Just to inform any reader of my situation really quick....I am about to be 26 years old, have been married for 6 1/2 years, am raising my 4 nieces and nephews from my hubby's side (you know the song and dance....same story you always hear-their parents are in jail or on drugs...sometimes both). Some of you may be wondering why I should be bitching about anything and why I am not counting my blessings.....let me count just a few of the ways for you.

1. The oldest child is a 13 year old girl. Do I need to say anything more?

2. The youngest, a 6 year old boy, has health issues as well as behavioral issues, making school and the simplest task for anyone else a chore in our home. (BTW-big thanks to his mom for doing drugs in her pregnancy, then denying that could be the problem with him. What a gal.)

3. I have been raising 4 kids that aren't mine since I just turned 21. These aren't your average run-of-the-mill kids. These poor little crumb snatchers had some damn problems when we got them. The oldest boy (11 now) had just been expelled from school when we got him for urinating on a classmate...for the FIFTH time. All three of the older ones were already smoking, and their ages when we got them ranged from 3-8. Now, all three of them are in gifted, make straight A's, and respond appropriately to adults. One may think I should be proud that I have taught them not.....not if the only way I can get them to do it is by having to be a bitch 80% of the day.

 

I said I would just give a few reasons....and that I did. I could go until carpel tunnel kicks in, but I think this should suffice for awhile. My husband and I ARE good people. We don't smoke or do drugs, rarely drink, and take a lot of time with our neices and nephews. They didn't choose to be put in such a shitty situation, and I would rather have them with me than any state's system any day. There are just too many kids and too few people who care about them in that situation. I don't blame them for my misery. However, their piece of shit, self-righteous, condescending parents can get a size 8 in their ass next time they come around. I am still trying to figure out how any woman could give birth to a child, let alone 4, raise them for a good bit, then decide drugs are more important than even picking up a flipping phone on one of their birthdays? I should say in the parents' defense that they were first separated from the kids when they were arrested together for burglary. We hurried and got the munchkins and left the state before their state even knew what hit them. When their dad took a plea to get their mom out to raise them, the bitch flew the coop....calling only when she was broke or in jail. He has still been in the klink for being a habitual offender.  Dumbass will probably be there until the kids are all in college. Anyway.....I am sick of these dumbasses that like to do drugs and steal put their kids through the torment that they go through....and even if mom and dad tell the kids they are loved and steal them every toy in the god damn world, if they are on drugs and put themselves in shitty situations, YOU ARE NOT A GOOD PARENT.

 

Enough of my rant...plenty of people are going through much worse than me. I just can't get over this anger...not even close to 5 years later.