hi all At 23:48 1999/07/27 -0500, marling wrote, in part: >hello all, >Ok, so anyone can get it together and keep it that way for a short >time (15 minutes to 4 or 5 days), but what happens when you let >go? >My son and my care giver ( his girl friend) went camping for 4 days. >I had 4 grand children the first night and 2 thereafter to care for >alone, by myself, with no help... >However, as soon as my son and Karri returned, I fell apart. That >is they were home for about 10 minutes and I walked into my room >and FELL on my bed and tried to sleep, and it was only about 5pm. >After about an hour of rest I wanted to kick myself. I had done so >well in keeping it going and watching the children and taking care >of everything here at home, and as soon as another adult walked >through the door, I fell apart. Why????... maybe because you are a human bean!!! why kick yourself when you done good? why not congratulate yourself on having accomplished what you set out to? we all [not just mr don] have a mr or ms pd yammering at us once in awhile mine is mever satisfied just yammer yammer yammer till i clue in and say shoo! janet janet paterson 52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset snail-mail: PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada website: a new voice <http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Village/6263/> e-mail: <[log in to unmask]>