Role Models and our children

Me and Mike just had an interesting conversation. I was telling him that Michael Phelps is banned from USA swimming and Kelloggs has dropped him as a sponsor. I am tired of reading or hearing from people that he was a great role model for children and now they are disappointed in him.

I take issues with this statement again love comments but nothing rude. Yall can disagree with me all you want just do it tactfully. Ok onto my post.

First why cant a teacher be a great role model why does it always have to be someone in the spotlight in our local paper my daughters 3rd grade teacher was honored as Wal mart teacher of the year. S was so sick that year we werent sure if her bone marrow was failing or what we spent a lot of time down in Pittsburgh with a hemotologist and at our local hospital getting blood drawn twice a week for 8 weeks. Plus a lot of time with her regular doctor. He made life so easy for us he worked with her after school or if she was sick he always sent a card or called just to see how she was. I would love if S choose him as a Role model

My second Point is Parents need to be responsible Role models for their children we cant expect say Michael Jordan to raise our children we need to raise them we need to teach them values and morals. Not leave it up to someone whos morals and vaules may not be the same as ours.

Third point we cant tell our girls not to dress or act like Britney Spears when we do the same thing. I cringe when S especially tells me that her friends moms have all kinds of different boyfriends or let their 11 and 12 year old girls go to boys house unsupervised. Sorry not happening in this house or let them wear make up.

We need to point out to our children that there are heros in our hometowns the local police the crossing guards, the fire department volunteers just to name a few.

Michael Phelps is a great swimmer did he make a bad choice in smoking pot yes. But it was his choice to make and we cant say you cant make bad choices cause your a role model. He didnt ask to be a role model he is good at his sport and just that. Miley Cyrus is another example she is a great actress and singer and I let my kids watch her. Does that mean I want my kids to grow up and be like her no I dont. Ok now to were I may contradict my self

I do think of President Obama as a role model and this is why. The first time in our country's history we have a Black man in the office of President I cant help but to think the black children especially who may be raised by a single parent can say hey maybe that can be me one day. Its good to let children and adults have dreams we just have to be careful as parents who we hold up to the spotlight. And teach our kids right from wrong instead of expecting a celeberity or athlete to do it. Yes its fun to say I want to be like Mike but at the end of the day do we really want that for our children.

Kity update and where I dont understand the media

Oreo and her two sisters are fine. Oreo is doing much better this morning the vet gave her a shot of antibiotics and I will continue to give her the pink stuff and count my fingers. My checkbook is fine also cause they didnt charge me anything for today. But after spending 500 dollars I am still looking for a thank you card in the mail.

On to my next subject and I dont want any negative hateful comments from all that disagree with me.

This morning I was flipping through the local channel feeds (one from the west for example L.A and one from new york) and I was on a local fox channel from new york and across the bottom there was a headline that caught my attention then it made me angry.

The first gay lesbian couple to be married in Massachutes have decided that they no longer want to be married to each other and will receive the first same sex divorce. It went on to say they will share custody of their throughly confused 12 year old daughter.

I have a lot of issues with Prop 8 in California but that is another post for another day. What made me angry here was the medias attention to the daughter. I would like to think any 12 year old would be confused why her parents are divorcing. I know my daughter would be. I think its irresponsible for the media to put a spin on this.

Everyone should have the right to marry and as I commented on another blog if everyone is concerned about marriage then make divorces illegal and dont use confused children as a reason that same sex couples should not marry that is just stupid.

I could go on about how unfair this is but then it would be a very long post and that wouldnt be good. This is my opinion and you have a right to disagree but no hateful or negative comments. Have a good day all

Sick Kitty

Oreo is not feeling well we think she has an infection and the vet agreeded who called me after his office hours yaay. So tomorrow we will pack her up and take her into his office where it will cost us a small fortune.

The boy were a belt today and I told him the brillant plan that Lynilu came up with. He said nooooooo I would die of emberrasment. Well that is all that is going on here please say some prayers for Oreo and my checkbook.

Boys and boxers

What is the deal with boys and boxers. Over the weekend we bought J some new jeans he needed them. We also bought him some boxers today as he was leaving for school I asked if he had a belt on and he said yeah mom bye mom.

I am not the best morning person out there infact I dont make any decisions in the morning I am not sure if its the flexerall that is taken before bedtime or the lack of sleeping or what but if you ask me I would probably sign my house over to you in the morning. So tonight as he is walking around the house I happen to catch the back side of him and guess what I see .

I see boxers with fishing lures on them. I asked him where his belt is and he said to me mom what is the point of wearing boxers if I cant show the world that I wear boxers. So I thought for a minute and I said J you want the world to know you wear boxers that is fine. To save electric and water and me doing massive amounts of laundry you can just wear boxers to school.

No shirt no jeans just your trusty old boxers and he said mom you dont understand. I said explain it to me. So the new rule (actually old rule new enforcement) If I dont see a belt on in the morning and when he comes home he can wear just his boxers. It is also against school policy to display boxers. I will say it again though I am glad this is the only problem I am dealing with .

My next topic is Miley Cyrus aka Hannah Montana the media needs to stop pointing out every little mistake and let her live her life in peace yes I hear you say but she is a star and deserves the medias attention and critizism. I agree to a point she is 16 entitled to make mistakes and no one is perfect let her grow. Ok that is it for today

A little piece of heaven

I am a shower type girl for one reason its hard for me to get out of the tub. The second reason is the plumbing wasnt working right my hubby fixed it and I took a bath it was nice till the phone started ringing and my children didnt say she is busy. Oh well it was nice for 20 minutes

Grrrrrrrrrrr actually double grrrrrr and not tigger ggggrrr

I have been up since 630 and my children want to argue and fight over report cards. GRRRR S made honor roll. J brought all his grades up except for one and could have made honor roll.

Mike fixed the plumbing today Yaaaaay. Also on a good note I did not loose my patience in the social security office. The woman in front of me was escorted out by the state police in handcuffs it was not a pretty sight. So I behaved myself.

Directv moved my dvr box installation to march 3 so that gets a GRRRRR.

And to top off the day I learned that evil groundhog that lives about 6 hours from me seen his shadow I have a question how did he see his shadow when there was no sun ? I think he just wants to torture us. Death to Phil although I think in the state of Pa if you shoot the groundhog you are in big trouble well not any groundhog but Phil evil groundhog anyways. Going to have a rootbeer float later all.

Dreams

Just a short post for now will be back later. Is it a bad sign when you dream about blogging? Cause that is what I dreamt about last night. That and begging Mikes supervisor to let him come back to work so I could reclaim the middle of the bed.