Not Much

Not much going on this past week. Work, work, work... and not really enjoying it. Just a crap job I picked up to get me through the summer. Hours are terrible and pay isn't the greatest, upside is I'm done fairly early in the day at 2:3pm... downside is I start very early in the day 5am :(

I've been keeping busy taking photos, doing some drawings, getting some occasional layout designs for a local printer, mostly just looking forward to getting on with my 3rd year at college and then embarking into the field. Really looking forward to selling my place and moving out of the boonies and into a larger town or city.

Anyway as I said I've been working on some illustrations, here's a preliminary sketch that I plan on working up in Photoshop, I'll post the finished product at a later date.

A Week Later

It's been a week now since our foster baby has been gone, I still miss him terribly but I can now think of him fondly and with a smile without getting teary-eyed. We (my wife and I) spoke to our CAS worker and her supervisor and received some answers and apologies for being left in the dark through this process. We should have had a lot more to do with it, and a lot more involvement than we did. They didn't realize we were taking it so hard and have recommended some grief counselling, not sure if we will take it as we are doing better since we had it all out with them and had our say. They also realize now that we should have been part of all the meetings and had workers out to our home during the transition time for us to be able to talk to. 

We are hoping to go up to ThunderBay in June to see him and his new home to help us with some closure, and we will be taking the summer off to recoup as a family and heal up before we start again. Foster care is a roller coaster ride of emotions, and takes a lot of work, but is so worth it in the lives of these little ones. We love them all so much as they come through our home. 

Here's a shot of a building along the lake I did a family portrait shoot at. I think it conveys the lost, lonely feeling we get when we transition our foster children onward...

Sad Days

It is a sad day as I blog today. My wife and I had to transition a baby we had been fostering and planning to adopt to one of his family members who decided they would adopt. It is very heart-wrenching for us as there is no legal way yet that we have found to be able to prevent this. We poured ourselves into his life for the last 11 months, nurturing and loving him only to lose him to a great aunt of 51 years old. Anyway, not a lot to say about this right now, other than I intend to fight this, I have already contacted the Premier of Ontario, the Minister of Child and Youth Services as well as my local MP. I will get to the bottom of why the laws are the way they are and do not seem to take into consideration the best interest of the child... I will keep you updated on what I learn and any developments... until then, here is a picture of our little guy, already miss him so badly...

May? When did that happen?

Jeepers creepers! When did it suddenly become May? I realize that April was extremely busy at school, but wow, May! Lol, okay I'm over it now. I have survived my first week at my new job and am celebrating with a weekend of laziness and family enjoyment. We went to my kid's school last night to watch "The Toothfairy", it was actually kinda funny. I slept in this morning and have just spent the day hanging out with my wife and kids... way too long in coming, but school work took a lot of my time. It was definitely worth it though, I passed my semester with all A's and have a GPA of 4.0 woohoo me :)

Now begins the tough part of maintaining creativity over the summer, I'm going to have to get out and get some photo's and work on some illustrations, and generally just keep artistically active. :)