Apr 23 2009
Just when I thought things were getting better….
What in the world is happening today everyone has gone stark raving mad. I am talking about all of the murders, family members killing their families, random shooting sprees, and on. We all know that some areas are bad and that we should be safe if we watch who we hang with and do go to certain areas and be upright citizens, right? Well, a father lost his son to a random shooting at a car wash. A woman was shot sitting in her own home, no one knows who or why. Violence is rearing its ugly head and we really need to be extra cautious!!
I am so upset this is just disgusting, my second oldest son found out yesterday that a friend of his had been murdered, he has know this person since they were young. We do not really know any details because it is under investigation. My son has been to Afghanistan and Iraq and has to come home to another war zone. Hopefully, they will find the person who did this and will put them behind bars, so the family can have closure. My heart goes out to the families of the victims of all of these travesties, I cannot imagine the pain that has been inflicted on them.
I have been babysitting for my son while he has been going to the gym, so I am absolutely wore out at the end of the day!! Today, the kids decided to take buckets full of water and make mud puddles and then jump in them, they tried to come in the house several times but I persuaded them to run through the sprinkler instead. They thought that was great since it was the 90’s today, the baby was in the walker in the house and the kids were finished playing in the sprinkler but had gone back to the mud puddles. I brought the baby onto the back porch in her walker and turned on our misters, solving the mud issue, not to mention the baby loved it too.
I let them play for quite awhile and convinced them to come in the house while I made supper and fed the baby. They dried off, and played while I cooked, the baby was hungry so I fed her while the food was cooking. I fixed them their plates and told them if they ate all of their food they could have ice cream, only one of them was able to finish their food and was given ice cream, the other two did not care too much, they were tired. I fixed the baby a bottle and she fell asleep and took her in the bedroom to lay her down, came back into the living-room and the youngest was asleep on the couch, and the one with the ice cream had fallen asleep sitting up on the other couch ice cream in hand. My grandson was the last to fall asleep and it was only a short time later when I was transferring the girls to their beds, he was passed out laying on the floor. I put them all to bed, and waited to here from my son, he had returned home after the gym and tried to work on some of his school work that he had not been able to concentrate on because of the news of his friend. They came over later and took the baby home with them but left my grandson here for the night. Tomorrow morning is going to be fun, all three of them are going to be so excited finding out he is still here.
