Chaos at my house!!
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| Fri, 05-11-2007 - 3:09pm |
I don't normally post to this group, but I just can't stand it anymore, I have to talk to someone other than my husband about all that's going on at our house. I'm stressed to the limit. Here's what has happened in my house over the last week:
1. Discovered a leak in the bathroom wall that has been going on for some time and there's black mold everywhere. Ripped out all of the moldy stuff down to the studs. Now we're looking at replacing just about everything $$
2. My dog hit his head on something (we don't know what) almost two weeks ago and had a giant lump on his head. Took him to the vet, thinks looked ok - until 3 days later when he scratched it so hard that he punctured the skin badly in two places. That bled and oozed and now he's wearing one of those ecollars and I've been dragging him to the vet every couple of days.
3. We had bad storms last week which blew off my chimney and knocked down my fence. More $$.
4. Wednesday the air conditioning broke. More $$
5. Discovered my 12 year old daughter had deliberately cut up her arm with a pair of scissors. Talked to her counselor, talked through all of this, I think she's just looking for attention, so we're working on this one. (This happened before my son moved out)
6. My 18 year old son is 1 1/2 weeks from HS graduation, and I was called by the school that he has skipped one of his classes for the last month (it's part of a community service deal with student council, that's why they didn't know for awhile), missed some detentions for tardies, missed the additional detentions for that, used his cell phone for the third time in school - net result is that he was facing 2 days of suspension, 3 days of in school suspension. He comes home the day I get the phone call about all this, then sneaks out of the house before his Dad came home and I haven't seen him since. His english teacher said his grade in her class is so bad he won't graduate. The attendance office called me yesterday and said that he told her he had wrecked his MOTORCYCLE (!!!) and couldn't come to school. I am only communicating with him via email at this point and I'm at my wits end. I didn't yell at him or anything when all this happened before he left - he's making such BAD CHOICES!
7. Both kids and myself were really sick over the last week and a half, and I'm just now getting back to normal feeling-wise.
Honest, my husband and I are just average people, normal parents. There's no abuse going on, in fact if anything they are slightly spoiled suburban kids. We go to church, don't have money problems, belive in education, have good jobs. I feel ike there's a little black cloud over my head.
Thanks for letting me vent
Cathy in Tx

Holy cow, girl!
Rose