OT: I am humbled. Thank you.

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To All The Dear, Dear People, You Know Who You Are!

I used to subscribe to a religiously based homeschool / homestead group on

yahoo here. I thought it would be nice - other women home schooling and raising

live stock, etc. The simple life, tips, tricks, ideas, sounded right up my

alley.

Stay with me here.... Notice the past-tense.

Many of the women as you can imagine described themselves a big busted (big farm

women, kwim?). Then a conversation came up regarding Barbie Dolls. Oh the sin,

the immorality, the vulgarity of this doll who has a large bust! Certainly

their daughters did not play with such a toy!

So ee in all her curiosity asked the logical questions: Why was it OK for

all these women to claim big boobs but it ws sinful for their daughters to play

with a doll that had big boobs and to take it a step further, wasn't it likely

the daughters of big busted women would grow up to have (duh!) big boobs also?

Is a naked Barbie not just the naked version of the human female body that God

lovingly created? When clothed was she really that different from her human

counter parts? And if you found her clothing too trashy and offensive wouldn't

a line of Modest Barbie apparel be a nice little cottage industry for someone to

start?

If all the rotten eggs and tomatoes on their homesteads could have been thrown

through cyber space to squelch my obviously satanic tongue, they would have

been. As it were, I got the written/verbal equilivent of such.

I politely and meekly made my good byes by saying I apologized for offending

them, evidently I wasn't wrapped quite as tight as they were and maybe I should

find my companionship elsewhere and would now leave the group.

Um, nobody asked me to reconsider... HA!

I tell that story because in all their high and narrow minded morality and

so-called Christianity they couldn't tolerate the mother who challenged their

stand against Barbie with what I thought were reasonable questions.

I also tell that story because as many times as I have a slip of the tongue, a

different point of view, or flat out shove my foot in my mouth, all of you here

forgive me and love me anyway despite the fact my son has a couple female

" action figures " as they are called in the world of boys who he undresses and

their big plastic tits haven't corrupted him to Hell yet. (Imagine that!)

I hope I'm not offensive to any of you here with all this. I'm about to get to

the point, honestly....

It is hard to type all this with my jaw sitting squarely on the floor in front

of me tonight. I've been dragging it around most of the day.

I owe a debt of gratitude I couldn't begin to imagine how to repay to the whole

lot of you. I have been been rolling this around in my head all day.

Alas after seeking what I consider respected counsel, I was strongly advised to

take my own advise - as in when my mother argued with my sister over accepting a

gift of a 2nd hand shirt. Mom kept trying to refuse the gift if you remember

and I told my mother that what she really meant to say was " Thank You " .

I've been advised to say THANK YOU and to accept the gift with grace and

gratitude that the givers may all be blessed by God for their generosity as I am

blessed by God through their generosity. How dare I deny any one of you the

blessing that is promised to you now?

will be blessed with the $370.00 paid on time for Garrison's new

FAB rather than having the payment sent as piece work.

Garrison will be blessed with the proper FAB to continue his treatment that he

was blessed enough to recieve from our beloved Dr. Ponseti.

The Mcdonald House is blessed that our remaining outstanding bill will be

paid in full thus another family in need will be blessed by them in the future.

My husband is blessed that a large burden has been removed from his shoulders in

paying and the RMD.

And I am blessed by your unadulterated friendships.

So for all of that, as I am shocked and slightly embarassed by the show of

affections here that I really don't believe I deserve - I say THANK YOU. And

may our Lord use me now to pass along a blessing to someone in need as you have.

Ah the hell with all this mushy stuff - you all just come down here and I'll

buy the booze!! HA HA HA HA Wahoo Party at Shaw's house!!! LOL!!!

(j/k)

You are all Barbie Dolls in my mind and I love you!!!

So I say with a humble heart tonight:

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

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