Salt of the Earth

Monday is here- boys are home from school. Not a surprise but this is an actual holiday. (they NEVER have school cause Oregon schools suck). Weekend was good. My mind has been on this finger/insurance/bitch neighbor thing. I’m not as angry as I was on Friday. I found out that it is MY medical insurance that is no fault when it comes to car injuries. Still not clear on what that means other than if it happens in a car- car insurance pays for it. I kind of dreading tomorrow at the bus stop. It’s hard to hide feelings when they are still so raw. I’m kind of thinking that my neighbor will not let her kids take the bus anymore. (she’s very dramatic like that). My biggest fear in all of this is that the kids will have to suffer for this incident. This neighbor is one of those people who talks badly about people in front of her kids and *almost* encourages them to back her up. (very sad) I just don’t want them saying mean things to my kids-and I know there is nothing I can do about that. It’s just sad because Thomas got his finger hurt and now he may get his feelings hurt (which sometimes can be worse-fingers mend, hearts stay broken longer) Like I said, i can’t do anything about that. But it’s what bothers me the most. I am prepared for a confrontation this time and I have my car/medical insurance all ready to hand over to them if they start telling me I’m wrong or asking questions again. My car insurance agent said the lady can sue me if she wants, but she’ll lose. I’m not so worried about that- I’m just disgusted that she threw the lawyer card out for something that should never have warranted that kind of behavior. I just don’t understand ’sue’ happy people. Maybe I should cause apparently they are very common. Several of my friends called this weekend to check on Thomas finger (news travels fast). I left out the neighbor part with the exception of my two good friends. They were in total disbelief as they know this lady and her children. One of my friends said she wasn’t surprised because she’s seen this lady go lunatic on the secretary in the school for not letting her in to get her child’s folder. You learn so much about people when something like this happens. Tomorrow after school will be interesting. I’m truly not looking forward to it.

SO in the midst of all that happened on Friday- I forgot to mention that my aunt and uncle were in town to visit my cousin and his wife and their new baby, Abby. Mick had his own adventures on Friday on the max. So all around it was a pretty stressful evening- that ended nicely with my family. I gave her the little hat i made her when I found out she was born. It fits just perfectly now. My cousin sent a picture to me with the hat on.

Well, I have to clean today. So I better get up and do so.
T