A Wandering Writer

On my last post, I was all hopeful and thankful, and trying to be optimistic about everything.  Yeah, then I read the news!  Stampedes at a Wal-Mart in NY, a shooting at a Toys R Us in California (I don't want to be a Toys R Us kid anymore!), and let's give our new incoming president a nice warm welcome and possibly a depression by failing some auto companies!  This is why I try to avoid the news.  I have a hard enough time when my child begins to have coping problems because he's finding out that life isn't fair.  He's taking that news a little hard!  And I'm not talking about the "you cheated at tag" unfair, I'm talking about some of the big stuff that seems to breeze by some kids with no problems at all, and then my sweet observant child sees what he believes is an injustice, and gets very upset.  I know it's about perspective, but sometimes I think my kid was an ACLU lawyer in a past life!  I never realized before how hard it must have been on my parents when I first discovered the great disappointments in life, trying to be there for me in support, but not protecting me from those lessons, knowing I had to learn them and grow.  It's hard to find that balance with my son.  I want him to get a thicker skin, but I have to not intervene for that to happen.  Which goes against every parental protective instinct I have.  The best I can do is help him know that home is always safe, full of loving people he can trust any time he needs us.

My heart is also going out to a friend of mine, who just found out her son has juvenile diabetes.  I don't know very much about it, but her story scared the crap out of me!  What little I do know, it sounds like it is a manageable condition, but very high maintenance.  And I used to complain about my gestational diabetes when I was pregnant the first time!

Last night I actually left the house to do a little writing.  I wrote in my journal for eight pages!  An hour and a half of getting crap off my chest.  And I still didn't get to sleep until after 3AM this morning!  Which means I should probably take a nap before my doctor's appointment!