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I still have letters for claiming on this post, so give me something to ramble about?

Duke keeps getting stuck in the playpen. I don't know why we still have it up, or how he actually gets IN it, but it's kinda funny.

Larkin is STILL not here. If she doesn't come by next Friday, Kris will be induced, but she's already at 4cm, so hopefully we'll have a baby soon.

Monkey got his short cast yesterday, and the dr said his break has healed nicely, so three more weeks and he'll be good to go.

We're supposed to have triple digit temps the next few days, so I think I'm gonna be a homebody. What's happening with yall?

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Yeah, even though we're The City, our area is really tiny. Also, it's sad to me there are so many homeless. With my family and my church, I can't imagine getting to that point, y'know? But it happens every day. :(

My dad has been pretty sick, so we've been all over Chicago and some other big cities lately at rehabs/hospitals, etc. We see so many homeless.

Someone (usually my Grandmother or a family friend) hangs with my Dad during the day. And then after work I drive my mom up. So we make something to eat on the way up (sometimes it takes an hour or so to get there, depending on traffic.) My mom always helps me and makes a few extra sandwiches or a few extra baggies of something and we hand them out to homeless at the stoplights. I always wonder how everyone can just pretend they aren't there. It makes no sense to me! Ignorance is not always bliss. It is sometimes just ignorance.

We were at the gay pride parade on Sunday, and I gave a homeless man $5 and my friends were SO irritated at me. But seriously it was $5. He was clearly not pretending to be homeless. Trust me. And so I don't buy a pack of smokes to smoke at the parade, or I don't buy a few beers when we go out afterwards...I fed someone. And I feel blessed to have $5 to give away. I remember when I didn't. If everyone just took care of our people, I don't think we'd have this issue. You know?

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Ignorance is not always bliss. It is sometimes just ignorance. Truest words.

And yep, I get it. And it seems like the people who do give to others are the ones who don't have much to give but who KNOW what it's like to have less, y'know?

The biggest fundraiser for the rescue mission is the Drumstick Dash on Thanksgiving and I think it's Davey's favorite of the things we do during the year, but he regularly makes me buy stuff to donate to the food pantry and gives his change to people on the street and whatnot. He's always so upset about "the foodless people" because it's easier to find shelter than food.

I think that means you raised him properly. My favorite story ever is that my mom and I were both "starving" one day and stopped at Taco Bell when I was a kid. We never ate out. We had started to eat one taco in the car and drove by a guy with a sign that said he was hungry (this was in an area where there weren't many homeless at the time.) and I told my mom how sad he seemed. And she turned the car around and gave him all our tacos. We went home and made sandwiches for ourselves. And it has stuck with me ever since. Because seriously? What a great role model she was.

aww, YES! See, I want my kids to be Good People when they grow up. Your mom is awesome.

She is. And we were never very wealthy when I was growing up. I mean we got by. But barely. Because my parents were ridiculous (and I love them for it) and spent all their money sending me to good schools and things like softball camps and whatnot. So they were poor so that I could do awesome things. But the point is we never had much money to begin with and we never ate out and so it was a huge treat and my mom said "If you want to give it to him, we can." and we did and it was like seriously a defining moment in my life. I love that she was a great example for me and my sister both, growing up.

That makes sense to me, though. When I had extra money, it all went to the kids. Now that I have no money, I still manage to find ways to send my kids to camp and I pay tuition for them to keep going to salem schools since we moved and whatever. It's the important things in life.

And this is why you know your boys will grow up to be great people! :) Because you are a good parent.

I, for one, have a dog and a cat because I can put them in cages and no one calls child protective services on me. And because they can't talk and tell people what I did to them. ;)

Lol. My dogs are 10 months old, and they're around the 2yo age for kids, and they're big babies, so when I go to the bathroom, they sit outside the door and cry and try to stick their paws under the door. What do they think I'm gonna do, crawl out the window? Seriously, just like kids.

Diesel follows me around when I'm at home. Like "Hey where are you going? Why didn't you invite me?" I love it. He can be dead asleep and I get up to get a drink and turn around and he's right there. Just watching.

With Dad being sick I have been staying at my parents. And my best friend has been staying at my place with my dog and cat. And I realized how my animals have the best personalities (I am not biased at all....) because my parents dogs are just so not as awesome.

They do have a 1-yr old cat..her name is Ninja. And we shouldn't have named her that because she is one now. And her little paw can go SO far under the door while you're trying to go to the bathroom or shower. It's slightly creepy. I think she'd make a great horror story.

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