Gabby's - Page 89

LaVonne · #**881** 03-23-2007, 11:40 AM

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Well, now we are all curious?

Actually, I posted a day or so ago that my feet were burned, or I think I did! Anyway, they look pretty bad...all sorts of scar tissue and my toes just look nasty and somewhat deformed. It's not that big of a deal as it happened when I was 1yr...I've lived with it all my life. I just don't care to show them off!

myhaloisintheshop · #**882** 03-23-2007, 12:21 PM

my 9 year old is driving me nuts today. I can't even fathom how the child will act when he is a teenager. I may just call the mental institution and reserve a room

Margies3 · #**883** 03-23-2007, 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by rgcraig

Best treat you can give yourself!

Where I go has the chairs that massage you while you sit there too and it's just wonderful.

I'm sitting here chuckling, Renda, because those chairs are reminding me of the beds they used to have in the sleezy hotels where you could insert a quarter and the bed would vibrate for a few minutes. We found one of those places on our honeymoon by accident. We went to Pennsylvania and needed a place to stay way out in the boonies somewhere. All that was available was one of those little "Mom 'n Pop" places. It was clean and not full of hookers or anything. But it did have one of those beds. Walt was soooooooo funny! I bet he spent $10.00 on the bed that night. He'd put the quarter in, lay down and laugh till we both we crying.

Michlow · #**884** 03-23-2007, 12:26 PM

I'm bored.

Why can't there be any controversy here the day I am feeling so contentious?

Of all the times for this place to be mellow and peaceful.

Margies3 · #**885** 03-23-2007, 12:38 PM

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Originally Posted by myhaloisintheshop

my 9 year old is driving me nuts today. I can't even fathom how the child will act when he is a teenager. I may just call the mental institution and reserve a room

hehhee, Myhalo!! I understand what you are feeling. I remember thinking when my oldest son was about that age that I couldn't begin to imagine him as a teen!! Well, now he is 17. Most of the time, he's pretty cool. But every now and then................

How would you feel about getting adjoining rooms at the mental institution? I'm checking in soon!!

Margies3 · #**886** 03-23-2007, 12:46 PM

Actually, MyHalo, I can give you a great example of how it is when they are a teen - you'll feel so much better (NOT!)

Last week, my 17 year old son stole $20 out of his brother's bedroom. He didn't need the money. He was just mad at his brother and knew that if you want to get under his skin, all you have to do is mess with his money. Keith (the 13 year old) is VERY tight with his money!!

So then Justin went to youth group and was bragging to one of Keith's friends that he took it. That friend went to Keith (of course) and told him what Justin had said. So Keith came home and told me.

I asked Justin if he had taken it. His answer? "FINE! I'll give him the $20 and then all I'll left is $13." Well, duh! that's all he would have had if he had not stolen the money to begin with. So, he gave the money back.

But then I told him that there had to be a punishment for stealing. You can't steal and get away with it. As an adult, you go to jail for stealing!!! You should have seen him!! He went ballistic!! He was so mad that he was going to be punished (and he didn't even know yet what the punishment was going to be!). He's screaming at me and carrying on. In fact, he got so worked up, he hyper-ventilated!! And the final straw was this.......... He declared up and down that it was MY fault that he had taken that money. That if I "had been a better mother when he was little", he wouldn't have done it. Excuse me???

Needless to say, as a result of this, he has lost alot of privileges. And he had to write letters of apology to me (for his nasty words) and to Keith (for taking his money). And he had extra chores to do. And he knows he is skating on thin ice. He wants to go to Gatlinburg over EAster break with a friend. But it's only going to take one small infraction for that to not happen and he knows it.

So you think 9 is bad? hehehehehe Just wait!!

myhaloisintheshop · #**887** 03-23-2007, 01:54 PM

Oh Lord help me! LOL

Bryen is under the impression that he is mistreated. The kid gets just about everything he wants but if any attention is paid to his brothers he immediatly feels like he is abused. Ahhhh to be 9 and THAT be your biggest concern.

I have got to find a way to deal with him and his attitudes.

He keeps me prayed up that is for sure!

Margies3 · #**888** 03-23-2007, 02:03 PM

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Originally Posted by myhaloisintheshop

Oh Lord help me! LOL

Bryen is under the impression that he is mistreated. The kid gets just about everything he wants but if any attention is paid to his brothers he immediatly feels like he is abused. Ahhhh to be 9 and THAT be your biggest concern.

I have got to find a way to deal with him and his attitudes.

He keeps me prayed up that is for sure!

Oh my goodness! Are you sure that Bryen doesn't know my son, Justin? that's his line, too!

My friends said to me the other day that they were not really "praying people" until their daughter got into her teens and then she DROVE them to their knees. I laughed, but I completely understand.

rgcraig · #**889** 03-23-2007, 02:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Margies3

I'm sitting here chuckling, Renda, because those chairs are reminding me of the beds they used to have in the sleezy hotels where you could insert a quarter and the bed would vibrate for a few minutes. We found one of those places on our honeymoon by accident. We went to Pennsylvania and needed a place to stay way out in the boonies somewhere. All that was available was one of those little "Mom 'n Pop" places. It was clean and not full of hookers or anything. But it did have one of those beds. Walt was soooooooo funny! I bet he spent $10.00 on the bed that night. He'd put the quarter in, lay down and laugh till we both we crying.

Don't you love the memories!

LaVonne · #**890** 03-23-2007, 05:03 PM

Well ladies, I just found out that my grandpa has either lukemia or bone cancer. He's been sick and was in the hospital recently with pnumonia, is now home but not impoving, steadily growing worse. The blood tests just came back today...I guess he had an Uncle die from lukemia years ago.

The hardest part about all this is that I may not be able to attend the funeral when he does go...not only that, but most importantly, he does not know the Lord.