2 boys

One spent 10 years in Mexico in MINSTRY
Then he become a Forman over 10-20 million homes being built he started as a finish carpenter he has a wife a kids

My oldest is a heavy haul truck driver for years. They are both strong Christians with great work ethics. Their bosses love since they are both smart young men in their thirties that can past a drug test. They are both mentally tough men.

I've not brought this up publicly. In December we got a call from the school of my 5th grade daughter Jenny. Her teacher had noticed she was drawing on her hands, and thought the stuff she was doing looked like she was cutting herself. Not really the case, but she goes and see's the school counselor anyways. Let me start all this by saying she's a straight a student, never gives us any trouble, social, kin, sweet, just all around great child. He counselor gets it out of her that she feels very sad, and had basically felt like the world would be better without her. She felt ashamed to tell her mother or I out of fear of disappointing us. That she wakes up and thinks she hears someone trying to get into her window etc... When my wife called me I was in shock, thought this was just something made up. So she can't come back to school till she see's someone. I call our pediatrician and they suggest taking her to Children's medical center ER right away. Get her upstairs in a room, and another case worker evaluates her. She tells them she holds her breathe at night so long to see if she could die. Among other things, that was crushing to me. She was being bullied at school, and the other girls were trying to not let other kids to want to be friends with her. Two girls specifically. Childrens recommends we take her to their in patient program. After looking this up, that was just some sort of money grab scenario with horrible reviews and testimony.

Well the school has to contact CPS which is scary in itself. I agree to let them come to the house and talk to Jenny. The lady was VERY nice and helpful. She suggests another place a little more suited to actually helping the child. They evaluate her and come up with the same results. Anxiety, depression, and suicidal thoughts. No medications were suggested, just lot's of therapy and counseling which has been a blessing. She feels so much better now, and it's open discussion at home. I was really really disappointed in the McKinney ISD's response of "this is just kids stuff" but we chose to leave them out of this. The info and access to her DR's, evaluations was silly so I denied them any access to it.

Having an 11 year old that can not be left alone for even minuets was tough for a few months. She slept on one couch, I slept on the other just so she wouldn't be alone. We bonded in a way I can't even explain. After a couple months the case managers, and therapist's told us it was ok to have butter knifes, forks, lamps or anything with longer than a phone cord in the house again. It was pretty wild when we had to take all that stuff away.

I don't know that I really have any good advice at all on any of this. I just know that if I lost my little girl I would be devastated. I'm super close with all my kids. We spend so much time together, it still burns that I had no idea. While the other girls at school wear cute little outfit, Jenny is a band t shirt and jeans type of girl. Maybe she doesn't fit in to the other two girls little click. With that being said she made some other friends at school, oddly enough it's a group of black girls. The are all super sweet, good kids. But those other little girls certainly don't EFFING mess with my little Jenny no more!

The main thing It has taught myself, is to teach my kids to be nice. You never know what someone is going through inside. It's ok to fight back if needed, but it's not cool to be a prick to someone having a tough time, or because they are different.

I love my little girl, just the way she is. I tell her every day how much I love her, and that we are in this together.