THE MEDIA....TAKEN WITH A GRAIN OF SALT

Have you noticed how the media covers news stories these days? They love to slip in totally irrelevant information....and why? What's the purpose?

There was a little girl in the U.S. who died recently from diabetes related symptoms. Her parents are under fire because they prayed instead of taking her directly to the hospital. Uh huh....then comes the zinger....the little girl was homeschooled! Gasp! Oh that explains everything!

How about the polygamist ranch in Texas? Now before I'm filleted, let's make one thing clear: I do NOT agree with men having more than one wife. Why should they get all the fun? :)
If the purpose of the "invasion" by local and federal agents was to rescue the 16 yr old girl who made 2 phone calls to authorities for help, then why hasn't this girl been found? Do you think she really exists or was it just an excuse for the cavalry to bombard the compound? Makes you think.... The footage of those women in their long dresses being loaded onto buses was just fantastic, wasn't it? The country lapped it up like milk from a saucer. Of course the media just loves to play up the fact that these poor women are living in "3rd world conditions" (Media's words, not mine) They are forced to sew their own clothes, to grow a lot of their food and....they school their children at home! Eeeyikes!
Hmmm, when I think of 3rd world conditions, usually partially clothed, unfed children with no way to get an education comes to mind!!! Yes, let's get all these women saved from this torturous life they lead....perhaps we can get them minimum wage jobs and put their children into daycare and public school. Problem solved! Now they can be like everyone else! That's what we want, right?! Oh yeah, what was the point of the news story?

Now how about that gang of hooligan girls who lured and then viciously beat a girl until her face was unrecognizable to her own father? They just wanted to post a beating on the internet! Are you kidding me? Bet the press failed to mention that they were all products of the "regular public school system"! But then that wouldn't stir up anything, would it?

Rant complete....for now.

GIRLY GIRLS

I would love to post a picture of my girls strolling hand in hand, with their long, flowing dresses blowing in the breeze. Unfortunately, I don't have a picture like that. But I do have these.......

Farmer Joe doing a little dance in pajamas and rubber boots!

Worm girl with a big bowl of freshly dug up treasures!

Yah gotta love it!

ON SUICIDE WATCH

Well that's how it feels. Why do the under 5 crowd seem to gravitate toward every dangerous situation imaginable? And the little beggars can even dream up wild and woolly adventures to go on....danger zones that I would never have dreamed existed.
So here's the run-down from the past week:
1) 30 mile an hour 2-kid collision
2) slip in the tub (I almost had a heart attack with that one)
3) fall off the couch
4) jumping and fell off the bed
5) baseball to the face
6) hanging off the front of the couch, slid off head first.
7) fell out of a laundry basket and whacked the dresser
8) had a pencil crayon in mouth, knee hit it and cut the inside of her mouth (2nd heart attack)
9) washing machine door to the noodle
10) fingers caught in the register
11) fingers in a portable fan
12) choked on food

Can you believe that 2 delicate little lotus flowers can get into so much trouble? lol

THE TALK

Every parent knows at some point in their child's life, they will be having "the talk". As kids are being forced to grow up way too early, it seems that "the talk" inevitably comes along sooner than we'd like. As adoptive parents, we get double duty. Yes, the "where do I come from" talk is also on our agenda. Right from the start, we've told Rylee her story. She has her life book and pours over the pictures while I recount all the tales of receiving her. It's just been a matter-of-fact. She has even witnessed first-hand and understood how the process works due to having a baby sister join our family. Or so I thought.....

Tuesday April 1 2008 will be forever etched into my brain. Yup, started out as just another ordinary day here at home....Rylee at her art table, Little Piddle having her nap. I was in the kitchen when I heard her have a tiny tantrum - she made a mistake on one of her drawings - then a second tantrum and hooboy a third one all within a few minutes! The noise level was about to hit the upper limit of what Little Piddle will sleep through, so I hurried into the playroom to see what was going on. She was really upset!! I held her and rocked her for a minute. Her anger then turned to distress and she was sobbing uncontrollably! Then this tirade came out of my first born that shook me to the core! She kept saying "Rylee go away and Mommy get a new Rylee". At first I was stunned, then she added "Mommy bought Rylee in China". "Rylee go back to China". "Mommy bought Jayme in China". "Kids go back to China". At this point, I'm sobbing right along with her and trying to reassure her that she is staying right here with us. No one is going anywhere and I promised that I would never leave her and go back to China again!

So how long has she been hanging onto these feelings that she couldn't express to us? Has this been part of her anger for all these years? What has she heard from other kids? Where do we go from here?

Well, we have to make a few changes to "her story". We'll have to incorporate some new words and ideas. We're heading into foreign territory here so we're treading lightly. Rylee made the first step that day....unfortunately for her, it came from a sense of insecurity! That makes me sad! On a side note...she's been a whole other kid since the talk!

I have a few years, but I do hope the next "talk" will go much better! Hey and maybe I'll even be ready for it! Oh probably not! lol

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY - WORLD AUTISM DAY

WAY TOO MUCH TIME ON THEIR HANDS

Now if I could get them to clean the tub first....before they organized the tub critters!

RED SPOTS - MUMPS OR MEASLES?

Neither - just a bad case of ladybugs!