The family Christmas event last night was really, really fun! It was nice to see everyone again. No one was obviously drinking or sloppy drunk. (Well, there was that one uncle but he's like that all the time. I think it's his medication.) No one smoked in the house. The food was good. Everyone was friendly. I'm already looking forward to it next year.
I even met 4 children of various cousins that I'd never met and saw a 4 year old that I'd not since since she was 1 month old. We really should all get together more often.
The kids scored a little cash from one aunt and a couple of gifts from the others. Elvis got a drawing set and a toy phone that does math that he is going to love. The boy loves to draw and loves anything to do with numbers.
Today, we'll finish up all the little errands we need to do before Christmas. I want tomorrow to be a low-key day. Cori will spend most of the day with her grandmothers. They are picking her up at 8:30 AM. Beth is going to a friend's house to make gingerbread cookies. (Beth has never done this. I have a friend who makes them every year. She is so excited to go help!) The rest of us have no Christmas Eve plans until dinner when we go to another friend's house to fondue...an odd Christmas Eve tradition but we love it!
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Years of living with kids from the foster care system have made me a little nuts. Despite having adopted some kids, they constantly remind me, in so many little subversive ways, that I'm not the REAL momma and I never will be, no matter how hard I try.
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Meet the Family
- Alli - 23 year old daughter. She came to me at 15 as an emergency foster placement. She had a 2 month old micro-preemie son at the time.
- Baby Blair - Daughter of Alli. Born at 21 weeks gestation, she lived just minutes but has had a huge impact on all our lives.
- Beth - 20 year old daugher. Bio sister of Alli. She came to me about a month before her 14th birthday. I legally adopted her when she was sixteen.
- Boy Wonder - 26 year old son-in-law (husband of Alli). He is the father of Baby Blair and Miss Piggy.
- Cori - 18 year old former foster daughter. I've been in and out of her life since she was 9. She was recently adopted by a family that lives far away but I still hear from her on a semi-regular basis.
- Elvis - My 7 year old grandson. Alli's son. He was born at 26 weeks gestation and spent 4 months in NICU. At 6, he's non-verbal, doesn't walk, and his arms don't work well, either. Despite all that, he's AWESOME!
- Me - 42 year old single foster/adoptive mom. I teach school by day and deal with my wonderful, wacky (wacko?) family in my off-hours.
- Miss Piggy - Daughter of Alli and Boy Wonder. She was born July 1, 2009. She's walking everywhere and loves to dance. Lately, she's really gotten into dolls, saying "Baby!" whenever she sees one.
- Spider-Pig - 21 year old boyfriend of Beth. He's lasted longer than most of her other boyfriends added together. We'll see where this relationship goes. (Thanks to Mongoose for giving him his blog name. He'd love it, I'm sure.)
- SpiderPiglet - 8 month old daughter of Beth and SpiderPig. She's cute as a button and starting to get really mobile.
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1 comment:
We love it too. Thanks for coming. Glad your mom could make it. You need to bring her more often; what with her toilet-fixing abilities and all she comes in real handy.
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