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	<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Simple update]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Not a big surprise today but K ditched another class (first period biology) and was late for another. All I can do is drop him off in front of the school with enough time to get to class.  I can't go to class with him and if he doesn't want to go to school then I really wonder why he's staying here at all. He told H that if he was failing school again that he would go back to live with his father.  I want what is best for these kids but if they aren't going to make the effort then why should I put up with the BS?

On a better note... went trick-or-treating with K2 tonight.  Overall not to bad and he got a good sized bag of candy while only being out for about an hour.  Other then the fact that the kid can't stop talking it wasn't a bad night.  He even only bothered me twice to try and get on the TV while I was watching &quot;Journey to the Center of the Earth&quot;.  Now he's playing the XBOX and I'll get to try and finish my book.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.wolvesden.com/blog/Kids.php?id=23</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>General</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[&quot;Sick&quot; again]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[We made it one day this week with all 3 kids going to school and actually being on time but that didn't last.  K1 is staying home today with some general illness (probably his typical throwing up because of the GERD which can be treated easily).  It looks like K2 got to school on time for the second time in a row today.  I guess getting him up earlier is working even if he is a grump.  Maybe he'll get to sleep at a decent hour if he keeps getting up early enough.  H is sick but she's taking Contact and tuffing it out and going to school.  Some things never surprise me.
I'm actually feeling a little feverish but that's no big deal to me.  Maybe it's from the flu shot I got yesterday or it could be that this building is just hot!]]></description>
      <link>http://www.wolvesden.com/blog/Kids.php?id=22</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>General</category>
      <comments>http://www.wolvesden.com/blog/Kids.php?id=22#cmt</comments>
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      <title><![CDATA[Why Am I To Blame?]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[B just told me that she doesn't want to come home at a decent hour (she wasn't home until around 8 last night) because everyone is mad when she gets home.  It didn't help to tell her that everyone waiting for hours for her to get home doesn't exactly help the mood of the household.  She seems to think that the kids hate me and and I hate the kids and that we should just send them back to their fathers (where is that money going to come from<img src="http://www.wolvesden.com/blog/smilies/icon_question.gif" alt="?)" />   
How am I in the wrong for being upset that the kids used the stupid stamps she brought home from work to stamp the kitchen table, the kitchen counter, themselves and who knows what else.  They were told to only use the stamps on paper (these are ink stamps) and yet they don't listen.  My house is being destroyed and no one seems to give a damn.  My leather couch now has pen stains on it and lots of scratches because the kids won't keep the quilt on top of it.  If they won't behave like adults then they need to protect the furniture.
How is it may fault that the kids don't walk the dogs despite being home all day?  I walk them before 7 a.m. and that's it until I get home after 4 pm.  On a normal day they would be ok until someone comes home (usually not having an accident) but once someone does get home they need to go out.  If someone is home all day they need to go out at least every 4 hours.  I'm sure these kids go to the bathroom more than once in a 9 hour period!  My house smells like piss and shit and I can't stand it any more.  How can anyone live like that!!  I know B doesn't like living like that but she has got to get it through these kids skulls that normal people don't live like that even if their father does.  If you want to live like a pig then go back to the pig.  
I never made any promises that living with me would be nirvana but I do provide food, clothing, entertainment and pretty much everything they need.  Maybe if they hadn't drained me dry over the past 4 years we would have more money to do fun thing ..]]></description>
      <link>http://www.wolvesden.com/blog/Kids.php?id=21</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>General</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Kids - Kids - Kids]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[It's been a while since I posted anything but don't get the idea that the kids are any better then they have been in the past.  We'll start with school.  The boys are doing their best to fail out as quick as they can.  K now has 4 F's, a D and a fake B (what teacher only grades 4 assignments in Algebra in 10 weeks<img src="http://www.wolvesden.com/blog/smilies/icon_question.gif" alt="?)" /> while K2 has missed 14 days so far in 10 weeks along with another 9 tardies.  In the past 2 weeks he's gone to school twice and even on those days he was tardy!  He had strep throat last week but that would of been under control by monday with the drugs I got (took the afternoon off from work) from his doctor.  He's just being a pain and B can't take the time in the morning to force him to go to school. I keep telling her that she's going to end up in court because of these kids but she still lets them stay home at the slightest &quot;illness&quot; (guess what H - that &quot;illness&quot; is going to hit you every month so you better get used to it<img src="http://www.wolvesden.com/blog/smilies/icon_exclaim.gif" alt="!)" />  H is actually passing all her classes but she is carrying 2 D's and a few low C's.  I reward good grades with cash but I don't pay out anything for D's and below.  Get those grades up if you want any money!

The cellphones are now out of contract and I'm tempted to cancel them every day.  K managed to rack up over 50 text messages in 3 days sending and receiving from his &quot;girlfriend&quot;.  I have over 6000 minutes banked!  Call her!  I've told the kids that after we get the credit card payed off then I'll probably add texting to the phones for $30 a month but until then they better not send more than a few a month.  50 is a lot more than a few!  K's phone is now suspended and I'm thinking of cancelling it if he doesn't bring all his grades to passing by the end of the semester.  I don't know why these kids don't listen and why they keep pushing me.  I hold the keys to the kingdom so you better get used to doing things my way.

This past weekend we finally had the kids &quot;birthday party&quot;.  Since they all had their birthdays while ..]]></description>
      <link>http://www.wolvesden.com/blog/Kids.php?id=19</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>General</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Our little felons]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Do you ever wonder where kids get the toys and other things that suddenly appear out of no where. Often the story is that some friend gave it to them or they found it.  That was the story last week when K2 brought home a bunch of baseball cards and a keychain.  The story started that he found them next to the trash at Wal-mart.  Somewhere along the line the story changed that his friend gave him some of them (I don't like children buying friendship with gifts).  The true story is that K2 and H have been stealing from Wal-mart!!
Over the past few weeks these two little felons (along with at least two of their friends) have been stealing jewelry, baseball cards and who knows what else from Wal-mart.  The story so far is that K2 took the baseball cards (3 boxes so far that run about $20 each) by just walking out of the store with them.  The jewelry were stolen by both K2 (at the request of his sister and her friend) and his sister, H.  K2's friend actually stole a pair a Shaq shoes and had been switching out his shoes for the stolen ones on the way to school and switching back on the way home so he would have the cool shoes at school.  Needless to say his parents weren't happy when we brought the shoes to them and explained what had been going on.  He was in enough trouble since he'd been away from home for about 4 hours and his father was about to call the police to try and find him and his little brother.

In case theft wasn't enough (and a bit of lying tossed in there for effect) when I went to walk the dogs on Sunday I came across K2 and his friend T pushing a Wal-mart cart into a drainage ditch behind the store.  What they thought was a little fun was more theft and vandalism.  These kids have no common sense and will end up in jail before long if they don't start thinking about their actions.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.wolvesden.com/blog/Kids.php?id=17</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 10:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>General</category>
      <comments>http://www.wolvesden.com/blog/Kids.php?id=17#cmt</comments>
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      <title><![CDATA[Wet behind the ears and everywhere else!]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Yesterday we had lots of rain, wind and snow and of course the kids had their common sense blown away also.
Why would any child assume that hiking boots are water proof when you are up to you knees in water?  How does a child fall down in the rain while chasing after her brother yet only ends up being soaking wet but uninjured?  This girl will have a fly land on her and claim to be dying but doing a full out body flop onto the road causes not even a whimper? 
Don't  lie to me. I hate to be lied to.  If you're going to make up a story then you better get all your facts straight. I've already been a kid and know all the tricks. Nothing gets past me unless I want it to get past me.

And take care of those #%@$% cell phones.  I'm not buying any more.  We're not even a year into the contract and two kids are on their 5th phones (3 for H and 2 for K although I think K broke his phone since it's randomly dialing home now - tough shit - I'm not spending another cent on cell phones<img src="http://www.wolvesden.com/blog/smilies/icon_exclaim.gif" alt="!)" />]]></description>
      <link>http://www.wolvesden.com/blog/Kids.php?id=14</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>General</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[What will good grades get you anyway??]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[We're nearing the end of the trimester for the kids school and it seems that they really don't care about what grades they get.  The only A's I see are in HomeEc (guess they will be good house wives/husbands) and most others are C's D's and even an F or two.  The kids missed a bunch of school again this trimester by being sick (later determined to be cramps from PMS and allergies) and no one wants to make up missed work.  I can only do so much to help them (although their mother will actually do their homework for them which drives me crazy!<img src="http://www.wolvesden.com/blog/smilies/icon_exclaim.gif" alt="!)" />

]]></description>
      <link>http://www.wolvesden.com/blog/Kids.php?id=13</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>General</category>
      <comments>http://www.wolvesden.com/blog/Kids.php?id=13#cmt</comments>
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      <title><![CDATA[Don't cry about it... just do it!!]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Why do children think that they have to be defensive about all their mistakes?  If they would just take responsibility when they make a mistake instead of blaming someone else it would make life much easier.
Case in point - last night I walk into the kitchen to find the fridge door hasn't been closed completely.  My wife and step-daughter are in the room so I ask who was last in the fridge.  The step-daughter says that she was but she closed the door. Obviously she didn't close the door completely or it wouldn't be open!  I ask her to make sure it is closed (the fridge was a bit over loaded so it didn't close without giving it that little push) and she gets all defensive about it saying that she did close it.  Fine... you closed it but please make sure it's closed.

I left the room and came back a few minutes later to find that the fridge door was open again.  Same routine as last time and same defensive attitude by the step daughter. She closed it but obviously she didn't make sure it was closed. She's practically crying because I'm asking her to take responsibility for her actions and admit that maybe she didn't close the damn door.

I leave again and come back in about 20 minutes to find the door is open again.  This is getting silly so I re-arranged the fridge - threw out some things that didn't need to be in there so that the door had nothing blocking it and closed without any extra effort.  That should solve the problem (or maybe I just won't buy any more food - that would solve the problem<img src="http://www.wolvesden.com/blog/smilies/icon_exclaim.gif" alt="!)" />]]></description>
      <link>http://www.wolvesden.com/blog/Kids.php?id=12</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 12:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>General</category>
      <comments>http://www.wolvesden.com/blog/Kids.php?id=12#cmt</comments>
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      <title><![CDATA[Back in school... almost]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The kids are back in school... almost.  The boys picked up the bug that Harlie had last week and are sick in bed.  They made it one day back in school after being out for the holidays for what seemed like a month.  It wasn't that long but it was to long since they started it with 2 snow days.  Hopefully they will feel better soon and get back to school. It's to easy for grades to slip when they aren't in class - even for a day.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.wolvesden.com/blog/Kids.php?id=11</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>General</category>
      <comments>http://www.wolvesden.com/blog/Kids.php?id=11#cmt</comments>
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      <title><![CDATA[Holidays]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[So the Christmas holiday is coming to an end and the kids have been home for way to long already (and they don't go back to school for almost another 2 weeks!<img src="http://www.wolvesden.com/blog/smilies/icon_exclaim.gif" alt="!)" />  I think the kids did pretty good for the holidays as far as gifts go. My family was able to help a lot (thanks Dad) and they got pretty much everything they could reasonably want. No PS3 or other games systems.  They still have my old PS2 so that should keep them happy and the oldest boy did get some games for that system so it is still being used.  There will always be complaints that someone didn't get everything they want but you have to be realistic. I'm not going to ruin my life just so these kids can have 5 minutes more fun.

The youngest boy has already broken one toy and managed to shoot his sister yesterday with an airsoft gun.  Guess it was a good thing we didn't let him have a BB gun or we'd of been at the hospital last night. I was told these kids know gun safety but that obviously wasn't true. I wonder what is going to be broken or who is going to be hurt today.  I'm sure there will be some crying since there is every day.

It's really sad that on the other side of the family (their fathers) they didn't get much of anything.  An aunt sent them a $5 McD's gift card and $20 in cash along with some stocking stuffers and their grandmother sent $10 but that was it.  Nothing from anyone else including their father. He keeps telling them that he didn't get paid (maybe he should get a job that is actually reported to the gov't instead of working under the table all the time) so he dodges that bullet every time.  How can someone claim to love their kids and then refuse to support them in any way.  He's been separated for over 3 years now and the divorce has been final for almost half that time and yet he hasn't paid a dime to support these kids.  He thinks sending them $20 a few times a year is supporting them but that just makes the kids remember how great a guy he is - and makes them forget that h ..]]></description>
      <link>http://www.wolvesden.com/blog/Kids.php?id=9</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2006 09:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>General</category>
      <comments>http://www.wolvesden.com/blog/Kids.php?id=9#cmt</comments>
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