We're just glad we weren't the ones caught with our hands in the baseball bat jar. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Aw Mom, I didn't mean it like that! He was just talking about how he drives slower and slower each year, just like his dad. Ok, so I don't drive faster and faster, but when I harangue the children it's just like reliving my childhood.

I don't think you got your mouth open quite wide enough for your whole foot yet. Wanna try one more time? Maybe you can cram all the toes in if you shove hard enough! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

t&l

I think we'd have to fracture his sense of duty first, in order for that to work. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

t&l

Nope, it's gotta be a real injury.

<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> Mom, I really am slipping. I didn't even do that one on purpose.

Twenty toes, coming right up.

Must dash and get the Dervish to bed. A pox on VBS and late afternoon naps.

And you look very alluring, too, there in your Freudian slip! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

Hi tl and all .

I am amused and sniggering as well if I am honest





Yes young Neak, I am wondering how you are going to get out of THIS one ? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Ah the young, opening mouths to change feet - are you sure you & AW are not related in some way? great cousins or something ???? hahahaha .. but sadly <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> yes I also came to realisation that I had turned into my own mother the poor dear so many years ago I'm not telling! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

I'd give AW the bad news that she has already turned into me - but she's in denial <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> screaming at the teenage kids, running around from pillar to post, balancing work, home and family and so on and so on.
Opening mouth to change feet repeatedly.
<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

Hey I got some info on Aussie that I may send you as I'm not sure about pointing AW to it yet - dont panic nothing terrible in the m area - no just something that has become available that shows what they do in the real war. Frankly it was a bit confronting. The more I learn the more I find I do not really understand our lad in many ways. He just looks so , well, ordinary. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

Of course rella you just have to know that he looks sideways at both AW & I now ..hahahahha <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> That was so funny when he got on just after your comment hahahaha

AW's mum - SLEEPLESS mum that is <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

Poor Mum.

The Dervish is begging to have his 'koolwork' time on 'da puter', so I must be brief.

No, I still haven't figured out how to get out of that one. In the meantime, I'll keep on digging. And opening my mouth every wider.

(Oh, please send whatever it is to us!)

And she is digging, too. I just fell down and hurt myself, and when I looked to see what had tripped me, it was her tonsils!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

I've got to sew a costume for Hamaan to wear at Vacation Bible School tonight. I think I've put it off about as long as I can. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

t&l

<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

I'm confused.....Neak said something that got made into a big stink and I can't figure out what that is all about......we are turning into our parents......that's not even remotely a good idea......Not even..........and I'm being given a hard way to go for trying to keep Aussie safe.

This place is curiouser and curiouser.

I really need a maid...

Or a girlfriend!!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

RobbyRobbyRobby--Dunno about the girlfriend part, but I think this is the wrong place to find a maid. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> You'd be liable to find your shorts starched, Ex-Lax in your chocolate chip cookies, and your sheets shorted. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> AW knows about aggregates and ratios, and she's a pistol with heavy equipment and installing stuff, though, in case you need any serious work done around your house...but the commute would be a bummer. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Come back again and browse. Maybe you'll get an inspiration...

t&l

I hope you're not serious or seriouser about this. Neak's only stink is on another thread where someone took exception to her advice, and then (I know you'll be <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />) to something I said, too. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> I guess it depends on your parents, whether or not turning into them is a bad idea. And all that stuff about Aussie was in fun anyway--really, Aussie, we were just kidding...you can put down the pitchfork now--even Aussie knows that! Don't you Aussie? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

Besides, how normal can a place be, anyway, which specializes in feminine hygiene? World-wide. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

t&l

Robby,

Go read my TKO post. It might help you on the maid decision, I am currently facing this and thought I could help a fellow cross-dresser out.

rella Aussie knows we are joking really, well mostly, ok if we could get away with it <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> but boys will be boys no matter their actual age.

I at least age gracefully, whereas Aussie is doing his best to get to Grumpy's place in life - GOM (Grumpy Old Man) <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

Neak & tl I'll send you the news bit I found and have , well hidden sounds so furtive
doesn’t it, how about I haven’t yet shown it to AW ??? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> I can say HE has never told any of us about the episode in the paper <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> but then he doesn't tell anybody anything.

AW & I should be grateful he remembers to say Hello I suppose. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

the image of Robby as a cross dresser!! oh my that’s NOT something I want to go asleep on!!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

AW has finalised a deal with the concrete laying thingamabob bloke, the contractor, she is very happy with her cash deal because she got the fellow to agree to do the earthworks for free. Then she will help him do the formwork and pumping in the concrete this Saturday. If you ask her about it she will go on and on <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />
Of course she insists Aussie does not be around as the last time she did this he put his initials in the setting cement!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" /> So I get to sit with Michael and watch the fun - oh joy
The up side is that I get to play with my youngest GS and also discover the latest swear words that she has picked up. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> - never know when the power to embarrass might come in handy. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />
Aussie and a few mates are going to the races which I hope turns out better than last time - by 5.00 pm he was legless and broke and thought he was in a bar in Thailand <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />
My son is driving a Taxi Bus on the weekends right now so I booked him to collect them - now if I could only be convinced he wont go join them! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

Mum, could you let A2 and/or AW know that a soldier on another thread would very much like to hear their story? He is sbmmal, deployed in Iraq, and has a WW back home. He is looking for more hopeful stories, and they certainly qualify! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I will look a little later, too, but have to get busy for a bit.

Tell AW to let Aussie put his initials in the concrete. Tell her that their (other) American sis said it was ok.

yeah - it's ok.....a way to keep him around...maybe he will get stuck in the cement.

Last night went pretty well. The fistfight boy was back, along with his very sweet little brother. So there must not be too hard of feelings, if his parents even knew.

After talking to another culprit's mother, I have to wonder. (I did not tell her about her son's part. That's Neaksis' job.)

This would be the boy that I took with me from here, and drove the almost-hour down there. He goes to the same school as Neaksis' kids. All the kids - hers and mine - said he kicked Val a couple of times when she was down on the ground.

After two days of him calling up bugging me to take him again, and me asking him to explain to his mother that because of the fight, Neaksis' kids couldn't go down early any more, that my mom and I had to bring them down just in time for VBS, and there was no room for him, 8 people, 8 seats, it just seemed as if he was not giving his mother even part of the full story.

Sure enough, all he had told her was that the kids couldn't go down early. She laughed and said maybe Neaksis just needed a break, "perfectly understandable" chuckle chuckle. So I told her about the fight, and how Val's younger brother had tried to defend her, and got beaten up, pinned to the ground, and his neck stepped on and bruised. (Their big brother arrived on the scene then and socked the main bully once or twice, and the fight broke up.)

She was quite interested to hear the full(er) story, naturally. She is planning to come to the last night tonight, with the live wild animal show.

Anybody close enough to come? You'd love it. It is Wild Things, a wild animal rescue group from the Weimar area. They come down and bring some of their exotic creatures. Every year they bring their alligator he is a little bigger, and they hold him and let the kids touch his tail.

Last year they had a snapping turtle, lemur, vulture, and lots more. And every family who comes gets a special free gift!

(Hint: the church members wanted to give out a nice book, but just couldn't think which book they might possibly want to give. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />)

Must get up and going, but seriously, if anyone wants to come just let me know, and I'll get you the info. Have a superdydooperdy day!

I want to come.

Can you don the cape of power and transport me?
(that eye blink thing? )

I promise not to get airsick.

SS

IN all my years working with boys, I only hurt a boy physically one time.

We had a rule that you couldn't run in the halls of the church. I heard a loud running noice one evening, and looked around the corner down the hall. One of the boys was being chased by three other boys, but he had a good lead on them. I timed (in my head) his steps, and put my arm out to catch him as he got to the corner. His momentum swung him around, and into the wall. The wall and his head connected with a loud "bonk" and he hit the ground as if in a coma.

My reaction time was slow - I stood there in a daze wondering what to do. The other boys rounded the corner - It takes time to tell this, but it all took place in 2 - 3 seconds.

They looked down at "Stan" and they looked at me. Finally my brain started working again and I said " I caught him running in the church, and if I catch you running I'll do the same thing to you."

"Stan" came to a few seconds later, and seemed to be OK. I told our ecclesiastical leader what had happened, and I personally visited the boy's mother and told her. She said he probably brougth it on himself, and not to worry about it.

Further questioning leads me to believe that he had done something to the other boys first, and they were chasing him for revenge. We did have a few sessions on getting along, and how to cope with differences in personalities. Lucky for me, this group of boys were understanding enough to "get it."

One side affect of this episode is that I didn't have a disipline problem with these boys. They were never sure just what I had done to knock "Stan" out, and they didn't want to find out either.

I know everyone has their own problems to cope with. Some days seem to be better than others as far as our ability to cope, and our emotional health.

I read something that really helps me - the story of a baby born in a stable in Bethlehem who went on to save all those that accept him. He lives - and that makes all the difference in the world.

May you all have peace in your hearts, even if your life is in turmoil.

SS