We were at our church gingerbread house competition for the kids and they only had 3 pieces of gingerbread left so I left one wall off, propped the roof up with pretzel sticks, and we made a gingerbread gulag
Jack Jr is currently deciding who all should be in the gulag
So far it's Santa and me
He is providing us with steady rations of candy canes and M&Ms but he is dipping them in icing and licking the icing off first
Growing up in a town just outside Philly, I used to know everyone on my street and play outside until the lights came on
But something happened - jobs started drying up and crime started rising, even violent crime
My parents moved us out when things kept getting worse
I used to walk down Powell Street to the library once a week and get lost in the stacks of books
Sometimes I'd pull my wagon behind me to fill it up with new literary finds
After homeless people started stabbing each other there, my mom didn't want me going anymore
My Catholic school had closed down a few years before, and we transferred to another Catholic school a few miles away where it was safer. We had a great community where kids walked to school and families knew each other. That one's closed now, too. And our high school.
BREAKING: Court documents confirm Darrel Brooks was observed first driving slowly and then sped up to hit parade participants in Waukesha
One witness indicated, “As I continued to watch the SUV, it continued to drive in a zig zag motion. It was like the SUV was trying to avoid vehicles, not people. There was no attempt made by the vehicle to stop, much less slow down.”
"The vehicle passed through the intersection of E Main Street and Buckley Street. Office Butryn concluded that if the driver was lost and attempting to get out of the parade, this would have been a reasonable location for him to stop and exit the parade route"
When you see a bluecheck rage-tweeting about Kyle Rittenhouse walking check to see what their reaction was to Alec Baldwin, who wasn't even charged. This works particularly well for actors.
If you are trying to get sober and all you focus on is alcohol you will never succeed
Cut it all out, avoid those situations, cut out people who encourage you to drink (for now), and completely throw yourself in a new direction of family and prayer