happy new year.

Here at my house we are starting off the new year with only 5 spoons. Again. That kid, Not Me, has also managed to lose a tv remote. Again. The missing remote is of course an emergency and a terrible source of concern. Seems the missing spoons aren’t much of a priority to anyone but me. Maybe I should make soup for dinner and see if this becomes a more important issue. 

Lady in Red has began a countdown to her one year mark as part of our crazy family. I am unsure why.  I guess she is celebrating what I would imagine is her longest run of healthy, stable, permanency. Lady in Red ended up on our doorstep as an emergency placement for just one night, January 12, 2023. That night stretched into several and she just never left. 

Her case permanence goal at the time was APPLA, (Another Planned Permanent Living Arrangement). Within about 6 months, we agreed to be her resource family should she find she need help with learning to adult and adulting in general. Basically that makes us her support people, based on the honor system. 

Lady in Red will be 18 years old this coming spring. A few weeks ago she wrote Hubby and I a little note, asking for the permanency of adoption. (I’ve shared the note here with her permission.) Hubby and I are happy to be her family now, and will be just as happy to continue to do that via more than just the honor system. With the holiday, no one with any authority has really addressed it yet. I’m not even confident that getting it done before she’s an adult is possible. It’s certainly worth trying. 

For all the nonsense that we go through on a regular basis, the flip side is getting a letter like that. Those types of little notes, that make you forget you’re running out of spoons.