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Festival of Lights

12/21/2014

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Welcome back to Taylor Talks!

Today was a celebration of Hanukkah & Christmas… A festival of lights all around.

Normally, we don’t hang lights around our house for Christmas. It has just never worked out for us. My dad used to try to hang them when I was little, but the lights would stop working or something, and it would be pointless. This year, I decided that I was going to put lights up no matter what. I figured, hey, I’m 21 and I can do this! [Here's where you can picture me pumping myself up like a boxer before his match!] So I went out and bought some lights without telling my parents and started putting them up around our front stairs. Figured I’d start with something easy that I could reach… I’m only 5′ tall, so that was definitely going to be my disadvantage in this venture…

So I came home from the store with the lights and set to work. I didn’t even go into the house to tell my mom that I was home. I thought I’d be able to get the lights up before she went outside and I’d be able to surprise her. Well, wouldn’t you know that my own dogs gave away the surprise? My mom came into the living room and saw them both sitting in front of the door with their heads turned to the side. They had seen me pull into the driveway and were confused as to why I wasn’t coming into the house. So the surprise didn’t really go as planned, but hey, I still got the lights up.

Then today, my dad was able to help me put up the lights around the top of the house. By help, I mean he was the one going up and down the ladder while I handed him gutter clips (I swear I offered to do it… he worked all week, I didn’t want to make him do this too! I just needed help carrying the ladder and making sure it didn’t fall over!). So after quite a long time in the freezing cold, and putting up one string of lights backwards and having to redo it, the house looks great now.

My mom and I took my little sisters outside to look at the house once it was dark out, and they loved it… their faces when they saw the lights just made all of the work completely worth it.

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Taylor

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    My family started doing foster care when I was three years old. We took in nineteen children over the course of eighteen years, with our last placement leaving in December 2014. I'm the only biological child in my family, though my parents adopted five of my siblings.

    I love to share my perspective on the foster care system and share how my unique upbringing shaped my life.

    I'm also a Cast Member at Walt Disney World and lover of all things Disney! My career allows me the opportunity to find a little bit of Magic in life every day.


    I enjoy sharing my journey as a writer as well. Find my children's books on Amazon and keep following my blog for updates on future books that I'll be releasing!

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