This has been a challenging week, but especially the last two days.
My 16 year old son and I attended a funeral on Friday, the 28th of April, for a friend of his, a 15 year old girl, who was hit and killed in front of their highschool. To make matters worse, it happened on my son''s birthday so he is having a hard time right now. He shared with me that this girl and he were planning to go out on the Friday following his birthday for his first official date since he was turning 16. Now, she is dead and that will never happen.
My son wanted to attend the funeral, so of course, I took him. This was so hard. As a mom of several kids(9), my heart sank for this family as I found out more about this sweet girl. She had been taken from her family at a young age along with her 2 sisters and an older brother. The girls were thrown into the system and the 2 older girls were adopted by one family, but this younger girl was left in the system, moved from group home to group home.
Enter the older brother. He apparently showed up and took her for a couple of years and then he grew tired of being a surrogate parent and dumped her back into the system. In January, the 2 older sisters finally found their little sister and were able to make contact--once before this girl''s untimely death by a truck on April 11th.
Due to the challenges in finding her scattered family--parents mostly--her funeral was delayed. Costs were an issue and many pitched in as much as possible and then her dad was found and he helped to get things rolling. My son was a mess and felt so devastated.
It was good for him, for closure. The road in front of the school is traveled by so many cars driving just too darn fast whether its 2:30pm, the usual time kids are leaving the school or not. I just had to vent this because a young life is over.
Yes, she shouldn''t have jaywalked, but the cars shouldn''t be traveling so fast either.
Today, a fundraiser was held to help a friend of mine who is now a quadraplegic after a horrific accident on a dirt bike on March 16th. so I am very emotional over that as well.
Thanks for letting me vent...
My 16 year old son and I attended a funeral on Friday, the 28th of April, for a friend of his, a 15 year old girl, who was hit and killed in front of their highschool. To make matters worse, it happened on my son''s birthday so he is having a hard time right now. He shared with me that this girl and he were planning to go out on the Friday following his birthday for his first official date since he was turning 16. Now, she is dead and that will never happen.
My son wanted to attend the funeral, so of course, I took him. This was so hard. As a mom of several kids(9), my heart sank for this family as I found out more about this sweet girl. She had been taken from her family at a young age along with her 2 sisters and an older brother. The girls were thrown into the system and the 2 older girls were adopted by one family, but this younger girl was left in the system, moved from group home to group home.
Enter the older brother. He apparently showed up and took her for a couple of years and then he grew tired of being a surrogate parent and dumped her back into the system. In January, the 2 older sisters finally found their little sister and were able to make contact--once before this girl''s untimely death by a truck on April 11th.
Due to the challenges in finding her scattered family--parents mostly--her funeral was delayed. Costs were an issue and many pitched in as much as possible and then her dad was found and he helped to get things rolling. My son was a mess and felt so devastated.
It was good for him, for closure. The road in front of the school is traveled by so many cars driving just too darn fast whether its 2:30pm, the usual time kids are leaving the school or not. I just had to vent this because a young life is over.
Yes, she shouldn''t have jaywalked, but the cars shouldn''t be traveling so fast either.
Today, a fundraiser was held to help a friend of mine who is now a quadraplegic after a horrific accident on a dirt bike on March 16th. so I am very emotional over that as well.
Thanks for letting me vent...
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