Holidays

The holidays are here!! I was so excited for Turkey Day and I don't know why. Maybe because it is the time the boys get to run around with cousins or friends and have a great time and the fighting is kept to a minimum. Or maybe I don't have to cook or clean I get to be a child again. I am the one of the youngest and I get treated as such. So I have little to do. I can do more for others and I used too but then or until I had the kids. Hard to whip up some cookies or make great side dishes when there is homework, activities and excitement looming in the air.

We watched Santa Paws and both my boys were very very sad. It goes back to an orphanage reference and both boys got sad and scared. It made them upset because the lady was so mean. Which is sad because orphanage or foster care is always shown as a horrible place to be. My boys come from an orphanage and they took this to heart. One was upset and could not watch the movie. It touched something deep inside him but I don't know if he knows exactly what upset him or why but it did. He has issues so thoughts are a bit bumbled.

My other child bawled his eyes out because he does not want to go back to the orphanage. He thinks it looks horrible. He is afraid we will die and there will be no family left to take of him. It was really quite sad. It also brought up that his birth mom gave him up but she kept the sibling. Why, is his question. What did I do wrong he wonders. Again he did nothing wrong I assured him it was just the circumstance at the time and that he did absolutely nothing wrong. Luckily the show makes the same statement, briefly but it does... that the child are not to blame. He was a wreck but I think he is feeling better.

These questions come up around this time. This is a hard time for them because it brings back lots of memeories for my boys. This is when we became their parents and they left an orphanage, move to a new country and new lifestyle that they were not used too. Luckily things get more positive as we move to Christmas and the New Year. By January life should be back to normal.

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