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This is my new teenage daughter. Yep, at 30 years old, I have inherited an 18 year old. Its actually my cousin. When she was 15, she dropped out of high school and moved in with her boyfriend. Trust me, I did everything I could stop it, but we don’t even live in the same state. I told her she would never get her HS diploma or GED if she did that. And of course…she didnt. Im psychic some days, ill tell ya.

Now she is 18..and she came to visit and we offered her to move in to our home (someone tell me I’m nuts) and guide her to get her GED and off to college, so she could turn her life around. Now, of course, she was living with her 24 year old (cough, loser, cough) boyfriend who also has no GED and I don’t want to insult her, because i love her, but this guy is holding HER down. What 24 year old guy dates a barely 18 year old…you know, when she told him she was going to stay and get her GED, he said “I’m not waiting for you”…nice on the emotional blackmail you asswipe.

But she made the hard decision, and she stayed, and now she is stuck here because her ride went back to Missouri and I sure in the hell am not driving that 16 hours back.

I want to ask two things of you…one, who has a teenager, I need advice on how to parent someone who has had no parents thus far, needs guidance, but is used to freedom and two, tell her she did the right thing by accepting our help to help her get a GED. I know she is feeling confused by it all.

trisha

ps this blog could get really interesting now

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Someone mentioned her in the big name bloggers, can someone tell me the big deal? Now I support all bloggers, and there are great blogs, ok blogs, cool blogs, weird blogs, etc. but whats the ‘big deal’ about her blog. Just looks like a chick talking about her life. And half the time the comments are shut down and I cant even read the thoughts people had. What am I missing? I like to be in the “know”. Did I miss something great that happened and now I’m catching up?

trisha

ps ~not~ hating on Dooce at ALL. Its a sincere question. I’m trying to figure out the magic formula of blogging

“big name” blogger and who is your favorite blogger that probably nobody knows about ?

*you cannot use yourself, lol*

trisha

You have 48 hours to log into the MomDot forums (look to the right for links) and post on our contest forum before we announce a new winner. After you are there, alicia will private message you for your contact information, so you must come back to give us that or we wont know where to send your prize. -trisha

LaDeeHart

Lucky #7 Lucrecia

I think I would pick a custom name and a bow (clip) holder – but the growth charts are AWESOME too! hard choice

TickaToo
Brandy W
my daughter has been in the process of learning. we even have the piano for preschoolers book. she is having trouble my keyboard is so big. this would be perfect
i love the piano and the pink pedal car

 The Charming Lamb (there will be a winner EVERY FRIDAY this month for them, so please enter!)

Heather:

Such cute stuff!! I love the simply stated necklace but the charms are adorable too!

 Mabel Labels

Bridgette

I blogged about them for my second entry!

 Jaime Heath 

I am JUST loving these give aways!!!!!!!Enter me for the next round of drawings!!!

 Baby Legs- I am still going through wild stories for this…will announce later this morning!

 trisha

and we have 231 posts. We are PATHETIC!!!! HAHAHAHAHA. I cannot believe we have that many posts in 47 days. I am surprised y’all havent run away, far far away. We have 6862 comments on our blog. So what’s even funnier, is our readers like to chat as much as we do.

GO MOMMIES!!!!!!!!! (and a daddy or two) Yall are SOOO fun!! I can see us hosting the Wild Party at BlogHer next year.

trisha

wont be pulled till tomorrow. I am out of town and I dont have my info in front of me on what ends, etc. etc so Ill pull thursday and fridays contests on friday. So thats lucky for those of you that can still enter! And i need to get some funk ready for tomorrow!!

trisha

I wanted to say that there have been two posts by Toni this week regarding breastfeeding. We want you to know that that is because its Breastfeeding WEEK and as we are a Mom related site, we did want to bring some attention to it. However, Toni, nor MomDot, are in any way implying that breastfeeding is the only way to go for every mom. Each mom needs to make up her own mind based on her feelings, her body, her child, and her beliefs to make the choice that is best for her, whether that is formula feeding, breastfeeding, or a combination of both. I wanted to make sure you all knew we were not advocating ONLY breastfeeding, but only focusing and supporting breastfeeding week for the moms that DO or the moms that want more information.

I only breastfed for a few months and pumped for a few months before I was worn thin on it. Toni breastfeed for much of her life…LOL (she has 3 kids)…so we are all mixed on our side over here and we completely support each others choices as mothers and support YOURS as well. You will get no judgement, no matter where you are with your choice, from us.

trisha