There is a Friend



There is a friend!


And my heart feels THAT much better.


Not all kids at Jayden’s school are devils mean.


And I wish I had a camera to see the looks on their faces today as they saw each other at Costco.

A girl.  



Jayden and this girl stood in front of each other, arms to their sides, HUGE grins on their faces…


Jayden says, “Hi, Anya, how’s your day?”


She replies… “It’s good Jayden how is your’s?”


and more awkward, silly, cute grins.  Then she says….

“I’ll see you at school, Buddy.”



She called him Buddy.

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Kids are SO Mean!

I’m still a bit upset about {THIS POST}, because Jayden’s still upset. He’s such a cute, sweet, hard to not love boy. I don’t get how he doesn’t have friends. I don’t get how kids are so mean to him.

To be honest I would honestly like to pull him out of school and keep here where I can protect his feelings. He has such an amazing teacher though, and his school is REALLY helping him with his reading and doing things with him I probably would be no good at.

Nothing’s worse than going out to the playground and not having friends to play with, or to go through elementary school not having a friend. And what’s even worse is when you are the parent that knows your son has no friends. They throw his shoes in puddles, call him a loser, when he’s so much more than they are. Both Gino and I have told him… Stand up for yourself, Jayden. You have OUR permission to do whatever you need to do to protect yourself from little asshole children {okay, we didn’t say asshole children to him…. but that’s what they are!} And you know what he says…. It’s not right. It’s not right to be mean to other children.

Jayden, I’m going to tell you right now that I know you were put on this earth for things that are so wonderful, because you are so wonderful. 

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Pour Your Heart Out – #1

Tonight I was over at my Bloggity friend {Chelle’s blog} and she was writing a blog for Shell’s awesome {and you can click on the picture to head to Shell’s blog}……….


probably not the best thing for me to join, because I love to hold things in… and then they need to come out ~ so here I go……

I try to keep the tone upbeat here at Garibay Soup… I really, really try. I think mainly because even when I’m not feeling upbeat I know my blog is upbeat. It’s sortof MY LITTLE HAPPY PLACE.

But I’m not upbeat right now. I have so much family drama that I feel absolutely sickened by it. I have a LOT of family alive and I talk to 4 people out of my family. My mom, her dad (My Grandpa), my aunt who I love to death, and 1 of my sisters from my father… and that’s just because I told her I’d buy her a car if she’d help me out. Had I not bribed her to be my on call babysitter, she’d be in her teen world and I wouldn’t be hearing from her.

This is sad. My entire family is so EFFED up that I feel a little gloomy over it.

 I have a sister {from my mom} that I have ALWAYS been VERY close to… and where is she? Oh, she is immature, jealous of me and thrives on drama ~ she can argue otherwise, and frankly I don’t give a crap, but when it comes down to it… she lives a MISERABLE, NEGATIVE life and finds any reason to push people away… well, sweetheart you pushed away the 1 person in this world that loves you to death, and I don’t think I can ever let you close to my heart again.  Hopefully she grows up and realizes who and what is important in life.

My Grandma is the most dysfunctional, controlling, manipulative creature on this planet.  I just want to say that I am EXTREMELY thankful to not have her playing puppet master in my life anymore – lady… if you read this blog I’m just gonna come out and say LEARN HOW TO BE A MOTHER TO YOUR CHILDREN AND STOP JUDGING THEM SO HARSHLY… IT’S QUITE SICKENING.  I have learned a great deal on how not to be with my children from you.  


The funny thing is she wonders why her children have no respect for her {except for the one leaching off of her} but it’s because she sent them all away {me included} as children.  My own mother got sent away at the age of 14 because she wasn’t the “ideal” child… well, my mom ended up 14 and pregnant… thank God cuz now I’m here LOL.  But then when her children were facing hard times in life and needed a mother the most… she vanished, putting her nose up in the air acting like she was too good for them, when in my opinion she was worse than them.

My dad’s entire family… please don’t even get me started on that joke of a circus, because that’s exactly what it is.

The rest… they just have major issues and it’s extremely sad that they turned into what they turned into, but in the end it’s good they are not in my life, because I am doing positive, exciting things with my life.

Okay… now to turn this around a bit.

I have learned from what my family has become to what my family is going to be like.  It’s not going to be perfect, because what family is?  But there is going to be a heck of a lot of values taught, unconditional love given, and definitely a family feel to it.  And for this reason alone I want a large family.  I want to have family holidays together, family reunions, and get togethers throughout the year……  I want my family to be close.

So, if that isn’t pouring your heart out, I don’t know what is.  And I feel a lot better writing this… even if I lose a few blog followers.  This is me people… I’m not perfect, and neither is my life.

  

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You are so beautiful, Sweet Girl

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Oh sweet girl you have no clue how much this little face right here kills me.  This little face makes me smile when I am mad, and probably gets you out of a lot of trouble that you should be in. But how could anyone not smile and kiss the heck out of this cute little face?


You are so beautiful, Sweet Girl.  

There are more pictures to be seen over on my {photo blog}

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Just a Motivating Monday – Facing Fear

If you’re just joining in:
-Write a blog post about ANYTHING at all that inspires you, or something you feel will inspire others. 

-Please link back to Garibay Soup 

-Please snag my Just a Motivating button on your post.

-I hope that we can all go and visit each other’s blogs and read what everyone has linked up ~ I hope that this carnival can bring more traffic for you 🙂 So, spread the comment love!

I could elaborate on the quote below, but I think that it really says it all.  I personally know that I’ve had to step outside of my comfort zone these past few months and I’m growing and gaining in ways I never knew were possible.  I hope this quote will inspire you in a way that has for me.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
— Eleanor Roosevelt

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Crazy Goodness

This week has been ONE CRAZY WHIRLWIND of a week. But all in a good way. The first thing is my business just took a MAJOR jump this week, and I have just gotta give it to my very, very, very good friends Jen & David for all of their hard work and sticking with something that they saw the value in. *I love you guys!*  I can’t even begin to describe how truly happy I am for you and your future.

Things are really hopping and starting to get busy with me and I just feel so overwhelmingly blessed to be a part of something so wonderful that is really changing our lives. I look at my kids and smile knowing that everything we’re doing right now is going to impact their lives in such a good way ~ and not only their life, but for generations to come. I love that.

Life with 2 toddlers is actually been getting easier and easier. When Alana came with us she had little issues, like not wanting to take a bath, constipation, among other things. Today for the first time ever I was walking up the stairs to give Ella a bath and Alana got all excited saying she wanted to take a bath too. HUGE IMPROVEMENT!

I know that her staying here with us is the best thing ever for her. She has stability, she has structure, she has a family that is a family. She’s been tossed around A LOT in her 2 short years of life, and that breaks my heart. I can’t fathom how my kids would feel being tossed here, tossed there. They NEED stability. They NEED constant love and attention.

The good thing is both of her parents are secure with her staying with us. My brother and Alana’s mom both know that when she’s here she’s being very well taken care of. And she’s happy. Throughout the day she’ll just come up and hug me and have this huge smile on her face, and it warms my heart.

I’m just so happy with the decision that my brother and Alana’s mother made in securing their daughter with me ~ the best place she could be right now.  

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