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Attempt #362

 December 2020 I gave up on the individual journals for each child pretty much after Oliver.  I realized I didn't really write in anyone's journal unless they were a newborn baby, after I started foster care.  The guilt of this realization will eat at me for the rest of my life. So many little memories lost.  Luckily even though I stopped writing, I never stopped taking videos and pictures.  So, not as many memories lost as could have been.   The the title of this blog---Emily Remembers.  I just want to write down thoughts and feelings that I want to remember.  I always try this in little notebooks, but it never lasts very long.  So many good intentions, that prove unrealistic far too often.  I need to learn to make smaller goals--so maybe my only goal right now is to finish this entry.:) I have had a lot of anxiety over so many things lately.  Unknown court appeals from Monica, making sure I have the house in order, organizing Christmas, remembering to not forget anyone, makin

2021 Lets Go!

 January 7, 2021 2021 is not off to a great start as our Nation experienced a new low yesterday as a mob of Trump supporters broke through a barricade and law enforcement and into the Capital.  People were injured and killed and it was all incited by our President Trump.  I am a Republican who voted for a Democrat (I also voted for Obama) and am not actually very political at all!  Even though some of my family would disagree.  I just really hate  injustice and abuse of power and it has just been going on way too long.  Plus Donald Trump as president has been a joke.  He has done some good things, but I credit his cabinet, and the Republican party, not him.  He is disgusting, egocentric and just a horrible human being.   Enough Said. I don't want this journal to be an extension of my occasional political/soap box rants, but if my children ever do read this, I hope they have learned at least one thing from me concerning politics.  It doesn't matter what political party you are a