
| I try to wrap my mind around your perspectives. I try to find understanding. Believe it or not, I try to step into you shoes. I really do. What I don’t get is the conflict. I don’t understand what I have done that is so horribly wrong to create this… un-acceptance? You don’t have to like me. That’s not what I’m asking. I am asking that you see the bigger picture and that you rise above the negativity only to realize that I am a good thing in the scheme of what are the most important things in your life. If the time ever comes when I’m gone and replaced, you will wish me back. I know this because I have personally been on your end. I know it well. I’m not saying that you don’t have any rights. You have all the rights. I’m just trying to enforce the fact that if it’s not me it will be someone else, and I’m not so damn bad. I’m nurturing, loving, and totally giving. I think of others before I think of myself. When I treat the most important ones in your life as if they are extremely special, it’s a good thing, right? |

| When I spend my time putting my heart and soul into making special things for them, it’s a good thing, right? When I give them my camera and camcorder to run around the yard with and then print and frame their work, it’s a good thing, right? When I buy them stuff to help them learn their letters, numbers, and read, it’s a good thing, right? I am so not trying to outdo you. I am just trying to enhance their lives in a time of uncertainty. They are scared and vulnerable. They just need to be loved by all of those who choose to love them. I wish that you knew me as a person. If you really knew me this would so not be an issue. I’m not out to be any other child’s parent. I’ve almost raised mine. You can breathe easy knowing that I am only a mother to John. If by some miracle I were ever granted a position in their lives, I would know exactly where I stood. I would forever understand that you are their one and only mother. One last thing, they truly need their father in their lives on a consistent basis. They desperately do. Cindy Callinsky |

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