[Modoasis] *^*&*%$ major hoover attempt !!!!!!!!!!

[Guest guest]

I just feel like a sailor about to start cursing. Hurricane Rita just about

plowed down where we live and I was pretty scared. As expected, my daughter

was worried about her miniature horses that grandma owns. Now I have not

been in contact with nada for 4 months and daughter has not seen those

horses except for 1 week when nada was out of town. Guess what? Nada called

my house when I was out stopping the mail, getting money, etc. before the

hurricane hit as we really expected it to come here. Nada talked to daughter

about needing help to move the little horses to Brenham. Of course daughter

wanted to and I understand daughter's fear of wanting the horses to be safe.

It probably was a bad idea, but I let daughter go with nada to help move

them. I could not go - I was still packing and getting my whole life in

order to fit in 1 sedan to evacuate. They left at 3:30 pm and daughter came

home at 5 am b/c that's how bad the traffic was. Ends up one of the 3 little

horses was major allergic to something in the barn they went to, so nada

brought that one back home. Nada was going to keep it in her house during

the storm but dad was not happy about that idea at all, so nada called and

talked to daughter again (I was out again making last runs) and asked if she

could keep it in our house. Oh, just forget about asking me, of course. So

daughter is all nuts and is please, please please to me about keeping the

little horse in my house. May have been a bad idea, but ithappened. The

little horsie stayed in the long hallway at the front door with a baby gate

at teh end. Daughter slept at the end with her sleeping bag (oh, it ended up

we tried to evacuate before this and turned aroudn and came home b/c of

going to run out of gas plus we were headed in the same direction the

hurricane was).

Then, after the storm was over and we did not get much at all, daughter

helped go pick up the other 2 horses from Brenham. Then she wants all 3

horses in my yard to play with for a day. Probably was a bad idea but it

happened. They are still there now, and now daughter has been COMPLETELY

HOOVERED indirectly by granny. It seems what has happened is 1. daughter

severely misses the horses, 2. daughter has not seen granny for 4 months and

daughter forgets how everything really was - she has a tendency to do that,

3. daughter thinks she is totally bored in life without the horses

I have SEVERAL problems with this. One is nada is indirectly hoovering

daughter behind my back by calling her to do this and that and bypassing me,

giving her gifts and treats (helps with hoovering attempts) and acting all

nice and normal. NOT only that, but if daughter were to get back involved

with the horses, it' not just to visit them but to have nada take her and

them to horse shows. Daughter struggles a lot with keeping good grades in

school and too many outside activities and I am afraid she will bomb and I

will be ROYALLY TICKED about that.

NOT only that, and maybe I should not care about this one, but I do, but

nada will have daughter's old friends come over to her house when daughter

is there. Those friends can't be around daughter and me b/c the parents of

those kids believe I am mean and mentally off balance, etc.

I AM SO DAMN MAD! I feel like what's goign to happen is not going to be

what daughter wants at all and now I feel like she is going to hold

something against me b/c of it. I told daughter yesterday that if grandnada

in any way convinced her (daughter) that I am the bad guy in all this or

mentally off balance or whatever, we will move. Daughter of course hates

that idea b/c even when she wasn't seeing the horses, she wanted to live in

close proximity to them.

I can just see it now - daughter getting back involved with the horses and

nada calling up all those crappy homeschoolers and saying " See,

granddaughter wants to be with me and the horses - it's her MOTHER who won't

LET her "

I can just spit fire about now

Theresa