…Whether by our own doing, or more likely by God’s divine plan, my husband and I were self-employed during most of our marriage. This was a two-edged sword that at once was wonderfully freeing when we had business and money coming in, and at the same time was tremendously unsettling when no work was on […]
Month: February 2015
excerpt CHAPTER 22 – THE COUNTY FAIR
…I glanced back at my daughter chasing down yet another loose, rampaging steer, and saw the livestock agent go to her aid. Before I realized what was happening, I saw the steer flip the agent, and then flip my daughter. The announcer immediately called for the ambulance that was always waiting at the sidelines, and […]
excerpt CHAPTER 21 – SHARING WHATEVER WE HAVE
…Fast forward 20 years: I am a young wife, with lots of kids, and my husband works for a corporate pay check part-time, and for himself part-time. Many months we had to “rob Peter to pay Paul” to make ends meet. Some months we had extra, some months we had nothing. I remember a low […]
excerpt CHAPTER 20 – THE ADOPTED KIDS
…Reactive Attachment Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Attention Deficit Disorder, and severe Dyslexia now came to live in our previously normal and peaceful home. Along with them came lying, stealing, sexualized behaviors, violent rages, freeze, fight, and flight. The real parenting in the trenches had begun. In addition to all of this, […]