August Friendship Flower 2008

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Yes I am Donna Marie, I am looking at news right now but will go back to 10 and Jerry.

[BuddyBeanieBaby]

Theresa, I am going to ask you a personal question, so feel free to not answer it. Does your MIL have a good relationship with her GKs, your kids?

DeBora no she does not have any kind of relationship with my kids...she doesn't even like my kids...

Hope everyone is doing well tonight...

Smiles & Hugs...

[DeBora4BobbyL]

Do we have anyone from Louisiana? I hope everyone in those areas are safe.

Donna Marie, I haven't watched the telethon. If course, on race day, I was watching all my race day programs, prerace programs, and the race. lol

BarBar, that's an awful lot of bee stings. I hope your DGD is okay. That would be painful and bad. I hope she feels better soon.

Theresa, I figured your MIL probably didn't have much of a relationship with your kids. My mother is the same way. She really doesn't like kids at all and she especially doesn't like me. I don't understand that, but it takes all kinds.

Well, there are less than 50 laps left in the race. I may go cook my breakfast burritos for the rest of the school week and get that over with. Tomorrow I will be testing my SIL on the IQ test and that will take a long time since I have never done one before. These tests are also very expensive. $45 for 10 tests. We have to get used to it since we will be having to pay for them when we become therapists. At least we don't have to pay for the test kitss. I am meeting with a team member early in the morning to get the kit from her. She works down the street from me.

[seleach]

I have a friend in Louisana. Think she is far enough inland to not be hit by the hurricane itself but will have to be on the watch for tornados or other high winds. They have everything boarded up and battened down. Right now I am grateful my dd isn't living there. I miss her but am grateful she is not in New Orleans. Even though she left there two years before her death, when these storms hit, I always think of her being there for almost 20 years.

DeBora, Buck gave up at 9:30 and went to bed. I am taping the rest of the race.

Theresa, congrats on the new grandbaby.
Praying for good news when Glen sees the dr.
Take care of yourself. Try to eat something.

Bar_bar, sorry your ggd got stung by bees. That is painful. Thank goodnes she is not allergic to them.

Painted the porch floor today. Will give it a second coat tomorrow.

Well here is something that will give you a laugh I think. We could hear screaming and somebody hollaring help me from the house across the street. A friend that was visting the lady next door heard it too and called 911. The police came, banged on the door and hollared police. Nobody came to the door. They tried it a second time, then pushed the door open.
Turns out they were just having a little afternoon delight, if you know what I mean. Cop said he didn't know who was more embrassed. Him or them. You would think they would close their windows, wouldn't you?
This woman has 5 boys, has a guy living with her. The last 2 are his kids.
Just found out from a neighbor today whose daughter goes to school with the oldest boy. This boy is wearing that guy's shoes and shirts to school. Says he has nothing to wear. He is 8 yrs old. Kids sleep on mattresses on the floor. Her kids have been over there and say there is nothing to sit on.
I am really shocked. The woman doesn't work. She recives welfare for all those kids. And the guy works. This is unreal. She bought a van, he bought the house they are living in. I feel they could go to Goodwill or St. Vincents de Paul and get that kid something to wear if they can't go to WalMart or ShopKo. The neighbor also said that this boy follows kids home from school and then goes to their house to play the next day because he doesn't want to go home. He also will walk a couple of miles to the beach along Lake Michigan by himself or with a little girl he is friends with. I feel very sorry for him. Social Workes have been involved with these people for a couple of years. So why hasn't something been done? They are not friends with anyone in the neighborhood.

My right hand and wrist is swollen tonight and I am going to put a wrist band on and see if that helps. I can't type with it on,
So I will say good night to all.

[barbszy]

Sharon, after all the stuff that made the news this summer about Social Services in Philadelphia, I have this distrust that calling them would do any good. We (and our neighbors) have thought about it, regarding Adventure Boy, but we are afraid it would hurt more than help. So instead we do what we do; we feed the kid lunch and let him play with our kids, and take him to church, and make sure he goes IN HIS HOUSE when we tell him it's time to go home (yes, we have to watch him go in or he will just sail on by on his bike and try to go someplace else--even if it's dark out!) And we pray a lot.

It breaks my heart, though, to hear things like what you are saying about that little boy. Adventure Boy's family, too, has no friends in the neighborhood. In fact, the gossip regarding the grandparents is astronomical. Many people won't let the kids near their kids because of it. We figure, this is not the child's fault.

Theresa, I forgot to congratulate you on the new grandbaby! How wonderful!

Barb, I hope your GD is ok today! YIKES! ONE bee sting hurts--I cannot imagine 20! Poor kid. Did the Benadryl help her?

Big DS and his friends appeared to have a lot of fun last night. Right now there are 5 boys crashed on the floor and couch in my family room, and 2 in Big DS's room It's nothing but big feet and big sneakers and black T-shirts and denim shorts as far as the eye can see. When they wake up I will make a giant batch of French toast for everyone.

OH, big moment for me last night--my neighbor's mom is in the hospital in pretty dicey condition, and I ran out back to ask her DH how she is doing. So we are standing at the fence and he is telling me what's going on, and then he stops and says, "Don't move" and then I feel something on my feet so of course I jump a mile in the air and scream like a girl it was a baby squirrel, running right across my feet! Apparently it has not learned to be scared of people yet.

[barbszy]

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