How I Got My Moose #2
I’d like to do a little stage setting here, and to tell the rest of the story. I need to explain myself and know I guess by the tags you can tell some turns it’s going to take but you will not guess past that.
I was adopted. I’ve always known I was adopted. I was six days old out of a downtown hospital in Houston through Catholic Charities. Back then you came with an index card and it said that my parents were teenagers and that I was going to get hay fever probably. Mom was a swimmer and they’re both pretty short. Past that I never knew anything.
Somewhere, very early along the way my parents told me and kind of I never didn’t know, not saying that’s the right or wrong way but it’s a way that really worked for us and my family.
I was always in a bit of wonder about it, never too upset and I don’t know if I was always grateful but I always felt like I was put in the right place and any wondering I did was kind of a true wonder, wonder.
My parents were very involved. I had an older sister, she was also adopted.
When my parents weren’t around they were going out. They were really really social and still are to this day, I was--we were with my grandmother, who was a little saint and my dad’s sister who was pretty much actually a saint, she was a nun, and a good one at that. Not the kind that you would read about today--because only the bad stuff seems to get read when it comes to Catholics.
Grew up very favorably Catholic, loving home, surrounded by family very close family, friends and a great neighborhood. Very idyllic. Anything bad that would’ve happened in my past I’ve not hung onto, not that there was a lot of bad. But it just wasn’t--it isn’t a part of who I am walking around today.
So just level setting as this kind of story goes further and we go into the twists and turns that are about to happen. As I sit here today I have a wonderful relationship with my parents and my family and am nothing but grateful. I can say that very honestly I don’t sit here with any kind of red ass about family issues or boo-hoo about anything.
I’ve been super lucky in my life and got through problems easily and any problems that I’ve had or caused myself I’ve also been able to navigate
Okay, onward to #3.