Our treasure

What would be a greater way to start your week than to know who your real friends are?

FAKE FRIENDS: Never ask for food.
REAL FRIENDS: Is the reason you have no food.

FAKE FRIENDS: Call your parents Mr. / Mrs.
REAL FRIENDS: Call your parents DAD / MOM

FAKE FRIENDS: Bail you out of jail and tell you what you did was wrong
REAL FRIENDS: Would sit next to you saying ‘ we screwed up… but that was fun! ‘

FAKE FRIENDS: Never seen you cry
REAL FRIENDS: Cry with you

FAKE FRIENDS: Borrow your stuff for a few days then give it back
REAL FRIENDS: Keep your stuff so long they forget it’s yours

FAKE FRIENDS: Know a few things about you
REAL FRIENDS: Could write a book about you with direct quotes from you

FAKE FRIENDS: Will leave you behind if that is what the crowd is doing
REAL FRIENDS: Will kick the whole crowds butt that left you

FAKE FRIENDS: Would knock on your front door
REAL FRIENDS: Walk right in and say ‘I’M HOME!’

FAKE FRIENDS: Are for awhile
REAL FRIENDS: Are for life

FAKE FRIENDS: Will talk bad to the person who talks bad about you.
REAL FRIENDS: Will knock the person out that talked bad about you

Have a great week everyone!

PS, One more fool-proof way to know who your real friends are: Take a long vacation and do not stay in those posh las vegas or new orleans hotels, but instead at cheap hotels. If you survive the trip and do not rip each other’s throat at some point, you’re real friends! This is tested and proven!

Polishing diamonds

If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.–Bette Davis

Debatable?

Of course! But I know for a fact that Wendy, at one point in her 8 years, has hated me. Maybe not the serious leaves-a-scar-in-your-heart  type of pain, but yes, she has “hated” me. [She won’t admit it know, but I know that she has thought of strangling me! He! He!]

I believe that children are the diamonds in a parents’ lives, but they are loose diamonds. We are to treasure them, but we should be “hard” on them. We are to love them ,but we are also to teach them. We are first anf foremost their parents, and if molding them to be the best person they can be involves a bit of hard polishing [and, yes, hating’, then so be it!