*Photoshop job seems to be mine. We talked for about half an hour Thursday, and he wanted to keep me longer, but we had calls on hold, so I had to work. I'm going in early to talk to him again tomorrow.

*Much house cleaning going on, in preparation for The Alpha and Kisa being in the area this week.

*Knitting is going well, despite the fact that I think I'm allergic to wool. Luckily, the yarn I'm using is only 20% wool. I also found both colors I'm using on sale on line, so more is on it's way to me.

*I also found a Halloween Scary Movie sale on DVD's, so we're expecting Clue, Mortuary, Rose Red and Monster House. All movies I love.



Now for the Rant.

I simply do not understand humans. How is it that a woman can give birth to a child, raise him for a year and then suddenly decide that she wants to "start her life for real" and she wants her sister to raise the baby so that she's not saddled with him?

If she had decided at his birth, or before he was born, that she didn't want to, or couldn't raise him, then that's one thing. I'm all for giving a child up if you can't give him a good life. There are people out there who would jump at the chance to adopt a chubby little baby boy.

Instead, you keep him, not knowing anything about children (literally. This woman called for help because she wasn't sure the baby's penis looked right) and raise him for a year. Couch surfing because the idiot that you're with...who probably isn't the baby daddy...can't or won't keep a job. Then moving in with his mother. Then deciding that you would rather move back home to live with *your* mother and your child molester step-father.

Yes, child-molester. Don't even get me started on that side of the family. There's only one of them that doesn't piss me off.

Then the other day, this woman emails her sister, who lives about six hours away, and asks if the sister and her partner will raise her baby so she can get on with her life. And then guilt the sister into taking your son by threatening to give him to your mother and the child molester if sister's too busy to take him.

GRRR. I didn't like this woman to begin with, but now I really don't like her. Is it possible that she has NO mothering instincts in her? I know that some people don't. I have the opposite problem. I may be too motherhood centered. I cannot imagine willingly giving my child to someone else to raise. Particularly after I raised him for the first year of his life. If it were something major, if I were dying or if I had to go off to war or something, then, ok, that's what godparents are for. But to give up your child because of  a job that you may get? To be willing to leave him with a CHILD MOLESTER so that you can "start your life for real"!!

The whole thing just raises the hackles of the mommy wolf inside me.

It's not good to piss off my inner mommy wolf.