Tweety, how did your day with your kids

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Tweety, how did your day with your kids
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Sun, 08-31-2003 - 9:38pm
go at the State Fair? So glad your whole family could be together today. I know you all had a great time, but what did you see, do and of course, what did you eat? LOL!
Katherine (Kat)
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Sun, 08-31-2003 - 11:06pm
Tweety, I hope that you had lots of fun! What a wonderful mom you are. It is indeed the best feeling in the world to have those grown up kids around us for the day! You must feel so proud!

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Sharon

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Mon, 09-01-2003 - 10:13am
We had a fantastic time! We saw SO much and of course, ate SO MUCH!....footlong corndogs, onion blossoms, smoothies, nut rolls, etc. But I had the Tums along ;-) We did SO much walking too! My hip joints were aching by the time we got home. Ds only lives about a mile from the fair so we walked to and from there also. We took a group picture at ds's house before we all left for home. I'll try to get it posted sometime this week.

But my night ended on kind of a sad note. I ended up with a bad sinus headache and dd called me in tears. She hates her roommates and the living situation so bad. She rents a house with 4 other people and the others are SO irresponsible. She came home one night to find the house unlocked, the lights ALL on, and the TV blasting and NO ONE home! She was fierious! The other roommates all have parents that are paying for EVERYTHING (rent, utilities, school, etc) and dd is doing most of this on her own. Her schooling we help with but the rest she does on her own. She is SO responsible and having the others not be is really upsetting her. She says they party ALL the time and are so noisy that she can't sleep or do homework. They make fun of her when she doesn't want to party cause she has to work early the next morning or has a class. I tried to comfort her and told her to keep her eyes and ears open for anyone else that is looking for a roommate. I told her not to nag them and just follow behind and turn things off. The more nagging you do the more they will try to do to make you mad. Its mostly the guys that are doing this. You have to understand, my dd is a real sweetheart but she is also very high strong and WILL NOT allow anyone to step all over her. She knows what she wants and she goes for it. When others don't cooperate or act stupid, she lets them know! So I told her she needs to do her best to tone it down a bit. But I hate doing that! I hate telling her to be someone else in order to keep peace. You know? She loves school so thats a good thing. I told her to try to do most of her studying there where its peaceful. She has a lock for her bedroom door so at least she can keep others out while shes away. But once those bills start coming in, she is not going to be able to afford it and she can only do so much! We have a son in college also and it isn't easy helping two and maintaining our own household. I think all of this added to my already headache and turned it into a full blown whopper. I took a Motrin Sinus headache pill and went to bed. I sure hope things improve. Time will tell, I guess.

But anyway, you were asking about our state fair trip and thank you for asking. We really enjoyed the day together. My kids, as you all know, are my entire life!

 

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Mon, 09-01-2003 - 4:59pm
Just spoke with dd and she is going to organize a household meeting to set down rules. I think this is a great idea! Hopefully it helps and they all abide by what they decide on.

 

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Mon, 09-01-2003 - 5:25pm
Tweety,

I had just read your initial post before I went into the shower. Sure glad to hear your DD has a plan of action and hope it works out for her. It sure is difficult when you're living with roomates with different ideas than your own and also when you're picking up your own bills and they're not.

My DD had some bad experiences with roomates also. She lived with a bunch of party animals suite mates too. Fortunately she changed roomates and although they lived barricaded in their room for most of the year they at least had each other. Those girls unfortunately weren't going to listen to reason about anything. It was their first time away from home and they pulled out all the stops! The stories still make my hair stand on end!

Good luck to her! She's one level headed and wonderful sounding young woman! Wonder where she got that from!

Susan

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Mon, 09-01-2003 - 5:44pm
I was trying to read this when I got bumped off by the phone (yes, we share one line here!). Hope you got rid of that sinus headache, Tweety. Poor dd - I can't imagine living with people who act that way! When I was in college, we partied, but we also studied and had jobs! During the week, it was in bed by 10 pm and no one left lights on & doors locked, etc. We also had cleaning schedules. Things sure have changed! Your dd sounds like a very smart and mature young lady & I hope she can either dump those losers or whip them into shape.
Katherine (Kat)