Coven of the Red Winged Blackbird

Once again, it's been too long.  I keep thinking that I need to get here and post, but something comes up and I get distracted.

I now have my own coven.  My high priestess is retiring and moving out of state and I felt the call to become a coven leader.  My intention is to remain a coven of one for now, but I am open to students if the situation arises.  When I look back over my path, I am amazed at how far I've come.

Since my last post, my grand daughter's mother had another child.  The baby was born in the beginning of December and she decided to take a road trip when the baby was 2 weeks old.  Neither she or her current boyfriend have driver's licenses, she was driving a marginally safe vehicle, and she admitted to me that she was prostituting along the way to get money.  She put the current boyfriend's name on the baby's birth certificate, even though he is not the biological father.  She went to Richmond for a couple weeks, then wended her way to eastern NY.  She stopped at many hospitals along the way trying to get treated for her legs being swollen.  I know of about 4 or 5 different hospitals she stopped at, all of which couldn't find anything treatable.  The final hospital found reason to call child protective services and the infant was removed from her custody.  Foster Services called us to ask if we could take in the baby.  After much discussion and soul searching, we decided that we just weren't able to take the baby.  It was a very difficult decision to make.  A cousin of sd (step daughter) took in the little girl.  SD is working with DSS to get to the point where she is capable of caring for a child.  I really don't know what is going on in the situation, but I hope that she is supervised for a long time if they return the baby to her care.

Axel is amazing.  He is such a happy little guy.  He had surgery for a birth defect, hypospadia, where his urethra didn't extend to the tip of his penis, but came out slightly below.  His foreskin was also malformed.  Surgery was a complete success.  Now he has started walking, but has an unusual gait, so we are seeing an ortho for that net month.  She told me last week that she is expecting again, the new little one will be arriving late Feb-early March.  I am so excited.  Her boyfriend is an amazing young man.  He steps up to whatever is needed, he is far from lazy.  He treats Ali so well, they are very good together.  I am happy to have him in our family.

Well, enough for now, hopefully I'll be back soon.