Here is a quick intro / explanation about all of us.
Katie is 19 (March 5). She will be a sophomore at Anderson University (in SC). She is studying to be a special education teacher (and loves it), she would like to work with downs or austic kids. She has almost a full ride with her scholarships (20 out of the 24 thousand a year). She has a wonderful boyfriend, Charlie who has orange hair, LOL! He is almost 20 but a year ahead of her because of his AP and dual credit classes he took in high school. They have been dating 10 months. I think he might be the one. (She had a not so great boyfriend for almost 3 years, boy are we glad he is gone!) Katie is working 4 jobs this summer. Bruster's Ice Cream (she has worked there almost 2 years), Eddie Bauer (where she gets a great discount), and then she does ABA therapy with an almost 3 year old austic boy (Scott) for 6 to 10 hours a week and she also babysits a 6 year old austic boy and his twin sister (Hayden and Hannah) 3 to 5 half days a week. She is busy! Kalie and I do not get to see much of her. Katie graduated with honors from the local High School. She was homeschooled for half of 8th grade and 9th grade while we were moving from Florida to South Carolina. She missed the social aspect of school. So she went back in 10th grade and had a great high school experience.
Kasie just turned 18! (June 29) She graduated from Home School High School in May. She will be attending North Greenville University in the fall with a full ride (except books). YEA! She took dual credit classes there in the spring and loved it. She is working as a camp counselor at Camp Wabak (Girl Scout Camp). She has to be there at 11:00 on Sundays and does not come home until 5:00 on Fridays. She does have one night a week off from 5:30 until 10:30. Kalie and I miss her! Kasie was homeschooled for half of 7th grade, and all of 8th and 9th grade while we were moving from Florida to South Carolina. She loved being homeschooled but made the cheerleading squad so wanted to go back to school. She went back in 10th grade. She then came home for her last year due to her knee injury (cheerleading). She has RSD in her knee and will be partially disabled for the rest of her life. She now says she wished she had never gone back to public school.
Karie is 16 (December 18). She does not live with us. She is in foster care. She has under treated Bi-Polar, ADHD, RAD, ODD, DBD, and a few other things. This is a LONG SAD story that I will share another time.
Kalie is almost 7 (August 5). She went to PS for Kindergarten and half of first grade. She is very smart but so far behind academically. Kalie has severe separation anxiety and social anxiety and suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Bob is my ex husband. He is Katie, Kasie and Karie's dad. We were married for 4 years. We has no contact with him from 1992 until 2004. (That was very nice, LOL!) He was very abusive mentally, verbally and physically. Katie and Kasie now want nothing to do with him now that they know him. He has made many empty promises since her has come back into their lives. Karie idolizes him and thinks that she is going to go live with him.
Bill is my current husband and Kalie's dad. Katie and Kasie call him dad also. He has lung cancer and does not have much time to live. He lives in an assisted living facility that is about 20 minutes away from where we live. Bill is a great Dad!
Carlee (27 months) is the little girl I watch. I have had her since November 2005. She is like one of my own. We love her so much! Her mother drives me crazy. LOL! She wants Carlee to be clean and quiet all the time and would prefer if we watched TV for at least 5 hours a day. Ha! Ha! Like that is going to happen at our house.
Oliver is our cat. Katie brought him home last July. He is almost 1 year old. He is a pure breed Manx. That means he does not have a tail, his hind legs are longer than his front and he has a very small voice box so he barely makes a sound. He is my cat and lets everyone know. LOL!
Theodore is our CRAZY puppy. Katie brought him home at the beginning of April. He is almost 5 months old. He is suppose to be a cocker spaniel / black lab mix puppy ... but I do not see any cocker spaniel in him. He is HUGE and so hyper. He drives me crazy!
Stanley was our new kitten. Kasie brought him home on her birthday. He was a stray that she found in the yard. We had him for one week and we ALL bonded with him. Kalie was so happy to have her own kitten (as Oliver does not want to play with her, LOL!) The mean neighbors kids next door said that he was their kitten and we had to give him back. We were all sad. Kalie cried for days. So... Katie took Kalie to get a new kitten.
Ralph is our new kitten. Katie got him out of the paper for free. He is so small and tiny. He is not 6 weeks old as the woman claimed. He doesn't have many teeth and his eyes are not completely opened yet. He was also completely covered in fleas. He is to young for any treatment so we have been giving him a bath every 4 hours or so. The fleas fall off into the water or Katie picks them off with the tweezers. In the first bath about 100 fleas (I am not kidding!) came off. It is crazy. I tried to give him tuna but he is to young, he just kept licking it not biting or eating it. We have purchased kitten formula and are having him drink it out of a bowl.
That is our crazy family. More about our adventures later.
