Our friends had their house built exclusively by JW's. The house is worth over $400,000 - gorgeous. The built it for about 1/3 of that.
2 weeks after the house was finished and they moved in they very publicly disassociated.
They had been having doubts for a year after reading C-O-C but wanted cheap and free labor.
They just sold the house and are building a new one with nothing but problems.
WG
would you have an elderly parent live with you.
my inlaws drive me mad, we had my fil stay for 6 days a couple of weeks back and gee was i glad when he went back home!.
the problem is my mil is going in a home shes very ill and he is all alone, hes quite fit at the moment but he is 87 years and we live a couple of thousand miles away, id love to offer if the time came but i know in reality id hate it, especially as id be home with him all day while my husband was at work.
I think it really depends on how the person treats you and also if they want to live with you or if they have to live with you because nobody else wants them.
I know I will take care of my parents. I am an only child and I would not ever want my parents put into a care home.
Now my husbands mother, I would send her to one. I know because we are the only one of her children that actually isn't on welfare - besides hubby's oldest sister who has disowned his mom - no one else would have the money or the inclination to take care of her. Hubby's sisters only are around his mom for what she can give them...free babysitting, money, etc.
WG
on my street, someone already started puting up their christmas decorations.
i find that a little early, but that's their business .
how about you, when do you start puting them up?
I usually put them up the day after thanksgiving....unless we are doing home improvement projects.....Then it has happened just a week before Christmas.
Since we aren't putting up a ceiling or refinishing our wood floors this year.....LOL..
I think it will be the day after Thanksgiving!
WG
-----------------my husband likes to go to bed early between 10 and 10.30 pm.
he gets up early so i dont mind, but he wants me to go with him.
sometimes i dont but tonight i did,cos he hates going by himself ahhhh.
Although its none of my business...
Is your husband overweight? I used to snore when I was overweight. Now I only snore when I have a really bad cold..
Both of my parents gained a lot of weight and their quiet snuffling turned into house shaking snoring.
As I said earlier in this thread, my husband snores when he is sick or super tired....its horrible.
I get really grumpy if I haven't slept well....so if he is snoring I will usually go sleep on the couch or kick him out of bed....LOL!
WG
-----------------my husband likes to go to bed early between 10 and 10.30 pm.
he gets up early so i dont mind, but he wants me to go with him.
sometimes i dont but tonight i did,cos he hates going by himself ahhhh.
My wonderful husband snores from time to time and it makes me so crazy. It usually has something to do with the way the pillow is bunched up under his neck. I usually try to adjust the pillow.
It is worse when he is really tired or sick.
Have you thought of getting your husband to try the breathe right strips that go on the nose. Some people swear by them...
Good luck with trying to rest!
WG
just got an email from my fleshly athesist brother.
he might as well have punched me in the stomach.
just a card would be appreciated, if i must.
Hi Banished,
I'm sorry your feelings were hurt. I think its nice that you tried to do something for them. Perhaps it would be easier to ask them yourself instead of having your brother as the go between.
They may be better off financially than you and don't want you to put yourself in a hole financially buying them gifts....or there may be hard feelings.
Either way the only way you'll find out is to ask.
If you feel you want to do something for them a donation to a charitable organisation is always nice....in their name of course.
WG
its wednesday evening, i'm alone and in need of distraction and am curious about my new and old fellow posters.
so i was wondering if you would reveal what makes you different from the next person in terms of your hobbies.
what are little known facts about you?
I would spend time drinking wine and quilting...that is if none of my little munchkins were home.
WG
...two ladies park at the entrance of my driveway (thereby blocking my egress), get out of their mommi-van, and approach me smiling.. i don't know either of them.. the elder gal asks me if i'd be interested in learning what will happen 'in the end times'.. i am dressed for the courtroom, carrying a bunch of documents related to litigation against the watchtower in california and texas.
when i turn to respond, several of my draft documents slide out of my daytimer and (spat!
) on the driveway.
I can only imagine how the dubs would run away if they blocked my driveway....I get crazy when my neighbors do it....so if a dub did it I know it would get ugly.
I would probably drive over the mini-van with my truck!
WG
my mother just called and has taken over all the arrangements.
granted it's her daughter that just died but she hated my sister and took out all her rage on her.
not that the rest of us got anything good.
Lady Lee,
I am sorry for how your Mother treated you and your siblings. It seems that when someone dies that it brings out the best and worst in people around us.
When my grandfather died, he was cremated. My grandmother went off and dumped his ashes into the ocean one day...(and it was her right to do this)..but I would have liked to be there.
I was sad there was no real place to visit.
Maybe you could get one of those kits that they have in home improvement places to make your own customized stepping stones/garden markers. You could make it as your own personal memorial to your Sister.
Again, I am sorry for your loss and for your poor treatment.
WG
background:.
my sister and i have become estranged because of the tension and hard feelings around this shunning of mom.
it has been several years since i have seen her or heard from her.
Gee, now the JW's are delivering a big helping of shunning just like Domino's Pizza. Lovely.
I'm so sorry for how your mother was treated. This is completely wrong that this happened.
This act of shunning is so evil.
I don't know that I could be friendly with someone who treated my mother with such disrespect.
WG
