Hello all! Kind of a slow day around the house today, nothing super exciting. Hubby working overtime again, so kinda bored except for spending time with kiddos...and blogging lol. Was outside earlier having a smoke and I saw some neighborhood kids walking down the street...nothing that unusual about it, they do it all the time saround here. When I looked closer, I saw that they were carrying baseball bats...still, not that uncommon, especially since they were walking toward the baseball field down the street. Then I saw the girl that was in front of the other two bend down to pick something up and toss it towards one of the boys that was with her...didn't really think much of it till I caught a glimpse of what she was throwing to him...it was a glass bottle she had found in the ditch! (to be fair, the guys who drive the garbage trucks around here kinda suck at their job, seriously I've watched them go by on their rounds...they routinely miss the truck with some of the garbage and they always release the claw that grabs the cans before the can is actually touching the ground, which results in the can falling in the ditch, being half-way in the street or so far in the middle of your driveway that you can barely get your car out without moving the can first, but thats another post for another day) After she tossed the bottle to the little boy, he actually swings at it with his bat...I wish I were making this up! So of course the bottle breaks, and that's when I know for sure that it was definately glass...as they're walking past my driveway (the bottle breaking actually happened between the neighbor's driveway and my front yard) I stop them and ask them if that was a glass bottle they just broke...I know it was, I know they know it was, I really just wanted to know what they had to say for themselves. The response? Kid who actually hit bottle: "Um, I dont know...guys, was that glass?" Kid who originally threw bottle: "I don't know, probably not...let's go play at my house." Kid who watched whole thing: "It doesn't matter dude! Let's go, I'm bored." Seriously, verbatum...I really wish I was kidding. Now, I know, kids are gonna be kids, but come on! After they had run off, I went to go check out the damage and pick up the broken glass that was now in my yard and my neighbor's driveway so no one would get hurt or damage their tires (the neighbors weren't home at the time), and sure enough, glass...a glass beer bottle to be exact. These are kids that are aged 8-11 that did this...old enough to know what glass is and that it breaks very easily, basically old enough to KNOW better!! They broke this glass in my yard, where my young son plays, and on the neighbor's driveway where their young daughter (around the same age as my son) plays...they know that small children live here, but they weren't thinking about that. To top it off, at least one of these older kids was barefoot when the incident occured, which is just sheer genius. The girl who was involved is the oldest of the three kids that were there, and she's worse than the other two! This is the same girl, who, several months ago, received an archery set as a gift, which in and of itself isn't that big a deal...I practiced archery when I was about that age, but my dad was with me the whole time every time I practiced at home to make sure I was doing it safely and we were practicing in the back yard...these parents have given her no suppervision or instruction about archery whatsoever! She's practicing in the front yard, shooting towards other houses and cars no less, including my house, with nary a grown-up in sight! Not even a car in the driveway...I know this because when I saw her doing it, I immediately went over to her house and asked her as politely as I could manage if she could move her practice to the back yard...this was after I'd pulled several of her arrows out of my front lawn, again, where my son plays. She complied, thankfully, and I found out later from my mom and dad (seperatly no less!) that they had both seen her doing it previously and told her the same thing I did. What I wanna know is, where are her parents? Why do they feel it is appropriate to just let their daughter run wild through the neighborhood doing whatever she wants? I mean, the broken glass was bad enough, but the bow and arrows are just plain unsafe without proper supervision...she litteraly could have killed or seriously injured somebody, let alone the kind of property damage she could have inflicted! The only saving grace to that is that she lost all of the arrows on other people's roofs cause she can't aim worth a flip (seriously, there's probably at least three or four on my carport as i type this..and I'm sure as hell not gonna go up and get them down for her!) What's with kids these days?
On a better note, I switched to my new bag last night after the kids were in bed...LOVE it!! Plus, I got rid of all the junk I'd been carrying around in the old one for so long...it's amazing how much more room I have in the new one without all the stuff I really didn't need in the first place. It's like my bag went from being 5 pounds to maybe one...so much easier to tote around with two little ones, I can even just toss a couple diapers and some wipes into it and be on my way! Kinda freeing in a way, not having to lug around two seperate bags. And it's super cute, which is a big bonus also.
So I finished my sister's album the other day, and it was so much fun to make that I'm gonna make another one just for me! I made sure to print out some extra pics when I printed out the ones for my sister so I'd have some for my album, and got a heart shaped tin that will fit the mini-book I already have cut out. I can't wait to decopodge (not sure I spelled that right) the tin, just have to decide on what papers to use! It should be another really fun project...hopefully it'll come out just as beautiful as the first one. Well, that's all for now, gotta give baby girl a bath...I think she's about to start teething, she's been drooling all over the place lately.
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