LadyKay

This might be something I can do. I wouldn't have to cook anything. Just chop and mix. I can chop and mix stuff.

I do not believe that God put him in place. You comments only reinforce what I think is true about this message forum. That when anyone speaks out about Mr. Trump on here, their Christian faith is brought into question.

Yeah like Mr. Trump.

Anyone care to know my opinion? I didn't think so.

Pick whatever one you like.

I need some potluck ideals !

Well that was fun!

LOL I need to tell my husband I must truly love him to go through all of this.

So my husband's side of the family is having their annual Family Memorial weekend campout/potluck. My mother in law has some kind of on going issue with my stepdaughter. My stepdaughter was not even aware she had an issue with her until she called my mother in law(her grandmother) one day and my mother in law hung up on her. Since then my mother in law refuse to answer the phone if she thinks it maybe her calling. My mother in law has been very vocal to me about this to the point where even if she thinks her granddaughter may have called her, she has called me up to ranted about how she does not want her in her house and no one is to tell her granddaughter where she has moved too. (my mother in law moved last summer) . My mother in law refused to even contact my stepdaughter when her grandfather died until the rest of the family step in and told her that she needs to tell her. I have been told by my mother in law that I am not to let her granddaughter know anything that is going on in the family. Well of course I have said phooey to that. So I contacted my stepdaughter and told her when the Family Memorial Day Weekend is going to be and it is looking as though she may try to come. I told my husband that his daughter is a member of the family and has every right to attend the weekend gathering. I told him I felt bad because she is not being invited to these things because of his mother and she has every right to be apart of it. I also told him to not say anything to his mother about it. But when my mother in law see her showing up at the get together, who knows what is going to happen! But I feel inviting her was the right thing to do, even if my mother in law gets mad about. I am tired of my mother in law trying to control everything. So if she gets mad she will just have to be mad. So be it it say.

Oh man! You take my soda away now you took my chocolate. How do I go on with my life with no chocolate?

So will baking soda. And I am not pouring perfectly good soda down the drain.

Pouring coca cola on my floor did not clean it but it did make it very sticky. I know cause I knocked a bottle of coke off the table and it exploded onto my floor. Oh that was a mess! We clean stuff with water and we still drink that.

Yeah I know and this is fine. After all it is just soda. I'm not like "oh my gosh it's soda!" But when I cook supper, she gets orange juice and is happy with it. Unless it is pizza night, then a caffeine free soda is fine. If she goes to a friends house and they give her a soda with caffeine in it, I'm not going to make an issue out of it. I don't think cola is something worth freaking out over. But really she would rather have fruit punch or OJ over soda anyway. Oh by the way. We call it pop here instead of soda. But I say soda online cause some people have never heard of pop before.

I don't know how I am suppose to react to these. It sounds like both situations need to be taken up with the people involved in them. You can't expect non-Christians to act like Christians. Because they won't.

I don't let my kid have soda. But sometimes I will let her have like 7-up or a Sprite. If we are having pizza or stop at a fast food place. But nothing with caffeine for this child. ADHD is bad enough without adding caffeine to the mix. We would have supper ADHD then! But to each there own, and she is getting older so I am not sure how much longer I can keep it out of her reach. But most of the time she picks fruit punch over soda anyway.

I have never gotten addicted to it. It does not really affect me. Then again I don't consume as much of it as others I hear do. I don't drink coffee. Could never get a taste for it no matter what I did to it. I like to drink ice tea. But even with that it is not everyday more like a few times a week. I can go without it and not have any withdrawn issues like headache. I have tried the energy drinks once or twice but to me they taste like Bleah! I gave it up completely when I was pregnant. As I was sure it could cause some kind of deformity.

Yeah I won't be very good at this cause I just have to debate everything. So I will just sit back and read what others have to say.

I have been sort of thinking about being considered poor in America compared to 3world nations. In some cities in the US, not all but some; it seems it is against the law to be poor. They will arrest homeless people just for being homeless. They will Fine people who give money to a homeless person or offer to feed them . If your home is in need of repairs and you can not afford to repair it, they will Fine you; and when you can not afford to pay the Fine they will arrest you. People with children in most places can not just go live in a cave out in the woods somewhere. CPS will show up and take your children away from you if you are not able to provided a functionable home for them. So while it is true that the "poor" in the US live better than the "poor" in 3world nations, I feel it is only because you're not really allowed to be "poor" in the US. There is no way anyone with children here would be able to go live in a dirt hut in the woods somewhere without CPS nosing around. So with all that being said. I do not feel that I should feel guilt for using my wealth to care for my child and to provide a place for us to live. With that note, I was watching this show about extreme homes one night and thought to myself that having a $100,000.00 RV was over kill and unnecessary. It just would not be in my personality to live that way even if I could. Okay I'm done now thank you.

Your statement offends me. With that out of my system I guess I am not understanding the topic. I shall try again.

I think I agree with you one this, and I thought it was creativemechanic that started the post about Christian Women or whatever it was called. Then I feel some what offended that he then seem to criticize us for posting our thoughts on the matter. Which is how a message forum works. Someone starts a topic, and then we post replies. Anyway I am rather bewildered by this topic, but I will read through the post and see if I can understand what this is about.

Oh please tell me you are not putting Wonder Woman in the same category as Jersey Shore are you?

And this is why I have Netflix. Well this and a few other reasons as well. But this is one of the reason. This kind of funny now but The Apprentice is the only reality show I watched. LOL

Hi. I do not know if I can help. But I will tell you the short version of my story. A few short years ago, I lost or was losing everything. Even my family. Which I always said when things got down I will tell myself "well at less we have our family together." Then even that was taken from me. Well to make a long story short and I don't want to go into personal details has to why and what happen. But since everything was being taken away from me, I came to the realization that no matter what they do to me, no matter what they take from me; they can never take Jesus from me. When I wasn't crying or fuming with anger over what was happening with me and my family; I cried out to God. My life and situation seems totally hopeless. I truly felt there was no way out. All the power was on the side that was attacking me. But I had God. I kept crying out to God. Nothing was getting better but still I cry out to him. When at times I could not find the words to pray I would just cry out the name of Jesus over and over. I read the Psalms 23 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. and Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. When I was afraid and could not find the words to pray. I would repeat those two verses over and over again. At times I felt as though God must be punishing me. But I kept crying out to him. I can not put into words how hopeless I felt at that time in my life. But God did not leave me. He spoke to me through scripture. Bible verses that I never read before I just open my Bible and there it was. A Bible verse that fit what I was feeling or going through at the time. This ordeal went on for nearly 2 years. There is more to tell but it is rather personal and would take too long. But in the end, God was faithful to me. My life got better. What he told me he would do he did. He still is faithful, as my battles are never over. I still ask God why. Why did all this happen to me? Maybe it was to give me the wisdom to help someone else? Maybe it was because we live in an evil world where humans do evil things to each other? God has not given me the reason as to why yet. All I know is you have to keep crying out to God. Find a Bible verse and make it your own. Like I did with Psalms 23. When You can't find the words to pray just say that verse over and over as your prayer. And know that God will not leave you! No matter how bad it is no matter what your own mind is trying to tell you. No matter how dark it goes. No matter what you feel inside. God does not leave us. And I know it can feel that way at times. I have felt the pain of that. But no matter what. God does not abandoned us to this world. Okay I hope that was of some help to you. I will leave you with this verse from Romans 8:28 28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.

The Zombie Apologist ! It's not for everyone.

It is also true that I will be right in the middle of it all debating till I am blue that that sky is blue!