I saw the first snake of the year on the last day of winter slithering across the dirt road heading toward Yolie's house. I stopped the van because I'm not about to run over a black snake while Sabrina jumped out to take its picture, but was afraid to get any closer than from 20 feet away.
I'd overslept until the absolutely unheard of 7:35 this morning.
"That ought to tell you how bad your body needs to heal," Yolie told me, as I thought my emotions have taken way more beating than these two cracked ribs.
Whatever, I only had 10 minutes to get three kids across the county to the other high school for a meeting and Nando to soccer practice, the rest of us to yard sales, wiping the toothpaste off the side of my face when I happened to glance in a mirror.
Chuy nutted up at soccer and got kicked out of practice, while I furiously tried to not yell at him. I was so dadgum irked and tired of him thinking he knows more than a coach, a teacher, a mother, or any other adult.
A lady I knew, now in a wheelchair, silently brought my selfish perspective back into focus rather quickly. I'm healthy and I need to be more appreciative of that fact at least, cracked ribs not withstanding. She looked absolutely gorgeous while I stood there looking and feeling like ten miles of bad road.
I'd again been contacted by a reality show producer from The Learning Channel. I'm still not interested. Money would be nice, but money's not everything, and I sure don't need folks stirring up drama around here. Our normal life is routine, boring, mundane and just has a lot of people, that's not enough to make us any kind of special. I'm not real proud of a lot of my kids at the moment anyway.
I have a big heart, or what's left of it, I don't want a big head.
Paula's new blog can be found here. Neither she, nor I, nor Claudia, nor a lot of adoptive mamas blog some of the depths of Hell into which we've glimpsed over the past years. Again our blogs just give small peeks into very busy lives, the backstory might scare the peaturkey out of people. I know ours sure would.
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I thought he got kicked out last year and refused to return?
Whatever you decide to do, Cindy, about the whole TLC thing is great. "Would anyone on the outside really get it?" is the first question I ask. But the REAL biggie is "How would it impact the kids".
Duh.
Kind of shuts that all RIGHT down, doesn't it? Yeah, the $$ would be nice. My kids are always going on about being in a reality show. [shudder] No thanks, they humiliate me enough on Facebook, thank you very much. And frankly, we're REALLY not that interesting.
UNLESS, of course, Cindy, you want to do a gardening show? hahaha... you would greatly improve the current HGTV offerings!
Cindy
TLC...consider it. Maybe they could bring in some really great "help" for your kids. I know you access all you can for them... but with TLC's budget? I love your blog you ARE that intresting! I SOOOOOOO wanna watch you guys!!!!
Jules - that was last season, another team and another coach. Should've been a fresh start this season, however his temper follows him.
Mama Temple - How would it impact the kids? Funny that wasn't my first thought, I made it immediately about me. OOPS. I'd be boring in a gardening show also. I can happily weed for hours and hours. How boring.
A Waiting Mom - You're right. The $$$ would probably be enough to pay for a private placement somewhere. I just can't make myself do it though.
that does not look like a black snake...
and im sorry to hear about your ribs! i know its nearly impossible for you to stay still, so hopefully your body just realizes it will need to heal a little unconventionally...
Kelly, this was taken with my cell phone and this view makes it look less black than it really appeared. I'm pretty sure it was a harmless snake...well I HOPE so
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