I’m Okbeejayzgang | May 16th, 2008 @ 11:17 pm
Thanks for the comments, ladies. I’m ok. Just had a conversation with someone earlier this week that reminded me how much on “display” I often feel. I guess more than anything, I’d like to know if everyone else has as much interference, unsolicited “advice”, and just plain crappy circumstances constantly bombarding them. Or am I just extra special??? 
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May 17, 2008 at 10:28 pm
Oh honey, when I ran around town with my 3 older ones (when they were little) I’d get a ton of well-meaning but busybodies (and even people I knew) telling me exactly how I should parent / teach / live / run my house.
Although a couple tiems when I had Kendra & Danny with me and people asked if they were all mine I said “YES!” and Kendra called me mom.
People still ask me my age. Because I’m too young looking to have a son in college! One of these days I swear I’m gonna say I had him at 13.
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May 17, 2008 at 10:34 pm
make sure you mention that your son is MARRIED!!! That’ll get ‘em! I guess because I wouldn’t dream of butting in (mostly because from experience I know that I don’t see even half of the whole picture, so how I can then give “advice” or whatever), it catches me off guard when others do. Anyway, I’m much better today. Had me a day of fixing up my garden, and it looks great, and I feel wonderful. Who knew dirt could fix your perspective???
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May 18, 2008 at 10:19 am
Insert old anecdote here about the lady who asked me how on earth would my kids ever get jobs with no diploma, and I had to tell her S & A weren’t with us because they were, you know, WORKING. At their jobs. :eyeroll:
Gettign out in the dirt *always* helps. unless it’s winter.