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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 621973" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>Thanks for your thoughts, all of you. Janet, I almost spit out my coffee and that "winner" is from me. How funny, if you think about it.</p><p></p><p>I am getting closer to Julie, since she is pregnant and will be a stay at home mom, and Jumper is rarely home because of her activities anyway. Sonic will still be around. I am going to be t he one who shops with him and checks in on him and is in charge of his minor amount of care and his apartment may be only a block from ours.</p><p></p><p>Since Sonic and Jumper are just so easy to live with, there really IS no conflict in our house now, but I have to move on. One step at a time. The job will definitely keep me busy and I still have Community Theater, which I love. I feel better after reading your responses.</p><p></p><p>I do know I'll be very sad to never again get to sit with the particular group of moms I do now and cheer on our athletic teams that our girls participate in. That will never happen again. Even in college, Jumper will be farther away and I won't know the parents. We are sort of like a little family when we are all there for the same kids who had played together since grade school.</p><p></p><p>We'll see how it goes. Hubby and I can still choose to do respite foster care, thus have time to make a difference in the lives of other children, and since we are too old to adopt them, it will be like grandchildren...you can love them, but you don't have to raise them. And with extra money just doing apartment living (heat/garbage/water included) and my job's money, I can probably plan more trips to Chicago to see my precious granddaughter-to-be Kaili (this is actually Kylie, but they are spelling it like that...go figure...my daughter and her SO are very creative, different thinkers and they want to spell it this way. Guess I'm lucky they didn't name her something like Sunshine...lol).</p><p></p><p>It is more the idea of no longer having Jumper and Sonic under my roof that makes me feel lonely, but I let my other kids go (made them go in some cases) and we survived and I guess I'll survive this too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 621973, member: 1550"] Thanks for your thoughts, all of you. Janet, I almost spit out my coffee and that "winner" is from me. How funny, if you think about it. I am getting closer to Julie, since she is pregnant and will be a stay at home mom, and Jumper is rarely home because of her activities anyway. Sonic will still be around. I am going to be t he one who shops with him and checks in on him and is in charge of his minor amount of care and his apartment may be only a block from ours. Since Sonic and Jumper are just so easy to live with, there really IS no conflict in our house now, but I have to move on. One step at a time. The job will definitely keep me busy and I still have Community Theater, which I love. I feel better after reading your responses. I do know I'll be very sad to never again get to sit with the particular group of moms I do now and cheer on our athletic teams that our girls participate in. That will never happen again. Even in college, Jumper will be farther away and I won't know the parents. We are sort of like a little family when we are all there for the same kids who had played together since grade school. We'll see how it goes. Hubby and I can still choose to do respite foster care, thus have time to make a difference in the lives of other children, and since we are too old to adopt them, it will be like grandchildren...you can love them, but you don't have to raise them. And with extra money just doing apartment living (heat/garbage/water included) and my job's money, I can probably plan more trips to Chicago to see my precious granddaughter-to-be Kaili (this is actually Kylie, but they are spelling it like that...go figure...my daughter and her SO are very creative, different thinkers and they want to spell it this way. Guess I'm lucky they didn't name her something like Sunshine...lol). It is more the idea of no longer having Jumper and Sonic under my roof that makes me feel lonely, but I let my other kids go (made them go in some cases) and we survived and I guess I'll survive this too. [/QUOTE]
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