Holly’s Happenings

I found out the other day just how productive I could be filling out job applications online. It’s funny though, I must have filled out 15-20 job applications in person over the summer and never got a call from a single one. But the other day I filled out about 8-10 online and less than 24 hours later had a phone call from one of them, offering an interview!

What I like most about the job that I’m interviewing for today is the fact that it’s a job doing something I LOVE doing! What is is for, you ask? I’m interviewing for a position as a baker. Can you say YUMMY?? LOL And it’s in a place that I LOVE LOVE LOVE to eat at as well, double bonus!!!

I’ve gotten my clothes for the interview ironed and laid out, about the only thing left to do is use my most current acne treatment, grab a shower and get ready. But it’s a little less than 3 hours until the interview, so it’s too early to start getting ready yet. I know I should start early though because I’m going to make an attempt to do something with my hair to make it look decent. It’s at one of those REALLY fugly growing out stages and there’s not much that can be done with it without putting some major effort into it, which totally is not me….LOL! But I’m totally sick of having short hair again, so it’s growing out again even if it means I have to do fuss with it daily!

But OMG, I’m a freaking nervous wreck! Honestly, the last job interview I went on was over 5 years ago! The most recent job I held that wasn’t working from home was one that was offered to me by a neighbor, so there was no interviewing for that job…LOL! But he moved shop at the end of the year and no longer needed me since he was going to run the office part of it from his home. But we’re in a financial position right now where one of us needed to find a job yesterday! So I’ve been filling out applications and sending my resume out to as many places as I can find to apply online.

Speaking of finances, I’d like to point out my new page here on the site. I know that the economy is the pits for EVERYONE right now, that I’m not alone with what I’m going through financially, but I’m in a bit of a “pickle” right now, so I’m reaching out to you all for help. My new page is title Donations and yes, that’s exactly what it’s about. The biggest reason I’m filling out applications and sending out resumes online is simply because I’m about as broke as you can be. If I do manage to get this job today I’m then left trying to figure out how I’ll get enough gas to keep me going back and forth to work. Besides that I have the fees for my site(s) coming due. I’m sorry to ask, but if you could help me out a bit, I’d really appreciate it!

Yes, I do realize that it’s basically two months away, but I’m a planner, I don’t like doing things last minute! Ask anyone that knows me well, if you call me last minute to do something, I’ll usually say no…LOL!

I know that this year’s Thanksgiving dinner will just be me, the hubby and the kids. It’s been that way for most of the last 15 or so years, and we actually enjoy it that way. Some years we do make the traditional dinner with turkey and all the trimmings. But considering that I really don’t care for turkey, nor does my son, unless I can find a really small turkey, it’s usually a waste of a good bird. So many years we actually opt for a non traditional dinner. We’ve made things like tacos and subs for Thanksgiving dinner…LOL!

This year, however, I’m going to make a traditional dinner with turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing and all of the rest of the trimmings. Normally I make a small dish of sweet potatoes for my hubby (he’s the only one that eats them). But when I was talking to him about Thanksgiving dinner the other day he asked me if I could try to find a good recipe for sweet potato casserole this year instead. It was one of his favorite dishes as a kid, and he hasn’t had it in many, many years. Lucky for him, I don’t mind baking new dishes, so I won’t mind making it at all! But he’d better darned sure eat them and like them…LOL!

I think the thing that I look forward to the most on Thanksgiving is what comes after we eat. NO, I’m not talking about nap time…LOL! I’m not even talking about football. After the nap and the game, we load up the kids and go to the movies! We try to find a movie we’ve all been wanting to see. When the kids were small it was pretty easy, we’d just see the latest cartoon type movie. Now that the kids are teens, finding a movie we all agree on might just be a little more difficult!

WOW, I swear this week flew by faster than any week of my life! It’s so strange to think that it’s been over a week since I received the phone call about my nephew’s death, it feels like it was just yesterday that the call came! For the most part, it’s been a pretty good week, no major drama or problems came up.

I’ve been very tired, but I just wrote it off to stress and a touch of depression. That could have played a part in it, but I can’t help but wonder if it had to do with the fact that I came down with one heck of a bug yesterday! About mid day I just started feeling YUCK, by dinner time I was running back and forth between my desk, the bathroom and the recliner. I haven’t been that sick in quite a long time! Thankfully at one point I remembered that I had an old prescription for some anti nausea medication from when I used to get severe migraines. It took me a few minutes to find it (it ended up being in a box in the pantry that has stuff from one of the kitchen cabinets from the old house in it), but within an hour of taking it the nausea and other related conditions pretty much cleared up, and it also made me tired, so I was able to get a pretty good nights sleep too.

I woke up feeling quite a bit better this morning. My stomach still feels a little off, but I don’t have any nausea yet. I do, however, still have a few stomach pains going on. If I start feeling nauseous again I’ll take the meds I took last night.

Not too much going on today, I have a little bit of work to take care of, a load or two of laundry to do, and a few phone calls to make, so I should be able to pretty much take it easy today, which is a good thing! My son just called from school and he wants to go to the football game with his friends tonight. It’s so nice to see him getting out and doing things with friends! It’s funny though, he absolutely HATES football….LOL! So, that’s what’s going on with me, how are things going with you? Hope you had a good week!

All I wanted to do today was rest. It’s been an extremely exhausting and emotional week, I had one night where I didn’t sleep at all, and two other nights where I slept no more than 4 hours. So all I wanted to do was sleep in and rest.

The morning started off with what I thought was someone pounding on the front door, which turned out to be one of the dogs thumping the floor with their foot while scratching themselves. I hate waking up like that, ya know? And besides waking my husband and I up, it also woke up brat gurl, and she wasn’t one bit happy about being woken up like that either…LOL!

So we get coffee going, let the dogs out and turn the computers on, you know, our normal morning routine. Things were going along pretty well, brat gurl decided to kick back on the couch with a puppy, I finally got my coffee and the news was on.

It wasn’t until brat gurl decided to get up and turn her computer on that things went down hill. The computer she’s using is the one I replaced when I bought my current computer. It’s a few years old, but when I gave it to her, it had plenty of life left in it! But for some reason, she’s completely incapable of treating a computer right. Even though I completely reformatted the hard drive when I set it up for her, within just a few days she was already having problems with it. After some careful investigating I soon discovered that she had deleted the anti virus program off it and had managed to pick up a pretty nasty virus.

Over the past 8 months the hard drive has been reformatted two more times. I could tell by the sound of it when it’s running that it’s honestly not going to last much longer, but I just kept hoping it would hang in just a little longer. This afternoon she came back and sat down at hubby’s laptop, I asked her what she was doing and she said “MySpace”, so I asked what was wrong with her computer and she said “It won’t start up”. Hubby went out later to check it out, he could get it to start in safe mode, but not regular mode. So I guess he’ll be spending tomorrow trying to see if there’s any chance it can be salvaged enough to get her by a few more weeks. Cross your fingers for us please! He still hasn’t found a job and things are bad enough as it is, there’s no way we could even think about replacing a computer right now!

I know it’s been a bit since I’ve posted anything here and I thought I should stop by and let you know what’s going on. My nephew passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on Tuesday. If you want to find out what happened and what’s going on you’ll have to visit me over at Just Simply Holly because I really don’t want to cross post between the blogs. I hope you understand!

I’ve sat here all night crying and wondering why such a young and vibrant man is now forever gone from this earth. It’s probably been one of the most painful nights I’ve spent in many, many years and unfortunately it’s only the beginning.

Around 11:45 last night I received a phone call from my sister. As soon as I heard her voice I knew that the news was not going to be anything I wanted to hear, she could barely speak through her tears. She told me that my brothers oldest son’s body had been found and that he had apparently drowned while he was fishing in a local river. It’s been over 5 hours now and I’m still in complete disbelief, it just does not seem like something that is even remotely possible and honestly, I don’t want it to be true!

I’m worried about his parents (my brother and sister in law) as well as my mother. My sister told me that they had to call an ambulance for my sister in law tonight and even though it was obvious she needed medical help, she refused to go to the hospital. She’s had some fairly serious health problems over the past few months and getting the news that her eldest son was gone brought some of her health problems back up to the surface. I also am worried about my mother. She has spent so much of her life giving and doing for her children and now her grandchildren, they are her whole world and this loss is going to take a very hard toll on her!

I know that death is a part of life, it’s been a part of my life for many years now. But knowing that doesn’t take the pain away or make it any less. All I can think of is what a beautiful young man he was and what a wonderful future he had ahead of him. He had been planning a wedding, he was an Uncle to two adorable little boys, a brother, a son, a grandson, a great grandson, a nephew and a cousin, and my heart is absolutely breaking right now! It’s almost unimaginable that I will never see his smile again or stand on my tip toes to put my arms around him and give him a hug. It’s just so impossible to believe that he’s gone! I’ve cried all night wishing that this was nothing more than a horrible dream and that I’d wake up and have it not have happened, but the pain in my heart right now tells me that’s not going to happen. It hasn’t even been a whole day and I miss him so much already!

Rest In Peace Eric, you will forever be in my heart!

And before you ask, NO, we didn’t not get any more dogs….LMAO! And we didn’t purposely get new additions either, but they are just one of those things in life that you just have to accept, whether you want to or not!

OK, I’ve drug you along long enough. Here are our newest additions. Please bear with the picture as it was taken after dark in a YUCKY shed with no lighting.

The most amazing thing is that momma kitty is 100% wild, she’s never once in the 11 months that we’ve lived here allowed us to get close to her. Even since discovering the kittens last week, every time we’d go into the shed to give her food, she’d run out as soon as we opened the door. Tonight, however, she laid right there, nursing the kittens and let us not only feed her, but also stayed still and allowed me to take two pictures. I’m guessing she’s warming up to us and becoming a little more comfortable around us.

I’m not a cat person, I admit that. I used to be, a very long time ago. But after losing that cat, I just have never been able to find one that I had the same “connection” with. Living out here in the country, stray cats are a way of life, but we’ve never made a point of feeding them purposely. More so because I’m honestly afraid that if they were too comfortable, one of the dogs would get ahold of them. And as much as I wanted to get momma and the kittens out of here as soon as I found out about them, I had to be realistic because I knew that moving the kittens, whose eyes aren’t even open, would have meant sure death for them. So we made the “executive decision” that we were going to feed momma and give the kittens as much of a fair chance at life as we could.

So yes, we do have some new additions to our family. For how long, I’m honestly not sure. They are just a couple of weeks old, their eyes still are not open and they aren’t walking around yet, which means they are totally dependent on their momma for life. Without her, unless we manage to catch that she’s gone very quickly, they won’t have much of a chance of survival. And it’s not like we can go out and purchase a group health insurance policy on them in the case that something does happen to her. If something did happen before they were capable of taking care of themselves and eating solid food, they kittens would then be completely dependent on the hubby and I. But I can’t worry about that right now and just have to hope for the best!

I’ll post and update with pictures about them as I can! They are definitely cute, and yes, they already are tugging at my heart strings and I’m talking about what we’re going to have to do to make the shed weather proof for winter so that they have somewhere safe and warm to be…LOL! Oh yeah, I never did tell you how many there were, did I? There are six of them, with 3 being gray tigers, 2 being black tigers and one that looks as if it might actually be a calico, but I haven’t been able to get close enough yet to tell for sure.

Because of all of the stressful things that have been going on lately, I’ve had some MAJOR sleeping problems. I don’t care if I’m so exhausted that I can’t hardly keep my eyes open, it seems like the minute I lay down to go to sleep, I’m wide awake and my brain won’t stop spinning!

My hubby has been wonderful lately, though! Since he’s currently not working he’s been taking care of the kids in the morning and trying to let me sleep in if I can. As much as I appreciate the thought that he’s doing this, he’s not the best at making sure the kids do what they’re supposed to do in the mornings!

I’ve tried making the coffee a little stronger in the hopes that that might help me wake up in the mornings better, but that hasn’t worked. And even if I do sleep in later than normal, I still spend the bulk of the day dragging butt rather than getting the things done that need to be done around here! Sometimes I wonder if taking something like the Orovo Super Vitamin/Multi Vitamin would help any! I just feel so BLAH lately! No energy to do anything and even if I do have some energy, I just have no desire to do anything!

Yes, I do get frustrated fairly easily these days, but with some things I honestly think that there isn’t anyone on the face of this earth that wouldn’t get frustrated themselves! Like the current situation I’m going through with the kids’ school district!

One of my biggest complaints with this school district has ALWAYS been their complete and total inability to have any type of communication with students parents! It’s so easy to pick up a phone and give parents a message about something that involves their children, but for some reason, it’s just not possible with this school district!

Right now we’re going through a situation with them where we’ve been chasing down a letter than was sent to us going on 12 days ago. The letter is something that is very important, something that should have been received in our mail box no later than a week ago today. But because of a screw up by the school when they were inputting the kids’ information into the computers, they somehow TOTALLY screwed up our address! for our house number and street name it should say 1122 S. Holly’s Road, but for some reason or another, they entered it as 1122 Holly’s S. Road, and for our zip code it should say 43558, but for some reason they put 43528. Now keep in mind that we filled out the information on the cards and paperwork for the school correctly, but for some reason they are incapable of reading something and entering it the way it’s written, they instead choose to put it into the computer in what ever way they see fit.

We finally found out last Thursday that the letter was returned back to the main office for the school district and waited until late Friday afternoon for someone to take two freaking seconds to contact us and let us know exactly which building we needed to go to in order to pick this letter up, since we were told that because it was delivered back to them as undeliverable they legally could not mail it back to us. By the time they got back to us on Friday with the information it was too late to go pick the letter up then, so we made arrangements for my husband to pick it up this morning. GUESS WHAT?? When he got to where he was told to go to pick the letter up, he was told that it had mistakenly been mailed back to us on Friday! EXCUSE ME! You specifically told me on the phone that you COULD NOT mail this letter back to me! We SPECIFICALLY made arrangements to drive all the way out to hell and back to pick the friggin thing up on the next business day only to be told when we get there that you MAILED IT?? And guess what? They mailed it to the screwed up address again!

I swear to God this school district is ran by complete and total ASSTARDS! They’re more worried about not letting a child wear a shirt to school because it’s the incorrect shade of a color or about not letting them wear a vest to school because the stitching INSIDE of the vest is a different color, thus making it not a solid color resulting in a detention for not wearing a solid colored vest. EXCUSE ME, when does the stitching INSIDE of a piece of clothing have ANYTHING to do with the color of it? Especially if that stitching isn’t visible except for if something happens and the collar of it happens to fold back a little bit?

Maybe you all should spend a little more time on giving children the education that they are LEGALLY entitled to rather than focusing on reasons to punish them that don’t affect their education. And maybe, just maybe, you should worry about making sure that these children are truly educated, rather than pushing a failing child through to the next grade, or allowing a child who failed their ENTIRE senior year to graduate, just so that you can pad your numbers and give teachers bonus checks that they in NO WAY deserve!

We’ve had our current cell phones and service for almost 3 years now and have, for the most part, been happy with them. I originally signed up for them through a special that was being offered after our phone company started offering cell phone service. It was fairly affordable and very convenient since I was able to add the service to our home phone bill.

During a visit to the phone company’s websitea couple of moths ago to pay my bill, I discovered that the part of their website detailing cell phone services and phones was no longer there and after some “investigation” I found out that they are actually going to stop offering cell phone service by the end of the year or sell the services off to another company. Now mind you, this was a couple of months ago, and as of right now we’re about 3 1/2 months away from the end of the year, and we still have yet to find out what is going on as to whether they’re going to end service completely, or sell it off to another company.

So, we’ve been looking around at our options. We want to expand this time to a family plan that offers the ability to share the minutes between four phones, mostly because I’m tried of sharing my cell phone…LOL! We’ve also checked into several carriers and have even looked at unlocked cell phones, but until we know exactly what’s going on with our current service carrier, we really can’t do anything yet. If they sell the service off, we’d rather go that way than having to start all over on our own. But with some of the rumors we’ve heard as to who is considering purchasing the service, we’re not very happy either.

Do any of you have suggestions as to who you think is the best service carrier, or even ones to avoid? Prior to our current phones/service, we always went with prepaid cell phones because we rarely used them. Unfortunately we’ve grown accustomed to using them more than we used to, so going prepaid isn’t a financially feesible option any longer.

It’s weekends like this past one that test my patience as a parent of teens! I don’t begrudge my kids for wanting to spread their wings and have a little more freedom, as a matter of fact, I expect it. But what I don’t expect is for a child to make plans that I approve, then call me in the middle of them and tell me there has been a minor change, then call me a little while later for me to find out that the little change has actually been a MAJOR change to something that I absolutely will not allow!

I totally understand that at just four months away from turning 16 my son is going to want to go out and do things with his friends, and I actually relish the fact that he actually is starting to have a fairly active social life! It’s made me feel a little better and a lot less nervous…LOL! But when he called me during the football game Friday night to say that his plans were changing from going out to a local coffee/sandwich shop after the game to going to a lounge at a local hotel, my foot went down with a resounding NO HOW, NO WAY! And I expected his reaction to not be a happy one. What amazed me the most was how quickly he went from being totally pissed off at me to actually understanding my decision!

Right now, I’m not sure what this week holds. I’d like to get some of the painting in the kitchen finished up and I need to get some major sock sorting and folding done. Have I ever told you how much I HATE sorting and folding socks? LOL How about you? How was your weekend and what do you have going on this week?

OK, the current economy is the pits right now across the entire country! Jobs are scarce, the cost of living is skyrocketing, and many people who have worked their jobs for years are finding themselves without a job or income. We stand the unemployment lines, we read all of the online job listings that we can, we go through the help wanted ads in the news paper, and it just seems like there isn’t much hope some days!

There are, however, options besides punching a time clock and working for someone else, some with a very minimal investment, and even a few with no initial cash investment! What is it that I’m talking about? I’m talking about the chance to invest in franchise opportunities and possibly live the American dream of owning your own business.

I honestly did not know that it was possible to get in on a franchise no cash investment and only $5,000 in capitol investment. And while something with absolutely no initial cash investment may scare you off, there are plenty of other franchise opportunities that you can get in on with an initial cash investment of less than $1,000! As the old saying goes, you do get what you pay for, and obviously you’ll need to invest more cash initially if you’re looking into franchise opportunities with companies that have a more proven track record for success.

But what this means is that it is possible to live the American dream of owning your own business without having to have millions of dollars to start out with. Maybe that’s exactly what this country needs right now. Maybe we need more people that are willing to go out on that limb and say “I WANT TO BE MY OWN BOSS”! I know I sure wish I could!

Ty Pennington and the team from Extreme Makeover Home Edition are in my neck of the woods this week. The family that was chosen is most definitely deserving of a new home! The father is an ambulance driver that was hurt and saved the life of his partner during the 2005 Toledo Riots. His wife is an ordained minister who has recently experienced some serious health problems and was also diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. They have a total of 11 children, three biological children, three children they’ve adopted from the local area and five children that they have adopted from Haiti.

I think it is wonderful that Ty and the EMHE team are building a new home for this family, and feel that they not only deserve it but that they will truly appreciate their new home! The excitement in the area over the new home build is so neat, I LOVE reading the updates about what is going on! Today was the day that the demolition was actually started and the big reveal is on Sunday.

It’s definitely a LARGE family, and their former home of four bedrooms was way too small for them! I can’t wait to find out the specifics about the home that is being built! Obviously with 11 children it’s not going to be possible for each of them to have their own bedroom. And with a total of 13 people living in the home I can’t help but wonder if they’ll put something like home theater seating in the family room or living room so that they can all sit down and enjoy a movie or TV as a family comfortably?

I’m hoping to make it up to the build site at least once this week and will definitely get some pictures if I can! I already have one request from a friend to get a picture of Ty and she plans on printing it out and sleeping with it…LOL! Lets just hope her hubby doesn’t mind

I’ll keep you updated about the house if I can!

Over the past 25 years I’ve lived in several different places! Some have been pretty decent places to live, a few have been places that would turn your stomach…LOL! In 2005 my husband and I decided that we had spent too much time living in the city and it was time for he and I to take the kids somewhere that we thought would give them a better quality of life! I honestly have nothing against the city, it truly serves a purpose! But I grew up in the country, basically in the middle of nowhere, and so did my husband, and we thought that our kids should get a taste of what life is like when you’re not in the middle of the hustle and bustle of the city!

I won’t pretend that living out in the country has been a bed of roses, it’s definitely had it’s rough times. And yes, at first the kids absolutely hated it! But more than 3 years later, they both agree that they love living out here! We’ve lived in our current house just a few weeks shy of a year now, and I’ve grown to love the beauty of nature that surrounds this house! Over the past couple of months we’ve been a bit up in the air about whether or not we were going to continue to live here. A friend of my husband’s offered us the chance to rent his house, which isn’t too far from where we are right now and still is pretty much in a country type setting. But the more we’ve thought about it, the less we feel comfortable with moving into his house.

It kind of goes without mentioning that if you want to keep a friend, don’t do business with them! If we honestly thought that renting our friends home wouldn’t totally mess up our friendship with him, we might think more seriously about moving. But right now, I honestly don’t foresee us needing any moving services to move into our friends house. Yes, it would save us a little money, which is a good thing. But the more time I spend with my husbands friend, the worse I feel about the thought of having him as a landlord. He’s a great friend to my husband, and I think we really need to keep things that way! So, since there’s no moving in my immediate future, I guess we’d better get stocked up as good as we can on firewood!

Against my better judgment, both kids went back to public school this year. Since I waited until the last minute to make the choice about where they were going to go to school, they started a few days late. I’d be lying if I didn’t say I don’t think this is the best decision I’ve ever made, because I really don’t think it is! But due to finances and other things going on in our lives, we honestly didn’t have any other choice right now.

Amazingly, the first week for both kids went pretty good. They are both adjusting well to their new schools and they both did bring home and do homework EVERY night. While it’s not that big of a deal for my daughter to do this, it IS a big deal for my son! He is, without a doubt, your typical slacker! He does only what needs to be done and gets by on the seat of his pants! But he also knows that if this doesn’t chance this year, the seat of those pants is going to be VERY sore! To put it bluntly, I’M DONE! There is no reason for him to be slacking off the way he is in school, he’s intelligent and totally understands the work, he just doesn’t like doing the work.

As for my daughter, she is really enjoying her new school and making new friends! She also was put into the advanced band class, which is TOTALLY cool! And she’s very excited over a paper she brought home to me on Friday. Although she is only in the 8th grade, because she’s in advanced band, she gets the chance to go out on the football field and march with the high school band during a half time show. To say she’s excited about doing this would be a complete understatement! The only “bad” thing about it is the fact that the sheet music for marching band is VERY small and she was having a difficult time reading it.

You see, shortly after this last school year ended, she left her eyeglasses, that had already been replaced twice, on her desk and one of the dogs got a hold of them and totally destroyed them, and right now we aren’t in the financial position to be able to replace them. Fortunately for all of us, it had been a year since her last eye exam so the insurance would cover a new exam as well as new glasses for her. And amazingly I was able to get her an appointment at the eye doctors VERY quickly (i.e. the very next day), and through some strange twist of fate the eyeglasses they said would take about two weeks to come in actually came in two DAYS later…LOL!

Let’s just hope the rest of this school year goes as well as the first week of it has. Personally, I’m not going to hold my breath, because it would be a complete miracle if it did!

I’m not sure if I’ve shared this with you before or not, but I was adopted by my parents when I was 3 days old. I have never thought of them as my adoptive parents, they were always mom and dad and they never loved me any less than my brother who was their birth child. They always let me know that I was adopted, but not in a bad way, I was always told “You weren’t expected, you were selected”. Sometimes kids that are put up for adoption end up in not so great situations, but I was TRULY blessed to have been raised in a home by loving parents who never once made me feel like I was anything other than their daughter.

I’d be lying if I said there weren’t times in my life that my mind ran wild with thoughts of my parents not wanting me or loving me, especially after my father passed away. But tell me, is there honestly any child that doesn’t have those thoughts at different times in their life?

I’ve always been curious about my biological family though. What do they look like, do any certain health problems run in my family, that sort of thing. I also know, from what little information I was able to get from the court house where my adoption was finalized, that my birth mother gave birth to another child before she had me. Yes, I’m a product of the 60’s…..you know, make love, not war….LOL! So I’m curious about my older sibling, as well as any other siblings that may have came after me.

The “problem” is, in the state where I was born and adopted, my original birth records are permanently sealed, it would almost take an act of God to ever get them opened. I know this because many have tried, and very few have succeeded! I’ve filed all the paperwork I can that would allow any of my biological family to get in touch with me if they were to choose to do so, but I’ve never heard anything from any of them.

I’m sitting here waiting until 9 PM for a new TV show to start. I’ve seen the show advertised many times over the past few weeks and have been looking forward to watching it. The show is called The Locator and it is about a man named Troy Dunn who goes to every possible extent he can to find people. Sometimes he’s looking for a mother or father that gave a child up for adoption, other times he’s looking for things like an organ donor.

I can’t wait to see the show, but I also know it will be emotional for me, any show that’s about reunions like this are always emotional for me. Maybe because I watch them and wonder if it will ever be my turn to be reunited with the people who gave me up, but gave me a chance at a WONDERFUL life! I harbor no anger or regret, only thankfulness and appreciation for what had to be an extremely difficult decision!