I think I might join my local book club and suggest "Asses to Angels" Actually a good book but with foul language and about a spirited women who got out of abuse and now is her own self and happy.She was born during WWII so it would be sort of in compliance. Gail L. Black a very interesting Lady.
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Happy for all of you !! Man i would love one more but alas I am a bit too old.
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Went back to New Mexico for a few weeks, to visit family, I did not want to come back. It was so nice to be some place familiar and normal to me, kids came and played with my sons and nothing was said about what church we did or did not go to they just had fun. DH even noticed how relaxed the kids and I were and despite the fact he does not like NM very much has decided to put out feelers for a
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We actually do most of those things, except for shorts, and parties. My dear Dad when visiting takes great pleasure having a beer on the front porch. We laugh a lot at my house so maybe that is it. The funny thing is when people need help we help, I guess we are only bad when not helping oh well, more play things at the park for us and more summer nights to enjoy our back yard. We do have the bes
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Found out we are the Bad Family, kind of knew it when people would run into the house with fear when we went out. Oh well, anyways part of me wants to be Bad now or at least compile a list of Bad things to think about when dealing with some of my neighbors.
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I am so sorry your son is going through this, we ended up homeschooling my oldest due to the bullying he was going through. I will keep you both in my thoughts and warm wishes, its so hard on kids and its hard on the parents who watch their kids go through this.
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Do not be hard on your self, you are doing what you have to do to get through school. You are actually being smart, by living with Mom and Dad while going to school.Just breath and pat yourself on your back you are doing okay:)
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Awesome, very happy for you!!!
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Matt, That is a good idea, I think we are just worried that one of the kids will get hurt.The parents know because we and another neighbor have stated the fears for they safety of the neighborhood children in general cutting through yards and playing on rock walls, no one really listens. the sign sounds perfect we never thought of that before. Thanks
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My kids are not perfect but I watch them, DH and I have now figured out we will have to shell out money to retain the lot behind us because, well they refuse to. It would not be a problem except for the near misses of small children falling into our yard (a good 5foot drop onto rocks) we do not want to be sued if one of the kids get hurt plus we would feel bad. We really need a fence but cant do
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+ 1 My Grandma loved lilacs, and I do also. Grandma was what some old timers might call a grand old gal. She drank beer with salt, cursed like a sailor, spoke her mind and loved everyone. So when I see lilacs or smell them i think of her. Sorry your having a cruddy day, sending you well wishes and good vibes.
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Sending you positive thoughts and well wishes.
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If you go to Old Town, visit the candy lady good candy and she has naughty candy also in the back. Yum Frontier, I miss NM so much.Have fun and congrats on the A in Math.
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She really needs to see someone, I have no idea where to start. Except maybe taking her to her primary DR and go from there. Do you think she might have been molested? My heart breaks reading this post because it is very obvious that she is hurting.
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Hope its good news for the puppy and I will keep you and your puppy in my thoughts and prayers.
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That is one of the things that confused me about here, back east you could find a spot in almost any store or mall to nurse your baby. So when we moved out here I was shocked to see how little stores or malls made it easy to find a nice spot that was not the bathroom stall to nurse.
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DH was very upfront about it when we moved into our area, are very lucky that we have a pretty open minded an loving street. We have had only 3 sets of missionaries, the last set was scared off by my MOM(funny thing found out she was looking into the church big time when we were growing up. Thank God it was one of the very few times my Dad did not do what she wanted, crazy childhood would have be
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sorry wrong thread
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The kids in the hood do not play with my kids, in fact we are so bad that people go in when we go out. Now I feel like a huge jerk for this, 2 kids came and asked if they could barrow a toy from us.At first i said no then I felt bad and gave them the toy to use. I did however say hey, its the non LDS family who lent it to you. I know jerky of me but after the week I had with my son being trampled
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Everyone except for the truly evil make to paradise or gets to have other lives(whatever they choose to do)
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I felt so bad that I could not go to support pro-gay marriage, now I even feel worse(sick kids)but I am teaching my boys that love is love and everyone deserves a chance to get married and have a family. My oldest is the lets find a peace full way to take care of things while the youngest stated that he wants to kick the mean bullies.
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Your post reminded me so much of my mother, please, please stay on this earth it can get better I only say this because I have watched my Mother battle her demons and I have seen her overcome them. I would never have wanted my Mom to chose suicide over the crud we went through on her journey, it would have left me broken and hopeless.In all honesty it would have destroyed all of the family if she
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Glad I am not the only one who thinks that, Some of the grocery stores hold free egg hunts you might one to check into that. Though I have given up on doing free things in Utah(I have pretty passive kids when it comes to other people and they just get trampled or pushed out of the way)
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No this is a really bad idea, seriously this is the kind of crud the cult my brother was involved with in collage pulled. They told him what to watch, what to read, who an when he could talk to. If it was not for a dorm mate things would have been a lot worse. Plus the whole safety issue is thrown out the window.
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Thank you a zillion times for this, you are standing up for other kids who have been brought to tears also.
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Have you tired Rhodiola Root? I bought an herbal supplement from Sprouts called Attention Plus Kids, (they have an adult version also) for my son, it has helped him a bit, well me too since the only way i can get him to take it,is if I take it also. Hope you find something that works for you.
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No but after watching Poltergeist my brother and I hid our stuffed toys that even remotely looked like the clown.
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Thank you, I am sorry you were bullied, no one deserves that.
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We are doing K 12 through UTVA, I wanted to do Alpine Online at first, because of the fact you could do partial days at school. However after the first couple of weeks, My son opened up and the bullying was worse then what I posted(those were things that he mentioned to me or that I called the school on) I just feel bad because he held so much in, to keep friends, if you could call them friends.
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Thanks,this whole ordeal has made us at times think we are crazy. I really do not blame the kids and cant really blame the adults fully. My brother got caught up in a cult when he was in collage, we were lucky in that his dorm mate let my parents know before he was fully into it. Just with what little he was exposed to damaged his outlook for a bit.
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