Thursday Valentine's Day - blech. I don't know why I'm so negative on the holiday this year. Well, I think it might have had something to do with Monday's counseling session, actually. Anyway, more on that later. But I'm still faking it. I have the kids' Valentines all ready and I dressed up in red today with a heart necklace. I about killed myself this morning getting Sam's Valentines into school. I'm pretty sure I deserve some sort of medal, actually. He wanted to make these Pinterest-inspired robot Valentines - really cute. The heads are pudding cups and the body is a juice box. Well, times 30, they get pretty heavy! I loaded them into a box and realized there was no way he was going to be able to carry them into school himself, especially when he also had to manage his backpack and trombone. Fortunately, I was already working at the middle school (I'm in the Level 3 room today and tomorrow - lots of time for blogging! This is alway
Surviving early and unexpected widowhood, single parenting, adoption, special needs parenthood...I cover it all as I muse on the unexpected twists and daily minutia of my life. It's also a place where I can publicly echo the words of the psalmist in Psalm 40:2, "He brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock and established my goings."