Well Blue, I am sorry you are losing yuour business. It is a hard thing to lose. I know it is. I don't htink y ou're a failure, though. Running a business is very hard and keeping it floating is very hard. You made it 20 years. All of my aunts start these businesses and they can't even get them going. One aunt took over a very good and well known art store in tourist town where she lives. It ahd been there for years. After only 2 years of her running it she was done, bankrupted in the toilet. What happened? Clients are fickle.

Even if the business ends it is not a failture! You made it 20 years. Think of it more like an end. In the end all things have a cycle. And part of the cycle is death. But new beginnings come from an end. So, the end of the business, but something new will come from it. I am thinking about Iris right now, the Rainbow. Not sure why, but it is coming through to me and it applies to this somewho. I can't express it, though.

Okay, so then your friend. You don't need that. So, good you ended it. Sorry but true. Reminded me of my ex-best friend from childhood. The day my mom died she called me asked if I could sleep over. I said, "My mom died," and she said, "So?" That was the moment I knew she ws not really a friend. So, sometimes those moments come. I am better off without her. You are better off without someone taking yuour energy away right now.

Your son. Well, he is 11. Maybe his phase of pre-teen is coming. When both are calmer have a talke to him. I know my son who is six I am making him do more now and he's getting mad. Me and my husband making him get his own water, cereal, etc. My husband made him make his own cereal the other day. I got home and my 6 year old was trying to "tell on daddy" haha. He was shocked I agreed he's old enough to start doing this.

So, yeah. I'm rambling. But I feel what you mean. It's hard to see your baby suddenly calling you names and flipping you off. Sit and talk with him. I bet it was a misunderstanding.