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Whatever possessed me to go to Walmart o…

Whatever possessed me to go to Walmart on the weekend after a big storm with Keeper!?!?!?
First we had to talk about all the choices of donut – even those she doesn’t like – ok that was cute. We get the donut and the whining starts – Can I have one of Treasures’s munchkins? Can I see this? Can we go over there? Why is this taking FOREVER? Why do we have to get so much stuff?
Mom: REALLY? Why do we have to get so much stuff? Do you LIKE TO EAT? Do you like clean sheets?
Keeper: “Gees Mom!”
She has to hang on to the side of the cart because either she thinks I’m following her and she wanders off or she gets just slightly ahead of me and I run over her with the cart.
First she’s pushing the cart because she wants to get done faster, so the cart drifts to the right and by the end she’s dragging so the cart is drifting to the left.
Whining because she has to walk, whining because I’m not going fast enough, whining because I’m going to fast.
I finally get the girls back in the truck, buckled in, all the stuff in the truck, I get in and Riley asks “Mom why don‘t you ever take me shopping?”
Treasure, the toddler, sat quietly in the cart and never said a word – the ENTIRE 20 MINUTES!!!
The other thing, Keeper is a bean pole with the destruction capability of an elephant! Every time she turns around she knocks over a display or falls over or causes someone else to knock something over or she walks into something – her mouth is the same height as the bar of the cart now, want to guess how many times she ran into the bar on the cart?
And every time she causes a catastrophe her eye’s get as big as silver dollars and she says “OH I AM SO SORRY!” and she really means it!
She is completely oblivious to what is behind her or on either side of her or even what could be there. It’s like she’s so smart that the obvious doesn’t penetrate her skull.

Today we are having a “Day of Crap” in…

Today we are having a “Day of Crap” in THANKS that yesterdays “Day Of Crap-o-la” is OVER!!!
We had crap for breakfast (cream horns), It’s crappy, but beautiful outside, we are having crap for lunch (TGIF’s cheese & bacon potatoes), we are having crap for dinner (pizza rolls) with soda and we have fudge.
And at some point I’m sure every…one in our house will give thanks by taking a crap!

Teachers’ hefty salaries are driving up…

Teachers’ hefty salaries are driving up taxes, and they only work 9 or10 months a year! It’s time we put things in perspective and pay them for what they do – babysit!
We can get that for less than minimum wage.
That’s right. Let’s give them $3.00 an hour and only the hours they worked; not any of that silly planning time, or any time they spend before or after school. That would be $19.50 a day (7:45 to 3:00 PM with 45 min. off for lunch and plan– that equals 6 1/2 hours).
Each parent should pay $19.50 a day for these teachers to baby-sit their children. Now how many students do they teach in a day…maybe 30? So that’s $19.50 x 30 = $585.00 a day.
However, remember they only work 180 days a year!!! I am not going to pay them for any vacations.
LET’S SEE…. That’s $585 X 180= $105,300 per year. (Hold on! My calculator needs new batteries).
What about those special education teachers and the ones with Master’s degrees? Well, we could pay them minimum wage ($7.75), and just to be fair, round it off to $8.00 an
hour. That would be $8 X 6 1/2 hours X 30 children X 180 days = $280,800 per year.
Wait a minute — there’s something wrong here! There sure is!
The average teacher’s salary (nation wide) is $50,000. $50,000/180 days = $277.77/per day/30 students=$9.25/6.5 hours = $1.42 per hour per student–a very inexpensive baby-sitter and they even EDUCATE your kids!) WHAT A DEAL!!!!
Make a teacher smile; repost this to show appreciation for all educators.

How people start drama in your life Actual…

How people start drama in your life. Actual Content – it happens!
I attempt to avoid drama at all costs, but there are those people, those you can’t get away from who just drag you in, here’s how.
You say something to someone, post something somewhere, vent a little frustration in the way of a friend looking for support. Friends take their queue and start to show this support – but then there is that one person who knows exactly how you should run your life, raise your children, straighten out your marriage, spend your money, where you should live and she’s not giving you advice, she’s telling you what to do. There is a difference between giving a advice and telling people what to do. One you give and walk away, the other you try to force down someone’s throat and shame them into it.
So now that person has told you what to do, usually using all CAPs, they don’t have all the facts, but they have all the answers.
When you pointing out that they don’t have all the facts, they demand to hear all the facts. And in that one second, trying to be polite or trying to stay calm or trying to avoid larger issues or trying to just keep them out of your hair, you attempt to calmly explain to them why they don’t have a clue without actually saying YOU DON’T HAVE A CLUE.
This is where assumption and implied meaning come in. These are 2 things I have never been able to grasp. I’m a black and white person, it’s either 0 or 1, hot or cold, yes or no. I don’t understand the ‘say one thing, but means another, assume she is saying that‘ that every other woman on the planet seems to understand – BUT ME!
You tell it like it is being as calm as you possibly can, but here is the problem, you’re justifying why you’re not doing what you’re told, by a person who doesn’t have all the facts and they don’t want to hear that. They just want you to do what you’re told because it makes them feel a little better, because they are so much better than you.
They take what you “meant” and not what you “said” and decide to spread it around a little, getting everyone else’s opinion and at the same time enrage everyone because you are not doing what they told you to do, because lets remember they are so much better than you and they know far more than you about everything.
Now there are some people out there who have REAL drama in their lives. Parents they have lost recently, family members they are taking care of, illnesses they are dealing with, REAL issues, and they don’t need to hear about the petty reasons you are giving the drama queen to get the drama queen off your back!
Those people I avoid like the plague so I don’t say something stupid and make their suffering worse. But now the drama queen, working off a little frustration of her own, has now brought a person who is truly suffering into the mix, explained to that poor person what you ‘really meant’ and not what you actually ‘said’. They talk it to death, enraging each other and agree to lambaste the target of all their frustration, hurt and pain. Because that has to be ME! If I had simply done what I was told, no matter what the consequences to my family, children, safety, or anything else – THEY wouldn’t be suffering as they are now from their completely unrelated issues.