I quit : (

I've been waiting for this row of brugs to bloom all summer. They finally y'd..to say i was estatic is an understatement.
Well, rememmber the kid last year that picked the pod off of the c dw/ep?? the same darn kid, along with my son and a few other, were shootin the breeze in the yard today, and for whatever reason they proceeded to de-bud the versicolor peach and also picked off the only buds that were on a waltraud seedling and on my one and only hybrid.
I quit, i give up. They can have the yard and all thats in it. I'm sooooo tired of footballs, broken limbs, stepped on plants, and the neighbors dog across the street.
Mind you, this is after a week of someone trying to steal our truck (didnt succeed, but the cost to us is a $250. deductible that we DONT have) and $461. phone bill that my son made not knowing that ocean springs was a long distance call. I'm contesting that because he shoulnt have been able to direct dial it. We'll see tho.
Such is life,
Jen

MsJen, you must have good control. the kids including mine would still be running for their lives!!!!!!!

Jen, that is so sad. I'm like Arlene, they would never want to mess around in my yard after I got through with them. It isn't easy growing and caring for brugs to have kids mess everything up. Wish I could say something that would make you feel better, and with time, the brugs will produce more buds, but NOW was what you were waiting on and I feel your pain. Hang in there. It will get better with some time.

Whats sad is i'm not even sad..

:( well, I'm sad for you. You've worked hard just like all of us. If you're serious, it will free up some time though!! you've got so much going on, this had to hurt. Those kids wouldn't have any fingers unbroken if they were here.

My grandkids are here, I thought it would be just like them to change the labels in the brug plants, or take them out and drop them in the yard. How would I ever be able to figure that out?? Hope they grow up soon, before I go to the loony bin!! ha!

Let me say to you something trite but so true! Things will look much better in the morning! A bit of desire and anticipation will start to grow as you go out there and look at this prize row in the morning. Tonight you are tired and frustrated. They will bloom again this summer but PLEASE have a heart to heart with your son after you break his favorite toy/game.............

i thought about breaking something of his, but what lesson would be taught??
hes 16, so i aimed at the gut.
1. you had better come up with $300. by 8/24, or we wont have a phone.
2. hes totally grounded from the phone until the bill is paid.
they started school today. first thing when he got home he headed to the phone to start calling all the new girls he met today. at least got a reaction out of him, lol. the only call he made tonight was to his grandma to tell her that he had made the school football team. he checked the caller id about 100x in 2 hrs until i turned the ringer off and took the batteries out of the phone. maybe tomorrow ill just unplug it and put it in my room, eh?
thanks for the encouragement...maybe they wont make the compost pile...oh wait, i dont have one yet, was gonna start that tomorrow, lol

See you already feel better! Ok, I would not actually break something of my son's but I sure would discuss breaking it and ask him if I should and if I did how would he feel. At 16 he is old enough to understand that those plants are important to you and his responsibility was to protect them not help his friend hurt them. If nothing else, he needs to learn they were not his to touch or hurt. If all else failed I would cry in front of him........LOL.............. my boy hates to see me cry!
What a job we Moms have, to civilize these boys so they will make great husbands for their wives!!

Hang in there - you will find yourself laughing about the situation in a few years. My 17 and 18 yr old thru a huge party after I had just gotten new carpeting. Kids had to pay at the front door, walk across my new carpeting and jump off a deck. I was furious!! It's a miracle moms make it thru those rotten years...

Jen - you need to have a good talk with that other kids Mom too, as well as both the kids. They are much too old to be doing this sort of thing.

When my son was small - about 5, he & and his little buddy down the street proceded to pull up a whole row of newly planted pine trees in someone elses yard. They just pulled them up and threw them down. They got replanted and to this day, there is a row of "crooked" pine trees there. No one told me til it was too late to punish him for it.

Don't give up - it's your yard!

Jen, Yes.. Don't give up your yard. HOpe everything will work out well for you. ((HUGS))

MsJen...the trials and tribulations of having kids/teens.
Hang in there, be firm on the phone issue....it's so easy to give in to them, I know - I do all the time, and then just hate myself for it.

Don't give in. If you don't teach them now, think what they'll be like as adults. No respect for anyone else.