BRAGGING?

A comment came in yesterday from an ANONYMOUS person.  I thought long and hard about what to do with it.
Delete it, unpublished, immediately came to mind, it's what I do most often now with nasty comments.

But Steve said "No, put it in your post and then I can address it".

So that's what I'm doing... but I will have a reply to it as well.

So you're bragging that the other taxpayers in your country have to support your daughter's children? Since you daughter turned out so poorly I would think that you would feel it was your obligation to financially raise your grandchildren ON YOUR OWN without everyone else paying for them. The same goes for your daughter. I'm sick and tired of people who expect complete strangers to pay for their poor parenting. on WEDNESDAY, AND I'M DRAWING A BLANK Publish | Delete | Spam

Anonymous

on 1/17/14

Firstly:  I was not 'bragging'... I was stating a fact. Pure and simple.

Next point:  Stew and I, and virtually every member of our family have worked and paid taxes for decades, so I don't feel bad about being given financial assistance to raise two children we love, and didn't want to see go into care (which, coincidentally, would have cost THE TAXPAYERS HEAPS MORE).

Before Brylee & Griffin came into our care, our taxes had been paying for the thousands of other people on benefits.

Next Point: How our daughter has 'turned out', is not down to OUR PARENTING.  She has free will, and how she has conducted her life has NOTHING to do with how she was raised.  We have raised 6 kids, and from where I'm sitting, they are all doing well.

Raising two extra kids was never on our agenda.  The fact that we are is testament to our love for them.  A vast majority of people would not, or could not take on two infants after having raised 6 kids already.

What we receive towards their care via the government does in NO WAY cover the financial cost to Stew and I, nor the extra years we have spent raising children we didn't plan on having.

That is the end of my say, now to Steve.... ( god help us all).

Hello, my name is Steve, and I suffer from a chronic illness, my symptoms are extensive,  such as a lack of an oral filter, the ability to be an asshole at the drop of a hat, and the inability to deal with stupid idiots, who decide that they are above others and have the right to tell others that they are not doing a good job in regards to raising their kids/grandkids. Now, let us begin....

First and foremost, my mother was not bragging about anything, simply letting her friends know that she was happy that her government had finally acknowledged the hard work and dedication her and my father Stew give to the grandkids they raise as their own. Considering the amount of money our government throws away at the low life scum that wallow at the bottom of the New Zealand social barrel, hard working, deserving people like my parents deserve a break, and if this comes as a monetary supplement for school fees and the like, then all the better. At least they are not out spending their supplement on pokie machines and booze, like a lot of the beneficiaries in New Zealand.

My second point, and in response to what was by far and away the most ludicrous statement you made, was that the cost to our government was a strain on everyone else. I hope it dawns upon you that the cost to a government is larger to take an abandoned child into care, then seek out a foster family for it, before the child is finally adopted by a willing family (which in some children's case never happens), than it is to pay a small amount of money to have blood relatives take in and raise the children.

What Lacy does (or does not do), has nothing to do with my parents, she is an adult, and as such makes her own decisions and lives by her own means. She is doing well, and is a great mother, and your condescending tone frankly pisses me off. Everyone makes mistakes, but no mistake determines ones life. And before any losers decide to comment upon how my parents may have enabled my sister to live a carefree life, you are so severely wrong, all they did was take in two of their OWN grandkids, so that they might be raised by their own family who love them.

Last but not least comes the killing blow..... at no point in time did my parents expect anyone (let alone the government) to help pay for raising Brylee and Griffin, they did so out of love. And for someone like you (some unknown loser, who hides behind the anonymity of the internet) to intimate that my parents expect "strangers" to pay for poor parenting is absolutely stupid. Not to mention the obvious fact that the level of parenting my folks show on a daily basis is more than most people can show in their entire lives. My parents give everything to their kids, and always put themselves second to others, and its people like you that just remind me how ignorant losers like you really are.

Now let us continue on with our day, free from anonymous losers.............

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 I got some lovely photos yesterday of the littlies:

 NO baby was hurt making these photos.

 Coco is very good with the babes.

Seriously, I spent all day trying to work out how to make my space more workable while sewing larger projects.  After HOURS I finally settled on using the BIG table to my left to lay the quilt on to sew it as it gets bigger and heavier.

That meant moving everything off it and finding new places to put it all.  That took bloody ages too.

Stew had suggested I use the dining table upstairs, but I really didn't like that idea.  I was concerned a baby might find a dropped pin or some such.  Better to keep all that in a baby-free area.

Well, it's the weekend and that means grocery shopping time.  Freakin wonderful.  Stew and I will probably go out first thing this morning and get it done.  We are out of so much!  

Bex is on babysitting duty while we do the shopping.  She's finding out how it feels to have TWO babies.  

Grocery shopping done for another fortnight, and for once I didn't leave the supermarket wanting to scream and ram into idiots in the aisles!

CHERYL, UK:  I will post photos and instructions on how I've made/quilted the sashings tomorrow.  

Right now I want me lunch, then a relaxing half an hour before getting on with me quilt!

Who mentioned tracking?  Cos YES... I have the Anon's ISP address, and where they come from.  I shall know if that ANON visits my blog again just by typing in their ISP address. 
And would ya look at that?  ANON visited my blog again this morning at 10.56 am/ NZ time.
HI Anon.... giving you crabby face. 

It's been a lovely afternoon here.  Stew has mown the lawns and now he's cooking dinner!
What a man.  I got a little sewing done, then rang out of the fabric I was using for the sashings on the back of the quilt.  So I've washed another length of blue fabric, and am waiting for it to dry so I can continue.

The back of my quilt is going to look a bit mis-mashed as I've had to use several different fabrics on it.  Not that I care.  Who looks at the back of a quilt anyway?  Well... some 'perfectionist' might, but I'm not fussed.

End of Day:  I've been dancing around my 'bedroom' in happiness!  I got all the Dresden Plate Rows joined tonight.  Sewing Rows 4 & 5 to the first three was not as tortuous as I had anticipated.  It certainly helped that Bex was there helping keep the weight of the quilt off the sewing machine needle.  
I was scared I was going to break yet another one, having broken 2 already!
nite nite