Diary of a Rad Fat Woman

It's been a while since I've touched this little bit of internet bronze and I don't know if anyone will even read it, but it feels good to hammer out my thoughts, so here goes! It's been MORE than challenging around here lately! The struggle bus folks came in and built a bus stop right in the middle of our house. It was a LONG, STRESSFUL, DEMANDING couple of months! We learned in PRIDE (the classes you take to be licensed to be foster parents) that there is a honeymoon period which is sort of a calm before the storm. We expected it while optimistically hoped that since the Lord had worked out things so wonderfully for us, the honeymoon would never end and the storm would avoid our house. It didn't avoid our house, not even a little! It's REALLY hard to parent a broken child, y'all! It's EASY to listen to the heartbreaking stories on the news of children who have been abused and neglected and say to your family "I'd take every one of thos...