he can't be too busy if he's able to call that often...lol..nm

• How often do you hear from your DH/SO during the work day? - sm
  • My husband is a truckdriver and we talk...sm - curious girl
  • Hardly ever - PAMT~MDM
  • When I was married, my ex said.. - Lucy
    • My husband is entirely different in that - Annie
  • Too much - how bout once every half hour or so - I just gotta be me
  • Too much, but usually 1- 2 x a day - sm - XXX
  • At least once a day - LinK
    • I get the, did the kids get on the bus okay - sm - XXX
  • Never - Teresa
  • Mine works at home and we share - truffle
    • I certainly can relate! We have the exact same situation! - NYMT
  • When he is gone, we talk at least once a - Lovey
  • Hardly ever. - mt2
  • I hear from mine - at least 4-5 times a day...sm
    • he can't be too busy if he's able to call that often...lol..nm - mt2
      • Like I said... - at least 4-5 times a day...sm

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for having a slap fight with another child before school started.  I will never in all my life forget that.  It was awful and felt even more so because I am female.  I don't know what your daughter did to deserve this, but whatever it is as opposed to paddling she should be asked to write a report on why whatever she did is not appropriate.  It should have to be so many words and so many paragraphs, grammatically correct, and put forth in a positive manner.  I can see her having trust issues with men after this paddling situation especially older male figures in years to come. 

I hate to sound judgemental, but your post comes off like you are just way to busy to deal with your children when in fact you are responsible for them until they are 18.  I sure hope she doesn't hold this against you, but that's what I did at first.  I blamed my Mom for letting this man paddle my private area. 

yesterday i took my son to ball practice to see if he wanted to join.  the friend i talked about in this post, his mom was there.  (i knew the boy played ball, that's why my son wanted to play ball too).  so i told my son that we'd go watch and see if that's what he wants to do.  so i'm sitting there talking with the mom and i told her that i was a little scared of my son playing football because of getting hurt, etc.  that he had already had two broken bones.  she said that her husband (the dad that kicked the dog), has had several broken bones, from wrecks and she said when he was younger, he used to fight (like street fighting type stuff, not boxing).  but she said that he doesn't do that any more, we grow up as we get older.  i thought to myself, i guess he just beats up dogs now.  i'm going to check into what rescue groups are around here.  it's very obvious these dogs don't go to the vet for checkups.  even if there is no child abuse going on, the kids are going to think it's ok to hurt animals.

thanks for your opinions

to ask the kid exactly what the "stick" is before you jump to conclusions. He picked it, maybe he can handle it.

My daughter has some friends who have a son. The child, while very young, had a medical condition that was hard to diagnose, resulted in bruising of the body, some failure to thrive, etc. A neighbor thought the child was being abused, called the authorities and because at the time (10 years ago) the couple wasn't as responsible as they are now (some partying, not that great housekeeping) the child was taken away because of neglect. He and his wife were put in jail; once the other prisoners found out why he was in there they literally beat him to a pulp for supposed child abuse. He has plates in his head and face and is on permanent disability. Come to find out the child had some medical condition that was so very rare and caused the bruising and FTT. After about 6 months of a living h*ll, the authorities apologized to this guy and his wife and their child was given back to them.

Get as many facts as you can before making that call.  

If your apartment is individually metered, it probably is something as simple as they read the meter wrong.  I had that happen at a job one time and the meter was 1000 and they read it as 10,000.  They corrected it quite quickly for me.

This should be something that is fairly easily corrected once you get them on the phone.

So much as I would call it in love with one's spouse...

I do feel that if my husband and I divorced or were otherwise separated, I'd be completely lost, like I were missing a part of my body...a very important part. He is honestly my other half, I know no matter what happens, he will be there. It's wonderful to have someone that you know is coming home to you every day after work. To have someone to hash things out with, bounce ideas off of...and it's even better cause you're both on the same page, wanting the same things out of life.

It's funny cause my husband and I talked about the "what ifs" this weekend...what if we got divorced? what if one of us died? I couldn't imagine living my life without my husband. I love him and wouldn't want to go on without him...

In September I cosigned on an apartment for my niece and her friend.  At the time I had been to the ER three times with 102+ temp, then went in the hospital for about 2 weeks (know that is no excuse).  I actually do not remember signing the lease and believe me if I had read it I never would have let her sign because it has so any restrictions..  To make  a long story short, they have now moved out and the lease says in order to break it, they must pay 893 plus 2 months rent (another 1200 total).  Well guess who the sucker is left holding the bill on this one?  My niece says she has no money and won't even ask the other girl for her half.  Just a warning do not ever cosign anything unless you want to pay in the long run - I either pay or it goes on my credit - anybody have any suggestions or any ideas if I can do anything else without going broke?

Thanks

ME:  Hello?

CALLER:  Hello, does anyone at your home speak English?

ME:  What?  Of course I speak English.  I was born and raised in the US and speak no other language.  Why do you ask?

CALLER:  I'm so sorry ma'am.  This is Jody with the Police Benevelance fund and we'd like to ask for a contribution for.....

ME (immediately cutting her off):  Ma'am, how dare you have the audacity to call my home, ask me if I speak English and then want to ask me for a donation?  Donkeys would fly before I'd give your organization a penny as you have now totally insulted me, a bona-fide English speaking American Citizen - one without an accent other than being Southern. 

Can you believe it?  My husband stood there shaking his head as I let into this lady.   It's bad enough to call somewhere and hear "press 1 for English, 2 for Spanish...." but to have someone call you and ask if you speak English is absurd.

I have privacy director from bellsouth and also am on the donotcall.gov list and phone#.  However, I continually get a call with no one speaking from a SEBELL - I looked up SEBELL and it's a telecommunications company that once got into big trouble - with telemarketing - and now it *looks* as though they are back.  The only thing I could do with that number was STAR (*) 60 which blocks only 6 telephone numbers via bellsouth.

Check at the link below and find out what similar houses in your area are going for. If there are houses in your area with "for sale" signs with the name of a realtor, look up that realtor's listings and see what they are asking.

That way, when you do contact the realtors and they come out and give you an estimate, you will know if they are being honest with you or not. Some realtors will give you a low-ball figure because they want a quick sale and a quick commission. Some will price property too high and when it doesn't sell, then they will hit you for the lower price for a quick sale.

That is not to say all realtors are dishonest - there are lots of good folks out there. But, like any other profession, there are a few bad apples, too.

We just sold our house last year, so I do have some recent experience in that area. Here is where I found my realtor: http://www.daveramsey.com/sa/realestate/ .  You can also find some very good financial advice on that site.

Good luck!