Thursday, July 16, 2009

What should we do with a 10 year old boy?




10 years is so much fun. There is so much that we could do that I am tempted not to do anything. He wants to go to Friendly's and eat icecream. I want to stay home and play lots of games with him. I am working and we should have a pool party at the community pool. The teens are away and I feel so much for the little guys, who are seeing the family dispersing their separate ways. This always happens in a family. I wasn't privy to that happening in my family, because I am the oldest and was the first one out of the house. Now when I see the little guys pining for the companionship of the older ones, my heart aches for them. When I would come home and my little siblings called me selfish for not showing up for the family gatherings, I couldn't imagine that they could miss me.
Now, it is time for me to step up to the plate and occupy my children, instead of letting them cry for their elders.
Lord, help me and if you have any birthday ideas, you help me too. :)
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Joanne Bodden said...

Hey Jayne
Wow i know Kamaal is turning 9 and it's a whole new world. He was here today making me clean the house and really trying to inspire and cojole me to throw out the junk ! I love him. We have this book that i sometimes use about boy stuff,like; catching frogs and flying kites and stuff and we did some of it but mostly let him choose & grab 1 or 2 of his friends from school if you can Movies are really easy we saw Imagine That starring Eddie Murphy for John Anthony's Bday which was fun!
Let me know what you do Kiss him for me!

July 16, 2009 at 9:56 PM
jackie said...

glad to seee you feeling well jayne ...keep up the good work
many childen is alot of work
Sometimes they make you feel like sybil (many personalies)...but we have to find ourselfs within it all..
anyway kiss all the kiddies for me and soon i'll get a chance to send some stuff .. miss you guys
i'll be reading!!!!!!!

July 17, 2009 at 8:01 PM

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Title- The Studious One!

Title- The Studious One!
artwork by Elyse

Of biscuits and syrup

Of biscuits and syrup
tasty treats

Happy Saturday!

Happy Saturday!
a day at the Raptor Center.

Widdle Emmie in outer space school

Emmie jumped on the bus and off it flew out into the atmosphere. There was a set of clouds with turbulence right above the house and it took a few minutes for my Emmie to buckle her seatbelt. They hit the bump hard and it knocked my Emmie out of her seat and she bumped her head. The video camera came on and the monitor looked through and stated, Ms. Emmie, where are you? You are not in your seat. Where are you? I am alright I fell because I hadn’t buckled correctly. Well jump up Emmie we have a long way to go and you have to be buckled there is entirely too much turbulence in the stratosphere for you to unbuckle now. As soon as we are through this weather system there will be straight sailing but right now you must buckle. Emmie scrambled into the seat with intensity and purpose now. She watched every cloud pass her window and her nose was pressed to the window trying to see the top of the house as it drifted slowly out of sight. Soon they were not only out of sight of the house, the sun came out brightly and just as quickly they were putting on the atmospherical breathing apparatus and the outerspherical lights. The ABA and the OL. These precautions were to make them appear to be satellites to the radar as they were out in the ionosphere. Emmie knew all about this now. She had gone to the orientation and had a good breakfast and it took them 20 minutes for her to get out past the atmospherical pull and to feel the zero gravity. It would be 15 minutes before the gravity simulators would take effect, a glitch in the system which was being worked on. Until then, they enjoyed the couple of minutes of floatation, while being connected to the seats by belt. The first thing they saw everyday was the strataflotsam. The items which had been dumped into the atmosphere by earlier generations. What would their generation do about this ecological waste area that remained floating above their heads? This was a question for the generations. For now it was the area that they had to guide through on the way to school.

Midnight at the OASIS

Midnight at the OASIS
Sunset in Huntersville

My little Emmie

ran to the bus on the first day of the last year of school. 2 buns on the side of her head. She kissed me and ran at dawn to the bus. She was starting the adventure of a lifetime. I would never see that little girl again, she was going to woman school!

My Father and I 1989

My Father and I 1989

to the tune of Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme

A VISIT TO PAPA











Are you going to Mary Immaculate?

Apricots, Chocolate Cherries and Pie,



Remember me to the one who lived there,



He once was a true love of mine,



Tell him to buy me an acre of land,



Apricots, Chocolate Cherries and Pie,



Between the muddy Hudson in Jamaica Bay,



Then, He’ll be a true love of mine,

Tell him to sow in it seeds of pure cream,



Apricots, Chocolate Cherries and Pie,



And build Ice cream mountains and buildings of whipped cream,

Then, He’ll be a true love of mine,



Tell him to reap them with sickles of M&M’s,



Apricots, Chocolate Cherries and Pie,



And chew bubble gum and eat till we’re done,



Then, He’ll be a true love of mine.



Tell him to run it off down the motor parkway,



Apricots, Chocolate Cherries and Pie,



After your done 50 pushups



and jog down the West Side Highway,



Then he’ll be a true love of mine…

(Don’t wait for me today dad, The kids are sick again, My tummy’s bulging again, My heart is aching again, And now there’s no love there…)





He once was, a true love of mine….So, Girls, I do beg you don't miss your Daddy,Apricots, Chocolate cherries and Pie,You have one short chance to see him on this side, Go visit him and let your light shine.