The Wrong Blog

I think blogs are fun.....for the most part. They have caused their share of problems, especially among the teens. I truly think they should be outlawed. For teens anway. As if there isn't enough drama in a teenagers life, here comes the blogs.....they can write things they are feeling/thinking, but unfortunately the rest of the world, including the people that they go to school with, will read them. My youngest daughter made the mistake of saying she thought a particular girl was a slut. I don't know this girl, never even heard of her before all this. But 3 of her "so called" friends rushed to this girls defense, which is fine, but they haven't let it go. It hurts me that girls who've know Morgan forever will rush to someones side who they've only known a short time, and then deny Morgan their friendship when she's talked to this girl and they've worked out their differences. They are just as bad as she was.....because two of them called her several times on her cell phone while she was in S.D. and yelled "SLUT" when she answered the phone. How dumb can one be, when their names come up on her caller ID, yet deny it was them? The problem I have with this is....they condem her for her actions, yet they are doing the same thing to her, even after she admitted she was wrong and apologized. Ever heard of "forgive and forget"??? I don't think they have. As a parent, I just want to go up to these girls and let them know how awful they have been, but I also know that butting into her affairs can cause more problems. Her big sister has spoke her piece, and one girl would *not* let it go, putting comments on Ashley's xanga and IM'ing her. It's getting so ridiculous that I'm about to tell Morgan she needs to shut her xanga down and forget about blogging. She can keep an "old fashion" journal if she needs to put her thoughts out there, one that no one but she can see. I wish these so called "friends" could read this blog, but I know they have no idea that I have one and I'm not about to go there. I just needed to blow off some steam. Not that it helped, but maybe someone else can clue their kids in to *not* do what my daughter did and save themselves and their kids some pain!

Her sense of humor

I find my oldest daughters sense of humor (which is quite dry) pretty hilarious. Of course my husband doesn't always think she's as funny as I do, which can cause a few tifts. He did, however, find a couple of things she said while on our trip in S.D. quite funny. Although the first conversation, he didn't catch on right away.
We were driving around a lake that he remembered fishing at while he was in high school and was telling a story about how the dyke broke and it flooded Rapid City. When he said "dyke", Ashley giggled and pointed out what he said. It took him a few minutes to realize they weren't on the same page with that particular word. The following then was said:
Hubby: We're going to drive over the dyke.

Ashley: Isn't that illegal?

Hubby: No, not in South Dakota.

Then while on the way home, she was sitting in the back seat of the truck with Chester, our Maltese, in her lap. She was pointing out that he had several mats that needed to be groomed. To then which she said, "You're a hairball, you look like something the cat would cough up."

Maybe it doesn't sound all that funny to you, but she cracks me up anyway!

Retraction

On my last post I said that I don't enjoy being around "little ones". Not true, I guess what I meant, is I want "adult time" where when I'm visiting with friends, I don't have the interuption of little kids. I really do love my friends little kids, they are funny, say the darndest things (is darndest a word?) and make me laugh. But there are times when I just want to have a convesation with their mothers without interuption. I don't want to offend anyone, that wasn't my intention!

This Isn't Good

It's not good, but I'm sure it's a sign of the times! Ashley has her drivers license, so therefore, she is gone a good amount of time. Morgan is currently up in S.D. staying with some of the IL's. Hubby is of course, at work. I worked today, but have been home a fair amount of the afternoon....alone. Not that I mind being alone, but after awhile, I get bored. Mind you, I am not my mother, I don't clean when I get bored...or put together photo albums....or do any other constructive things. I like to sit and feel sorry for myself. Hubby called and said he and a coworker were stopping to have a beer. I suggested I meet them, but then he called back and said they wouldn't be all that along, but I was more than welcome to drive into the next town and join them. I declined. As the girls get older, I'm realizing more and more, I'm gonna need a hobby, and friends who's kids are older too (I have some great friends, who still have little ones, not something I enjoy being around too much anymore). Soooo....I'm either going to have to get a full time job to fill my time, or find something else (besides that constructive stuff) to do. I guess I'm going to miss the kids more than I thought I would. Eye opening stuff!

Must be a girl thing

Okay, I know that not *all* girls (and/or women) are this stupid....but I guess my daughters and I are! I'm not proud about writing this, but it is rather humorous too!
We went camping in the Black Hills. The flies were bad. I made the hubby go by those sticky fly tapes to hang in the camper, as they seemed to like buzzing in our ears and crawling on our faces at night. He hung one in the "bedroom" of the camper. The girls and I were all in there at once. Ashley walked by and low and behold, got her bangs stuck in the tape! I thought that was the funniest thing ever! That is, until I bent down in front of it and caught the hair by my ear on it! That thing is really sticky! Then Morgan did the same thing!
Moral of the story....don't hang fly tape in the bedroom of your camper unless you have 20 foot ceilings. And I'm pretty sure there aren't any campers that do!