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Mommy’s Diary 55: Foster Care Related Blogs

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I came across with Wendy’s fashion blog, Wendy’s lookbook via Song of Style’s instagram. I immediately fell in love with her blog. Her style is classy, and she is a talented crafter, and showcased her handmade faux leather clutches. I went on to click on “about” page, and found out that she was raised in foster families.

After that, the thought dawned on me that there must be some blogs which talk about adoptions and foster cares. I googled “I was raised in foster care”, and stumbled upon this blog, by a girl named LT. I started reading her blog and could not stop. I kept reading it for hours. She was rescued when she was seven from abusive biological father and mother who ran away, and after that she went foster family to foster family, 12 in total. Her blog is honest, and I can feel the outbreak of her pain. She longs to have a mother. If you have time and interest, I’d recommend you read her blog.

P.S. The pictures are unrelated to the post..random photos of Kiko at the park this week.

Mommy’s Diary 52: Measles Scare

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Sometimes I try to imagine my life 10 years from now, having maybe four kids. I will constantly be sick. This year, I’ve gotten sick four times already. I’ve gotten the rota virus, a flu, and the good ol’ regular cold twice. All of which came from Kiko! Before having her I never really got sick. Occasionally, I would catch something of course but not with the consistency I have this year

Kiko got sick last week and after three days, her fever did not go away and she had strange red spots all over her face. She had a lot of eye discharge and runny nose so we took her to the doctor. Since our regular doctor was closed on this particular day, we took her to a different one nearby. As soon as I went in I got a bit nervous since the doctor was let us say quite aged. But, considering the circumstance, I told myself, she should be very experienced and it’ll be fine. She started to examine Kiko and told me that she might have measles. She said the zits on her face made her to believe it might be measles, but just told me to watch her for a few days and come back. When I told this to Andy he was furious because the doctor did not do further tests to determine whether she had measles and if she did, she should be separated from others since she could spread the virus. Since our regular doctor was closed, we spent that day and night anxious to find out whether she did in fact have measles.

We took her to our  regular doctor the next day and it turned out that she just has a bad cold plus a weird reaction from some strange bug bite. I was relieved but then went on to yell at this doctor and told him “Don’t you think it was irresponsible of the doctor (the one we took the day before) to give me a premature diagnosis without testing and send us home?!”. He was like, “Don’t yell at me for it!” . I realize it wasn’t his fault but I was frustrated although relieved!

Today we got her vaccinated for MMR. Oh the wonderful things a child can bring to our family…

Mommy’s Diary 50: DIY Baby Bracelet

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Thank you for all your comments on Andy’s post on adoption last week! We both really enjoyed reading each comment. I’m thrilled to have so much support. You know, living in a country where the default answer to adoption is “no” or “bad” the negative reactions slowly start to affect you. I’ve found it rare to receive a positive reaction concerning our desire to adopt. The most common responses I’ve received are: “1. Why do it if you can have your own?” and “2. What if the kid you adopt is ugly?” .  I think Andy already wrote the response to #1. #2 kind of makes me laugh. What if YOUR own kid is ugly! Be that as it may, thanks for the good comments, keep ’em coming.

On a less serious not, I really like a store, called “PLAZA” in Japan. They are a chain, and they have it all over Japan inside the bigger department stores. They sell cosmetics, imported snacks (that’s where I found Reese’s Pieces!) and other cutsy stuff. The other day I found this baby bracelet and necklace set made of big clear beads in different colors, and though they were really cute I could not bring myself to pay 700 yen for  baby accessories because I am first and foremost cheap. I could easily make these items so why spend money on them? So I bought some elastics and clear beads at 100 yen shop and made Kiko a bracelet.

She seemed to like it well enough, but she kept trying to put it on her foot!