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I'm just curious.

I am a Germanic blend. The Scandinavians are actually one of the original Germanic tribes. I was born in Sweden, raised in Norway, had German Father and live in the US.  I learned Swedish and Norwegian at the same time, English later and can fling a phrase or two in German. (Tho I read it better, if slowly, than I could ever speak it.) My preferred  method of communication is actually what a friend refers to as "Swenglish" but is a weird mix of all my favorite languages.

I consider myself a Scandinavian, but I am a Californian as well. This is my home now, even if I do sometimes pine for the fjords. (Gratuitous Monty Python reference, for you slow types!)

I have actually met people who do not know where their ancestors hailed from! That is inconceivable to me!

So, tell me about your family and language, please. I find this kind of thing interesting. 

Where are you from? Where did your ancestors come from? What language do you speak in the home growing up? What language do you speak now in your home?

Like I said, just curious.

I am getting a string of foreign dictators, the kind who can barely speak English.  On top of that, they are disorganized, mumbly.  It just irks me that I have to lose money listening to their rambling, unintelligible gibberish, long pauses.  They have sick people in their own countries, why aren't they there taking care of them?   I get 2 or 3 of these people and my line count goes right down the tubes.

I don't want to hear from you bleeding hearts - all the mularkey about we are all immigrants, etc.    I don't want to hear about how your favorite dictators are foreigners.  I'm not talking about dictators with accents, I'm talking about doctors who cannot speak decent English and yet are allowed to practice here.

I have a 2005 Chevy Malibu Maxx. My last car is a 93 Buick Century wagon. I sold it to my nephew and he's still driving it. My car before that was a 2004 Chevy Malibu Maxx.

Both Maxxes have 3.5 motors. I'm squeezing out an average of 24 mpg. I do mostly city driving. On a road trip last month the average was 38.6 mpg. The Buick wagon has a 3.3. The car is bigger so the mileage was lower but around 18 mpg.

I have not owned a foreign car since 1996.

When I went to Southern Tennessee with DD2 to look at a college, I was surprised that I wasn't hearing much of a Southern accent in the people around me. They all pretty much sounded like me.

Are accents dying out? Do you have an accent?

face what you're suggesting?  (and I'm not talking about the situation with Mexico, rather ALL foreign countries actually)

ALL your relatives/kin came from some foreign land, that is unless you are a Native American.  Think y'all better think before you type on this subject...and try to remember what all your grandparents or great-grandparents, (or even some parents today) had to go through so that YOU all can live and be free (and some of them did not do it legally)....Think Ellis Island...for one place.... where everyone just GRABBED names.....

those who live in glass houses or lived in glass houses via ancestry should never throw stones.....

I think, JMO, that we should CLOSE THE DOORS TO EVERYBODY.....and then get rid of the wet-foot-dry-foot policy ongoing in Florida too that merely caters to the Cubans......and to nobody else trying to escape their country(ies) for the same exact reasons (sociopolitcoeconomical reasons) as the Cubans.  We should close our borders because of running out of natural resources and we already are having problems taking care of our own.

jes' my nickel's worth....LOL

the Lincoln is currently in storage, as 8 mph is not really practical.  never had a foreign car, was raised by dad to never do such a thing 

OK - this is going to be a shocker post, but if I went too much into detail, I would be here for a day-and-a-half - my main question is this - does anyone know why a 7-year-old little boy would be wetting his bed every single night?  All I can think is abuse and have researched it and know there are other reasons possible, but given the situation, again, all I can think is abuse...

This is a REALLY messed up family:

The situation is my sister-in-law has been incarcerated for hiring someone to kill her husband.  She has 7 children, 2 children out on their own, and 5 minor children that have been split up between family members.  The youngest is the 7-year-old that I mentioned above.  He was born out of wedlock and her husband adopted him when he was 5.  Her husband is an alcoholic - a bad one. 

Her husband did not die but called 911 and got help.  He is out of the hospital now and has had regular visitation with my 7-year-old nephew.  The husband and his family members, who he has been staying with, claim that he is not drinking and they have a "no tolerance" policy in their home, but now he wants to keep my nephew and live with him in the house where he was attacked, just the two of them. 

My other sister-in-law has had this little boy since this incident happened and stated that he wets his bed every single night.  Without fail.  He just turned 7 this month.  I have his 2 half-sisters in my home, and they told me that he has been doing this for as long as they can remember.  They are 10 and 11.

I am sorry if this post is disjointed and does not make sense.  The bottom line here is I am suspecting something really bad and I wanted to get some opinions.  Does anyone have any knowledge or experience with nocturnal enuresis in a child that age?  Should I be worried??  He wants to take this boy from now on and have him live with him, and we really don't know what we can do about it!  I just have a really bad feeling...Thanks.