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Poolie - 2010-07-03 15:13:32
How sad that your sisters don't accept you. Huge loss for them. I am so lucky that my sister and I both bolted away from home as soon as we could. We share similar values. Do you see your sister in the Land of Cheese?
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Pam L - 2010-07-03 17:02:08
I have to agree on teaching the youngins the value of hard work. As we speak mine is mowing and trimming ours and the neighbors lawn. He also has aided his Dad on the building of the deck and the shed. None of it is/was optional. Before he was old/big enough my first born did the same, which also included being a major workhouse when we bought a house with a totally unlandscaped back yard and turned it from a clay hill filled with tumble and bindweeds into a virtual oasis. Lots of hauling rock, dirt,sod, mulch , digging holes and planting the trees and shrubs in them. Watching him work with my DH on a two man auger in white pan clay was a site to behold. They had to auger down a hole, then fill it with water, and move on to come back and try again. One hole had a prairie dog tunnel under it and when they left the hose to fill it and went back later, it was running down the hole like a toilet. So, fond memories and funny stories can come of this work too, along with the pride of being a part of it and doing a good job. And I could never ever live in MY Hometown again, upstate from you. And I didn't have any mean sisters or parents, it's just a tiny town with not much happening which led my friends and I to find stuff to do as teens that wasn't always the best way to spend our time. And the drinking age was 18 then, and I was tall and mature looking, I'm just sayin...
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Stephanie - 2010-07-03 18:36:55
I've been craving pizza so much I'd be willing to take the end pieces of that Sicilian!
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cccerberus - 2010-07-04 15:27:47
I can totally relate to not wanting to time travel back into the box of dysfunctional labels, inside the larger, but still small-minded box of my childhood home, on territorial carved suburban property, and run into ghosts of what was but still isn't my reality, not ever.
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terri t - 2010-07-04 17:38:00
I'm in total agreement with finding a punishment that fits the child and the crime. I hope he gets it. I have a sister who lives about 90 miles away and she has chosen to withdraw from the family for years...haven't seen her for about 18 yrs now. On occasion, she sends an e-mail and wants me to catch her up on the all doings of our other 2 sisters. While it breaks my heart that she doesn't care enough to get involved with us; I know I can't make her be what I want her to be....and I have given up.....well...almost given up.
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artgnome - 2010-07-05 16:24:13
This is the very same reason my sister and I have formally separated from the biological snake pit. I cannot understand living a life only viewed from the rear view mirror. What a waste of what is given to us!
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