Yes I am, born and raised in Kentucky and

• Patient had heartburn after eating a "hot met" - catz
  • Mettwurst. A German sausage. sm - CrispyCritterMT
  • Don't know about hot "melt" but there - sn
    • Are you from Kentucky? Louisville was the only place I ever encountered hot - RockinMT
      • Yes I am, born and raised in Kentucky and - currently live in Louisville, (NM) sn
    • what's a hot brown? - catz
      • It is turkey and bacon and tomatoes - sn
      • I'm not exactly sure because I never actually ate it myself, but - RockinMT
        • Just curious, when did you work at UofL. - sm
  • Curious as well - tmt
    • ok, thanks for your reply - catz
      • Hot melt? nm - lm

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14 years ago I was filling out that pile of paperwork for my sons and came across the document about paddling....I was appalled.....How archaic!  My mother has taught in NY for 42 years and I assure you it's not an acceptable practice!  I just wrote "What, are you kidding me?" and got called into the principal's office to explain myself.

Also, when asked about race I checked OTHER and wrote HUMAN....Got called in again to the principal's office.    Cat 

This is a very imperfect world and hence, I never expect children to be perfect - just to do the best that they can and to continue to move in a forward pattern. 

We are all humans and we all forget stuff. 

My mother ruled with an iron fist and you could eat off her floors.  My house is nice, neat, and clean but I'm not iron-fisted nor was I ever nor will I ever be, and my kids are pretty well centered today, young adults with minimal problems, who work and are VERY RESPONSIBLE AND CARING human beings.  *S*   

Of course, being ruled by someone iron-fisted (and abusive), I ended up in therapy for BEAUCOUP years as a young person; became a better mother because of it years later, proving that history does NOT necessarily repeat itself.....not all who come from abuse continue being abusers!!  I broke the family generational history of all the bull and hypocrisy!

Again, this is a very imperfect world - nobody should expect perfection actually. 

I too had a pitbull from 9 weeks of age. No one could have told me then that a dog raised as she was would turn out to be nothing by heartbreak. She was well socialized, raised around people, livestock, children, other dogs, and cats. We took her everywhere with us. She went to work with me every day on a ranch. She graduated top dog in her obedience class. She was the most wonderful loving dog, with us...until around the age of 3 years, then something snapped in her little brain and she became the killer the breed is known for. It happened overnight. We came home to find the cat she was raised with from a puppy ripped to shreds with blood all over the garage. After that, her personality changed. She became so spaced out every time she would see a small child, cat, or another dog. We tried to justify it, like a parent always does when their child does something horribly wrong. Then she got hold of another dog at the ranch whom she had known and played with for a year. Fortunately, that dog survived and we were rightfully sued big time. We had her destroyed the next day instead of taking a chance on her getting one of our children or one of the neighborhood children or somone elses pet. It was the hardest decision we have ever made, she was like our child.

The difference between pitbulls and MOST other breeds is that most other breeds bite and walk away, whereas pitbulls don't stop until they kill, it's in their blood. Once this instinct is turned on there is no shutting it off, and you can never know when and if this instinct will come out in your pitbull. I do know some nice old pitbulls who are sweathearts, but to me the risk is too great to take a chance knowing the potential they have to become killers without notice. There are too many other nice breeds out there where you will never have to worry about it. We now have a lab and our children and other pets, not to mention the neighborhood children and pets, are safe. My two cents based on personal experience on the subject.  

I did it alone with child support help and being an MT.  You can only imagine the hours it took to support 7 kids!!!!

Anyway, we never had money for fun stuff and if we had all the necessities it was a very good month.  I finally told them:  Look, I make $20-25 when I am working.  Working means my hands are on the keyboard.  I don't get paid to pick up your junk, clean the kitchen or scrub the toilet.  Every time I have to take time away from the desk to do these things FOR YOU, it is costing YOU $20-25 for things you need/want. The more hours I can work, the more we have in the bank. 

I can't tell you why they listened, but they did.  They got to where they would name a "price" for a bigger job like cleaning the family room alone, doing all 3 bathrooms for me or cleaning the kitchen and then doing the floor in the kitchen and diningroom (it was huge).  The "price" might be a movie ticket, a whole weekend with a friend, nail polish, large candy bars, a much-desired item of clothing.  Small jobs could be added up and presented to me as a list and negiotations began.  They worked, I "paid" and the house was no longer a mess.  I also made more money under less stressful conditions.

My own kids, now grown, have all come to me and thanked me for the way I raised them.  I used to say, I know you don't like this, but by the time you are 21, you'll thank me.  They were all 19 when the said they feel that they were raised better than all their friends and thank you for being a great mom. They marvel at the spotless house I now keep alone and that I am always to calm like I have no stress.  I remind them, I only have to take care of myself these days and you all were a LOT of work.

As new preachers have come and gone over the years, I can't ever remember one even repainting a room in the parsonage without checking with someone much less getting rid of anything. 

This sounds very, very strange and I agree with you that there is something wrong here.  Do you not have any kind of an advisory board or anything within the church?  Perhaps you should form one and seek out another preacher.  Some of these old churches are so lovely.  I can't imagine anyone tearing down our old church.  It was old when I was married in it almost 40 years ago. 

Good luck to you and any other members,  past, present or future,  of this church.