My OSD was asking me this recently. She said the teachers at her school call them "young adults" but also sometimes say, "you kids." She said they do that at all grade levels in this school (she's a senior in HS and has been going to this school since the beginning of her freshman year). She was saying she, along with her friends, was confused by where they stand, as the teachers are overheard telling other kids, "you need to show respect for adults" but then say, "you are old enough to know not to act like this."

DH has been letting the kids play with his wedding ring. He calls it the one ring to rule them all. I've told him repeatedly that I feel very uncomfortable watching his 6 year old son run around with it because he can loose it. (This is the ring that I gave to him when we got married in the Carribean and I just feel that it's irreplacable and it's not just another toy for the kids to play with.) I made sure that it was made of tungsten for the very specific fact that if he ever caught his hand on something at work it would break, hopefully, before any real damage was done to his hand.

YAY! Dh worked it out so the Bull mastiff dog (who is part pit) is going to go live with ss19. Ss19 just moved into his own tiny one bedroom house but it has a big fenced yard. Yesterday we called him and asked if he could take the dog if we help him with the expense of getting the dog fixed and help out with food if needed. Ss19 can bring him on visits weekly.

So, BM was *supposed*to be handling getting the skids signed up for day camp for the summer. She lied to FDH and said it was all done and set in stone weeks before school ended for the summer. We found out the Friday afternoon before the week it should have started that in fact, she had not gotten them registered because “they were full.”