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Subject: Do you ever wonder if it's you that's insane and everyone else is normal?

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Lori

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Date Posted: 19:17:01 08/27/06 Sun
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Okay the pesky neighbor boys are back at grandmas. They move in and out depending on mom's financial situation.

There are 3 of them Pedro is 8 and in 3rd grade with Ryan, Jacob is around 5 or 6 and in K or 1 (he isn't in Nathan's class is all I know but we have 4 K classes that meet morning and afternoon) and then there is a little one around 3 I'd guess.

They were at my house by 8:30 yesterday. They are constantly asking my boys to give them their toys. Pedro wanted Ryan's camera that he got for his birthday. They do have bikes this time, but they are all too small for them and crappy deluxe. At noon I sent them home because we were about to eat. At 12:30 I told them not to ring the door bell again that when the boys could/ wanted to play they would be outside. They told me there wasn't any food at their house and they had to wait for their mom to wake up. I knew they'd had doritos earlier so I told them I was sorry, but I didn't have anything extra (not far from true). I'm not going to start a habit of feeding 3 extra kids. At 12:45 I hear knocking on the window and the 3 year old is on the porch peeking in the window. I went out and told him to go home. He just stood there and kept peeking in so I closed the blinds. The older kids were not around.

The boys played on and off all afternoon, but Ryan was quickly getting feed up. Pedro is street smart and Ryan isn't so Pedro always wins etc because he cheats, lies, and steals kwim?

Finally I made the boys come in to take baths because we were going to eat at a new restaurant - kind of a treat for us. We left and went to eat and had a very nice time.

Then on the way home as we drive past the boy's house Ryan says Jacob has my gun. It's a gun he bought at the North Pole 3 years ago so it's kind of special. I told him to go down and get it. In a minute he comes back and says that the gun is in the house - huh? I said well go tell them you want it back. He then comes back and says the mom says if her child finds it he can keep it. Alrighty. I go down and ask for the gun she gives it to me, but says that if her child finds it again he is keeping it. I told her he didn't find it he took it from our house earlier and that I'd asked the boys all day not to take the toys out of the yard, house, etc. She said he found it in another yard two houses down. Well that's the house of an elderly lady with no kids and my boys know better than to play in her yard. IF it was there it's because Jacob left it there. I told her that regardless it's stealing because it isn't his and that if it happens again I will call the police and report not only the theft, but how unsuprivised her kids are. I then told the boys that they can not play with the kids anymore. - GEEZ - parent ordained sneaky theft is what you call it I guess. If you carry it off and then "find it" later it's yours - whatever!

On another note Friday I went to a teacher supply store.
They have a little nook with a box of toys and a TV - assumably for children to play with. Nathan and Hannah where sitting there watching TV and playing with the toys. They were not loud or anything. I was looking at some bulletine board stuff and I hear this young girl say "Geez people should really monitor their children so they don't bug others." WTF??? Seriously they weren't making any noise or bothering others. I said just as loudly "Nathan and Hannah, thank you so much for playing so nicely and not bothering people." This girl was with her mom and the mom gave me a dirty look - well listen honey come find me in 10/15 years when you are the mother of 3 who needs to run errands with her 3 children and then tell me if they were bothering anyone. I just assumed if the store had a problem with my kids playing in that area they wouldn't ahve it there - wouldn't you?

So anyway I'm just wondering if I'm not the one who has it all wrong these days and quiet children who don't steal anything aren't what we should be shooting for. Maybe I should be trying to raise dishonest, noisy brats that terrorize stores and take anything the want.

Hope you all had a less annoying weekend than I.

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Subject	Author	Date
Ah, Lori, I've pondered this myself lately!	Beth	20:09:12 08/27/06 Sun
on the disney chick if she was from CA (m -- Brandie, 01:37:52 08/28/06 Mon
yep!	Brandie	01:57:05 08/28/06 Mon