Well, my little cutie stopped cussing. That's been nice. Unfortunately her other bad habit has gotten worse. The very first time I held her, she smacked me twice across my face. I probably should have put my gloves and helmet on right then, but I thought, "nah, she's just been taken away from her family. She'll get over it." She didn't. Our family looks like we have been attacked by cats. Boo, our 2 year old foster daughter, not only hits, but scratches any arm that gets too close to her.
I have to say that at this point I am completely burned out, unamused, and no longer see the humor of her attacks on us. In fact, this past week I got very down because there has been zero improvement in this area. She hits and scratches more than 20 times a day! Spankings are against the law. Time out can't contain her. A time-out cage is out of the question and if you just say "no" she says "shut up." I'm out of options and I'm very frustrated!
But I remembered something important that got me back on my game. Rainey, my birth daughter who is now 7, used to be a biter. She gets a kick out of it when we tell stories of how she bit her doctor and bit her friends in day care. She calls herself the biting baby. When she was biting people I was so embarrassed and frustrated, granted I could spank her so she grew out of it more quickly than Boo, that a child of mine had this horrible habit. She doesn't bite her 1st grade teacher. She doesn't bite her family. In fact, she hasn't bitten anyone since she was 2. The stories are funny now and we definitely survived her attacks.
We will survive Boo's attacks, probably with some scarring, but survive none-the-less.
Someday we will look back and laugh about going out to dinner and seating Boo 2 feet away from us so we wouldn't get injured. And looking at mosquito netting to put around her car seat so she couldn't scratch the kid next to her. It will be funny one day.
-This too shall pass. -Tomorrow is a brand new day. -The sun will come out tomorrow. -Latti da da da
Lord, give me patience with this super-cute, angry, blue-eyed, monster today.
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