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Thoughts of a reformed thief

In another life I was a thief.  Yes, I admit it.  I was a thief. Why talk about it?  With all of the stealing that our son David does from family members, it hits home. I now fully understand what I put my family through so many years ago. You see, I used to live by the philosophy that if it wasn’t tied down, locked up, or otherwise secured, it didn’t belong to you anymore.  It belonged to me.  And then… My step-dad, turned me in for theft.  And the life I was leading caught up to me. My probation officer told me I had two paths in life.  Path A was prison.  Path B was change.  I chose Path B.  At some point in the future, I will write about what exactly that meant for my life and future.     Tweet #fighting4answrs

all’s quiet on the northern front

Well, all is quiet currently. Everyone is sleeping except me and the cat. The only noise is our dog Sugar Bear.  He must be having a heck of a dream. I find it amazing everyday that a child with so much turmoil, and angst can sleep so peacefully.  I am talking about David.  From the constant lies about what he is or is not doing to the near constant arguments about what he can and can not do, I am exhausted mentally by noon, and he could go for another 12 hours. Anyway, tomorrow is a new day.  Our furnace died yesterday.  Tomorrow the repairman comes.  Surprisingly, our house has been fairly comfortable considering we live on the northern plains. What mischievous deeds will David get up to tomorrow? Tweet #fighting4answrs

and so ends the great debate

Our youngest son David loves to argue.  Everything for him is something that can be debated. Tell him that he needs to clean up his kleenex, and he will tell you why he can’t do it, and he might use something you said yesterday to him as an excuse.  Tell him he needs to eat his supper before he has a snack, and he will tell you that he ate his supper and then will tell you what he ate for lunch.  When you ask him who made this supper, he would say, so and so made it for me at lunchtime.  Well, since it is 6:30 in the evening, you need to eat a regular meal before you have a snack. For discipline, one of the few things that works is to have him cover his head.  Normally we don’t keep him under there for more than about 10

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