up! Our school is almost like a prison, but if the kids can find a whole they will take it. If you live in this are this is the only Middle School available to you and it is rough!!! I finally have figured out how everyone becomes related to everyone. Mom gets pregnant when she is 13 and has a baby, babies daddy kills someone and gets thrown in prison. Then Mom gets pregnant when she is 15 and has a baby. Dad runs off. Mom gets pregnant when she is 18 and has a baby. Dad parks his car on the train tracks and is killed. Mom gets pregnant when she is 19 and has a baby. Dad decides he doesn't like mom anymore. Mom get pregnant when she is 20 and has a baby. Now mom has 5 kids and those kids have 5 different Daddies! Which means they have 10 sets of grandparents just on their Daddies side, and by the end who really even knows who's Daddy belongs to what kid, so your just all related! This is what I call the break down of the family. I think I've become more of a therapist to some of these kids than the nurse. They come in and sit in the chair across from me and just talk and talk and talk, and these are the stories I hear. Child after child after child tells me the same story, and the amazing thing is they still all long to have a mom and a dad that loves them and each other, even when generation after generation it has been the same. How do you break a cycle like this. I had one child this week come in beat up by her mom's babies daddy. She said they are not married and they don't like each other, but he lives with them. I guess this incidence happened one other time, but when her mom found out she knocked the guys front teeth out so it had not happened again for a long time. Another girl she comes from a family of 5 with 3 different daddies. The mom is not living with any of the daddies, but she is living with a guy that she loves that is hurt because he was running from the po'lice and jumped out a window and cut his foot all up. The daughter said she does not really like him because his friends all do drugs and he is not nice, but her moma loves him. They said his foot might need amputated and so he can't work and just sits at the house all day while her momma works 2 jobs, but they are OK because they qualify for section 8 housing so they still have some extra money to do fun stuff together once in a while. She gets along with her siblings which is such a blessing. I am so happy when I know that they have someone that cares about them.
Another little boy comes in and his legs are all twisted up. He is able to walk but only on his toes pigeon toed. His mother time after time has said that there is nothing anyone can do for him, but when I ask him if he has ever seen a doctor he says no. He said once when he was very little, but never since. I finally figure out that they do not have insurance, but I'm sure they qualify for medicaid or something so hopefully he will be able to get some help. Another boy's mom was killed by an 18 wheeler on the highway last April. I'll stop now because I could go on and on and on.
I guess working at this school has made me realize just how important families are and how our choice have far reaching consequences. They effect generation after generation after generation.
I am grateful for my kids that like to make funny faces on my camera!
I am grateful for parents and grandparents who have made good choices which have lead me to have so many great blessings and opportunities. I think this leads me to the question for myself of what kind of choices am I making? What kind of consequences am I leaving my children. Will they be blessings or trials.
Happy Mother's Day to Every Mother out there that makes a difference in this world. Mother's are the glue that hold a family together. The love of a Mother is irreplaceable. Happy Mother's Day to 4 very special Mother's in my life. Happy Mothers Day Grandma! Happy Mothers Day Nanny! Happy Mothers Day KaraLynn! Happy Mother's Day Mom! Thank you for your love and choices which have lead my life to be so wonderful and blessed. I love you!
Happy Mother's Day to my sisters and sisters-in-laws and friends who I know are wonderful Mother's and examples to me!
May we never become so selfish that we forget the reason our lives are so blessed.
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