...Mother's Day, I just got screamed at, "You are NOT my family and you are NOT my mother." Nice, huh? I don't write a whole lot about the ups and downs of being a foster parent, but it is a roller coaster ride that just doesn't stop. Apparently, Jessica thinks that it is okay for her to stay home the entire summer or get dropped off at the pool with her friends everyday. Hmmm, let me think about that one, nope, not going to happen. Let's not even discuss the report cards that came home from both kids yesterday. I may need a place to store the hair that I am pulling out of my head!
I spent hours researching camps (day and overnight), sending emails about funding and scholarships, and then go back and forth with social services to get them to pay for some of these great opportunities. Finally, I get what we want which is two weeks paid for by social services to a fun overnight camp, which Jessica picked out as the best choice. Now she is refusing to go and refusing to go to her grandmother's house in NY with her siblings for 10 days. I hate to continue to break it to her that she is 14 years old and while she can have an opinion she doesn't make the final decision. So frustrating! We just spent 30 minutes in the kitchen discussing (Jessica screaming and stomping around, me standing here not raising my voice no matter what I really felt like saying) all of the things that she is upset about. Talk about draining? I think she is going to sleep well tonight. Me on the other hand? Probably a mixed drink and some reality television...
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I think I would throw out an option for her, summer camp(s) and NY or she can get her first job!
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