WHOA! I missed your post! I'm so sorry! It's just that I've been on one hairy rollercoaster today, trying to not be so pushy with the kids but feeling so bad that I don't seem to matter to them that much.

Did I mention that my youngest son isn't even talking to me? Not since the first of October. And it's so damn rediculous and stupid!!! If it wasn't that they're my kids, I'd say "Screw you!"

You know? If I wanted to make tamales, I've got two neighbors that have asked me if I'd like to make them with their help. It's tradition that the women all get together to make them because it's such a big, long drawn out process. I didn't want to make tamales this year... but for little or nothing, I might just invite these women over to my house and, by golly, we'll make tamales!! I'll bet ANYTHING that we could all find the time to share them at a decent hour on Christmas Day! We're not that close, either! I would classify them simply as "friendly neighbors."

I don't know... I don't understand...