So Saturday was an extremely long day. I slept in which I rarely get to do, but it helped pass the time. Then I went to my sisters, we took some pictures of all the kids, went and got them developed in an hour ( I MISS my digi!!!). We get to the place almost late. We had try to call him earlier in the day and confirm but he was not home. So me and my sister were both nervous wrecks. Him and his wife were 10 mins late, so it was the longest 10 mins of my life! But I found out that like me, he is ...
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Okay I think I it is finally starting to sink in that I have a brother. I have talked to him and that was nerve wracking! I called him the night we found out. And no return call back. I waited ALL DAY LITERALLY by the phone. Me and my sister played phone tag all day to make sure he did not call one or the other. And we decided to wait an call him Saturday and let him know we had the day off and see if we could meet. Well nerves got the best of me and I decided to call Wednesday night. And I was...
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So I got a HUGE shocker yesterday and I am talking big!

I have a brother.

I got a letter in the mail yesterday from his wife. Its my father's son from before him and my mom got together. He has known all his life about him, paid child support and never seen him. The letter states he wants nothing to do with him and niether does my mother, they met last year and exchanged emails and phone calls and my father has stop returning both. My dad's side of the family all knows abou...
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Even though I started a thread about it, but the papers came in the mail friday, it is FINAL Makayla is ours!!!!! The mother has not seen her for 3 weeks, or called. She is supposed to get her this weekend and then start getting her every other weekend so we will see how it goes. Makayla does not want to go back, but we have no choice. So now I am school shopping as she is getting ready to start going to kindergarden, and then I have to put her on our medical and look into changing her last nam...
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So this week has been CRAZY so far but very good! Here is a lil background, my step dd Makayla who is 5 lives with her mother, her step father, a younger sister (2 yo) and older sis (6yo). The home situation is BAD. I mean I have called CYS so many times and they have done NOTHING. She comes to us in handprint bruises on her, wont feed her ALL DAY because she refused to clean her room, and last Friday it was 87 degrees out and she came to us in long sleeves, long pants and flip flops that were 2...
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