Would I have gone! Its just that my particular brand of combo perimenopausal mood swings and fury at my kids just did not ever go over that edge the West Chester County Mom went over last Sunday. She was so mad at her fighting daughters she threw them out of the car. The 10 year old never made it back into the car.
Here is where I have an issue with the supposed "good samaritan" who called the police! I have a feeling that this 10 year old girl who lives in a 2 million dollar house is a quite savy,with it,sophisticated kid who has a cell phone and knows how to text. This is no waif in the storm for days gone by and anybody with experience with kids in the 2000's knows this..... I am also sure she can match my two daughters at that age when there smug,heaven looking glances and smart mouths could send you just short of a giant slap.
Had I been the person to happen upon this girl in very nice White Plains I would have asked what her Mom's cell phone number was and called the Mom and say I will chat with your daughter until things calm down. There was no need to involve the police and social services. I think the girl,or more like it,the mom had the bad luck to run into some righteous goodie,gooie who never had an irritating 10 year old!
Friday, April 24, 2009
Saturday, April 18, 2009
"Elderly Graviderum"
Thats what it said on my medical records when I gave birth to DD#2 18 years ago today! I think by this time they have upped the date they start putting THAT on woman's charts!
One thing good about having a baby at 40 is when that baby grows up people assume you are younger because you have this child who is say still in high school! So sometimes assumptions are not bad.
One thing good about having a baby at 40 is when that baby grows up people assume you are younger because you have this child who is say still in high school! So sometimes assumptions are not bad.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Happy Easter- Mom Musings........
Honestly,old menopausal me could have gone to the sunrise service at church! I remind me of the lady who hears the rooster in the sleeping pill commercial...on some days!
The day should progress as follows: Trying to get the two darling daughters up and out the door on time for church that starts at 9:30. Daughter no. 2 is a crucifer so she better be ready! Forget son! I know he worked hard yesterday and last night,got in late and it is not worth the fight!
Its a friends Easter as the old people bailed(big surprise there)so it should be a relaxed laid back time!
Hail,Hail Festival Day......
The day should progress as follows: Trying to get the two darling daughters up and out the door on time for church that starts at 9:30. Daughter no. 2 is a crucifer so she better be ready! Forget son! I know he worked hard yesterday and last night,got in late and it is not worth the fight!
Its a friends Easter as the old people bailed(big surprise there)so it should be a relaxed laid back time!
Hail,Hail Festival Day......
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Current Reads; Other Stuff
Its been a rough couple of days. Bad news on the income front. Not a lay off or anything just a reconfiguration on hubby's behalf which will cut our income. I hope things improve in the fall when we both could HOPE to find something.
Time Magazine has what I call a neat system for reviewing books. READ SKIM TOSS!!!!
So I am definetly skimming John Grogans's memoir, The Longest Trip Home. His parents were so profoundly Catholic that his life and that of his siblings was like child abuse I swear! Family vacations to shrines,hymns at dinner,giving up your room for 7 inner city Detroit kids! I am liking the second half where he grows up,becomes a newspaper reporter and meets his future wife! When he moved in with her his parents flipped. Like they actually thought a thirty year old guy in the 70's and 80's was celibate till marriage. Give me a break!
My upstairs book,Glass Houses is a very intelligently done mystery by Jane Haddam that takes place in Philadelphia. Apparently this prolific writer has 26 or so other books featuring this retired FBI guy,Gregor Demarkian. Dull so far but I like all the mentions of Philly stuff.
Time Magazine has what I call a neat system for reviewing books. READ SKIM TOSS!!!!
So I am definetly skimming John Grogans's memoir, The Longest Trip Home. His parents were so profoundly Catholic that his life and that of his siblings was like child abuse I swear! Family vacations to shrines,hymns at dinner,giving up your room for 7 inner city Detroit kids! I am liking the second half where he grows up,becomes a newspaper reporter and meets his future wife! When he moved in with her his parents flipped. Like they actually thought a thirty year old guy in the 70's and 80's was celibate till marriage. Give me a break!
My upstairs book,Glass Houses is a very intelligently done mystery by Jane Haddam that takes place in Philadelphia. Apparently this prolific writer has 26 or so other books featuring this retired FBI guy,Gregor Demarkian. Dull so far but I like all the mentions of Philly stuff.
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Palm Sunday
It is a tradition at my church for us to line up on the front lawn and have the beginning of the Palm Sunday litergy outside. Then we are handed palm fronds and we sing the entrance hymn.
It must be because of recent March Easters,having to go visit the in-laws so we didn't have to do it on Easter, and the weather,I don't remember doing this for many a year. Today was beautiful so the old traditon was upheld!
It must be because of recent March Easters,having to go visit the in-laws so we didn't have to do it on Easter, and the weather,I don't remember doing this for many a year. Today was beautiful so the old traditon was upheld!
Friday, April 3, 2009
Book Club Ramblings........
Tonight is our meeting. Literary League Of Extraordinary Women
The book to discuss is Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut. Yes,a Nazi book! Not my fav. by any stretch but that is another story! So Lise and I decided to bring a German dessert??? But I could not find anything in the local bakery so I got brownies and cookies. B U T....ahah!!!!!....You never know whats in my house left over from my deceased parent's incredible supplies of miscellaneous junk...I have cocktail napkins from Germany. They say Bremen on them and have a picture of the town circa 1600 something! The girls will get a kick out of that.
The meeting is at Anne's house in Berlin,NJ...bet nobody has picked up on that irony of that!!!!!
The book to discuss is Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut. Yes,a Nazi book! Not my fav. by any stretch but that is another story! So Lise and I decided to bring a German dessert??? But I could not find anything in the local bakery so I got brownies and cookies. B U T....ahah!!!!!....You never know whats in my house left over from my deceased parent's incredible supplies of miscellaneous junk...I have cocktail napkins from Germany. They say Bremen on them and have a picture of the town circa 1600 something! The girls will get a kick out of that.
The meeting is at Anne's house in Berlin,NJ...bet nobody has picked up on that irony of that!!!!!
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Another Quote From A Book On Aging......
This is from a book called When You Lie About Your Age The Terrorists Win by Carol Leifer. I do not get this title at all but the woman is funny...
From her 40 things I know at 50........."Never buy expensive thong underwear. One trip through the dryer and its a frilly bookmark!"
Thongs...as if!!!!!!!
From her 40 things I know at 50........."Never buy expensive thong underwear. One trip through the dryer and its a frilly bookmark!"
Thongs...as if!!!!!!!
Drinking From The Fountqain Of Youth-More Magazine
from a book by Suzanne Braun Levine called 50 Is the New 50:
About having second thoughts on revealing she was 65.......
"It surprised me how hard it has been to admit in print to being 65. It wasn't the number that bothered me so much as the fear that when people knew my age they would catagorize me. I didn't want to be disqualified from a lifetime of being connected to other woman of any age. We may not all share the same birthday,but we have shared some life experiences."
Yea to all girl!
About having second thoughts on revealing she was 65.......
"It surprised me how hard it has been to admit in print to being 65. It wasn't the number that bothered me so much as the fear that when people knew my age they would catagorize me. I didn't want to be disqualified from a lifetime of being connected to other woman of any age. We may not all share the same birthday,but we have shared some life experiences."
Yea to all girl!
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Lets keep it light and good natured on the comments!
For me,new to this blog world,I think there is enough screaming and yelling coming from the news media that we don't need to get into arguments with eachother!
Today"s Snippets!
Being laid off and and getting a variety of things to read delivered to my house,I often read things I would like to share! Since hubby is only interested in Vampire movies and American Idol I have to unload someplace!!!!!
This is from FAST COMPANY a magazine that comes to this house for what reason or how I do not know! It is from an article on suggestions to the president on how to cure the ails of the auto industry.
"The auto companies are unfunded benefit plans that make cars on the side. The government must institute a national health plan that frees the Big Three(and others)from current and retiree medical costs; it must assume responsibility for pension obligations in exchange for equity."
as a former group benefit analyst for 20 cumulative years,I can say that there are huge inequities out there as far as health ins goes. At least this country's citizens need preventative things covered so they don't show up in the ER needing thousands of dollars in care.
ON A FUNNY NOTE: from today's Courier Post cooking section:
"it is odd how all men develop the notion, as they grow older,that their mothers were wonderful cooks. I have yet to meet a man who will admit that his mother was a kitchen assassin and nearly poisoned him."
Robertson Davies,Canadian author 1913-1995
This is from FAST COMPANY a magazine that comes to this house for what reason or how I do not know! It is from an article on suggestions to the president on how to cure the ails of the auto industry.
"The auto companies are unfunded benefit plans that make cars on the side. The government must institute a national health plan that frees the Big Three(and others)from current and retiree medical costs; it must assume responsibility for pension obligations in exchange for equity."
as a former group benefit analyst for 20 cumulative years,I can say that there are huge inequities out there as far as health ins goes. At least this country's citizens need preventative things covered so they don't show up in the ER needing thousands of dollars in care.
ON A FUNNY NOTE: from today's Courier Post cooking section:
"it is odd how all men develop the notion, as they grow older,that their mothers were wonderful cooks. I have yet to meet a man who will admit that his mother was a kitchen assassin and nearly poisoned him."
Robertson Davies,Canadian author 1913-1995
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