Bristol County Daily News

I was so excited the paper was coming to do a follow-up story on the afghans. I was looking forward to jump starting the community again. When people see it in the paper they want to get involved. This time it was going to be about everyone who has been working on the afghans not just my family. So I spent the morning trying to clean the house while my three youngest children mess it up behind me. I decide maybe if we all went outside and stopped messing up the house it would work better. There we are playing in the sandbox all picturesque when my 5 year old decides to choke my 3 year old and I have to send her for a time out just as the reporter shows up. Well I think here we go...then my three year old doesn't want to come inside while mom talks to the reporter and begins to have a fit. I am trying to calm him down while holding my infant daughter in my arms he gets a shovel full of sand and whips it onto her car and us and then I have to take the shovel away because of the sand throwing and then melt down occurs and he throws himself on the ground and begins to scream. I only have one hand at this time still carrying my daughter I pick him up by one hand and I am trying to get him up the stairs without him getting injured. Mean while the reporter is standing there thinking I don't know what and I am thinking AAAAAAAHHHHHHH! Well we finally make it in the house and sit down in the living room to talk. I begin to tell her about all of you. The students at the high school, the teachers, the women at the nursing home, Tae kwon do mothers and everyone else. That's when my son decides he has to go to the bathroom and needs my help so I have to leave to get him squared away I put my daughter down and leave for a moment when I come back she has crawled over and is trying to eat the poor women's shoe. She is gentle trying to get her to stop without really picking her up. So I pick my daughter up only to have my son yell he's ready for a wipe...AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH! Really I am an intelligent person but I will tell you it doesn't look like it all the time. We did end up having a wonderful conversation and I believe the story will be well told. Look for it in the Standard-times. You might see some of your squares as I sent them pictures of completed afghans. Thanks to all of you this project is continuing to be a great success.

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