GOOD MORNING everyone!
It's been yet another long time since I've posted anything, and yet another great story as to why....
First off I'm thinking I'm going to look into starting a neighborhood watch for bad-ass kids...
Last month had been by far the hardest month of this year in way of misfortune or "lessons" as some might say & the ability to control the angry black woman inside (insert joke here..). Some may know, some may not, so here it goes, I hope you can follow....
In May, we decided to do a "financial makeover" and create an emergency fund because SOMEONE said that if you're prepared, Murphy of Murphy's Law will move out & leave you alone... in my opinion ( since this is MY blog..) Murphy hung out and waited. We had the motor on one of AC's go out which left us almost 2weeks with out cold air on the 2nd floor of our home, when we got it fixed, it cost us almost $300.00.
Ok, so we kinda expected that. We got it fixed, YAY, but before that, my now 14yr old daughter was ATTACKED by 3 high school girls on the way home from school Tues of the last week of school out here. She was badly hurt, however it could've been worse (so I'm told, it's still horrible no matter how others may view it!).
We called the Sheriffs, lol, what a waste almost, & I'll get to that later... So on the sidewalk, 2 blocks from the school, these kids pull up in a car, jump out & proceed to beat her. My 2 younger sons who go to the same school as my daughter (8th grade) were with her, so while the youngest (4th grade) was screaming at them to stop, the other (6th grade) was trying to help defend her by jumping on the main girls back & using self defense techniques he was taught, tried to incapacitate the girl by karate chopping her in the throat. Another HS boy who was there grabbed him off & threw him to the ground.
There were several kids around, some of who would be witness later to the truth & others who watched & egged it on...the sad part is, I know these kids, some go to my church, yet seem to have NO Christ love in them, & I'll redeem them some by saying "YET". The other kids, well, I would have to say that, unfortunately their parents are either incompetant IDIOTS, or are just to consumed with their own personal, selfish issues that they have NO clue as to what their kids are doing, nor who they are on the road to becoming.
I had to take my daughter to the ER, where they said she had a mild concussion, cuts & lasserations on her head & a horrible knot on the side of her face. She was throwing up, dizzy, had trouble seeing for 2days and just plain tramatized as also my 4th grader. My 6th grader who tried to help was ok he said, just a scratched up elbow & a little back pain from hitting the concrete so hard. The Maricopa County Sheriffs Dept. came out took a report & went to these 3 girls home, however, they all had their story of what happened, which was a lie, of course, & NOTHING happened to them even after they came clean... Justice..(insert joke here).
The thing that really sucked was/is, 2 of the girls involved live less than a block from our house, we have to pass them everytime we leave our house! She is doing much better now, bruises, sores & black eyes are now gone, but she had to go to her 8th grade promotion with this trama showing on her face. She still looked beautiful & was still as excited & upbeat as ever!
(Above photos are of graduation day)
That was incident 1.......
It suck s for a parent as well as the kid when who you think is a good kid, & were suppose to have been a good friend turn out to be NOT what you thought, who you thought, & have such little reguard for friendships & respect for adults, it is sad that kids more often than not, treat the adults in their life like one of their low life friends, talk and totally show their immaturity in talking trash to an adult, yet still thinking they know more than us "stupid" adults.
After seeing that these kids were NOT going anywhere, & I say it like that because if we had still been living in dowtown Phoenix, NONE of these kids would have slept in their warm, comfy beds that night, but would have been hauled off in the back of a cop car for assalt! I decided I WAS NOT going to take this crap anymore. We warned each & everyone of them to stay away from our house, property & kids OR ELSE! (Laughing..) And still, you have the one or two chuckle head chumps show up at your door like nothing happened, OR that they had no involvement! Ballsy right!?
Back to Murphy.... 2 weeks after all this happened, I got into a car accident on the way to the Science center with my 4 kids, I won't lie, it was totally my fault due to adolecent distractions in the back seat & not reacting quick enough... God watching with a strong protective hand, no one was hurt... At all, considering that the accident rendered my van useless & totaled, the airbags didn't even deploy. Being without a vehicle sux, & even more so since there isn't any public transpo way out here like there was 5 yrs ago in Phoenix. I'd hopped the bus in a heartbeat, that's how I'd grown up, thats how me & my 4 babies got around for a long while.
Some few days after wards, inccident 2 happened... in front of my freaking house!
I will admit which was a whole other anger issue I had to swallow, my oldest son (almost 16yrs) was lured by his own stupidity outside the house at around 1 am on a Monday morning I believe, by yet another so called friend, who's motive was to hang at our place until his "throwdown" with another kid happened. My (God love him) dummy of a son, who's either seriously oblivious or just doesn't realize what he's asking for, ( we've always told them, nothing good happens outside after Midnight).
He goes outside to, my guess, to watch this fight, the "friend" starts to meet the other when about 10 other boys come around the corner causing the "friend" to take off running, leaving my dumbass kid standing there (shaking my head). The group chased for a minute, then all turned on my kid, and again, one of the boys was/had been a good friend (so we thought) and proceeded to beat the crap out of him in front of my house because he had been with the other kid.
Guilt by association.... always....
I get woken up at around 1:15am with him all swollen, crying and red... so of course, the crazy black woman took over, I got dressed and was downstairs grabbing a bat, tazer & my sneakers before he could finish telling me what happened. My husband rolled downstairs as I was headed out the door, of course telling me to wait for him.... You know, I'm ALWAYS the first one to talk to a kids parents if I have a problem, but after the non-chalant response I got with my daughters attackers parents, I'd had enough of trying to conversate with these kids parents out here.
Called the cops yet again, with no expectations from them AT ALL.... but while waiting for them to respond in about 2 hrs, I jumped in my car & went around, like I said, ALL these punks live in my neighborhood & have been in my house! Went to themain hangout for these chumps, knocking on the door with my bat & tazer in hand... I was told by one kid we caught up to that one of the other kids had a gun, so after knocking & realizing the door wasn't even shut all of the way & had swung open, I took a few steps back around the corner to wait for one to come out hostile.... no answer, but I could hear them inside.
Knock again, this time just stepping back from the door, it had been very dark there, grasping my louisville slugger bat & tazer on containging 68 million volts of energy waited again, lucky for them, they had the older sister answer the door, whom I scared the CRAP out of when I took a step forward as she stepped out the door. Of course, she said they weren't there (another lie) & that she didn't think her brother would do such a thing... I informed her she doesn't know her brother very well, to stop being a lying idiot & that the cops were coming.
I've lost my mind...
Went to 2 other homes to inform the parents of their kids activities at 1am on my street, one kid I ran into one the way, talking trash as I questioned him & his buddy, they called me a psyco lady, to which I repsonded " You ain't seen psyco yet, cause I'm coming to your house next you little dis-repectful punk!" SMH... both of those parents (single moms) had no idea that their kid had even been gone... go figure :-/.
The parents responded, "go ahead & call the cops". That seems to be the ongoing phrase for parents around here..... my boy's no saint & I can assure you, he would surely catch a beatdown either right in front of you after hearing this crap if not right after my door is shut! There are consequenses for unruly behavior, it is merely modifiying how they choose to act outside my house in reguards to others especially. It boggles my mind...
I have not seen the 2 boys responsible for jumping my kid in the street since...YET. Nor the girls who jumped my daughter.
Sigh.... I hate being the bad guy, I hate it when I get so upset I feel the need to cuss out & have the potential to beat the living daylights out of a person/kid. It's ugly, it's stressful & can be very dangerous for the person who has evoked these feelings in me. I pray that these kids get whats coming to them, but also at the same time, whatever trials, crisis & dissapointments these kids & families are facing, find help, peace & blessings, I just don't want it to become my problem... especially when no effort on their part has been made.
I'm not captain save-a-jerk, so if you can't help yourself even a little first, don't come crying or bringing your drama to my house, I've been there & have done that & NEVER asked or recieved any handouts, but if you need support or advice so you can help yourself, I'm all ears & my arms are open.
P.s;
I have gotten another car, my kids are healed & commited at this time to staying out of harms way & LOL, not making mom upset cause it isn't pretty, & I like to be pretty! ;-D
Til next time....
XOXO,
Chris
