A week of healing, listening, growing, and of course, blessings. Finally everyone in the house, including myself, surived sinus/allergy struggles. Healing. Being able to sleep makes the world so much nicer. Listening. Madeline learned a very valuable lesson about the necessity to communicate and listen to a very dear friend in order to mend hurt feelings. Listening to the person face to face, not through text. Listening to the person face to face and not listening to what others might think they are interpreting. Wednesday was a very long day. A lot of tears, but in the end, with listening, it was happy tears and hugs. I hope it was a lesson learned. All in all I can't believe that with Madeline being in 8th grade we have never encountered any problems with her and her friends until this week. Very amazing. Makes me concerned about Camille and her friends when she comes home talking about so and so being mad at her and not being her friend. Not once did Madeline ever encounter this. Madeline is blessed with wonderful friends. So glad the friendship was restored this week.
Growing. Growing in faith as I watch God work in our home and our family. BG growing up as I put the bottles away for good tonight. I finally decided if she was going to be broken of bottles it had better be now or never. We did it with very little struggle. Her calcium intake has significantly decreased so my next goal is getting more milk in her. She is amazing in all that she is learning and doing. I will put items into the grocery cart and she tries to repeat every word that I say. Helen has her singing hip hop songs while dancing in the car. I don't think I would ever have pin pointed this as being a favorite age, but BG is making it so. She brings delight to all of us.
N continues to struggle with behavior. Gram said it best as describing his behavior as passive agressive. The beginning of the week was tough but then the blessings began. Becky & Helen devised a plan that Becky picks up N from school on Tuesdays and returns him just before bedtime. Helen takes N & BG on Thursdays until bedtime. The break for me and the extra positive attention for Nathan has helped tremendously. I am so thankful for my friends who heard my cries and didn't just listen, but took action. What a blessing to have friends step in when family is not close by. This is the longest we have had foster children in our home. Before it was 4 months or less and I was able to re-energize between kids, get my house in order, or just take time to breath. It has all caught up with me and while I wouldn't change the journey we are on, I have been tired. With my friends help, BG taking a 2 hour nap Thursday morning, a girls day out with Nicki, and an all day outing with the hatched kids today, and I am hopeful for the week ahead. I am at peace with N and can go into the week being hopeful that I will be a positive role model, and be patient in my dealings with his behavior. It's going to be a great week.
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