Yes... the times they ARE a'changing...
I had LOTS of over-night stays with friends, probably stayed in at least half a dozen or more homes. I'd say with all of these, my parents had known their parents practically all their lives. Now... yes, it would be hard to say that for parents of small children, even in our Tiny Town. With the exception of about three, however, these were group "spend the night" parties. Of the three whom I regularly stayed with, one was a second cousin, one was my best friend from before kindergarten on (who also attended our church and my parents knew the family VERY well), and one was my next-door-neighbor.
Inappropriate behavior... probably some of that is bound to happen, probably some of that is "normal," but as
Harriet said -- our culture is changing so much now that children are exposed to sooo much now in music and tv, and some children even through family behavior, and all that is likely to cause children to "act out" more. And I know child abuse has happened since the beginning of time, probably, but now we are so much more aware... it's just a hard time to be a parent or grandparent, isn't it?
Well. On a different subject... good gracious, where IS that BGS???
I am having a horrible time getting myself moving today. What is it about Saturdays? I act like I's still working a 40-50 hour week and need an off day, when the truth is I've usually just been lazy for 5 days and want to make it 6.
My
CARDS for today are as follows:
[ ] exercise
[ ] change sheets
(should I wash the new sheets first?)
[ ] s2s (yeah, it's almost 3:00 pm and I haven't done that yet)
[ ] color hair
(I always act like this is a terrible ordeal, and it IS time-consuming, but in reality, it only adds about 30 min. to my regular s2s)
[ ] clean (air-out) humidifier
[ ] Bible reading
[ ] make out clearing list/OMM for coming week
[ ] errands
-- bank, deposit dh's check, get cash for weekend
-- store, we're out of Diet Coke, this is an emergency situation around here
[ ] water plants
[ ] write check for newspaper man
[ ] declutter magazines
[ ] computer clean-up chores
[ ] upload pictures from computer to Walmart, order prints
[ ] dust, vacuum
(skipped this week b/c of dmil's decluttering)
[ ] mop kitchen & baths
(I don't know why this is so urgent, I've skipped it for over a month) 
[ ] s/s dh's shower
(a 5 min task, but it got skipped Thurs while we were at dmil's decluttering)
[ ] s/s toilets
And what have I been doing since I awoke, you may ask? Well, I ate breakfast... surfed the internet some... read a newsletter I got in the mail... and slept through the second half of the basketball game. (TN won,
Twins, in case you didn't already know.) Oh -- and I returned a phone call to a friend who wants me to proofread something for her... and she's supposed to be e-mailing it to me, but I haven't received it yet. Need to check spam folder, I guess.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME???
I don't know what's wrong with me... but I promise, I will do the first 6 items before y'all hear from me again!
