My daughter was arrested last Monday, the day after her 22nd birthday.
My husband and I spent the weekend before her arrest out of state with my sister’s family as we attended my niece’s play . She is a high school senior, has been involved in musical theater for many years and will be going […]
It is a well-known fact in my family that I rarely go to my Facebook page so to “friend” or “unfriend” me is rather a moot point. Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and all that…I am completely clueless how that all works. Come to think of it, I really am rather social media challenged.
I bring this […]
As I type this, I am taking a shuttle bus from my hometown to the airport to fly back home. For months now, my siblings and I have been making trips to my parents’ home, going through closets and drawers, cleaning, sorting and taking family memorabilia back to our respective homes. These trips have […]
I wrote this a couple of weeks ago…
It’s March. Signs of Spring are wafting in on warm breezes, are seen in early flowers blooming in pastel shades in the increasingly warmer days and are heard in the chirping of birds busily building nests in preparation for arriving broods…and my daughter is on the run. […]
My mom’s spirit soared up to heaven in the early morning hours this past Sunday, October 25th. As my sister and I sat in the hospice room and watched her take her last breath, in my mind’s eye I could picture an angel coming down to escort my mom to eternity.
When I last wrote […]
I am pretty sure that I have a chip on my shoulder when it comes to being an adoptive mom. I have read books and articles from the viewpoint of the adult adoptee and have over the years tried to use that understanding to view our family from the perspective of my two adopted […]
I completely understand the mother duck in the picture. I imagine her saying, “Now children, this is a road. Roads can be very dangerous and I want to protect you. I have crossed this road many times in complete safety as I know what pitfalls to avoid. I would like you to line up […]
As I mentioned in my last blog, we are bringing my youngest son, soon to be 18, home from a wilderness program in a couple of days. Having sent my older daughter several years ago to a mental health residential treatment program and seeing her slide immediately back into old behaviors upon returning home, […]
With the Christmas holidays and out of town trips, I have missed a few weeks of blogging. We spent Christmas with all but one of my siblings (and their families) at the home of my widowed mother. She is 91 now, in good spirits however her body is failing after 5 years of fighting […]
This past week was an intense mix of emotions. I braced myself for the possibility of my daughter being incarcerated only to read in the online court minutes that the pretrial was delayed until early December.
I picture one or both lawyers on each side asking for more time to gather evidence with the judge […]
