eyes of a girl

A Smith county girl has gone missing with an armed Hispanic guy. The picture of the girl, 16-year-old Laura Pewitt, is posted in local news outlets. Why is it that some girls take on this kind of hardened look?  If you look at her, one of her eyes is hard like coal.  The other still has a sparkle left in it.  

Hold your hands over her face and just look at her eyes.  The hardened one is the one that led her to involvement with this guy in the first place.  

She’s missing.  Somehow she got involved with him.  I hope her family gets her back.  These young girls are so susceptible to boys/men. Mothers have to be exceedingly strong-willed to fight back.  Don’t let them go with just anyone. Know who they are with at all times and don’t be a doormat afraid to hurt your child’s feelings.  Do not stand for disrespect and fight like mad not to let the predatory males get near your daughters.

out with the old

Tax-free weekend’s coming up and I need clothes.  My 14-year-old soon-to-be-a-freshman daughter needs clothes.  My 12-year-old who will miss the first day of school as he’ll be arriving home that day from England needs clothes.  My 10-year-old and my 5-year-old need clothes.  The problem is, t’aint much to make that happen!  So you have to go through everything and figure out what will work and pass some things down, get ready to give away what won’t.  That’s a mom’s job, usually.  The clothes.  The parade of the clothes.  It’s my least favorite aspect of child-rearing because I stink at it.  I try, I really do, and I’ve managed to save outfits that I’d like to see on grandchildren some day.  But the seasonal shift that has me pawing through wardrobes and sizing up exposed ankles thanks to a couple additional inches in height or in the case of my 12-year-old, four inches in a year … IT’S A REAL BORE!  Wish I had a million bucks. I’d chuck it all and start over.