Posts made by junipersky

Child has informed me that my therapy is stupid, but hers is essential. I don’t need therapy because I’m an adult, and she does need it because she’s a kid.

Celebrated the girl’s 8th birthday.

Also celebrated that we are officially her longest foster family.

She said recently that if she can’t go home to her mommy and daddy that she wouldn’t mind us adopting her.

Foster girl and I had a screaming, yelling, name calling fight.

And she didn’t hit me or break anything.

I’m so freaking proud of her.

@Pacha

BossMu

Everyone is the best at everything. Everyone is the Boss. Now, Everyone has been kidnapped by aliens and placed in a simulated environment to see who would win in the battle of being the best.

What is YOUR skill??

@Buttercup

I would just embrace your occasional senior discount for longer than some of us get to claim it.

@hellfrog

Dealing with the courts and her bio family had really put a damper on my faith in humanity.

Between last night and her BFFs’ mom brushing her hair today (she won’t let me near it) my faith is beyond restored.

Our foster daughter has some pretty extreme behaviors, and today she exploded pretty spectacularly. So we had to call off going TO a fireworks show because helping her regulate in a crowd of people is impossible.

We didn’t deprive her though and went outside to see what we could of the big shows. There were A LOT. She was screaming with joy and jumping in and down out of her mind with glee.

A few houses over a family was setting of some legal fireworks and so she asked if we could go watch. I agreed and we walked over to ask permission to watch.

This family just reached out and ENVELOPED my little girl in love. First offered a sparkler, then a whole box (“don’t let the fun end!”) Then s’mores, and finally they broke out extra chairs for all of us. Grandpa of neighbors teased her like mad. Just such amazing kindness I almost cried several times seeing the joy on this little girl’s face.

There are just good people.

(Also the dad was a smoker and little girl has had some bad experiences with smokers in the past, so it was really healthy of her to have a healthy one.)

@Aria

I’m crossing my fingers for you!!! He looks like a DELIGHT!!!

I’m fairly sure the rescue I work with is one of the more unhinged ones. I swear they have added several new questions to the app, and every one has a story behind it.

We are considering a new one “Have you ever surrendered a cat due to medical needs?” Because we have a beautiful orange baby who was surrendered with half his face missing. He turned out to be FIV+, was not neutered, and we had to have his eye amputated on top of all the healing for the infection. Several thousand dollars went in and people donated specifically for his care. Now the owners who surrendered him are attempting to get him back.

I don’t think this question will make it, but this isn’t the first time a cat has come to us on death’s door, we’ve saved them, and then they try to get the cat back.

@Aria

Part of my responsibilities at my shelter is to approve or deny adoptions for our cats. This could be after the initial application, or after their Google meets home visit.

I hhattteee having competing apps for cats, but over 50% of interviews fail so it is nice when at least one of them is good so they can still go home promptly. (Over 75% of the initial apps fail, seriously, it is crazy any make it. But with that said, in the 3 years I’ve been there we have only had 10 cats returned with ~100 cats going home each year. )

But the WORST is when they are both amazing and we have to choose. I hate having to tell someone “You are amazing and please come meet more cats and you can take them home that same day! But we have decided to go with another family for these particular cats.”

I miss some of my characters like mad and get hit with random wants to play them.

Today I saw a clip from a show called Banshee that had the PERFECT look for Isi. I wish her story hadn’t been cut short in such a gross way.

I’m afraid I also don’t read descs. I rely on systems that give me an overview, like +finger. I don’t know what “shorter than average” means to you, but I know what 5’3" means!

We don’t do transphobia or other aligned hate talk so… yes.

Edit: I care so little for his/her/their feelings I can’t get their name right.

I gave my child chocolate milk and showed her the joys of blowing bubbles in the milk.

Why did our parents tell us not to blow bubbles? It is awesome!

Another school year (year 14) has passed. I’m feeling really meh about it. My position this year was half of two different teams, and that made it hard to really integrate anywhere. My relationships with kids were way more shallow then I would like.

Just leaving me flat.

I just realized that while I would love to participate in the Kellogg boycott - they also produce the foods my disordered eating child will eat when all else fails.

I feel like they bank on that fact. I’m not going to let my kiddo, who at one point in her life didn’t have access to food, not eat because she can’t stomach anything beyond her comfort food.

I ducking CRIED

You don’t have a fever nor are you throwing up.
Sorry sweetheart, OFF TO SCHOOL.

Getting yelled at by a 7 year old just minutes after they woke up is apparently a huge trigger for me. Who knew?

Robert MacNeil, creator and first anchor of PBS ‘NewsHour’ nightly newscast, dies at 93