Sorry I have been so lax with the posting. I appreciate all the nice compliments about my family and figured I could leave it up an extra day considering their stunning beauty. You might not know this but I am a person of few friends. Sure there are people in my life with whom I make a concerted effort to keep contact with but they are not call up and hit the movies kind of friends. They are logistically impossible to reach without much prior planning, they also have completely different lives. So as I was saying I’m a person of few friends.. I have 2 “mommy” friends. People who I can hang with and our kids can manage to get along so we can have a break…. 2…. I’m lucky to have that many. Soon I will be down to 1. My dear friend is moving back to Germany. The decision was quite suddenly made. I am supporting her choice, I can see how they will have so much more opportunity over there but landsakes! I’m going to be even more lonely and I can say with confidence - THAT SUCKS. Krisha is a particularly wonderful friend. She has watched my eldest daemon without so much as a complaint when other were afraid to tackle the job. She watched both my children when I had a mental breakdown one day and had to hightail it to the psychiatrist. She is basically someone I would trust implicitly with the care of my children, knowing she would never raise a hand to them or bully them. She understands my style of parenting and the crap that I am trying to achieve and attain with my kids. She “gets” why I am already looking into having Mira tested, instead of waiting for her teacher in kindergarten to tell me there is a problem… She gets it and I’m going to lose her - THAT SUCKS!

The upshot of this deal is some of the stuff we’ll get if they do infact leave. We’ve got 1st dibs on stuff like a industrial swing set we procured for them a few years ago when we didn’t have a yard. We can buy their trailer bed cheap so we can haul things to the dump without begging to borrow truck. The biggest upside? We’ll always have a place to stay in Germany and a translator. Germany is on my list of places I’d love to go, with them back over there it would be an attainable goal.

If you have a moment please go visit my renter Cat. I always have a hard time choosing whom to rent to, cat was a first time applicant whose blog was new to me. I’ve jumped into reading it with both paws. She also struggles with mental illness and gives frank descriptions of her time spent “inpatient” as well as frankly discusses her conditions - this impresses me. Many people look at the spectrum of mental illness and it terrifies them, thus many people affected suffer in silence. A blog like cat’s is not only entertaining, it’s informative and gives people who are quietly suffering hope. Her thumb nail is at the top of my side bar, give her a click and scroll through some of her entries. I think you’ll like what you read