The weather this year is something, lastnight the sirens went off again because there was a tornado spotted down the road on the outskirts of town. It seems to like Highway 77 and follows it. When I had one of my daycares it was in a town down 77 and was hit I didn’t get much damage but my nieghbors there did. And I got to see it since my assisitant director’s son inlaw stood in the doorway of his house and video taped it. Last night I was being about as silly Darrel showed up at 5 saying he was in town and did I want to have dinner by the time we got back it was raining here and there had been atleast two tornados in the middle of the state. Then around 10:30 I went to bed and Darrel stayed up and watched the weather becasue there was another tornado spotted out in the county 7 miles from his farm. At 11:30 maybe he woke me up and said we had to go to the basement, then my daughter called and asked me if I was in the basement. For some dumb reason I didn’t want to go down there again. Darrel said we had to, my daughter was hollering of corse I had taken an Ambien before bed and anyone that takes that can imagine how well I was tracking at the time. Finally I went to the basement and Darrel the cats and I slept down there on the hideabed. Darrel’s daughter called his cell when they sounded the all clear and was glad he was here still here intown since she thought he was headed back to the farm when he left her house. She told him a town close to the farm was hit so he will be taking off later on to make sure the farm and animals are ok. I don’t know what is with the weather, it has been very strange with all the cold weather and now today 85 and 75% humidity which is pure summer weather. Alot of peple have already been killed by storms this year and here in the midwest everyone just about has warning sirens. I read this morning 1200 tornados have touched down 110 people have been killed and we still have 3 months to go! I hope it is sunny where you are and everyone is safe and doing what ever they do on a Fri morning : ) …Kathryn
Myanmar
Please can’t we forget all that political nonsense and get aid to the people in that country that are dieing?!!!!!!!! So what if they don’t yield to pressure to release thier political prisoners give those poor starving people the food they need to ge through this terrible time in thier lives. Now is not the time to put pressure on a weak and fagil 3rd world country in crisis. Give those hungry homeless children help!!!! Work on our relationships later. This is what our country and the UN stands for. We help our nieghbors when they need us. Time to shut up everyone including the big mouths that are making noise in that country, you look like you would rather shoot off your mouth and swagger than care for your own people! Maybe the people in charge there shouldn’t be it sure looks that way to me, but we need to shut up and do what we do best stand up and offer a hand to our nieghbors in this world that need us. All you men out there thumping your chest and making stands need to get over yourselves and help the people of Myanmar even if they never appreciate it on a government level who cares we know the truth. It is a sin to let people die for pride, A SIN…Kathryn
FLYING PENGUINS : ENGLISH STYLE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23qDl1aH9l4 While playing on the computer the other day my granddaughter found this video on youtube. After we watched it I said, I didn’t know penguins could fly? My granddaughter who is ten gave me a poor old gramma look and said it is impossible for them to fly thier wings are not made to carry thier body in flight and because they have to have too much blubber to keep themselves warm it can’t happen. My nine year old granddaughter agreed, my six year old granddaughter said they looked cute flying : ) So at my age I had to look it up to be sure what I thought was true, was really true. The video is really well done and they do look cute walking AND flying : ))) See you tomorrow…Kathryn
COMMENT ON A COMMENT
Today I had a comment which I just couldn’t believe and since I have a blog you get to hear my opinion. I wrote a blog about a young girl being groped in a Target store, and I could not believe the response. First off I would like to start by saying once again people in this country take child abuse and child sexual assult way to lightly!!!!!!! Even people with young kids. Second… One inappropriate touch can scar a child physcologically for life. ONE incident One time. That is what people don’t understand. I know people say all the time I tell my kids 10 times a day to clean thier room and they don’t listen but if I call them stupid one time in thier life it damages them forever? YES because that is what seeps into thier brain not the words the feeling of pain they felt when you said it. The scared confused feeling is what may stay with this little girl. She may not “use ” it as an excuse to be afraid but it is there inside. It was a big deal and she was a victim and the mom and the Target employees and the police seemed to think it was a big deal and so do I. Not all kids are emotionally healthy, some are fragil. In my own family I have one granddaughter that is very very sensitive and three others who are much more resiliant. I have no idea which something like this would damage most. It would be anyone’s guess. If it was your daughter would you really tell them it was no big deal that a stranger touched them on thier butt? I don’t like to attack people personally because I hate it when it is done to me but do you really think that karate would be an empowering defense that could be used by a 72 pound girl against an adult male pedofile? If you are talking about it being emotionally powering to think they could protect themselves I disagree. My son at the age of 9 was a black belt and big for his age, had some 200 pound man wanted to assult him he wouldn’t have stood a chance, regardless of his training. I don’t care what anyone says. Anyway that is what I have to say I am sorry to the commentor, I read your blogs but this time I don’t agree with you at all except that the person who did this crime is a sick person, and another innocent kid was left with a scar….Kathryn
YOU CAN’T EVEN TAKE YOUR KIDS TO THE STORE
Here is a story that made me so mad. A women and her 12 yearold daughter were shopping at Target and her daughter went to look at games and things in according to the mom a teen and preeten isle when she was groped. She ran to find her mom and tell her some man had touched her and her mom said ” On your face? ” and she said ” No on my butt ” The man got away but the girl pointed out who he was on a survelence tape and the employees searched for him but couldn’t find him. According to the mom the girl is very tiny wieghing only 72 pounds and looking much younger than 12 more like 8. THAT IS SICKNING!! The man looked like he was 24 or so and was off trying to find or happened to see a young girl all alone in a hugh super Target. Now this young girl is affected FOREVER and will probably be afraid to be alone any where. She was 12 not 5 off running around away from her mom. Anyone with older kids know they drift a little and get bored playing follow the momma duck when you take them shopping unless ofcorse you are shopping for them : ). It was more than reasonable for her to be in an isle looking at something alone and now she has to have this memory to take along into adulthood, simply because some creepy guy wanted to touch a child in an inapropriate way. I hope they find you so that you can’t hurt anyone else!! I don’t know what the answer is to something like this but we need to start looking for it. Children are children till they are ( in my opinion ) 20 we can’t keep them chained to us untill then, it is time to start making sure when it happens the monster responsible pays for it dearly. Go to a store touch a child spend the next 20 years in prison. we take child abuse way to lightly in this country. In a small town around here they decided not to charge a 20 something teacher with sexual assult on a child when he touched the inner thigh of 2 of his 18 yearold students. He apparently can still teach just not at that school. HE CAN STILL TEACH, do you want him teaching your teenage daughter? Touching the inside of a girls thigh may not be sexual penetration but who knows where he would have stopped if they hadn’t protested? And who knows what damage that did to those gilrs. Have we gone nuts in this country? Wake up people our kids are our future they deserve to start out in life without something like this being at the back of thier mind coloring thier decisions in life. Make the people who do things like this, like it is no big deal ,pay a big enough price that they understand it is. See you tomorrow…Kathryn
ALL ALONE
Well it sure is quiet! I can’t stand it. I don’t know why I moved away from my kids, yes I do and it wasn’t worth it. So I have made the decision to close up shop and move back to the big city. There is soo much to do, I don’t know where to start. I don’t know how I will pare down a three bedroom full basement house to what I will be able to afford in the big city. I may have to live in an apt ( yuk ) untill I can find something up there but that’s ok I guess. I told the ladies that work for me they can buy the biz and make payments as long as they take over the rent contract legally and they want to do it. They were all basically friends before they started working there so they will be fine. As of July first I am no longer a business owner. I sold both daycares 2 years ago and started this place and now it is done and I don’t think I want another, but who knows. My daughter is hoping I can arrange something so I can babysit while she goes to school since it has pretty much been on hold till little Kelsey went to school fulltime, and she will next year. Well I better get started or I will get in a hole. I hope to be gone my Sept or Oct. See you tomorrow…Kathryn P.S. Hey Darrel I’m moving
PEANUT AND MICRO BURSTS
Well lastnight my missing cat Peanut was found, she had been locked in the well house at the farm for 5 days but she is ok and will be back home with me soon, that is if Darrel dosn’t lose her again! A few minutes after I got the news about my cat I tried to call my daughter and kept getting a messege that said technical trouble please call later so after a while I called my provider and they said my end was ok and it must be thier end right when I hung up my daughter called and said in the big city there was a storm and they were caught in a micro burst. I didn’t even know what that was. They live in a hugh 2 story 100 year old house and all around them are trees that old also. Well the micro burst brought down some of the trees around thier house. It missed thier house and cars I don’t know how but the tree next to the house fell into the backyard and fell on the power lines and ripped them out of the house and the house next door and the house next to them. ( THANK GOODNESS IT WAS A CITY ROW TREE!! ) It took out part of the new fence and the deck stairs. My family couldn’t leave and the other people who came home couldn’t get into thier houses. Anyway they are safe and sound and after an ok from the fire dept and electric co they got out and headed here to stay. My daughter and her husband left this morning to get the electrician going on the house. When they left the fire dept. and electric co were still on the scene and people were walking around watching like people do. Anyway everyone is ok and the house was ok minus some wiring and a couple of fence sections, steps and a mailbox, so I am relieved and happy to have them here close to me. Of corse my daughter remarked how much more convinient it would be to have an emergency visit if I lived in the big city again : ) and not 35 miles away!…Kathryn P.S. Here it Tuesday night all ready and I am all alone, my daughter’s house is fine so mine is empty and very quiet! Five kids make a lot of noise. I really hated that they went through what they did but I sure will miss them. Love you guys…
MEMORIAL DAY MEMORIES
I saw these on another person’s web page and thought they were very beautiful images. I have such a feeling of sadness when I see the women at the grave sight. And the peonies are the same as the row I have beside my house which my nieghbor comes and asked every year if she can cut to take to the cemetary on Memorial Day to put on her son’s grave. He went to Vietnam and never came home. Thank you to all you vetrans including my Mom and dad who served. My mother was just out of nursing school when she joined and met my dad in France when she took care of him after he was wounded. He was discharged and was a paraphlegic due to his injuries, after my Mother returned home they married. At the time when my mother joined the service her two brothers were also in the service. My uncle Pete was in the Army as was my mother and my uncle Gene was in the Navy. I have a pictue of all three standing in my grandparents front yard home on leave. It is an amazing photo. Thank God there are people who are willing to serve and protect us, people who do what thier country asks no matter what they personally feel. My mother, uncles and father all made it home, all of them sacrificed especially my dad, and none of them thought they were heros. My mother was just a kid really and my uncles were 2 years older and one year younger. My dad was a little older than that. My mother told me stories about being in Europe and what surgery was like and when I think she was 19 and 20 at the time I can’t imagine. I see kids today in Iraq and Afghanistan and I think they look like babies, and I wish they were home. My brothers, and every man I have ever been with were in the service because a hugh majority of men my age or a little older were drafted. My husband got his notice reported and was sent home becasuse the rodeo life broke too many of his bones and he was considered unfit. My boyfriend now was on a destroyer. And now my grandkids will probably see the same thing if we can’t get out of Iraq. My oldest grandkids are 15 and 14 the oldest is a girl I don’t want to see a draft! I don’t want them to go any where but to college. I don’t want them to learn to shoot anyone and I don’t want them to be shot at, but… I respect everyone who is doing it now or has done it in the past. YOU ARE HEROS…Kathryn
SAD DAY FOR ME : (
This is my precious newly adopted cat Peanut Louise, I have had her for about a year and she is an angel kitty. She is the most gentle kitty and will let the kids pick her up and haul her every where without a fuss, When I went out to the farm Darrel asked when I left if he could keep Peanut out there for a few more days because he had mice due to being gone all winter and it staying cold and them not wanting to leave. I said yes because he said she would be safe. She came from the farm so she knew her way around. Last Thursday when he came into town to spend the night here he said she was safe in the house but when he went back Friday afternoon he said he couldn’t find her, oviously she had been left outside while he was gone. Now it is Sat night and he says he hasn’t seen her and it is like she just disapeared. I feel she is dead, I loved that cat very much and I promised her when I took her in I would always take care of her and she wouldn’t have to move anymore and now because of my trusting someone I knew to be untrustworthy she is gone and probably dead. She was my angel cat there was somthing so sweet about her and she was a beauty, When you would call her she would do a little dance till you would pet her. I am absolutly guilt ridden over her loss. I made hre promises and then let her down because some guy told me he would take care of her, I should not have ever left her there. I pray everynight that I will see her again and Darrel swears he didn’t find her dead some where and just hasnt told me. It has ended what we were trying to get back we were struggleing to hang onto our relationship but this has ruined it. He has no concept of the pain I feel losing this cat and dosn’t think I should be mad at him. That is just too crazy and irresponsible to accept, he lost me a cat that gave me more true love than he did yet he can’t see why I would be upset and angry, I will pray for her and I would appreciate anyone elses prayers too. It won’t hurt if she is alive or dead tho I believe the latter is true. Maybe her last act was to put an end to my relationship with Darrel, she was doing me a favor but I wish she was alive to gloat about it and do her little kitty dance, I love you Peanut you were a special girl who brought me love and joy while you were here and I’m sorry I let you down I will remember you and love you always.
