Prevention is an Art Form*

but you must be allowed to cheat at uno if you can My sisters are so use to it I burn them with extra cards we made up some of our own rules to this game kind of like lairs poker where you must pay when challanging the other and he is telling the truth or if you get caught trying to lay down extra cards So you must pay closer attenion to what has been played if some one tells you the other cheated their have to take extra card and so ect ect makes for a good game if your not to serious No one likes playing monoply any more seem the same person always wins scrabble is fun to with extra pieces givin to challengers but step dad has read the dictanry at least twice he still can't seem to remember so of the words like La do re ti ox ect ect again these always cause some conflict some how but till then

one thing a family can rely on is humor. if you each children to laugh and have fun, it will seem like the time goes by faster. Outside actives(sp?) are good too, tag and hide and seek. And if it is raining, read some stuff. Most things will do, or hey, draw with the kid. But most of all make sure you spend time with the kid. If you're a single mother, I'm sorry, but you need both parents to raise a kid. Or else the kid would grow to its full ponent(sp).

But I know the secret. Any intelligent Christian will agree that it is not the birthday of Christ, the date was stolen from the pagan calender and is actually about the Solstice (a few days out). If you wake up before sunrise on the 21st Dec, see the sun rise and acknowledge (for you Northern Hemisphereans) that this is the shortest day and more light is coming, you will be freed from all the Christian/commercial madness. But you still gotta deal with your families, can't help there. I once complained to a friend that my family really knew how to push my buttons. He said, wisely, "yes, of course, they put them there". cheers, Jess wishing you a Salubrious Solstice

Wow! What an international description of the everyday life disorderliness.