I am writing this from work. The phones and the people constantly coming into my office to talk to me during the work week kept me from finishing a project, so I am here. I don’t normally post on Saturday, but I had to today, because if I don’t let these feelings out then I might explode (and that would be messy).
The girlies are here with me and we had a wonderful day planned – so many things to get done:
1. work
2. JCPenneys – birthday gift for my niece and new bras for me (when you lose weight … you lose it even in places you don’t want to)
3. Walgreens – to buy things with coupons (of course!)
4. CVS – to pick up my prescriptions for my sinus/jaw/ear/brain problems
5. Ross and/or Tuesday Morning – to look for frames for the pics that need to (finally) be hung in the hallway and for yoga mats (the girlies and I start yoga tomorrow!)
6. Lunch (probably Taco Bueno, because they love it and Derek doesn’t – so we only get to eat there when we don’t have him with us)
7. Pick up the girlies name signs for their room – I can’t wait to see them – will take pics and post them next week.
I was so looking forward to getting so much done today, but as I type this the urge to cry and scream and hit things is almost overwhelming. About an hour ago I got a text message from the family friend that Riley is working for. One of them thinks they saw Riley take money out of the money bag and now money is missing.
….. and here we go again … I just don’t know how much longer I can defend somebody who keeps getting themselves in these situations. Nobody wants to believe that their kid is a thief ….. but ….
So I am going to try to not ruin the day for the girls, but now there is a dark cloud over me … and I keep thinking that maybe my friend was right … “we should have got a goldfish instead”.
So sorry, Gina! That sucks! Try to put it out of your head while you hang with the girls today, then deal with him tonight after the girls are safely tucked in bed. Hugs.
The girlies and I had a pretty good day, but the cloud of the situation stuck around.
Bless your heart.
It’s so hard to stay present in the moment for people who need you, when you’d rather be opening a can of whup ass on a teenagers head.
Amen to that one sista! I just get so tired of them making really stupid decisions!
That seriously stinks. So sorry!
Thank you Tamara – sometimes this raising kids stuff is no fun at all. If this kid had been a goldfish, I think that we would have flushed him by now … or at least sent him away to goldfish boarding school.
I am sorry to hear about all the junk you’re dealing with, but the visual of you holding the kid above the toilet in preparation to flush him just made me laugh so hard. Thanks for that.
Man.. the only thing that worked for me in this situation was embarrassment. I was 5 though so I actually had a conscience.. not sure many teens do. I stole a shell from a store after my mom told me no. She saw that I had it and took me back, made me apologize to the manager and return the shell. I never stole anything again.
25 years later, I still remembered that when I went on my honeymoon and saw the same kind of shell at a store… I went in just to buy that.
Good luck.. I hope it’s not true, but if it is, stay strong.
I hope that the guy that he works for scares the crap out of him – so if he didn’t do it then he sure won’t think about ever doing it.
Today is Sunday and I am just managing to get some time to do a bit of blog reading and leaving comments also before I have to stop to cook tea.
Cook tea? We nuke ours
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I really feel like I didn’t get a weekend at all … and next weekend might not be any better. We have a family reunion on Saturday and I am going to a yoga class on Sunday.