Freedom in 2016

2015 was quite a year! Tess and I moved to North Carolina in May, for five months, so that she could have her lifesaving transplant. We met some wonderful people and Tess's thymus transplant doctor, who is still in our lives today and every day! We finalized Tess's adoption on May 8 and left immediately to drive to NC. On the way, we stopped to see our friends Bryan and Jennifer Ballinger and Lane Wilder. We also stopped at my Mom's house and had a good visit and saw her on Mother's Day. We left to return home on October 1. By that time, Mom had been put into a nursing home, as she was dying from pancreatic cancer. We stopped in her town for two days and had a great visit with her. A month later, she stopped communicating. I spoke with her on November 13, while my aunt held the phone to her ear. I was able to thank her, tell her goodbye and give her permission to go. She died the next morning. Mom was 78. Dealing with rumors and idiots and ex high school friends lately. I deleted all my facebook friends and started over. If people send me friend requests, and I feel that I can trust them, I will accept their requests. The reason that I know it was ex friends from way back when? Two total strangers e-mailed me on the same day. One told me that I had mental health problems because I never left my home. I'm not sure how I lived in NC for five months and went to the hospital clinics daily if I never leave my home? The other said that I only friended people to beg for money from them. No begging going on here? Mark and I are going to be fostering medically fragile infants starting in March. If the option arises, we are going to adopt a sibling for Tess.