Posted by Wauchula Woman on 10/8/2007, 6:30 pm, in reply to "Can I be Nice and......." You know something, Rhonda, I've just found, God always provides. I spend a lot of time waiting on the Lord, there's a verse that goes "Wait Patiently for the Lord to Act". I think it's in Psalms. Anyhow,I want everything NOW because I'm one of those Type A hyper people and I'm zippy. So waiting on God is very hard for me. But I think I'm learning. As for my niece. Rhonda, I feel very certain that God sent her to me. Before she got here, she had no discipline whatsoever, her mom and dad just let her run wild. Her stepfather hated her, so her mother basically caved in and just let my niece live with one school friend to the next, to keep her out of her house. So my niece basically grew up with no adult supervision whatsoever. She doesn't know how to do anything, from washing clothes to cooking to managing a check book, to budgeting her money. So the first thing I've done is get her into church, going to church is mandatory around here. I've been working with her on cleaning her room, it's slow progress...sometimes, she'll keep her room tidy for a week and I'll think "Finally it's sunk in!!" but then the next week, she'll revert back to how she was before. I've been teaching her to cook and she does have a little bit of an aptitude for that. Clothes washing....I don't believe she'll ever get the hang of it. I'm afraid though, unless God intervenes, she's never going to be capable of living on her own. She's really that disabled. I look at some of the homework she does for college and, you know she's in all remedial classes, because she flunked her entry exam. Anyway, her writing is just pitiful, like something a third grader would do. You know something, Rhonda, it's been good for her to be here...good for ME. I need to learn patience. And she's an odd child, but she does have her moments where she is cute and funny and like the kid that I used to babysit and loved so much. She was just the most adorable baby. She's still a beautiful girl. But she's grown now. I feel a bit guilty myself, because if I hadn't moved away, maybe I could have taught her things before she got to this age. At the same time my husband and I divorced and I moved down here, her mother and dad divorced. So she lost a whole network of family right at that pivotal 14 year old age. So I continue to work with her, to prod her, to try and teach her and to pray for her. I learn something new everyday. I'll pray for you, Rhonda. God Bless,
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I'm sorry to hear of your financial difficulties. I'm just fortunate that my husband gets a disability check or we'd be in the same boat. Rhonda, you ought to be able to get a free mammogram at the health department. Well, at least around here, they give all the illegal aliens free mammograms, I don't know if American Citizens are privvy to such things (don't get me started on that one! ha!).
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