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- I saw this on GMA and thought I'd share it will all of you, even though it doesn't have much to do with raising grandchildren :-)I know one person who received the "long form." Thank God he didn't fill it out...
- I just found out two things about my husband's daughter -- and I can't BELIEVE IT!!!First: She got an abscess from shooting heroin and went to the ER. While she was there, they put her into a clinical trial to test a new antibiotic - she got $50 a...
- A friend e-mailed it to me. VERY long read, but worth every word!We've all been in this woman's shoes... It all began to make sense, the blank stares, the lack of response, the way one of the kids will walk into the room while I'm on the phone and...
- I knew my husband's daughter wouldn't stay in recovery with her mother in FL. I did think she would have lasted at least three months.But already she stole pills, got drunk in a bar, found herself an older guy to give her money, beat up her mother...
- We live in a small, rural community with lots of young parents and their children.When I hear the moms and dads talk about driving their kids to soccer games, CYE classes, softball, hockey, music lessons, friends' homes, dinners out, birthday...
- Sharon's post on the "Whoohoo" thread made me think of the differences among my husband's daughter, her cousin "Jane" and her ex-boyfriend "Bob" (father of two of our grandchildren).My husband and I enabled his daughter less and less as she...
- A friend posted Haitian relief websites on FB and it reminded me to issue this warning. Most of us are focused on our grandchildren, so if we donate money to the relief effort we don't want it to go to fraudsters.Do NOT click through from ANY...
- My husband's daughter left for FL yesterday. Now she'll be 1000 miles away - YAY!!!!Her mother (the one who gave her her first beer, cigarette, and drug) says she now wants to take her turn at "helping" her. At this point we're just glad she's gone,...
- It just occurred to me that, if the bios want their kids back, don't they have to pay child support for all of the years we took care of them?Does anyone know the answer to this? I know that in NJ, if a bio comes out of the woodwork and wants...
- I've been reading here about all of the grandmoms with serious health issues, who are valiantly raising multiple grandchildren.Thanks be to God, I've been blessed with good health. However, I just caught a nasty cold from our youngest, and I...
- NJ is supposed to get 14-18 inches today. We don't have a snow blower, so we usually try to compact the snow in the driveway by driving up and down it. This is too much to keep up with already.I guess I'll have to break down and play Monopoly. Bake...
- Once again it's hooooliday time! YAY! Time to deal with bios who want their holiday glory fix.My husband's daughter "Jay" (the one who gave the kids scabies twice in the past six months) wants to visit us for Christmas. She has already told the kids...
- My husband's daughter still isn't doing anything about her recovery. No job, no home (she says she's living in a "recovery house" whatever that is), and sounds high sometimes on the rare times she calls the kids.Leading up to Thanksgiving she said...
- We got our notice that the local schools will be giving swine flu shots.I can understand the warning not to get it if you're allergic to eggs. That makes total sense.What DOESN'T make sense is the warning not to get it if you've ever had (and...
- A friend e-mailed me this link to a CBS story. I find it interesting, because we just received a letter from the kids' school telling us that three children had "presumptive" H1N1. They couldn't be sure, they said, because the tests are "too...