seriously disgusting how this holiday

• Memorial Day weekend - mtmtmt
  • Also working all weekend and today, but... - PAMT~MDM
  • Didn't plan it, but seems I am spending mine with a SM - NOT AGAIN!
  • seriously disgusting how this holiday - has turned into a vacation/shopping
  • I am going to visit my mom... - lessMT
  • One of my fav holiday weekends, second - only to Black Friday!!!
  • Holiday for MTs? - Unheard of. - ermt
  • Relaxing - LinK
  • What is a holiday? I don't know anymore. NM - What else?
  • weekend - jlynn

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The Westboro Baptist Church that protests at soldiers' funerals is planning to protest at a funeral tomorrow for one of the VT students.  I don't know if my link will work, but there is a whole page on The Smoking Gun.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0420071ghf1.html?link=rssfeed

While I do agree that the above poster has every right to make up what rules she wants followed in her house and feel this should be respected by her children, I don't think there is anything wrong with 2 consenting adults having sex married or not.  It's not the 1920s anymore, and woman can have and enjoy sex just as much as man can and shouldn't be called immoral for it.  If a man or woman wants to have consensual sex, that doesn't make them bad or lesser or a human being, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with it as long as they are safe.  It is up to them and not for anyone else to judge.  Sex is quite natural.  It's not some big evil thing to be ashamed of.  You do what is right for you, and other people will do what is right for them!  I just don't understand why the majority of people are so worried and so quick to jump to conclusions about what other people do

As far as girls having a lot of partners because they start early, that's not necessarily the case either.  I started having sex when I was 16, and I'm still with the same man 15 years later.  If that makes me immoral in anyone's eyes, I'm quite sure I won't lose any sleep tonight.

and that's putting it mildly....sounds like someone with no heart whatsoever and whose life is *immaculate*.....sorry, ain't happenin.....we all have stories.....sad ones at that....

AND we all have probably come a VERY long way from our own beginnings too......*said humbly and thankfully*

Have a nice day!

what works to keep you in budget if you have one?   My husband and teenager went WAY over budget last year for Christmas so this year I've told them that it's cash only for their purchases and no internet shopping (that got them in trouble last year buying too much stuff because they didn't bother to track how much they were spending).

We've got $1300 budgeted for this Christmas.  That includes $150 each kid for Santa gifts (2 kids), $100 each for my husband and myself to get each other something, each of us gets $100 total to get gifts for each other (i.e. kids get $100 to buy gifts for each other as well as we parents), $50 each allotted for our 3 parents, $25/each alotted for each of our siblings  (small gifts always given - agreed amongst siblings years ago) and $50 to get gifts for the kids teachers and bus drivers.  It sure adds up, doesn't it? 

The night after Thanksgiving, we order a large pizza for dinner, watch Christmas Vacation and Polar Express, and then drink hot chocolate while the kids decorate the Christmas tree and the cats act like kittens again.  What does everyone else do?

Of course, there are zillions of commercials now with Christmas coming up.  I just had to tell you my favorite and see if you have one. This would be fun.  This week, there have been tons of diamond commercials on TV, Zales, etc.  There is one where the family comes down the stairs and somebody is sneaking a look in a present (it should be one of the kids).  All they show is the mom and a close up of her face being caught! Then they say something about diamonds etc.  I usually don't pay attention to commercials but I love that! She looks like a real mom, and I felt like that was what I would do, getting caught at sneaking a look. (Of course it would not be diamonds, but I'd still get caught even if it was a blender LOL).

Saturday, we have a huge craft show to go to, followed by 3 baseball games of my boys', followed by some serious picnicking Saturday evening.

As for Sunday, fairly relaxing, a little work in the morning and evening, visiting family in the afternoon and picnicking some more.

Monday should be a fairly quiet day - a little work in the morning and evening, a late morning Memorial Day parade and early afternoon picnicking, maybe a movie with the kids!

Love this weekend -- gets me started on a great summer!

Just ONE day a year that we all are nice, friendly, nonjudgmental, noncritical, etc.

My dad saying (when I was age 4 to 6) that there was an elf that would hop on his shoulder every morning when he got in the car to go to work and ask if I had been good the day before. I can remember waiting for him to get home and then excitedly asking him if he talked to the elf...ok, now I'm misty eyed!

Waiting in the longest line to get Cabbage Patch Kids for my daughters when they first came out....lucky enough to get ones with decent enough names and birthdates close to my girls' birthdays.

Making the dreaded yam/sweet potato casserole at Thanksgving and ALWAYS  setting the marshmallow bag on the hot oven door, thus melting the plastic, nice touch.

Realizing that I don't care if I have to pay full price, I do not shop the day after Thanksgiving any more!

My daughter divorced last December, so this is the first big holiday since.  There is a lot of turmoil and anamosity between her and the ex-husband.  BTW, he cheated and is now married to the "other woman"; they and her three children live in a neighboring town.  My daughter mentioned to him that she wasn't going to do a lot for Easter for their daughter, who is now going on 9 (too old for the Easter bunny IMHO) and will have her BD with gifts next month.  Joy did make her a new outfit for school and gave her a chocolate bunny and a favorite cream egg.  So, the ex's family had a Easter egg hunt yesterday and Joy allowed Emily to attend, even though it's her weekend to have Emi.  Emily comes home with a foot-diameter-size Easter basket, crammed with candy, junky plastic toys, stuffed animals, candy, and more candy.  Joy stored three large boxes of this type junk two weeks ago.  Emily has had 10, yes, 10 cavities in her short life and he still buys candy for her at every opportunity.  This seems to me to be a pattern--whatever Joy does he tries to "outdo," even when it's not a good thing for Emily.  Can't say too much--will come across as "sour grapes."  He is not an impulsive kid--going on 36 years old.  I'm sure it's not going to be the last time.  How do others handle this?  I was divorced but we lived in another state, so this type of "competition" didn't happen.