Jeremy's Birthday Present
Duncan turned 36 on June 14, 2008. Thank you and God Bless An Tir and the Summits for really being there as a friend for him and having his birthday celebration. You all rule.
Out in the pasture one of our cows "Priscilla" chose to have her baby on his b-day, she has only brought him/her in one time for me to see, she hides the baby mostly, but here is a picture Tressa caught before she left the barn area. I think another cow "Baby Face" had one today as well, but cattle are shy about their babies and hide them for a few days until they are feeling more secure.
I am really, really tired from all the ranch stuff today. Tressa is at her father's who laughingly does not believe that Macafee or how ever he spells it is our neighbor, tis true, his ranch is about 10 miles from ours, (thats close around here) and he runs a ultra-light school and is generally a very nice man. To make it more amusing his rival Norton lives 10 miles the other direction, but is not as social. It was all in the Arizona papers about 18 months ago, but you have to read to notice those things.....
Sadly her dad and his wife called her a liar when she was talking about the school and movie theatre they put in here in Rodeo, and she is now convinced he is a dork. If I could get them to listen to me for one minute, I think I would say um, hello. Tressa is an honor student, a hard worker, honest and can be a bit of a monster, but she is a devotee of the purity ring cult, going to college and loves 4H and FFA. You can never get off your fat asses to see her games, her plays, her shows, her honor awards ceremonies even tho you are less than 5 hours away, come on people, wtf! It would cost less than what you spent on silly disney trivia to come see her once in a while, and mean the world to her. Gawd, stop me before I get in my hummer and drive over what am sure is a lawn with pink flamingos and spinning daisies on it.
She plays on the school sports teams. Is active in Theatre, community service and loves to dance. Please don't call her a liar, it is one thing she doesn't do. Between your antics of the last 24 hours, asking her if she was sexually active in rude and crude ways on her last visit, and accusing her of swiping a 5 dollar phone charger ( I know amazing ) you are standing the huge risk of alienating your only child, so buck up, don't act like a dork around her, it didn't work with me and she is far less tolerant that I am... my husband got a text message saying god help me, mrs dad likes obama. My 13 year old republican was horrified LOLOLOL!!!
Now, for everyone who is actively in Tressa's life and is appalled that these things were said to her, please give her a hug when you see her and reaffirm you know she is a cool person.
What's sad is he stands to lose her in a bigger way that he lost me. She has been raised with culture, with tolerance and love for others. To be honest and hard working. While I have not hidden anything about the issues with her natural father, I felt it was really important to let her have her own measurement of his actions and basically who he is. So mostly I have kept silent around her. She doesn't miss much. It's sad he can't just be charming to her and be enchanted by the young lady she is growing up to be, not try to dominate her.
So pretty much she is really sad atm, miserable and hurt. Been there done that with him, at least she has Mom and friends and family to help her detox when she comes home. I wished it would go better, but the older she gets, the more like a woman and not a puppy she is, so to speak, and my fear all along has been how he would react to her as such. That and Tressa is used to lets say a more genteel environment.
sigh...
She wants to love her dad and I think she does. But he needs to listen to her and not shout over her, something he couldn't accomplish with me nor any other woman at the time I left him, let's hope he figures this shit out. She adores her Paternal grandparents, they are very nice people. She loves her cousins from that family as well. The best thing dear old dad could do at this point is take her some place just she and he, and listen to her. Let her talk to him and not challenge her on verbs, but listen to her.
Thanks for the rant ;)
Out in the pasture one of our cows "Priscilla" chose to have her baby on his b-day, she has only brought him/her in one time for me to see, she hides the baby mostly, but here is a picture Tressa caught before she left the barn area. I think another cow "Baby Face" had one today as well, but cattle are shy about their babies and hide them for a few days until they are feeling more secure.
I am really, really tired from all the ranch stuff today. Tressa is at her father's who laughingly does not believe that Macafee or how ever he spells it is our neighbor, tis true, his ranch is about 10 miles from ours, (thats close around here) and he runs a ultra-light school and is generally a very nice man. To make it more amusing his rival Norton lives 10 miles the other direction, but is not as social. It was all in the Arizona papers about 18 months ago, but you have to read to notice those things.....
Sadly her dad and his wife called her a liar when she was talking about the school and movie theatre they put in here in Rodeo, and she is now convinced he is a dork. If I could get them to listen to me for one minute, I think I would say um, hello. Tressa is an honor student, a hard worker, honest and can be a bit of a monster, but she is a devotee of the purity ring cult, going to college and loves 4H and FFA. You can never get off your fat asses to see her games, her plays, her shows, her honor awards ceremonies even tho you are less than 5 hours away, come on people, wtf! It would cost less than what you spent on silly disney trivia to come see her once in a while, and mean the world to her. Gawd, stop me before I get in my hummer and drive over what am sure is a lawn with pink flamingos and spinning daisies on it.
She plays on the school sports teams. Is active in Theatre, community service and loves to dance. Please don't call her a liar, it is one thing she doesn't do. Between your antics of the last 24 hours, asking her if she was sexually active in rude and crude ways on her last visit, and accusing her of swiping a 5 dollar phone charger ( I know amazing ) you are standing the huge risk of alienating your only child, so buck up, don't act like a dork around her, it didn't work with me and she is far less tolerant that I am... my husband got a text message saying god help me, mrs dad likes obama. My 13 year old republican was horrified LOLOLOL!!!
Now, for everyone who is actively in Tressa's life and is appalled that these things were said to her, please give her a hug when you see her and reaffirm you know she is a cool person.
What's sad is he stands to lose her in a bigger way that he lost me. She has been raised with culture, with tolerance and love for others. To be honest and hard working. While I have not hidden anything about the issues with her natural father, I felt it was really important to let her have her own measurement of his actions and basically who he is. So mostly I have kept silent around her. She doesn't miss much. It's sad he can't just be charming to her and be enchanted by the young lady she is growing up to be, not try to dominate her.
So pretty much she is really sad atm, miserable and hurt. Been there done that with him, at least she has Mom and friends and family to help her detox when she comes home. I wished it would go better, but the older she gets, the more like a woman and not a puppy she is, so to speak, and my fear all along has been how he would react to her as such. That and Tressa is used to lets say a more genteel environment.
sigh...
She wants to love her dad and I think she does. But he needs to listen to her and not shout over her, something he couldn't accomplish with me nor any other woman at the time I left him, let's hope he figures this shit out. She adores her Paternal grandparents, they are very nice people. She loves her cousins from that family as well. The best thing dear old dad could do at this point is take her some place just she and he, and listen to her. Let her talk to him and not challenge her on verbs, but listen to her.
Thanks for the rant ;)