You never realize what you have, until you see what others don't have...

A little update on our current lives.... Wayne and I have been SUPER busy lately. Our days consist of work and school. Asleep by 10pm and up by 6am. Weekends we just want to relax and clean the apartment. I now feel like a true old married couple, just missing the kids. I have been really enjoying my new job as a teachers assistant. I work with high risk junior high students that are currently into gangs, drugs, and everything else you can imagine. Although this may scare some people to work with these kinds of kids, I for one love it! They are all 13, 14 years olds, stuck in foster homes, and have had horrible upbringings. They view life as a dead end and don't really think about a future. They should be in 8th grade, but some can't even read, let alone TRY to read. Everyday at lunch they tell me all their reasons for going to "DT" which is jail for kids. One kid tried killing his grandpa cause he was abusing his wife. That same kid bit the crap out of a cop for taking his mom away for drugs. One of my favorite girls, we call her princess because she really is such a sweetheart, she is only 13 years old and says next year she wants to have a baby with her boyfriend bo bo. Bo bo is in a gang and they aren't allowed to see each other. I later found out that in her entire history of family, everyone women had a child BEFORE they were 14 years old. They took her out and put her in foster care to help break the cycle. Hopefully it will work and her plan for next year will vanish. Before I started, the teacher i assist told me to be careful, these kids don't have real mothers and will attach themselves to me. I have already noticed them doing so. They are so sweet to me, joke around with me, and always want to hear about my current, and past life. To many people these children are dangerous, and should be locked up. To me they are sweet, smart children, just in need of someone who truly cares. Having a job like this shows me how wonderful my life is. I could have been placed in a home with parents who were abusive, addicted to drugs, and didn't care about me. Instead, I was placed with parents that show more love then a child could ask for. Thanks mom and dad. You are amazing. There may not be hope for the children I work with, but I can't do my part and teach them that their is more out there, and that they don't have to live in hell forever. Well, theres a little update on my job. More stories to come!