Halloween 2011

My little granddaughter came down to show us her costume (and get her candy!). She was very proud of her school (a 4 star), and her mother hopes that she can still attend it although they have moved to another county.
I need to move to another area of the country.  This state is literally killing me. The stress from all  the things they did to my kids and me during my divorce and child custody years.  Can you believe it took me 8 years to get custody of my children - and I scored the highest on the parenting test of anyone in this area.  Why does the court order tests and other things, and when the outcome differs from what they expect, they just ignore it?  How children suffer from this attitude!
And the time it takes for judges to make decisions! They either don't realize - more likely don't care - that the child's soul will shrivel and fade away.  What is a person without a soul? My son is a prime example of how the courts and their minions literally ruin children's lives. We believe adulthood begins at 18, a fraction of the rest of life, but the most formative years. These are the years when a child's morals and values are formed. By the time, we finally got judge #3 to listen to us, my son was nearly destroyed.

So much to do~

I still don't have my presentations finished.  My printer doesn't work, and I need to make copies of things in order to finish them..  I'm getting a LOT stressed.  I WILL get them finished: it's just that I wanted them finished earlier.  Unfortunately, I have felt miserable during the last few months and didn't get them finished like I had planned.  Nothing goes as planned, though, as you just have to "roll with the punches!" 
Well, I must get back to work. Just a couple of weeks until the presentations are due!

Another Beautiful Day

The titile says it all: today was a beautiful day.  It started off slowly, but by noon, the weather was sunny and beautiful.  As the days draw closer to winter, these bright sunny days are greatly appreciated.
I've been thinking a lot about dissociation lately.  It seems to be a one of those double standard topics. I can dissociate while sitting in a boring lecture or driving down familiar stretches of road, but when it comes to dissociative identity, it can't be done.  Why not?  Why can't a personality shatter and break into tiny little fragments. After all, the human soul is more fragile than the finest crystal. Thoughtless words break the spirit everyday. Abuse shatters the psyche: it actually is murder. The body continues to live, but the soul is changed forever.

The Visit

Just had a lovely visit from my daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter.  We spent a lot of time shopping, talking, going places, etc.  The big trip was to the pumpkin patch in southern Indiana.  The whole family usually goes. My middle daughter didn't go this time as she and her husband were attending a wedding in Chicago, so they were certainly missed!  Little Ella had a great time.  She rode the pony three times, played in a corn box (like a sand box), jumped once on the bouncy ride, went down a huge slide with her mother several times, and then went to the pumpkin patch via a hay ride where we picked our pumpkins - personally - from the patch.  Ella wanted to carry one of my little gourds, but it met its demise when she tripped on a vine.
Later that evening, we had a family reunion to celebrate Rachel's birthday.  Everyone was there but her twin brother, Ben., making the evening bittersweet.
The seven (almost) days that they were here flew by and now leaves a hole in my heart, but it won't be long before I'll be going to Colorado to help out when baby Aubrey arrives!

Wannabe

Watching one of my favorite Without a Trace(s). One of the lines in the show is: How could this kid have so many enemies?  Because 75% of us would have followed the Nazi's.  Because it's easier to "kick a man when he's down." We follow the crowd AND do what's easiest.  It's difficult to stand up for a cause - especially when no one wants to hear.  One of the biggest sins that is committed is the sin of complacency.  We don't want to hear about the bad in the world.  It's just easier to go along with our own life and ignore the suffering in the next world, or the next block, or, next door.
I "enjoy" this episode because it demonstrates how kids can be so cruel to one another - both in person and through cyberbullying.  How everone wants to fit in, and how far they'll go in order to do so.

Interesting Day

We had an interesting day.  Luckily, nothing big, or bad, happened today. It was rather long as we (my mother and I) went to the doctor today - over an hour a piece!  She has to go back Friday afternoon, so I guess I'll be taking my computer and notes and be working on my presentation for November.  It's coming up shortly!  I still have to finish one and begin the other.  Taok about procrastination!  Actually, I haven't felt very well. I'm just hoping I'll be able to get up and go on the days they're due; both presentations are early - and in Indianapolis!! Maybe while I'm there, I'l stop by Tony Stewart's office and tell him what I think about Indiana teaching!!!
Back to the presentations: I need to get my texting one on a power point, get my notes done and on a power point, and PRACTICE!!!!!
I still can't get that last episode of Toddlers and Tiaras out of my mind.  The mother actually believed that she and her child were one. What a horrible life for that child.
Teen dating violence.  How it's changed over the years.  I know that kids are still violent - physically - with one another, but like bullying, it has expanded so greatly.  Now kids can threaten their "steady" by texting and over the Internet.  What a world.  Why do people have to be so mean to each other?  I just think it's so much easier to be nice to others than mean!

Whew! It's been a long time!

I haven't written for a while - I've been sick!  I don't know why I'm so tired all the time.  I guess it's the fibromyalgia.  Which is not good because I wanted to get started with life coaching, at the least and try to build up a client list. But, all I've done is sleep, get up, and rest.  I think I might be feeling a little better - just not much.
I have finally begun to work on my presentations on Teen Dating Violence and Texting, Sexting, and Cyberbullying.  I need to finish up my notes for the texting presentation and get dating violence one done.  Well, as Scarlet said, "After all, tomorrow is another day!"
I don't know why, but I love watching "Toddlers in Tiaras."  The show this past week was really revealing. I couldn't believe the woman who actually believed that she and her daughter were one in feeling about pageants! Most, no all, appear to believe that they are actually taking their children to pageants because the child enjoys them! At 2 weeks?! Come on?  These women need to get another hobby.  Maybe they should take up knitting.  I enjoy it!
Well, I'm glad to be back and hope to write more frequently.
Ciau.