My heart breaks for the family loss of toddler
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Comments (14)Just be there and listen between the lines. We have had two deaths in the last month at dd's school. Her first experience with loosing a friend happened when she was in the 6th grade. It really affected her. And just recently a close friend of her boyfriend was killed on a crochrocket. Head on into a car. She went to the funeral with alot of other kids. He had graduated last year.. He had told his parents if anything ever happened he wanted to be buried in his baseball uniform with all his buddies carring the casket. Alot of kids were there. it was dd's first funeral .. it totally tore her up to see his body lying there...and his mom was hysterical. She says life is short, you should always make time for your friends... and tell the people you love...that you do. She gave alot of her friends a hard time about not being there for each other... And no way should they try to make it though life without God. She is doing better itjust takes time....See MoreMy HeartBreak
Comments (35)I did a lot of trimming and ruminating today. As I was trimming deadened leaves and picking up dropped tomatoes my neighbor came across the swale between our homes and was asking why I bothered so much. He's seen me go through barely walking, 2 hip surgeries and Dennis's issues. He asked what got me out every day to plant, water, trim, deal with life and personal issues then throw it all on the trash heap when nature took a turn. It really made me think, no, not think I spontaneously said to him in a corney kinda way "Cause it's what I do. I love to grow and if it dies I grow it again..." wow, now I really make sense. It's what we DO people. We love it, sometimes we hate it, but mostly WE REALLY LOVE IT! Gardening, no matter what form, large or small, is in our blood. That's why we come here. To brag or cry, to share excitement and promise. It's what we do!! (I now hear Sachmo breaking out in.." I see trees of green, and skys of blue..." it IS a wonderful world, my friends....See More'Kids,' My Space, TMI, breaks my heart
Comments (21)Neice gave me access to her account so I could "see" her photos and listen to her "great" music. I don't think she realizes I'm smart enough to navigate the entire site. I don't want to burst her bubble and let her know the music isn't really all that great, either. LOL I had to set up a dummy account of my own. I have a fake non-name user name; no personal info other than "married," "age" (was a default setting) and "USA", and have it set so no one except Niece can look at it. Nephew doesn't know I accessed his page. I used his email address, and BOOM!; there he was in all his pierced and tattooed glory. (Their tats don't bother me as much as the lip piercings; and neither bother me as much as the contents and comments.) The page was set to "public" so I could see it. For now, I'm just going to steer clear of the pages and continue to write, call, email, through the regular channels and try to encourage them to do the best they can. I never had children; but here I am, experiencing all the worry, anxiety, fear, anger, and hope "real" mothers are subjected to. Niece is, and has always been, my special girl and spent every summer with me from birth until she was 14. Her 15th summer was spent at home, and she got pregnant. Nephew lived with me two different times for a total of 4-5 years. I wish I could smack their bottoms, send them to their rooms, and ground them until they are 45. I have two other young nieces, three young nephews, and five great nieces/nephews. I better wear out the old knees praying there's hope for these young ones....See MoreMy heart is breaking...
Comments (8)Thank you all for your blessings. My little GS is doing much better. He even went with his Poppoo to the bookstore tonight and bought a Bible - "A Bible for Boys". I didn't even know they wrote one of those. His outbursts have subsided since he is on meds. But we were told his blood test came back with abnormalities and he had to have another one. He was so brave, he went right in and didn't complain - normally he would have a fit. It took four nurses to give him a flu shot just three weeks before this all started. I ask very little from God, just to keep my family safe and healthy. I have never asked for wealth or anything frivolous - just to take care of my family. My first thought when I got over the initial shock was that he wasn't dying so be grateful. There are others who have it much worse. Tourettes is a brain misfire which is suppose to be inherited (we have no one on either side of the family with this) and is diagnosed mostly in boys between the ages of 7 and 10. Normally it is just tics that most people don't even notice, blinking of the eyes, twitching of the nose, shrugging shoulders, etc. Then there are the vocal tics, repeating the same words or repeating what someone else has said, cursing, short ear piercing scream, barking, snorting, etc. When the vocal tics start most children are so shocked they get scared and don't know what to do. My GS didn't want even the garage door to be open because he was afraid someone would hear him. This was a funny outgoing little guy who loved being outside with the others playing. He is a practical joker also. But for the past few weeks he would run from the car to the house with his jacket over his mouth. When they went to pick up his twin brother from school, he got down in the floor board of the car so no one could hear him if he screamed. So today for him to go to the store was amazing. Then he came home and taped the handle of the water sprayer at the kitchen sink so when Poppoo went to wash his hands he was sprayed - he laughed so hard when we heard Poppoo holler and then came around to the family room with his shirt soaked. It was good to see him laugh again. With all the mean hurtful people in this world, children should not have to carry any kind of burden. These twins are a miracle for my daughter. She tried to get pregnant and because of endometriosis, she couldn't. So they tried Invitro Fertilization. Now being the type of people we are - very controlling - she read everything she could about Invitro. She found the doctors at Stanford were letting the eggs fertilize for five days vice three days and had better success at implanting. So she went to her doctor and asked that he try this technique on her. She was the first patient of his to have this done. And it worked!! We all cried when we found out she was pregnant on the first try. Then when the ultrasound showed that only one of the two eggs implanted took we were still thrilled. Then the next ultrasound showed that one egg split and we had identical twins - well this had never happened to this particular doctor before. I am not sure who was more excited - him or us. She has since tried with the remaining eggs but it just wasn't meant to be. She is totally happy with these boys and is a great mother. Punk, I can't even imagine what you went through with the loss of a son. You must have a tremendous amount of faith and I admire you for it. Again, thank you all for being there. It is 2 am and I guess I should get to bed. Will post over on the othe side about the craft show I did today. B...See MoreDebby
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