yesterday

I got the Moulin Rouge CD there Mo, you can sing Roxanne with music!

Whoops.. I mean .. I make Carol sound great...in singing abilities ..... Hmmm note to self.. learn how to edit a post : - 0

O.k. we need my ghetto blaster to be brought out of thr room behind the bunnies, cuz tunie has to listen to me sing while I clean stalls & because I'm forever correcting Roxie & yelling her name .. I end up singing Roxanne.. you don't have to wear that dress tonight....and believe me I can't see at all.. Carol makes me sound great !!!

P.S. I love to clean stalls to Mustang Sally !!

i think william hung actually knows the real words to songs, i make up my own. i don't think simon would like me (unless he was a horse of course!)

You also sound better than William Hung. What would Simon Cowell say?

good one jules!

It wasn't bad. You sing better than my three year old nephew. :)

hey, spritely likes it too.

:)

"We all" meaning you and two tone deaf donkeys. ;)

it was their favorite mutated mr. ed song again. we all like that one!

Poor Mo!
All is well now and Petunia was a happy girl tonight. Carol gave her toasts and she snorted and wuffled at me until she got her supper. Petunia that is, Carol didn't wuffle. She sang. Good Petunial. Good Carol.
I need my supper!

i don't think it is about omnipotency, knowing all or seeing all...in fact if you are missing all those things, it makes it more real and true cuz you have to be careful and look at things really well...i think it has to do with doing your very best despite your humaness and accepting the responsibility if you get it wrong, however that happens, whoever or whatever you'd like to blame.
it actually is a pretty good system, "the proverbial buck stops here" belief. it keeps you honest and paying attention and trying your hardest every day, cuz if the buck stops here, who else is there to blame?...our fearful leaders in parliment might find it helpful to keep them focused on the job they were entrusted with, our military generals might keep a closer eye on occasional rogue and rampaging troops, our RCMP big wigs at headquarters might pay attention before a man is beaten and tortured, instead of after the fact, which does the man little good now... a nurse might prevent a care aide from being too rough with the frail, a teacher may put a stop some bullying among her students, someone may pick up a starving cat, or a dog running loose...the list goes on and on because every decision we make for action, inaction, trust, distrust, friendship or exclusion carries a price tag that someone has to pay.
i don't see responsibilty as a crushing burden, i see it as a fact of life.
anyway none of this has to do with tunie since this topic has gone way far past her.. .. but back to the start of this thought, yesterday, i wished i had been out there from the start where i think i belonged. and next time i will.

ok mo that made me laugh!

In response to Carols 1st line " I am not sure how to deal with yesterday ".... I know how I am going to deal with it... by never doing it again. I'm sorry but unless there is absolutley no one else to help.. and it is an emergency, count me out. Thank God Vanessa showed up & I was able to bolt , my legs shook for 5 minutes afterwards, I'm sure simply from adrenaline .

I'm sure glad she took her treats & wagged her tail after the ordeal.

Aw, but we are human, not omnipotent. We cannot know all, see all, be all. You carry a heavy burden, my friend.

"Responsibility" is not a simple word. It means many things to many people, and remains fluid with most. No two responsibilities carry the same weight, nor can anyone else choose what is most important for you. You learned something about yourself yesterday, Carol, and it will dictate future choices and future decisions. Live and learn, but try (please) to use this as a new tool, not as a stick with which to beat yourself up yet again about your perceived flaws.

lol...i would feel it was my responsibility for having chosen my child's cargivers wrongly. that is why if something happens and an adoption breaks down, it is ulitmately my fault not just the adoptive family. i missed something and i picked and trusted the wrong home. funny how there are so many sides to one simple word.

Hmmm...a delegated task vs a delegated responsibility -that's an interesting distinction. I have sometimes felt sympathetic to politicians or police chiefs or government employees or school trustees or people on Boards of Directors who lose their jobs or get sued because someone else, who falls under their area of responsibility, acted unethically. And other times I have thought that they absolutely should have lost their job or been sued - that a reasonable person "ought to have known" that the person/people they to whom they had delegated responsibility was not acting appropriately and that there had been clear (or even fuzzy) indicators that something was amiss.

When my child was little, I carefully researched and selected caregivers whom I could trust to look after her while I was in school or at work. I was responsible for choosing wisely, for communicating her needs clearly, for monitoring her progress, for talking with her frequently about her day, and for teaching her skills to cope if things went wrong. And in doing so, I provided the very best environment I could even though I could not be there with her all the time. I was comfortable that my parental responsibilities were well taken care of by competent and caring people during those hours they had the task of looking after her.
And IF one of those caregivers, despite my careful screening, had suddenly gone beserk and murdered all the kids, those deaths would have been that caregiver's responsibility, not mine.
However, like you, I would have been beating myself up for not being there with my child.

i see more that there is a difference between delegating tasks and delegating responsibilty...that is where our politicians go wrong...they are ultimately responsible for the trust their constituents place in them. the ones that i never trust are the ones who distance themselves from that pretending they are not responsible for what happens under their watch. alot of them take that easy out. parents don't (or shouldn't)delegate the responsibilty of their children, it is their job to ensure their wellbeing every step of the way, even when they are in school, daycare, playing next door, out at the mall with their friends or undergoing medical care. i think when you arte responsible for something or someone, that doesn't change until your responsibility ends (like at adoption for the animals, or kids growing up and becoming responsible for themselves, or politicians step down from their leadership role and hand the reins over to someone else.)
but this is an interesting discussion, cuz just cuz i think like this doesn't make it the only way, just the way i believe.

And yes , your right BUT let Petunia be your teacher in forgiveness.. forgive thy self. You have your foot in a cast Carol... and you with a foot in a cast who is is udner the continouse pressure to make 100 deciosions a day WHEN YOUR BROKEN is allowed to step a side for one minute. When things went from Plan A to Plan B you came as fast as you could as fast as one foot would let you. If I had of came into the house and told you I would be taking her down you would of been out there. Simple as that.. I never want to do this way and i made the decision based on her abiltiy to move away from me and her mental well being which has impproved a 100% . The longer I take following her around the more stress and we needed to get a good trim done on her this time. You did right by Petunia and have the second I told you about her.

I believe there is a big difference between delegating responsibility, and abandoning or dumping an animal because it has become an inconvenience.
Sometimes the toughest part of delegating responsibility is trusting those to whom you have delegated it.
Obviously, it was important to you that you be there. And now you will know for next time. Don't beat yourself up over this.