Who is Kate

Pre 2020

What can I say here….in a nutshell I have a lot to tell; a lot to share; a lot to give and a lot to learn. So together with all my fellow bloggers and readers I will do my best to captivate and be captivated. As a full-time working mother, life is busy. As a social worker I see, hear, feel and try to understand the world around me. I live in the suburbs and grew up a country girl, the oldest of five. I have five children, which in due time you will hear about, as it is through them and their lives that I gain and become an ever evolving character as mom and social worker and so much more.

It’s been forever since I shared more about me. The biggest part of me I gave away as I had fear of how I would handle the whole package only to find out the feelings were so very much mutual.

Recently fighting the fight as a mom to help a child through the anguish of a current epidemic, not wanting to be one of the moms suffering the loss of a child.

Also watching my youngest find her way and allowing her to learn from her mistakes and finding myself overall proud of her strength passed on from me and I pray she continues to analytically process her challenges and defeating the pain of becoming a woman.

Then there is the one that traveled away to get what is needed and in all of that with the other parent. I’m happy for my ex in the sense he too needs someone and he has the most loving compassionate heart that was made between us and also one that suffers even knowing that is what he is.

Then the heartache of death that struck 25 yrs ago, which caused me to be the woman I am and the choice I made to move through it and with the help of God to carry me through continually.

There is more to me in a child given away to others who became aunique woman with an awesome child of her own, of whom I am so proud and honored to be even the slightest part of. May the Lord heal her and give her a long life and help her to get past illness and may her son fulfill all his dreams.

Then there is where I am at right now….after Feb 2020…

My traveling child came home in June 2019, along with my ex. They got an apartment nearby. To make this short, I have been in a state of grief and I became that mother that lost a child due to mental illness combined with an epidemic. Chronic pain with no easy way, lost love and more, we shall not know while here on earth. Forever cherished, forever loved. Learning to carry yet another loss, is not where I wanted to be, but here I am to help others and to allow others to help me as well.

Although there is pain there is new life in a granddaughter now 20 months old and a new grandson, nearly three weeks old.

About the pre 2020, still monitoring and encouraging accomplishments in my eldest to continue to overcome.

Feel free to reach out. I will develop a group on MeWe and other platforms, for parents.