RebeccaC
04-10-2008, 06:51 PM
I am talking about Sunday which was my b'day and probably one of the worst and one of the best I have ever had. So what was so very bad wellllllllllll.......
A close encounter for the crow boys which almost gave me a coronary. Sunday was a very nice sunny day here and I was making one of my favorite meals, after all it was my b'day and wild salmon fillets, with home made mashed tators, and frozen fancy green beans were in order :D However while mashing said tators the sky fell in or at least seemed to to me.
Crow boys went out for a bike ride with a neighbor boy. Our neighborhood for the most part is nice. We are right next to a forest preserve and a little league baseball field and park. Dsons were stopped by a man in a van..... yep hang in there it gets worse..... who told them he owned the concession stand at the ball park and that he had been having trouble with a stray cat and needed help dropping it off far from the ball field...... step up from I have some candy in the van story line :cursing:...... anyway dss know better they have been through the BSA Time to Tell film 3 or 4 times now but neighbor boy has not. So neighbor boy gets off his bike and jumps in van. My dss who are now walled in their rooms for life or so I wish.... huddle decide they have to do the BSA buddy thing so one stays with the bikes while the other, almost goes off to his doom in my way of seeing things, with the van guy........ Yes upon hearing this I nearly lost it all and am sure I gained at least a 1000 gray hairs. After dropping off the naughty kitty the van guy does drive the boys back to their bikes and says see ya later. Younger ds rides home to tell because he thinks now that it is all done is the time to tell :glare: I suppressed my desired to immediately wall my boys in by reminding my self through my hysterical tears and suppressed yells of how in tarnation could you do that, that their frontal lobes are not yet developed and they have no idea just how dangerous their helping the van guy out really was :eek: Dh went looking for van guy and called one of the scout leaders who heads up the s*xual abuse/predator department for our county and city. I lecture through tears for God only knows how long which dh also does. We have never ever been so scared in all of our lives until today when the van guy actually knocks on my front door and yes he is still alive but only because I did not find out who he was until he left:banghead:
Well to make this short we have several policemen in our BSA troop and they are now on the watch for the van guy who might not even work at the concession stand. The neighbor kid got a debrief from both dh and I. Our boys got the socks scared off of them when dh explained all the whys it dangerous going with the van guy in details they had not heard before but not too graphic just enough to scare the socks off of them.
So to the good part after my blood pressure left stroke realm we had dinner and dh and my boys bought me a German Chocolate cake and rented Enchanted from Blockbuster which was a big help. Then I decided it was time to escape a bit and got on the puter and headed for here and what did I find I had 4 new rep points and an e-mail from the board saying happy b'day :D Which helped. The best part was tho that my dss were with us to eat cake and laugh at Enchanted.
A close encounter for the crow boys which almost gave me a coronary. Sunday was a very nice sunny day here and I was making one of my favorite meals, after all it was my b'day and wild salmon fillets, with home made mashed tators, and frozen fancy green beans were in order :D However while mashing said tators the sky fell in or at least seemed to to me.
Crow boys went out for a bike ride with a neighbor boy. Our neighborhood for the most part is nice. We are right next to a forest preserve and a little league baseball field and park. Dsons were stopped by a man in a van..... yep hang in there it gets worse..... who told them he owned the concession stand at the ball park and that he had been having trouble with a stray cat and needed help dropping it off far from the ball field...... step up from I have some candy in the van story line :cursing:...... anyway dss know better they have been through the BSA Time to Tell film 3 or 4 times now but neighbor boy has not. So neighbor boy gets off his bike and jumps in van. My dss who are now walled in their rooms for life or so I wish.... huddle decide they have to do the BSA buddy thing so one stays with the bikes while the other, almost goes off to his doom in my way of seeing things, with the van guy........ Yes upon hearing this I nearly lost it all and am sure I gained at least a 1000 gray hairs. After dropping off the naughty kitty the van guy does drive the boys back to their bikes and says see ya later. Younger ds rides home to tell because he thinks now that it is all done is the time to tell :glare: I suppressed my desired to immediately wall my boys in by reminding my self through my hysterical tears and suppressed yells of how in tarnation could you do that, that their frontal lobes are not yet developed and they have no idea just how dangerous their helping the van guy out really was :eek: Dh went looking for van guy and called one of the scout leaders who heads up the s*xual abuse/predator department for our county and city. I lecture through tears for God only knows how long which dh also does. We have never ever been so scared in all of our lives until today when the van guy actually knocks on my front door and yes he is still alive but only because I did not find out who he was until he left:banghead:
Well to make this short we have several policemen in our BSA troop and they are now on the watch for the van guy who might not even work at the concession stand. The neighbor kid got a debrief from both dh and I. Our boys got the socks scared off of them when dh explained all the whys it dangerous going with the van guy in details they had not heard before but not too graphic just enough to scare the socks off of them.
So to the good part after my blood pressure left stroke realm we had dinner and dh and my boys bought me a German Chocolate cake and rented Enchanted from Blockbuster which was a big help. Then I decided it was time to escape a bit and got on the puter and headed for here and what did I find I had 4 new rep points and an e-mail from the board saying happy b'day :D Which helped. The best part was tho that my dss were with us to eat cake and laugh at Enchanted.