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So its been a scary morning here. One of Malins friends mom called me about 9 am, and asked if she could come over, she had something to talk about. I said yes sure, but wondered what it was she couldnt talk on the phone about.

She came and was all tore up. Her daughter came with and the kids went into Malins room. It appears that yesterday afternoon, her daughter, who is the same age as Malin (13) had gone out to the end of their driveway, to wait on a friend and her mom who were going to pick her up. A car had come, and she didnt think much of it, since she was waiting on her friend and she didnt know what kind of car they have. A man gets out and starts to drag/pull her into the car. She of course starts to scream and he puts his arm around her neck so she is almost suffercating. She was kicking and going crazy but of course that didnt help one bit, he was way too strong and had no problem overpowering her.

THANK GOD, two guys came on a motorcycle and straigh away realized the situation and stopped the bike and ran towards the car. I guess the man who was trying to get her into the car, realized he had no way of getting her in, before they were in his face. He threw her away and jumped into the car, it took off and almost ran one of the bike guys over. So there was two people in the car. One trying to get her in and one driving.

They live right around the corner from where we live, and this is a good area, we very seldom have any problems here, but obviously that is no help.

The girl is bruised and scared to hysteria. They have spent lots of time at the police both yesterday and today. And got the information that this is not the first attempt like this around here. They also told them, that we do have (as most places) sex offenders living everywhere and most of the times when they get a positive ID, it is a former sex offender.

I cant even imagine having to go through that. And I straight away pulled up a website I have had for quite some time, but stupidly enough hardly ever use. I will for sure check every area around here, I already did, and it scared the crap out of me.

It makes you realize though, just how fast it can happen and how much we have to look out for our children, even when they get to be a bit older, and we think we "have to" give them a bit more freedom.

Please check this link out and look up your area and see what creeps you have living near you, so you at least know and can act accordingly.

http://childsafenetwork.org/


Marit

So you all know I am an imported Viking right.....? Used to cooler climat and feeeet of snow in the winter. Today the themometer say 104 here, that is a place that has been in the shade all day. They said on the local weather that with the heatindex it was 115.

The kids and I were out in the pool, I was about to have a heat stroke, the humidity is horrible. When we were out there, Chris came home and said, someone is here to look at the house (our rental)

Have any of you ever tried to look sofisticated with hair that is wet, not from swimming, but from sweat? face looking like someone boiled you and forgot to remove the make up first. And every single sweat gland in your body working over time. I would be surprised if they decide to rent, I think I scared them away lol.....

The dogs are confiscating the cool air from the AC, I keep pushing them away from the vents, only to see them back there 5 min later. We keep it about 70 in here, but after you have been out, even that seems too hot, to be able to cool down. I dont miss Sweden often but ohhhhh gosh..... this is toooooo hot.

Marit

So I was going to post about the fact that I can not see any pictures, all the pics in the posts come up as links and when I try to click them, the page "can not find the page" or whatever it say comes up. I have several people avatars I can not see.

When I was going to post on the general board about it, just now. I got up that I had to sign in again, I did and when I am on the board I am signed in, but as soon as I click on "post on general board" I get the sign in page again and am "guest" on top of page.

Am I the only one having problems or are we having some booboos on the board

Marit

I found something for you Nicki.

Marit

I guess I am getting nostalgic or whatever you want to call it. A couple of days ago when I started to look for Buffy pictures I brought out all my pics, tons of them. Now I cant stop going through them, and certain pics really makes me miss dogs, horses or cats I have had.

One thing I really realized that I miss, more than I have been allowing myself to think, is my horses, where we live now I have no way of having them, but if you get your first horse when you are like 6 years old and have them for 30 some odd years, well you will miss it when you cant have it no more.

Here is  one of my Arabian stallions, he was a beauty but a handful, made a better show horse than show jumper, but I guess they cant have it all.

Marit

Well on my hunt for pics of Buffy, I found so many old dog, cat and horse pics. I may go a little pic crazy here for awile lol.....

This is my dane boy Zorro and Malin when she was about 1 year old, poor Zorro has his ears all "curled" up on the pic, so he looks a bit like a big dork, he was a sweetheart though, especially when he snuggled with the christmas tree in the couch lol....

Marit

So anyone wanna come rescue me....... I am pulling my hair, grinding my teeth and am looking deep in the valium bottle lol....

I have my three kids here, as if thats not enough teenage hormons, Malin has two friends over. Ever had three 13-14 year old girls in the same house? ouch....... Jennifer has a friend over too, and them two are doing the most of trying to aggrevate the older girls hehe.

Then add the mama cat, the 4 kittens, my own cat, my 3 dogs, the parrot and the two degus AND an upset husband. He is now in the house we are renting out (good for him it is not yet rented lol...) He says I wont be seing much of him this eve. he will need something much stronger than valium to deal with this house today.

Marit