I braided my son's hair yesterday, that was chores! I wanted to post about it yesterday but after the creditor post my hands were so done. His hair has gotten so long and beautiful, it's not fair. My dd has to have dreads because her scalp is so bad and it can not tolerate relaxers anymore. I had to have all my cut off because it was breaking off and going gray from stress. It is ridiculous. How can my wonderful 11 y/o boy be so blessed. Oh well at least one of us has good hair.
I am not a bad financial manager but Gee Mo Peep, I can not get blood out of a rock. I just spent the most harrowing moments of my life on the phone with a creditor/lawyers office. He was not nice. I'm just going to say that I HATE creditors, I HATE them. They are mean and annoying, and heartless. What made it worse was that he was trying to make me sound like I was dumb and overreacting to his "threats that weren't threats". He kept telling me that I was just perceiving his "threats" as threats. The fact that he kept telling me that if I didn't pay them when they said that my dh was going to lose rank, that the fees to go to court would be worse, that the world was basically going to come to an end, were just perceived threats. I tried to be calm but when you are disabled and your choices are be minimally functional or work. With minimally functional being, getting dressed everyday, taking care of my kids, and if I can making dinner.
What am I supposed to do, never leave the house (gas being outrageous), never feed my family, not pay other bills to make the one company happy. This is not the worse situation we have ever been in but I'm losing my hair and going gray for a pretty good reason.
So I've been on this mother's board since my youngest was born in 2000. It started as a Expecting Mother's board on iVillage in I'm thinking February 2000. Well we've all moved, some of us have had more children, things have changed good or bad. I'm guessing there is about 35-40 of us and that's a high number. Well to the point I'm rambling, 
we are all (well most of us) going to FINALLY meet each other in Chicago. The Windy City this summer, 
I can't wait.
Now I have to say that some of us have already met, but we've rarely met in groups larger than 4 maybe 5. I have met about 5 people off the board myself, and I'm really looking forward to meeting some of those I seem to keep missing. Right now we are forming committee's and nailing down dates. At this point all I care about is how soon can it get here. There's just something about a bunch of women getting together to have a great time that just makes life seem a little sweeter. 
