Merry Christmas!

A Christmas Eve Celebration

We enjoyed the day with the children. I hope Santa finds them tonight

Rainy Days and Mondays... in Beaufort

A cold rainy day, but warm and dry in the Frogmore Airport Conference Room, lunch @ Fat Patties then back to the office before driving back to Charleston.

The Fourth Sunday of Advent

A  brief visit with Maddie before Poppy took her to church. I drove to Beaufort for our SCYAP foster families and youth Christmas party at Gilligans.

Early Christmas Gathering

The Jacobs will be with his family in Georgia next week. We enjoyed an early dinner @ Hometeam BBQ then came home for presents and desserts. Spencer loved  Hometeam's collards!

Oh Great Loss!

Rosemary's unconscionable behavior tonight is beyond the pale. She cared for her children for only two days in our home before she returned to her old habits. She took her children from their home of over three months (and a second home for over 6 years) tonight in a fit of staged rage (she had showered, put on make-up, did her nails, and dressed up for an evening on the town per Charlotte - at a time she could not even pick up the children from the after school program). She began her fit when her Dad arrived home with the children. I came in from Beaufort to her screams, and lies to the children. She took children straight from their baths, in their pjs, ready for bed out into the night to give them to her estranged husband so she could be with her boyfriend. Such baleful regard for her children severs our relationship with Rosemary.

Negligent Parenting.

You are pregnant and still smoking with no place to live. We take you in, but you must be responsible for your children. You do ok the first night except for not checking their homework, signing their agendas, reading with them or a bedtime routine. It is only the second night and you were late picking the children up at the after school program (the only children there after 6pm), then you drag them along to visit your boyfriend (nevermind that you are still married) and do not bring them home until after 9pm. Everyone reeks of cigarette smoke, the children are tired, cranky and need baths, homework  checked, etc. This  is not going to work.