I am writing to first thank you all:
- for keeping me in your prayers,
- for keeping your eyes open for employment opportunities,
- for listening to me cry and wail and loving me through it,
- for the care - physical,spiritual, tangible, concrete, mystical
- for bearing the gifts of the Holy Spirit
- for your enduring faith in me - especially when I had none for myself
- for your love
I am
also writing to let you know that I was offered a job! It all JUST
happened on Monday December 17, 2012!!!
The job is with [....] a private social service agency
in [...] PA [...] I start January 22, 2013. I will be supervising four people -- a
mental health worker, a case manager, and two [...] trainers.
The program that I will be supervising is entitled LINKS, which is a
reunification program for parents with children in the foster care
system and also have co-occurring disorders --mental health and
drugs/alcohol addiction. The parents have 15 months from when the case
opens (the case opens with the [...] Children and Youth
(C&Y)agency - if C&Y have the case for four months, then we
only have 11 months!) 15 months ! to either be reunified with their children or
relinquish them legally to family or for adoption. The timeline, the
mental health, and the drugs make the task challenging as well as the fact that
the staff reportedly do not understand C&Y's mandate, do not
accept/understand that despite working with the parents, the best interest of
the children remains the primary focus, and do not keep/know what constitutes
good records. Due to the difficulty of the cases, the program manages only 15
cases at a time.
So yes, this is bittersweet...I am happy
- To be employed,
- That someone so clearly recognized my talent that she offered me the job before I left the interview!
- For the opportunity to grow in my field, stretch my skills,
- To be soon supporting myself (and all my hobbies - smile)
- To look for my own place - to decide what I want and what I do not
- To be nearer my friends
and yet....I will miss
- The three sets of tiny feet I hear every morning,
- Watching my daughter being a better woman than I ever hoped she'd become;
- Wanting to cover up my son-in-law when he falls asleep in the chair (but daring not to for fear of waking him)
- My new friends;
- My new church and my amazing new pastor
- My quilting group
My arm continues to improve - I
have almost all my range of motion (YAY!!) but the improvement in strength is
lagging. (could it possibly be due to the fact that I fell off the exercise
wagon for a few weeks??)
I have transportation (YAY!) it
is reliable (so far) and was an amazingly good find.
Thank you is not enough, but it must do for now. Thank
you! Thank you! Thank you!
Merry Christmas!
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