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D-Mama (37) D-Dada (43) and D-Baby (11/02/2011)
So, a FB friend posts about how she's been receiving posts her friends have commented on, and one of her friends recently joined some sort of hippy-dippy group, so now she's getting posts from there. The group was apparently discussing whether they should take allegations of child abuse to the authorities. The plan is to take the "evidence" to the council and have the council decide whether to report. The alleged victim is 14, and I personally have concerns about these sorts of groups having looser definitions of age of consent, and called DCS for Indiana. Not a particularly inspiring conversation, since they want information about the victim, the parents, address, etc. and all I had to point to is a FB group (they deleted the original posts that specifically talked about the molestation, but in reading through the rest, one can definitely tell that there is something going on that they may be attempting to cover up). May call the Indiana field office of the FBI.
Good for you for calling, Suja. I'm sorry the call wasn't more productive.
Me (40) DH (47) & furbabies * m/c 7/08 4/12 11/12
That's crazy that they went from talking about possibly reporting the allegations, to deleting traces of the conversation. That's so weird to me. So, is the possible abuse happening within the hippy dippy group? Do you know the name of the group? And is it some sort of a religious cult? That poor thing. I hope the DCS follows up on it. And yes, perhaps the FBI has some sort of taskforce that can dig deeper into the allegations. Very cool of you to take it upon yourself to speak up for the 14 yr old.
So glad you did that, Suja. I definitely think a call to the police or FBI would be warranted. Can you give them the name/info for your friend so they can get more information? Ugh - I will never understand the urge to cover up abuse.
I'm still feeling bad. Like my intestines are all sore and inflamed. Hope it gets better soon.
We are getting some rain and cooler temps this week and I couldn't be happier. I love a high of 93 in July - it feels almost chilly!
Went to the funeral of my dad's best friend on Saturday. I was really sad. The funeral was over capacity, so much so that even the overflow room was SRO! I guess if you die young enough you get the big funeral. There were three friends of his who spoke and the first and last were good, but JeezLouise the one in the middle was dreadful! He was a born-again Christian and went on and on about his own struggles with alcohol and how opening himself up to the Lord was the key, his own brush with near-death, etc. All totally fine I guess, but he was giving a eulogy not introducing himself at a flippin' AA meeing! And I get really twitchy when someone starts talking down about non-Christians. He said "When someone tells me they don't want to hear about God, that means to me that they want me to teach them about God." No, no. That is really not what I mean when I say that. I mean not only that I don't want to hear about God, but I really really really don't want to hear about it from someone like you. It is just an arrogant and rude way to treat other people who have different belief systems. But other than that it was a good funeral, if there can be such a thing. It brought back memories and I cried and cried for him and for Dad and one more connection gone.
"Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out." -Anton Chekhov
Sorry, Katy. At least it was a mostly positive experience, if a funeral can be.
I remember my great aunt's funeral a few years ago. The preacher gave what my mother said was an old-fashioned "altar call." In other words, it was one of those hellfire and brimstone sermons and really, he didn't have much to say about my aunt or her life other than that she was dead. Apparently she was really close to this guy and gave him, in the name of his church, a lot of money for mission work. It just struck me as totally inappropriate that he didn't even talk about her at her own funeral considering he had a close relationship with her. Made me more skeptical than I generally am about preachers from small churches always asking for money from old ladies.
Me (40) DH (47) & furbabies * m/c 7/08 4/12 11/12
Totally agree, Katy. I would have been twitchy, to say the least. Way to turn a beautiful memorial into something divisive. I hope the funeral was cathartic for you, and feel better soon, ok?
I'm sorry to hear about your funeral experience, Katy. Funerals seem to bring out the religiosity in folk.
D-Mama (37) D-Dada (43) and D-Baby (11/02/2011)
When we had my mom's memorial service the female pastor was wonderful. She did not even know us or my mom, but she sat down with us all and we told her about mom and her life story. She did a wonderful eulogy. None of us could do the eulogy, but she was a kind person who did a really nice job. Now when my fil died last fall, my bil did the eulogy, it was all about HIM and not his father. My bil has quite the inflated ego, but seriously it was not about my fil's achievements as much as it was about how my bil was coping.
Today Gilly had his 4 year appt, it went really well. It was a new pedi, and he was fine with our vax schedule. So glad to have found him. Gilly was telling him all about his activities this past week, at one point the doc said "you tell some good stories Gilly" lol it's hard to believe this is the boy with the speech delay a few years ago
Well so far the epic visit from my mil is going ehhh okay. G loves her and she is really good with him, so I let a lot slide.
Last Sunday we woke up to this horrible loud humming, rattling and banging noise. wtf? Well it was the frig dying. DH tried to fix it, but it was a no go. Why do these things always happen on Sunday? It was also G's birthday. We started looking on craigslist, and found one, but it was a long way out from us. In the boondocks, about 45 minutes from town. So anyway, on Tuesday after listening to that loud effing noise for two days, dh and I drive out to look at the frig. We left G with my mil. On a side note I spent ALL DAY MONDAY CLEANING the house from top to bottom. Getting the frig was a fiasco, dh's friend lent us his truck and open utility trailer, so we pick that up, and as we are pulling up to the guy's house to check out the frig we realize we left the cash in our car. Seriously? Now we have to drive all the way back to dh's buddy's house to get the $$. By this time it was 8pm and a dark rain cloud is forming. When we get back to frig, my dh has to try to back into this long and windy driveway, and does the owner try to help us? No he does not. Of course now it's raining and the frig owner is all pissy. I would have said forget it. But how can you live without a frig? The frig is a good deal, it's immaculate. Anyway, it takes a long time to get it loaded, get it home, transfer stuff into new frig, put gas into the buddy's truck, return the truck. When dh and I finally get home it's 11:30pm. And then I see the kitchen. It's a mess. The dishwasher is clean, needs to be unloaded. There are dishes in both sides of the sink, plus the pan that mil used to cook in is soaking, there are dishes stacked up on the counter. G's dinner plate is still sitting on the table. Who does this? Who leaves a kitchen like this? She knows I spent all day cleaning. wtf? wtf? I was so tired, then I was fuming. I look at my dh and I am seething, if we did this to her kitchen she would hit the roof. I wouldn't dream of leaving someone's kitchen in that state. But if I did, my mil would scream at the top of her lungs. My dh just shakes his head, this is so wrong. But here's the thing, IF you say something to her, she will yell and turn back into being YOUR fault. We live in the freaking jungle you cannot leave a kitchen overnight like that, you have to wipe up and clean up every night. I swear she thinks because I am a sahm, I live to clean up her kitchen messes. My dh has this tub in the sink to save the water for his plants. She will plop her plate into that water, and walk away. So I am left to deal with nasty water with left over food floating. Just typing that out made me shudder.
You know the sad thing is, my dh has said he is not even sure he loves his mother. That he wouldn't miss her if he just wrote her out of his life. As a mother that kills me. As a daughter who would give anything to have my mommy here, that kills me. When my dh and his brother were kids they called their mother "dragon" and "mein fuhrer". Nice huh?
Okay rant over. I don't want to spend time getting all worked up thinking about her.
Shelley-mom to DS, 6
I want to give you a big warm hug. I'm all worked up reading that!
That's awful. I'm so sorry.
Me (40) DH (47) & furbabies * m/c 7/08 4/12 11/12
That sounds so awful. You get an award from me for being able to keep your mouth shut that night. I hope the rest of the trip is less eventful.
Mandy - big hugs to you for being out this month. I will be keeping my fingers crossed for you.
Took the first of my second set of swim lessons today. The instructor said that she thinks I am ready to start being able to swim laps no problem! But I still want to work on stroke/form so I am not wearing myself needlessly. Still, it was nice to hear.
"Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out." -Anton Chekhov
Oh, Shelley. What a terrible Tuesday! And coming home to a filthy kitchen must have just made you want to kick something. I hope your new fridge is making you happy and you are still feeling relieved that that day's over. But your MIL sounds like a real peach. It's so sad that your DH feels that way about her. Is she at all tolerable, or can you just not stand the sight of her?
You MIL is a piece of work Shelley! Big hugs to you for having to deal with that. I so would have blown up about her not cleaning up after herself, that is so inconsiderate.
I am a weirdo because most funerals I go to, I enjoy in a strange sort of way (all except young people's funerals or kids, I have been to a baby's funeral before and it was quite horrible). Especially the people in my family or close family friends. Funerals are usually long and are totally about the person who passed away and the only thing I don't like about them is that the person who passed is no longer with us. My grandma's funeral was a good one. Her pastor spoke about her with such knowledge and genuine friendship and I could tell he loved her and wanted to comfort everyone about her passing even though it was pretty religious. Usually though black people's funerals aren't all fire and brim-stoney. Just a lot of gospel music and celebration of the person's life. They sang a long time at my grandma's funeral and it was highly attended (another person who was relatively young when she passed, she was 66, which for our family is young). It was like Whitney Houston's funeral and I still remember it fondly because the pastor spoke about how dependable my grandma was, how you could always count on her to do whatever she said she would do. That was so her and she was the only adult in my life that I truly did trust and depend on and I was and still am sad that she is not around.
You know Myles, there are times when she is fine. But I have a bad habit of remembering all the **** she has said and done to me over the years. I do not think she knows I dislike her so much. She thinks she's a great person. And believe it or not she has a tons of friends and even has a new boyfriend. Go figure.
Tonight I had two slices of my yummy homemade ww bread, and again I have a tummy ache. I think I must fast the facts that I cannot eat wheat. I've been avoiding wheat, and now when I eat it I feel yucky. ugh.
Shelley-mom to DS, 6
on the topic of rats, my brother had a pet rat named Mert. named for the children's book Mert the Blurt. LOL. He was a nice rat. But his tail completely creeped me out. I was okay until looked down at that rat tail. shudder.
Shelley-mom to DS, 6
I think that may be my problem, too. I haven't felt right since we went on vacation and I ate a little too much and not my usual stuff. Not terrible, but more bread than normal. I kind of feel like I damaged my insides somehow. I really love bread so much. I hope you feel better.
"Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out." -Anton Chekhov
Erin, I've been to a baby's funeral too. The absolute worst.
I had Conner tonight for a while and while most of it went terrifically, I'm afraid I had to take him back to Rich after a 20 minute meltdown that wouldn't quit and I was near tears. I don't know what to do with him when he gets like that. He almost acts like a 2 year old in the midst of a temper tantrum. You cannot talk to him. You can't comfort him because he'll kick and hit right in the face. You can't raise your voice so he'll hear you because he'll just shriek louder. He's five and a half. When will this end? I feel like a failure of a mother.
His tantrums are getting less frequent, but it still escalates really fast on me and I feel powerless to stop it. I had a long, super duper busy day at work and I only wanted to nap. I'm sure that didn't help matters at all.
Chrissy, what brought on the tantrum ? I'm sorry you felt that way as a mom tonight. I've felt I've failed Bodhi a number of times too, but I was being hard on myself. You're a loving mama!
Shelley, it scares me the way you describe your mil...like, what if people would describe me in the same way? Obnoxious people are rarely told they're obnoxious. And who's gonna tell them? So how does one know s/he's not obnoxious?
Katy, after a couple weeks of being gluten-free on that "cleanse", I had some regular soy sauce containing wheat. I felt the back of my throat become inflamed. Maybe I have a slight intolerance too. Feel better!
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Ok. Can someone tell me how people can drop the "h" in my first name when my name is written RIGHT THERE next to it?
(I mean when they see my name written adjacent to where they're wriiting and misspell it anyway.)
I'm in a super edgy mood, btw. B's night terrors have been fierce these last 2 nights.
There's a certain relative off my mine (through marriage) who always spells my name 'Ashleigh' even though every year I send them a card as well from 'Ashley' and family. I think people are just oblivious sometimes. I think it's because most people over here expect 'Ashley' to be the masculine spelling.
I can remember my sister having monster tantrums when she was about 5 to 7; she could go crazy at times. She did grow out of it, so I guess it was one of those things that has to be grown out of. My life right now consists of watching Cash like a hawk so that he doesn't kick or push other kids his age. He is such a bully nowadays. He starts nursery in September when I go back to work and I worry how naughty he's going to be then with lots of other kids around.
Shelley, your MIL sounds a lot like my SIL's MIL; she drives my SIL crazy. She'll show up at the most awkward times and will go and make herself a cup of coffee, sit on the couch and try to chat to my SIL whlie SIL is chasing after the 3 kids. Then after about 15 minutes, she just gets up and goes. And on the rare occasion that she looks after the kids for SIL, she leaves there house turned upside down. My MIL is the complete opposite of that in regards to cleaning; when they watch the kids for us (usually at bed time so we can go out for a meal), we come back and she's cleaned the kitchen and done the ironing while we were out! She's one of those people that has to always be doing chores and tasks.
I didn't know B had night terrors. How awful.
My mil is another one who HAS to be doing chores and tasks all the time. She can't not tidy up. It drives her mad.
Dbf's old business partner in Hawaii is royally screwing him (us) out of money and dbf is so so so angry about it. I really think it sucks bad but really there is nothing we can do about it so I wish he'd just move past it. I know that I am able to let things go pretty easily once I realize they are out of my control but dbf is not like this at all. I just hate seeing him carry around so much anger. It's not good for him.
He does this about once or twice a month to me. It's better than it was. He went through a period where he laid on the floor and shrieked for 2+ hours straight every single night. I hate it that I can't comfort him, or talk to him, or anything. I think he may be overtired when he does it, but he freaks like that when you try to get him to go to bed too and he won't stay in bed. He's never been one for a nap. Ever.
I'm like you B, even when it comes to $ I can't let myself worry or fret about it. The times when we've felt swindled over stuff, I always say, "They must have needed the money more than we did."
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I've been thinking about you ladies and just wanted to pop in and tell you that I am still trying to keep caught up on reading the NET, just don't have the inclination to post much recently. You ladies are always in my thoughts
And I can't believe we are SO close to having a new Secular baby
yay cannot wait to 'meet' Molly's baby boy!!
Chrissy, so sorry about Connor's tantrum. Poor little guy.
It drives me crazy when people spell my name wrong. How hard is it to remember the 2nd "e"?
Mylah, sorry about B terrors. Those have to scare you as well.
My goal today is to finally finish my resume. Can you hear the enthusiasm in my voice? Truth is, it's probably time that I work outside. It's been 5 years since I got laid off.
Shelley-mom to DS, 6
Chrissy, my bff's daughter used to have major tantrums and was still doing it at age 5. eventually she stopped doing it so much.
People mess up my name a lot too. It's Jennifer, not Jenny. I don't mind Jen. And it's DH's family who always does it because his cousin is a Jennifer but goes by Jenny (and interesting enough her new fiance has the same name as my DH). But after 14 years they still don't get that I'm a Jennifer, not a Jenny.
And my sister is a Roxanne...she will also go by Rocky. But just hates Roxy and people do that to her all the time.
Oh I'm not like you guys and neither is my DH. I cannot stand being screwed over with money. That would really get under our skin and we tend to both fight it when we think someone is wronging us moneywise. But money is a huge deal to us, you won't hear either of us saying eh it's just money. I mean we know it's not the most important thing but it's pretty dang high up on the list. I think some of that is both our families struggled at times when we were young and for especially DH's peace of mind and happiness, he needs finances a certain way. He has just never had the attitude that things will just all work out somehow.
I grew up poor and the first years of my 'adulthood' were very, very poor. I still cannot make money a priority over happiness. We all choose our battles and for me, that's one I may put effort into if/when I can, but if I can't I just let it go. It's no worth getting upset about. Not to me.
Probably a healthier attitude to have! I'm slightly less so than my DH, I tend to be an optimist and figure that things will somehow work out ok. My DH would give himself an ulcer over worrying about money. For him money=happiness. Not that money will make him happy alone...but without it, he's not happy. He needs a certain amount in the bank and he needs to be able to put into savings most months....or he will stress out big time and make himself sick over it. We fought a lot at first about it as I like to buy stuff....but eventually came to balance each other out. He will still tell me to stop thinking of ways to spend money and that we aren't roman emperors. LOL And well I am generally plotting out something to buy....next on the list is entertainment center and new bigger TV....and a minivan.
This is how I know that even though he's very scared to have a baby and be a dad and talks about being unsure sometimes, the fact that he's already spent over 6K on the adoption (and much more will be due once we get our baby) says everything.
I do have happiness as a priority....but think that different things make people happy. My DH, it's saving money. A new TV and the minivan would make me happy but my bff loves to travel and would take a vacation any day before a new car. I like to travel but only a big trip every couple of years....she likes to do at least 2 a year. Generally we like to spend time at home with our dogs vs the stress of travel.
I a big pretty savings account and 401K.
I have neither, but it is always a goal of mine


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Another reboot of Annie is set for release this December, just in time for Christmas. This version promises to be different from the rest. It's set in modern day (complete with facebook references) and has a hip-hop edge to it musically, thanks to producers Jay-Z and Will Smith. Speaking of Smith, his vision was to have his daughter play Annie and launch her career in movies in a big way. But she grew up and instead, Oscar nominee Quvenzhane Wallis will be playing the lead role. Jamie Foxx plays Will Stacks, the new Daddy Warbucks, and we know he can act and sing. But what about Cameron Diaz who will be playing Miss Hannigan? Full disclosure, she is one of my least favorite actors to watch. She annoys me greatly.
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Notes from a Spanish themed dinner.
Jacques Picard Champagne Brut – nice fresh wine showing some floral and apple notes in the nose, clean and crisp with good acidity. Lacks only that bit of complexity that age may bring.
1990 Vina Tondonia Rioja Reserva Blanco – this white Rioja was now a medium yellow hue and the nose showed some excellent resin and caramelized apple notes that followed through strongly on palate. Good acidity and a very dry finish. You either love or hate this sort of wine, and I am in the former camp. Some old white Riojas become quite Sherried and bear oxidative notes, but this avoids that and is very vibrant.
1978 Torres Gran Coronas Black Label (Penedes) – my last bottle of this excellent wine. Someone called it Mas La Plana, and I corrected them – that was a name not yet coined by Torres for their top bottling. They started calling it Mas La Plana some time in the 1980s. It is 100% cabernet, aged in new American oak for 18 months. The remarkable thing is that at this age, we all had the same reaction that this couldn't be American oak and must be French, until we checked it out. None of the dill hints of young American oak you often get. Mature and elegant, the wine still has excellent colour with garnet edges, not browning appreciably. The nose was mellow aged wood and soft fruit, the tannins all resolved. Lovely mature elegant cabernet. Wish I had bought more when it was released almost 30 years ago! This would make out very well indeed in a tasting of 1978 clarets or Californian cabernets (some Beaulieu Georges de Latour has also fooled me into thinking it wasn't American oak when it was at least 20 years old)
1995 Vina Tondonia Rioja Reserva – corked!
1998 Vina Tondonia Rioja Reserva – a nice rounded vanilla and cocoa nose emanating from a dark red wine that still has pretty significant tannin as well as ample acidity. The question in my mind was whether or not this somewhat acidic wine has enough fruit to merit the additional ageing that the tannins clearly warrant. Time will tell. A reasonable showing at this point with a question mark for the future.
2001 Alion Ribera del Duero – this wine from the owners of Vega Sicilia was attractive at first sniff and taste and it just kept growing on me until it was finally all gone from my glass. It was dark and had a sweet nose of currants and berries, some up front soft tannin, well balanced in the middle with a lot of vanilla coming in, and a medium long smooth finish. I caught faint hints of dill after awhile. Very good showing.
2004 Pintia (Toro) – an first tasting of this wine for me, made by the same owners of Vega Sicilia, this showed sweet plumy fruit in the nose and was veritably stuffed with fruit on palate….but it was simple fruit in a simple wine that I doubt will ever develop complexity. Tasty, like a boysenberry cocktail, but hard to take too seriously as a vin de garde. Maybe others can prove me wrong with more data from older vintages? This reminds me a lot of some of the in-your-face Californian wines intended to impress and garner big point scores with shock and awe but then often seem to mature poorly and decline prematurely. Count me as not impressed on this one, but quite impressed with the Alion. Perhaps that's just my taste preferences showing.
2004 Jorge Ordonez Malaga Seleccion Especial '1' – instantly identifiable as Muscat by the nose that was almost crawling out of the glass at you, but contrary to my fears and expectations (I was thinking about the cloyingly sweet PX Malagas such as Lopez Hermanos (?) in a gold covered bottle that haunted me in year's past) it was not cloyingly sweet, showed interesting notes of caramel and candied orange. Delightful!


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This Christmas, you are going to be getting a stocking full of Keanu Reeves. His samurai, sci-fi, action flick is finally getting released. 47 Ronin has not been without it's production struggles (some estimates have the films cost of production in the $200 million range) and I continue to ask the simple question, why do we insist on having white dudes play the lead roles in samurai themed flicks? Perhaps a better question, why Reeves? The dude can't act and is not a box office draw. Was Tom Cruise busy?!
I say skip it and watch these films instead:
13 Assassins
Seven Samurai


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I confess...I don't know who that is. :oops:
I also confess, I sort of dabbled in another message board for a while. It was a place that had older kids like me...but they're primarily Republican. I did pretty good at avoiding those threads that I knew would get me twitching, until the Oil Spill one. The general opinion of the whole board (minus like 3) is that "these things happen" and it's not that big of a deal. I can't cope with such ignorance.
He's beautiful, Janeen! Congratulations!
"Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out." -Anton Chekhov
p.s. the new pic of you and your girls is adorable!
I heard someone this morning say the oil has gotten to the shore line. I'm so sad about it. I'm almost to the point where I don't even want to listen to or look at the news because, esp with being pregnant, I'm very upset all the time about certain things.
Just Midge
I agree with how upsetting the oil spill is. It gives me that sinking stomach ache every time I think about it.
And Ashley, too funny on the comparison pics. Now that's what I'll think every time too.
I confess that I'm so upset right now I was shaking when I hung up the phone with my dad. He sent out an email to all of my mom's siblings explaining how the meds she takes are effecting her and the fact that we are hoping for 6 months. Her family wasn't really aware of how serious everything has become as she always plays it off. Plus, they are 600+ miles away. The problem was that they were giving my mom grief about missing things, or not returning phone calls and the truth is she doesn't even always remember to eat. He asked them to please call his cell directly to make any plans since my mom hates to miss anything and she'll try to do things she shouldn't do.
So my mom's brother calls to see if him and his wife can come over yesterday. My dad says yes of course, it would be wonderful. But could they please not plan to spend the night because the nights and mornings can be difficult times and hospice care comes, etc. Well then my aunt goes and asks my dad during dinner if they can stay, in front of my mom. So of course he says yes because he will do nothing to upset my mom. He then leaves them all at the house this morning for a work meeting. My mom just called him upset because my aunt told her that she absolutely must stop taking all of the pain medicine she's taking. On top of that, questioning the decision to stop treatment, telling her she has not exhausted all of her options. Excuse me? How would you know?
My poor, poor dad. He's so upset. My mom's brain function is suffering so she has really irrational thoughts as it is. We don't know if it's the meds, or the brain cancer reappearing, but either way we keep things mellow and do nothing, ever, to upset her. They have no idea how much pain she is in if she's even late taking her medicine. She is under the care of some of the best university dr's in our area. How dare they? Because you know what? Sometimes I want to beg her to try another treatment. I want to beg her not to give up yet. But how selfish would that be? For me to make her doubt herself? For me to put my needs above hers?
I'm angry that they didn't respect my dad's wishes. And I'm angry that the presume to have answers when we are all here every day trying to do right by mom. Whew, sorry. That was long.
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Bridget-I'm literally crying for you. Oh how I wish I could fix this. I don't know if it's the right thing to do or not, but I think if it were me, I'd call them and scream those words at them. Make them feel like crap for their thoughtlessness and selfishness. I'm angry for you.
I'm sorry, Bridget.
"Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out." -Anton Chekhov
I'm so sorry Bridget. That would upset & infuriate me too. Your mother shouldn't be made to feel that she's letting anyone down by refusing treatment. That's her decision, and all you can do is support her and make sure she's as comfortable as possible. I'm sorry some tactless relatives had to disrupt that.
I truly hate that your family is dealing with this.
Oh Bridget. I'm so so sorry that you're going through this right now. When DH's mom was in the last stages of her cancer, things were similar with her friends...not knowing the full story, and doing things like what you say her sister just did, like taking away the pain meds...or worse sometimes, giving her way too much. Dh and his sister had to guard her with their lives at times (their father had already passed)
My heart just breaks for you hearing about that. How do you get people to respect your dad's wishes?? I wish there were an easy answer. Big hugs to you, and your dad.
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Dude, Bridget, that's not cool about them being like that. You should talk to them. Ugh, why can't people just listen?
Thank you, guys. The mutual anger makes me feel better. But I still can't get it out of my mind. I'm just so angry with anyone who puts any additional stress of any kind on my parents. On my dad especially because he is so relentless with her care.
And here's the thing about this woman. (my aunt that said that) She is an aggressive catholic. Like, say the rosary several times a day, risk of conversion attempts at any given moment, stuff like that. She makes me very, very uncomfortable to begin with. I said to my dad, "Did she want us to take mom's pain away with prayer?" and he did laugh, which was like music to my ears but then he said he really wondered if she did say something like that and my mom just left it out when she relayed the conversation to him.
I did a really intense workout just now and I feel much less ready to break. Thanks again for the constant support in here. I you guys.
And Janeen's baby has the most adorable little face ever.
My mom believes in God. I know that. As far as everything else goes, I sometimes think she's still trying to figure it all out. I'm quite sure she believes in the power of morphine over the power of prayer at this point though.
That is just nuts. I have worked with some of the chaplains at work and have at times looked through our pastoral care books/journals/literature searches(in health care, often palliative care) and there is NO way I could see any of them saying to give up the pain meds and just pray. There is room for both (for those who want to pray).
I'm sorry Bridget. You dad sounds awesome, though. Hugs to you both.
The oil spill stuff really makes me sad too. Especially now that I live in LA. It's really going to affect(effect? ****! I never remember) us.
Oh Bridget I am so sorry. I wish I could do something.
The oil spill has me sick to my stomach. I have now boycotted Exxon, BP, and all things from Japan (after watching the film The Cove).
I am a trained in disaster response so if/when the oil makes it here, I'll be out there helping to clean it up. Dh wants to do the training too, but then we'd have no one to watch the kids if we both went. And as much as I want them to see and help, I think they are still too young and I don't want them around all that oil.
Jenny-did you hear BP was (is?) making volunteers sign a waiver alleviating them of any responsibility if they get sick due to the clean up? That company has me so angry and I'm frustrated because I feel so powerless.


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Armed with a paddle, a life jacket and friends who carry cameras, Fox 2's Charlie LeDuff takes us down the 'Rouge.' With every bend and twist of this metro Detroit River, a story unfolds that tells us as much about who we are and where we've been to how we're all connected through water. LeDuff is joined by Fox 2's videographers Matt Phillips and Bob Schedlbower, who are far more skilled with cameras in their hands than paddles. Look for a Rich Luterman cameo. Along the journey the crew stops to talk to Rouge River experts Joel Thurtell, who wrote the book 'Up the Rouge' and John Haritg, who wrote 'When our Rivers Caught Fire.'Enjoy this three-day journey condensed to a few minutes on video, as edited by Matt Phillips. Listen for Matt's beautiful falsetto as part of the sound track. Sorry to Bob who blew out his knee on the expedition.
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Thanks to organizations like Friends of the Rouge, who work to restore a treasure that belongs to all of us. The Rouge River runs through the most heavily populated and industrialized area in southeast Michigan. The Rouge River watershed has four main branches totaling 125 miles of waterways primarily flowing through Wayne and Oakland counties, with some headwaters in Washtenaw County. The Woodland Indians were the first to settle in the rouge River Watershed around the year 1700. They were followed by the French, the British and finally by Americans.
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I am a Christian and James doesn't believe in God. I've always raised Cameron to believe what I do, she has been baptized, goes to Sunday School etc. I started church with her before James and I started dating and before he took over the father figure role. I never felt that I should change what Cameron and I do because of my relationship with James. James and I are now separated, about a year now, but are expecting twins. Clearly we are not separate enough. ;)
Anyway here is where my question comes in. I want the babies baptized. James has a very "whatever" attitude about it. He thinks that people who are religious are ignorant and doesn't care if I "splash water" on them. We are planning on a hospital baptism, hopefully Nathaniel will live long enough to be alive during the baptism, but regardless my pastor will baptize them together. I still feel bad that I'm choosing to baptize his sons when he cares so little for religion.
Should I just be glad he is indifferent to having them "splashed with water" and that we aren't fighting over it? How would you feel about it if your DH wanted to baptize your children? Right now I'm pretty set that I will do what I want since I won't have a chance to baptize Nathaniel later on and it's not something that can wait. I just feel bad that I'm doing something to his sons that he doesn't care about. Thanks for any input.


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(RNN) - Most conversations about food don't take the form of a political discussion. But with fewer companies in charge of the food we eat, rising costs, and chemicals and additives that only trained scientists can recognize, the word "crisis" is being used more and more to describe the state of the American food industry.
Wenonah Hauter, the author or Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America, aims to give readers insight into why she believes this is a critical time for the nation and its food supply. She explains how anti-trust laws put more power in fewer hands and spawned mega food producers and how farming and water subsidies created a form of corporate welfare that millions of people pay into but don't get anything back.
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I think that most people don't realize the impact that public policy is having on the food that they eat. They don't realize that there are 20 large food processing companies that control most of the brands in the grocery store and that these companies wield a lot of power that they dictate the policies around what chemicals people are exposed to, how their food is produced, and the price.
When a consumer goes into the grocery store, it looks like there are thousands of brands. But there are really just a handful of companies that own most of those brands. And then we also have four large grocery chains, with Walmart at the top, that control the retail sales of food. And since these companies have so much political power, I think that it has disguised the importance of food policy and the impact these companies are having - on not just the price people are paying for food, but the health impacts as well.
We're told America has a cheap food supply. But when you look at the numbers, it turns out over the last 10 years, each year the price of food has increased by 3 percent. And we are told by the U.S. Department of Agriculture that Americans spend about 9 percent of their disposable income on food.
But when you look at the details, what they consider disposable income is, they average everybody's salary or wealth of the U.S. and then they count pension benefits, food stamps, health benefits, women and children programs - things most of us don't consider disposable income. The Bureau of Labor Statistics - another federal agency - actually has a statistic that's much more informative. It says that the bottom 40 percent of Americans spend over 36 percent of their income on food. So yes, there are some cheap food items people can buy - mostly just junk food - but to get a really decent diet, it does take a substantial amount of many Americans' income.
First of all, they should know how these animals are being raised in these confined feeding operations because the animals are being raised in such tight quarters. For instance, poultry in a giant warehouse, 300,000 to 400,000 chickens have less than a square foot of space to turn around and are living in one another's feces. These animals are vulnerable to disease, so they are fed antibiotics. This is spurring antibiotic resistance and we're basically wasting important properties of antibiotics to feed them to these factory-farmed animals. And people should be concerned about that.
Also, they should be concerned with how these animals are being processed once they reach the slaughter facilities. To be profitable, these companies have raised the speed of which animals are slaughtered. And in the poultry industry, they are actually trying to make it legal to slaughter chickens at 200 birds per minute. Yes, that's per minute, if you can imagine the lightning speed slaughtering birds that quickly. That means the fecal matter splashes on the carcass. And because the USDA meat inspectors can't really see what's going on because the carcass is moved so quickly, the companies are using chemical washes, things like trisodium phosphate and chlorine to kill the bacteria.
You know, I don't think most Americans want to eat fecal matter, even if the bacteria is rendered harmless and I think most Americans would be shocked to know how the animals that they eat are being raised and processed.
Well, what happened is, over the last three or four decades, the laws that prevented companies from merging and acquiring one another were erased, anti-trust cops were taken off the beat, and that has allowed companies to get so large and to have so much political and economic power that they're basically buying public policy.
A good example is the merger that's going on in the beer industry right now. Most people don't know that the beer industry has become increasingly consolidated and we basically have two companies that are foreign-owned that sell most of the beer in the United States. Only 6 percent of breweries are craft or independent breweries. And now there's a merger that the Department of Justice is looking at that will mean the favorite beverage brands from Budweiser and Beck's to Stella and Michelob will basically be controlled by one company. And with these companies having a price war, it means the price of beer will go way up.
So these are the things that matter when companies get bigger and when the companies actually drive public policy. You know, we hear a lot in our country about our economic system being based on competition, but these companies are using their political power to stop competition and I don't think that's the American way.
Our nation has a really long history of social movements coming together to bring change. And I think the time has come for people to not only vote with their forks, but to vote with their vote and to hold the politicians accountable. And that means we have to politicize food activists to actually engage in changing the federal policies that have resulted in this dysfunctional food system. And you know, I'm given a lot of hope by the activism that I see all over the country because we need to organize across the country. So much focus has been put on the east coast and west coast where people are more engaged in these issues. It's time for us to really do a lot of work in other parts of the country, in the south and in the Midwest. In fact, we need to organize in every congressional district in this country. And the way to politicize people is to engage them in the issues that affect their own lives. And then people are drawn into the bigger issues, the bigger policy issues at a state or federal level.
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