Post by Dabeagle on May 26, 2015 12:12:20 GMT -5
Things have been a little nuts around here, lately. I'm tossing this out there for two reasons - one, it's cathartic to be able to kind of pour it out and for two, with a one man show like me, if that one guy is moving slow it helps to know why.
When I'm in the mode of a reader, I want to keep reading. When I find a good story, I hate when it ends and if there is a sequel, I'm all over it. When I'm in the mode of writer and webmaster, I worry about content, site hits and feedback for both myself and the writers who post here. I worry about having new things for you to read every week and then I worry about getting them formatted and looking properly and all that. And, of course, I still make mistakes - and I appreciate you taking the time to let me know, since I missed them (duh).
But things, as I said, have been a little nuts. Our son has been on a downward slide. Some of it could be the onset of puberty. The vast majority of it is a mix of his genetics and his past trauma. A few weeks ago we had a violent episode with him and he left my husband with a goose egg on his forehead from hitting a wall. If you've never been through things like that, it leaves you drained for days - and yet, the world goes on. We had another episode just a week later and we were finally forced, we felt, to go the route of medication. For three years we've fought against medicating him, feeling his issues were behavioral rather than mental. But now we seem to be treating for some obsessive tendencies.
Adding to this is a foster placement who was supposed to be a 5 day respite. We are now three weeks in and hopeful there is an end in sight - and not because he's a tough kid or anything. No, he was taken out of a foster home - with people we know - due to a CPS investigation. Now, I should stress that there was no abuse or neglect and I think that this is a knee jerk case of the county making sure their behinds are covered rather than actual concern for the children involved. In fact, our placement wasn't even the child involved, but another in the home and he is just a casualty of that. Additionally there is the bureaucratic mess of three counties and the CPS folks. In this middle of all that is a pint sized ten year old that just wants to go home.
Then there is baseball games and practices, soccer games and practices...so when I say it's been a little nuts...
So please, continue to let me know if I screwed up a post so I can fix it - it's an easy thing for me, usually and just a silly blunder. I appreciate the patience both of the readers and the authors waiting for things to post. I also appreciate the feedback and the discussion - that's always a treat and I'm reading it all with gusto - just forgive me if I'm not responding to each thread.
When I'm in the mode of a reader, I want to keep reading. When I find a good story, I hate when it ends and if there is a sequel, I'm all over it. When I'm in the mode of writer and webmaster, I worry about content, site hits and feedback for both myself and the writers who post here. I worry about having new things for you to read every week and then I worry about getting them formatted and looking properly and all that. And, of course, I still make mistakes - and I appreciate you taking the time to let me know, since I missed them (duh).
But things, as I said, have been a little nuts. Our son has been on a downward slide. Some of it could be the onset of puberty. The vast majority of it is a mix of his genetics and his past trauma. A few weeks ago we had a violent episode with him and he left my husband with a goose egg on his forehead from hitting a wall. If you've never been through things like that, it leaves you drained for days - and yet, the world goes on. We had another episode just a week later and we were finally forced, we felt, to go the route of medication. For three years we've fought against medicating him, feeling his issues were behavioral rather than mental. But now we seem to be treating for some obsessive tendencies.
Adding to this is a foster placement who was supposed to be a 5 day respite. We are now three weeks in and hopeful there is an end in sight - and not because he's a tough kid or anything. No, he was taken out of a foster home - with people we know - due to a CPS investigation. Now, I should stress that there was no abuse or neglect and I think that this is a knee jerk case of the county making sure their behinds are covered rather than actual concern for the children involved. In fact, our placement wasn't even the child involved, but another in the home and he is just a casualty of that. Additionally there is the bureaucratic mess of three counties and the CPS folks. In this middle of all that is a pint sized ten year old that just wants to go home.
Then there is baseball games and practices, soccer games and practices...so when I say it's been a little nuts...
So please, continue to let me know if I screwed up a post so I can fix it - it's an easy thing for me, usually and just a silly blunder. I appreciate the patience both of the readers and the authors waiting for things to post. I also appreciate the feedback and the discussion - that's always a treat and I'm reading it all with gusto - just forgive me if I'm not responding to each thread.