I have friend who is on 'welfare' , she has a disability and can't work. She is doing a great job as a single mom of two girls. She has shown me a thing or two about shopping and money.
What bothers me is that she gets help from other agencies ( food bank , salvation army, etc.) but she can't get help from two of them at once. Does that make sense? One can't know the other is helping, or they will kick her off the help list. Uhhh ok? She can't work , not she doesn't want to. She babysits other peoples kids for free ( yes including mine) , she doesn't ask to get paid for it. How is it that we live in a system that can let so many families fall through the cracks?
We can barely afford our 'free' healthcare, we make too much money to get subsidy. If we make too much I'd love to know where it is? I guess I just squander it all on rent and food and bills.
But we are not the only family in this situation, there are so many like us.
What is it that we are supposed to do? Even as a community.
And as for my friend and the free babysitting... She doesn't have a car so when ever she has to go anywhere I drive her and her girls , so they don't have to take the bus. That's how I repay her.
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You know i stumbled onto this blog by accident but it has turned out to be very interesting! Mine is a lot more boring I think -- its http://blog-droppings.blogspot.com/. Its very computer geeky, but its supposed to be. I wish I had enough patience to write up more ideas, but it takes so painfully long...
You are still nice to drive her around, you know. I'm sure it makes all the difference that it shows you don't take her for granted.
Kids seem to me like they are probably the most difficult thing in the world. Computers are supposed to be complicated but I always know that the game will be *fair*. If I work dilligently and systematically I am just about guarenteed to solve a problem. Kids are completely the opposite.
I have a puppy that I saved from being euthenized and that is about the limit of my parental capabilities -- it gives me a little taste of what it must be like to raise children. I'm sure its a lot more rewarding, but also light years more complicated.
Plus, dogs don't grow up and hate you, they grow up to be your best friend, and that is a plus.
I lost Lacy in September. She was another abused mutt I saved 13 years ago. It took years to train her; in the beginning she was so wild and destructive I was kind of a joke to people that knew me. But I learned a lot about how to help her work through her little doggy problems and she turned out to be as smart as Lassie... We spent every minute together from the second I woke up until the second I went to sleep. It was like I lost my little girl I was just devistated. That is the down side of dogs.
I wasn't ever going to get another one, but when this puppy and I sort of randomly crossed paths, and I found out he was on his way to the humane society to (most likely) be put to sleep, I kind of thought that Lacy would think it was a real shame to waste everything that we taught each other about each other's species. I felt like it was a very special gift that I could keep alive by passing it on to another abused soul without much hope -- just like she was when she was a puppy.
So I named him Reuben and he wants to go outside to the bathroom right now and so I have to end the story here before he rips my sleeve off!
well i'm glad someone finds me intersesting. i can tell you what the letter of the day was on sesame street was too. as for your blog being computer geeky.... well it was all latin to me , but i yelled at my computer to 'make email go now' for 10 minutes before i found the inbox. so i think it's perspective. ( it's okay to laugh , i'm not kidding about that one)
yes kids are hard. but they're fun too. fingerpainting is great fun. and goo ..if you have not experienced goo try it. a box of cornstarch and water...all the fun in the world.
i'm sorry about your dog. but it's good you did get a new one, they really are great. i have a dog we rescued from the side of the road , someone was shoving her out of a car. she is old and and fat and lazy. but we love her, in spite of the bad gas. ( must clear room now )
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