Hey kids! You might be getting a kid sister!

NO, Mom’s NOT having a baby! LOL! Last week I met a senior at the school. She was a sweet kid and she was waving at me with a big grin. I waved back even though I didn’t recognize her since I thought maybe I’d had her in a class I substituted for but it turned out she didn’t know me either. She just knew me from hubby’s class and she sought me out to tell me how much she loved whatever it was that hubby had given her out of his lunch. He does that alot. If a kid is hungry during class or they finally make a breakthrough, he gives them a treat. There are so many kids that I don’t usually remember them after that either…that and my mind is going! LOL! But this young girl I did remember for some reason. She was just that sweet!

A couple of days later Dennis was telling me he loaned one of his kids $20. He has done this occasionally but it is rare considering our situation so I looked at him in surprise and realized he looked a little down about it. It turns out that the kid he gave the money to was this same sweet girl I had just met. She is an 18 year old senior in her last semester but she had just been thrown out of her house! By her mother! With nothing but the clothes on her back and no money in her pocket! And why? Because this girl had the audacity to get her first boyfriend. (Did I mention she is 18?!) And the boyfriend is a nice kid too. So nice that she has been staying with his family since she got thrown out last week. But they had just started dating so we are not so sure this is a good situation for her. Anyway, the $20 went towards a new pair of jeans and a shirt which she proudly showed off to Dennis and thanked him for. This, of course, broke his heart knowing that those two pieces of clothing is all she could get for $20 and represents exactly half her wardrobe. Then he spent time with her trying to keep her in school but without money and no permanent place to live she feels she has to find a job NOW.

If we lived closer, she would already be here. But we are so far away we just didn’t think it would work out and we also thought her mother might come around but evidently she’s standing her ground. This girl’s sister tried to help by sneaking out some of her clothes to her, but she got caught and got into alot of trouble for it. And this woman who has the nerve to call herself a mother threatened to call the police and have this young girl arrested for robbery if she took any of her clothes! So something has to be done. Dennis is telling her today that if she needs a place to stay, she is more than welcome here. We are outside her circle of friends but she will get to school everyday and she will have her own room and she will have a safety net so she can make real plans for her life.

I just don’t understand a parent that can treat a kid like that. Tough love is definitely needed at times. We have thrown out our own kids when they needed it and right now we already have one kid back who actually thanks us for doing that since it straightened him out and he’s working hard and doing well. But this girl is a sweet kid whose worst crime is getting a nice boyfriend at the age of 18! My God! When I think of the things my daughter dragged home as HER boyfriends and it never occurred to us to throw her out! It definitely occurred to us to throw the boyfriends out though which we did on occasion! LOL!

I don’t know if we will end up with this young girl living with us or not, but I am home today without a sub job so I will be cleaning up and getting the room ready just in case. Oh! And this girl is adopted! I was stunned and started laughing and said "Jeez, you’d think with being adopted she would have gotten a better deal!" LOL! Oh well, at least she’ll fit in with the rest of our ‘collected’ kids!