sooo

[kristen]

i'm back at work....:( i miss my son like crazy :( he drives with me into philly. i drop him off at my aunts house, who is 5 mins from my work. he loves her and seems to be very happy there.

work is insane, but it makes my day go veryyyy fast. i take my lunch break and go to feed him. that breaks my day up and gives me some sanity.

but i'll tell you...nothing is better than having a sh!ty as$ day. being pissed off at the world and you walk threw one door and you see your sons smiling back at you.

i love him lol

who wants to buy my camaro since i don't give a crap about her anymore

[StrtRacer98]

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who wants to buy my camaro since i don't give a crap about her anymore

WHOA!

thats sig worthy

[96RS Alex]

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Does the economy force you to work or would an option to be a stay at home mom work out for you? This way you can care for your son and your Camaro! :)

It's obvious you love your son so much, maybe it would be very worthwhile to care for him than doing double duty with your job or V6. Just reading from your comment.

This is a perfect example why millions of women in America think they can have it all trying to balance work and family. I hope you succeed in finding a resolution.

Interesting thread you started.

[BallerMaro13]

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who wants to buy my camaro since i don't give a crap about her anymore

say it ain't so kristen, say it ain't so.


i think you should just give it to me so it can finally get the halos and grille you've always wanted to put on lol

haha jk! you love me :D

[hockeyman]

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who wants to buy my camaro since i don't give a crap about her anymore

I'll buy it and re-paint it...just to get rid of that butt-ugly pewter color :stp:












































Hahaha, j/k :D

[Mogobs30th]

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i'm back at work....:( i miss my son like crazy :( he drives with me into philly. i drop him off at my aunts house, who is 5 mins from my work. he loves her and seems to be very happy there.

work is insane, but it makes my day go veryyyy fast. i take my lunch break and go to feed him. that breaks my day up and gives me some sanity.

but i'll tell you...nothing is better than having a sh!ty as$ day. being pissed off at the world and you walk threw one door and you see your sons smiling back at you.

i love him lol

who wants to buy my camaro since i don't give a crap about her anymore

As the voice of reason (as usual around here) be VERY careful about spending too much time with your son. I have always believed in having a healthy dose of family but not overdoing it. My sister-in-law was bad when my nephew was born, and it put a terrible stress on her and my brothers marriage. Just be careful not to let your son consume your whole life, its just not healthy.

[stevethepirate]

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Lets sell our cars as a package deal.

[flamingchicken]

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Lets sell our cars as a package deal.

i like the sound of that.

although i cannot purchase, i can trade. i am rich in things.

I can offer:
1 half full (optimist) bottle of SoBe lifewater pomegranate cherry flavor
2 air filters for a set of weber carburators
a new flashlight
1 2000 pontiac firebird with half an engine
1 1971 Vw Type 3, runs, drives, and stops, all lights work
1 Dune buggy chassis, has transmission.
1 dune buggy chassis that will not roll, bad transmission
1 fender squire acoustic guitar
1 epiphone electric guitar with 1978 issue gibson t-top pickups.
A bunch of nickles from 1960 and earlier.

[vanbibber]

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As the voice of reason (as usual around here) be VERY careful about spending too much time with your son. I have always believed in having a healthy dose of family but not overdoing it. My sister-in-law was bad when my nephew was born, and it put a terrible stress on her and my brothers marriage. Just be careful not to let your son consume your whole life, its just not healthy.

thoroughly disagree. when you have kids they are your life and nothing comes before them.

[Mogobs30th]

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thoroughly disagree. when you have kids they are your life and nothing comes before them.

Plenty of things come before children, your ability to make ends meet, put a roof on their head, and feed them comes before your children. If my brother and wife spent their every last minute worrying about my nephew, they would both be out of a job living with her mother. Instead, they have taken their child in moderation while doing what is nessecary to provide themselves and their son with a real home in a good neighborhood, with good schools and low taxes. I will never accept the excuse that your child is everything and everything you do must be for your child, its not the way I was raised, and its not the way my children will be raised. Its simply not healthy to let your children consume every moment of your life, nor is it healthy to live vicariously through them. I have a firm belief that when you do those things, you do not prepare your child for being an important part of society, but instead spoil them for a life of hardship, because they simply don't know what an honest day's work is when their parents have done everything for them. I have ZERO intentions on ever letting my children drain me well into their 20's and 30's, they will learn young and fast that you receive what you put into things, and that no one is holding your hand.

My mother or father never held my hand. They gave me what they needed when I needed it, not what I wanted when I wanted it. I have done everything on my own, and I believe I am a better person for it. My nephew is being raised the same, and he will be a successful, honest, and better person for it as well.

PS, me and my GF have had the same discussion several times, and its something we do butt heads with. She is a PRIME example of a spoiled individual, and because of it, she's 27 years old still living at home trying to finish her schooling. I'll be turning 29 this Saturday the 9th, and I am working on getting my bachelors degree on my own, with no help from the parents. I "own" two cars and have my own apartment in Chicago, though it may not be much, Ive worked for it, and I work to keep it. Other than the Firebird (which is a project car BTW), I haven't been handed anything in this life, but I promise you I will be a more successful person because of it.

[stevethepirate]

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There is nothing wrong with a little bit of pampering. It is BULLSH!T that you will only respect stuff if you aren't given anything. I'm too tired and sick right now to explain it further, but trust me. Some of the most respectful, intelligent, hard working people I know were given LUXURY cars for their 16th birthdays.

No, don't bring him up to be a little b!tch, but definitely give him a good amount of loving.

[kala]

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[kristen]

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gabriel is a sign of everything amazing in my life....not only to show that i have a loving marriage and that we choose to show our love by creating a family. nothing in this world will ever be more important to me. family is everything. with out them, you wouldn't have life, love and morals.

i will at some point stay at home with my kids. but with the way the eco. is right now...we don't want to push our luck. at this point if i stayed home, we would have to live tight. and with all the sh#t shaun and i grew up with...or i should say with out....we don't want to ever give our kids a reason to worry. worry where the next meal is coming from, if there is gonna be heat this winter or when the hot water is gonna be turned back on. we are doing right by him...he's already got a big a## saving account and every penny that anyone gives to him will go in there and we will buy him what ever he needs. we are the parents.

and i was kidding about selling the camaro. i will keep that car and give it to gabriel. that was the first real thing in my life that i owned, built, and put my heart into. that represents my teenage years. and there could be no greater give to him, than the one object in this world that mean to me as much it does.

well wes...i guess we know why you are the way you are these days

[vanbibber]

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Plenty of things come before children, your ability to make ends meet, put a roof on their head, and feed them comes before your children. If my brother and wife spent their every last minute worrying about my nephew, they would both be out of a job living with her mother. Instead, they have taken their child in moderation while doing what is nessecary to provide themselves and their son with a real home in a good neighborhood, with good schools and low taxes. I will never accept the excuse that your child is everything and everything you do must be for your child, its not the way I was raised, and its not the way my children will be raised. Its simply not healthy to let your children consume every moment of your life, nor is it healthy to live vicariously through them. I have a firm belief that when you do those things, you do not prepare your child for being an important part of society, but instead spoil them for a life of hardship, because they simply don't know what an honest day's work is when their parents have done everything for them. I have ZERO intentions on ever letting my children drain me well into their 20's and 30's, they will learn young and fast that you receive what you put into things, and that no one is holding your hand.

My mother or father never held my hand. They gave me what they needed when I needed it, not what I wanted when I wanted it. I have done everything on my own, and I believe I am a better person for it. My nephew is being raised the same, and he will be a successful, honest, and better person for it as well.

PS, me and my GF have had the same discussion several times, and its something we do butt heads with. She is a PRIME example of a spoiled individual, and because of it, she's 27 years old still living at home trying to finish her schooling. I'll be turning 29 this Saturday the 9th, and I am working on getting my bachelors degree on my own, with no help from the parents. I "own" two cars and have my own apartment in Chicago, though it may not be much, Ive worked for it, and I work to keep it. Other than the Firebird (which is a project car BTW), I haven't been handed anything in this life, but I promise you I will be a more successful person because of it.

i spend every waking moment with my daughter that im not working with the exception of a few times here and there when either my mom or the wifes mom take her for a night. we're far from living in a cardboard box or a bad neighborhood (also one of the higher rated school districts in the state as well, the taxes suck but ill live with that since i have no complaints on how local tax money is spent to keep said schools where they are) and i still have plenty of social life time even when im with her everyday. i came from a single parent home and did without my entire life and thats not the life i want for my kid or future ones we might have.


the difference between a spoiled brat and a kid that gets things they want are how they are brought up. parents who do nothing but work and push thier kids to the side for the sake of money IMO are rediculous. its the reason half the kids these days are ****ing retards like they are because nobody takes the time to be there for their kids to bring them up right. job be damned if my kid needs me im there. id wake up out of a coma for mine if she needed me. no job will be more important than her or my family. i can find a new job. jobs come and go, family is always there.

i can garuantee you right now years down the road she'll work her *** off when she's an adult,appreciate everything she's got, have a good head on her shoulders and be able to appreciate the fact that she had things better than either I or my wife had as children and pass that down the line to her kids. people who dont want thier kids to have better than they did are nuts. if everyone settled for just doing an okay job at raising thier kids and didnt strive to do better than their own parents did then we'd all be probably writing on cave walls and slinging **** at each other from trees because being nothing more than mediocre would be acceptable and no one would ever want to be more than that.

[vanbibber]

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gabriel is a sign of everything amazing in my life....not only to show that i have a loving marriage and that we choose to show our love by creating a family. nothing in this world will ever be more important to me. family is everything. with out them, you wouldn't have life, love and morals.

i will at some point stay at home with my kids. but with the way the eco. is right now...we don't want to push our luck. at this point if i stayed home, we would have to live tight. and with all the sh#t shaun and i grew up with...or i should say with out....we don't want to ever give our kids a reason to worry. worry where the next meal is coming from, if there is gonna be heat this winter or when the hot water is gonna be turned back on. we are doing right by him...he's already got a big a## saving account and every penny that anyone gives to him will go in there and we will buy him what ever he needs. we are the parents.

lol, damnit you beat me kristen :p