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My house is full of rabbits~
Even fake rabbits multiply.
Just because I decided to collect them as a child.
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Ageism.

A friend of dds, who dropped by a week or so ago, while they were out having a coffee said to my daughter, "How nice your mum dresses up and has a boyfriend."

Gack!!!

Bleah!!!

I always dress nicely and have had a man around for much of my life,

She comes from a background of alcoholic parents who died in their 60's and has worked in a senior's home, so I guess, in part, that explains it.

I told my dd to tell her that my mother was still doing volunteer work in Haiti aged 85 She can also add that my sister in her 80's, recently remarried and they have traveled extensively this past year.

This is the lady who grabbed my arm as I was walking downtown on the way to lunch with her and dd last winter. I thought she was afraid of falling on the ice. She assumed I needed the help because I was 80, I didn't. SMH!
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Pam, I have the same issue with cat things.

I also remember getting gifts items used around the kitchen, even though I hate to cook. Sorry, but a blender isn't going to spark my interest in culinary doings :P
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Thank you Lord, for answered prayers! You are the God who calms the waters.
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If my people
Who are called by my name
Will humble themselves and pray.....

Praying that the Lord will turn the storm away, decrease it's power, save and heal our land.

8 p.m. Sunday.
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Queue the clowns. = Get them to line up.
Que the clowns. = Send in the clowns.
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Linda, you should start serving all your dinners to people on paper plates and using plastic utensils, then they might gift you china and silver :) Just sayin
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Linda, I really thought you were going to say you got Flintstones crap for the rest of your life! I am surrounded by people who like to get me "themed" gifts.. as in,, I have cats,, always have. I now have enough totchkas cat related to open my own store. Yes I have a cat or two ( not counting the ferals we feed) but I DO NOT collect cat items,, pictures, figurines, clothes, napkins, mugs,, you get it. But now I apparently do! And so does my local goodwill upon occasion.. wink wink
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Smeshque, I think sometimes people get gifts based on what they like. I once served a relative a mixed drink in a Flintstones glass mug (from McD's) since it was close to the size of a rocks glass (about 8 oz.) We had young kids, so I didn't bother trying to have matching glassware (except for the set of 8 FIintstones mugs) since glasses broke routinely. So, for several Christmases, I received barware from this relative...decanters, daiquiri glasses, champagne flutes, wine glasses. What they didn't think about is I rarely drink and DH is fine with our everyday glasses for beer. :-)
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Praying for Florida.

I wonder why someone would send someone they know, a gift that person would not use nor enjoy.
For example gardening gloves for someone who does not garden. Or jewelry to one who wears absolutely no jewelry.
So frustrating to me the thoughtlessness of my siblings.
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Wishes for safety for Florida
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Still feeling the earth move, under my head....
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Thursday morning:
M 6.3 - 284km WNW of Bandon, Oregon

Thursday about 3 a.m. (I was up)
Two EQ within a minute in Mentone, CA
3.0 and 2.5 magnitude
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Does anyone else want to scream when someone says "You're still young. Once this is over, you can have a life for yourself. You can do anything you want!" "This" would be the deaths of my mom & my husband, each suffering from a different type of dementia.
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Thanks smeshque~
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Not an antique Lu, unique, genuine, one of a kind
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If the 1990's are considered vintage,then I must be an antique~
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Why must the fallout from our Loved Ones deaths continue for so long after the fact? Four and a half years!

I woke up at 3:15 am. I go with DHs sister to the attorneys office this afternoon to go over gathered info to be used in DHs and his sister’s case against 2 other siblings, Co Independent Executors.

Why am I going? Because I am the calm, sensible one. The keeper of the records.

Calm? Sensible? Not this morning. I’m angry. I feel aggressive. I am mad as h3ll!

I literally need to punch an inanimate object...
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On my mind....who the heck was my mother? The woman who use to bath me and put my sheet and blankets in the dryer to be nice and warm for me on those cold winter nights and made sure I made it through all those heart breaking moments that happens in life? Or was she the woman who secretly stealing my things and saying horrible things about me to my brother so he could grow up to hate me? All so that she would have someone on her side! I thought we were on the same side! How could a mother do such things to her kids and live with herself is something that I just can't wrap my mind around! And I never will!! On one hand she was a good mom; on the other hand, she was one of the worst mothers ever. She broke my heart until there was nothing left...nothing for her...I feel no love for her...God I am a horrible person! I am working on forgiving her...its hard! I know she is paying the price for what she has done, but so am I...well it ever be paid in full for me? Did I pay to high of a price to be her daughter? That is what is on my mind as I lay in my bed!!!
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Bad storm just came through. Power went out😥
Using our oil lamps. The only thing I collect.
Got mom set up and lights throughout, hope they get it on soon, so she doesn't get too warm, have front door open for air since front porch is covered. DH and I use to live like this. Brings back some fond memories. Chose to modernize for parents.
Anyway, that's what is on my mind right now.
However, I like better what was on Send`s mind.
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Caregivers are good people!

“For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’” — Matthew 25:35-36.
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Shell, what is your brother pressing charges against your mother for?

How would pressing criminal charges result in your mother losing her house?
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Fall is on its way and summer is moving out. The chill in the night air and a light frost is covering the grass! As much as I love fall. I am not ready to let go of summer. We had a very short summer this yr. Winter didn't want to let go so it held on for as long as it could just so we could have months of rain! I have much work left to do. No pushing it back for next yr because than I will just fall behind!(
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Thank you Gershun. I have forgot about "Footprints in the Sand." How I needed those words. Bless your heart! You brought tears to my eyes reminding me that the Lord is with me and I must trust Him.
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Shell you will never go down once and for all cause God is holding you up.

Footprints in the Sand

One night I dreamed a dream.
As I was walking along the beach with my Lord.
Across the dark sky flashed scenes from my life.
For each scene, I noticed two sets of footprints in the sand,
One belonging to me and one to my Lord.
After the last scene of my life flashed before me,
I looked back at the footprints in the sand.
I noticed that at many times along the path of my life,
especially at the very lowest and saddest times,
there was only one set of footprints.
This really troubled me, so I asked the Lord about it.
"Lord, you said once I decided to follow you,
You'd walk with me all the way.
But I noticed that during the saddest and most troublesome times of my life,
there was only one set of footprints.
I don't understand why, when I needed You the most, You would leave me."
He whispered, "My precious child, I love you and will never leave you
Never, ever, during your trials and testings.
When you saw only one set of footprints,
It was then that I carried you."
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On my mind...My brother wants to press crimmal charges on my mother. The sad part is he would probably has a case. This is to much for me to handle. All of this would mean that I did my mother's bankruptcy for nothing...just to end up homeless and lose my dad's house anyways...I really don't know how much more I can take...

Why do people make choices and never think how it will impact someone else? All they see is what they want or getting back at someone. Why should I have to pay for what someone else did? I know now how selfest my mother is and now my brother wants his pound of flesh no matter what it does or what happens to me. I don't deserve any of this! I pay my bills. I try to help others. I am a good and loving person and yet the nightmare never ends for me. How many times does it take to kick Shell down before she goes down for once and all?
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Frazzled, I'm sorry, I should have need clear all that abuse was when I was a child and a young adult. Your right God does not want us to be doormats. I had to move in with my mother 3 yrs ago and I have set boundaries. I do not let her treat or talk to me any-o-way.

But I do wonder if I honor her only because her and I have went around-and-around, which I would of never did with my dad. But you answer me and thank you for that. I love me, so I don't put up with my mother's crap. I just walk out of the room now!
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Shell, it sounds like you have honored your mom by loving her and being there for her despite the way that she has treated you. But you don't have to be her doormat. You can honor your mom by loving her as a person, as a human being, but sometimes it's necessary to do that from afar.

I don't believe God meant for us to take constant abuse. We're ALL valuable in His eyes, but sometimes it's hard to see that about ourselves when we've been emotionally or otherwise abused.

This sounds like the time to quit the role that your mother has given you to play and set some boundaries, even go no contact if necessary. You deserve so much better than the way she is treating you. Yes, she's ill, but if she's always been like this, she might have a personality disorder, which is very, very difficult to deal with. You can still love and pray for her without having to deal with the constant drama. It's still honoring her, and it's loving yourself too.
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On my mind...God says to honor thy mother and father. I believe that I did honor my father, but my mother is a whole nother story. We have never had the best relationship. As I grew into a woman she grew in hating me...I guess! She never did a lot in front of people and she never came off so mean until my father died. She did the whole lying about me behind my back, stoled from me and blamed it on my brother. She would tell me that I could do whatever I wanted in this life; that I could achieve anything, but when I did she would tell me how proud she was then do something to hurt me. I learned at a young age that my job was to protect her, clean up her messes and never say a word and I was faithful!

She played my brother and I against eachother and my father never knew it. He tried so hard to get his two kids to love one another, but mother would slip in with a lie or two and the fighting would begin again. Dad didn't have a fighting chance!

I have ran out of tears for this woman who is called mother. We did nothing but fight scene I came back except for the past six months-maybe, but only because once again she needed me to clean her one last mess. I was born with a job! My job was to be my mother's mother! I did it and I paid the price. I did it because I didn't know any thing different. I did it because that was what I was taught. I did it because I loved her.

Did I honor my mother? Probably not! Will I honor her after she is gone? I don't know! I feel no love for her. I don't even feel hate or anything! I am tried of her lies and games that she plays. These are not of things of the disease because they have always been there.

How do I honor a mother who has always hurt me...

This is what is on my mind tonight!
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Send,

I got the shredding loaded and delivered. Yes, what a relief.

I did find that I have quite a bit of shredding belonging to me and DH. I ordered a shredder from Amazon to try to stay ahead of that situation.
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