I started hosting foreign exchange students way back in September of 2007. I started hosting totally on accident. One day my cousin Kaitlin then fifteen years old came home from high school and said they were looking for a host home for this foriegn exchange student named Lisa. Pronounced (LEE ZA) Im all well I will do it. I mean why not I was single and had an empty room so I did it. Hosted Lisa from September 2008 to May 2009. We had a good time and some good memories were made. Unfortunetly towards the end of the year we did not get along and our relationship was damaged. Since then it was hard to remember the good times Lisa and I had but they are coming back now. We are not in touch though we did talk for the first time in well over a year about a month ago. It was not all her and it was not all me. But Lisa was definitly my first and the one I made mistakes with trying to figure out what i was doing. It was different going from living alone for several years to having a teenager in the house. But we made it through.
Next up was my beautiful, amazing, sweet Jorien. This is my heart right there. We became so close so quickly. We have the same interests and the same sense of humor. We had 0 problems. When she left I was devestated. But I made it throught. And people ask me would I do it again. Absolutely because she is my daughter now! and if i had not done it i would not have her. It was worth every minute of the pain I felt when she left. She is in my life and i would not have it any other way. Jorien is a combination of daughter, sister, and best friend all in one. I love her so much and there is nothing i would not do for her. I look forward to talking to her everyday and we do talk almost everyday about everything under the sun.
Third in line was my darling sweet sunny beautiful eliska. My moon or my sun however you want to look at it. She was my soul when i thought everything was going wrong. My Eliska who hung in there with me through all my moodiness. This was a girl who was coming after my heart left me. I didn't know if i had the love to give someone like i did Jorien. Eliska who hung in there and showed me yes it was possible to love them both. Completely different personalities but i love them both so much. Again I would change a thing about my eliska or anything while she was here. Eliska showed me i have enough room in my heart for as many daughters as I wanted. Another one I love so much and would do anything for.
Next up is Karina and Hauke. Two very different girls. They both live with me at the same time. They get along great. Both have been here a month in a half now and it feels just right. I am growing to love them both. And thanks to their older "sisters" I know i can.
We are a family. Albeit a scattered out all over the world family. This has brought at least four girls from four different countries together. Girls that consider each other sisters as much as they consider me their "american momma". Girls that love me as much as i love them. These girls bring joy to my life and allow me to "mother" someone. We spend time together, we talk, we laugh.... We are a family.
A family I love and would not trade in for anything. I love you girls so much.
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