NumberCruncher

Not sure what your version of shared custody is. how often will the child be expected to spend time with the noncustodial parent? my son lives with me, but used to visit his dad during summer break, thanksgiving, and spring break. (this was when his dad still lived in the marital home.) when he up and moved to iowa, my son said no way. he knows no one else in that state and has no desire to spend his vacations being all time babysitter to his dad's new kids. while it worked for us, it worked well. now it doesn't work at all.

we painted the damn floors in the basement.

nope. nor a return pm. but it's all good. i'm needed at home tonight.

apparently, the evil prince has allowed his commerce membership to lapse.

that's what i was asking in my pm.

i sent a pm an hour and a half ago. haven't heard anything back yet.

survive?

My history with restaurant waiters is severely limiting our dinner options.

dang. my thought was about peanut butter. but you're right. and i need better/deeper thoughts.

judging by the amounts of folk tryin' to fix it for me, my little red one seems to be broken

i gotta get away from all these damn wagons.

i love knowin' that all these folk walk around annoyed or peeved for much of the day. prolly shows on their faces. makes 'em look constipated or on the verge of a stroke. reckon it's really worth all the personal angst? i mean, worryin' and critiquin' everything that comes out of someone else's mouth?

i know squat about dolls. my boys had a few stuffed bears and dogs when they were little, and now their girlfriends give them stuffed monkeys and crap at valentines or whatever. i do know that i don't pass the buck when it comes to talking to my kids about societal, political, or religious issues. those lessons are learned through parent child interaction in my household. not through toys. to each his own. including opinions. disagreeing doesn't make any one person more right or wrong than the other, when it comes to their feelings.

summers eve is great for that. i don't put much stock into patterns or conspiracy theories. i believe it's overpriced, only because it's supposed to be homeless. it's outlandish for a little girl to hafta ask someone to spend 100 bucks so she can learn abut how bad some other little girls have it. that's the hypocrisy of the doll. but that's just my opinion, and it don't count for too much around here anyway. :shrug:

without taking a side......l buying expensive shoes and enjoying them may be a luxury to some, a way of life for others. but nothing about those shoes pretends to compare themselves to, or educate someone about, homelessness. it's the hypocrisy of the doll itself that bothers me. if a percentage of the sales went towards homing the homeless, i'd see it differently.

who'da thunk that good advice woulda come from me? seriously though... wanna see people walkin' their walk? look at their posts. a person can tell you about their church, but their posts will show you the product of their church. practicing what's preached. so to speak.

i reccomend going into the religious forum and reading for a bit, then decide who you'd like to learn from, or sit next to....then ask them where they go to church.

yep. fraud is ugly. hopefully there will be prosecution.

only jackasses will let you know that they're 'planning' on surprising you 'later'. it doesn't earn brownie points in my book at all. if you wanna 'surprise' me. keep yer damn mouth shut til it's time to do the surprising.

i'm lettin 'em all starve.

self inflicted gun shot wound.

thank you for 13 years of service,

work. tux fitting (maybe). picking up a corsage (hopefully) publix shopping. dinner. an hour of tv. two loads of laundry.

i'm on the county line already!!! ps. that was my son, giving the closing speech, to the graduating class of 2008. i think we're doing ok. following the logic of the thread, it's not the school system that turns our bright, accomplished students with high test scores, it's the parents. cobb has better test scores than paulding = cobb has better parents than paulding. following the logic of this thread, of course.

crap. cobb has better parents than we do.