[2Jedismom]

Thanks guys for at least being righteously outraged with me. I didn't even bring it up to Steve until last night. And he commented that when she said that about the bear, I was stuck...because she was doing Matthew a favor awarding him the whittling chip card in the first place, since he didn't show up for the group carving. Remember...we forgot? And i was afraid after all his work she wouldn't award him his card?

See, I can pretty well tell what probably happened. The guys got together with their dads who visited the whole time they were supposed to be working with their sons on their bears. The bears turned out looking like crap, all except Matthew's because Steve and Matthew worked on it together just like the book said to do.

Well, one Sat. a month the guys get together with their DADs instead of their moms and they work on something. I think it's pinewood derby cars this weekend. Anyway, Steve is going to check it out this sat and then decide.

Yes, there are other dens...closer ones even. I don't want to speak to this woman. The rest of the women are her buddies...go to church together and such. I feel strong enough to endure her...just get the Achievements done and run damage control for Matthew (who, having never known a hateful person doesn't even recognize it).

There ARE people throughout life that are like this...Joshua was just telling me how one of his classmates said he couldn't play with a truck because he already had...he said "But that wasn't true! I hadn't played with the truck yet!" We talked about how sometimes that's just the way people are and you know in your heart what is right and you can't help what others think sometimes.

If it comes to it, I imagine I could get Matthew through it with this person...does that make sense?

I don't want him to quit. I don't want her to run him off. We know in our hearts what is right.

[Wneighbor]

Hey all.... I just got an email from Jill. Tom is looking for the Hobbit Hole. I sent a link. No telling if he'll get to try it today or not. The movers are at their apartment in Germany and they may have their computer packed by the time my reply gets there.

But, we may hear from him today..... or in a month. :-)

He got a screen name. AllArmyAllUSA. YEA!!!

[Sam Cree]

When my boy was in Cubs, I had told him that most of the work on the pinewood derby car had to be his. Imagine my surprise when we showed up at the meeting and all the other kids had these beautiful cars made obviously by their parents.

Same thing with science fair projects at school. I found out after the first one that these projects are made not by the children, but by their parents, and painstakingly at that.

Once I got the picture, I did the same, although I had the kids do all the work, even if under very strict and specific direction by me.

Maybe they learned more that way. We did some pretty cool projects. One was on the local geology of South Florida, and involved trips to the Everglades and Keys, on rock collecting expeditions. Come to think of it, I learned alot myself on that one, I'm probably the only person I know, other than my son, that understands very well what rocks this area is made of, and how they came to be here.