Yes, I'm THAT neighbor.......

So yesterday was a good day, I got up, went to skills fair at work. I got to play with the new similator dummy! His name was Hal, he is a 5 year old boy and is pretty much like a real kid! Cost about $50,000! He was super cool! He would tell you "Dont touch me", "I want my mommmmmy", and all kinds of cute little things :) Makes doing mock codes pretty interesting. It always amazes me the way a pretend code flows so smoothly. When in a real life situation, its chaotic like nobodies buisness! Code Blues are not interesting, in fact its what I dread each time I go to work. I say a little prayer, "please dont let any of the patients where I am working code". Its not something I think any of my nurse friends enjoy about our job. This may suprise you about me, because my husband is Mr. Advanced Life Support. He walks, talks, eats, & breathes the stuff. BLECH!
Best of all, this week is nurses week! They had a massage table for the nurses. I got myself a NICE long full body massage! The lady was like "You have ridiculous knots in your back" to which I replied, "Yeah I have 4 kids". I think she about flipped out. So I left there feeling like Gumby. I've never had a massage before in my life. So, I'm thinking this might have to go on my Mothers Day wish list, along with a babysitter so I can go get one :) Ugh, well the nice relaxed mom came home to the horror of all horrors.
If you know me, you know that I am the most paranoid over protective mom in the world. I am a pedi nurse that sees horrible things ALL the time, so I tend to bubble my kids to avoid the things I see at work, yeah yeah you can stop judging me now :) Well, Gabrielle asked if she could take the babies outside to play, I let her because I had to get dinner started. Then I hear blood curdling screams and Gabrielle comes running in! I think OH CRAP which baby took a nose dive from the playhouse?! Apparently two of the neighborhood boys were being little animal sacrificers in my side yard! We live in a new housing development, so we see random rabbits & coyotes, foxes and whatnot. I love it as do my kids, I do think its sad that they have no where to go because of all the houses taking over where they live :( Anyways, its always a big production when my kids see a rabbit in our yard. We watch it until it goes away, we have a little family that frequents our backyard, so so so cute. Well back to my origial horror story.
These two boys (10 & 6ish) were PICKING up these teeny tiny baby rabbits (think the size of a hamster) & slamming them on the ground, sending the girls of my neighborhood screaming and wailing. One girl scooped up a few and ran them home to protect them, good girl! But in the midst of this, the older boy picked up a huge rock and began smashing them down on the rabbits. All thats left is blood, guts, & fur. And my kids witnessed this from my backyard. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! Gavin had nightmares about it, he woke up this morning asking me "why?," and "are the bunnies in heaven." Sick. What does that say about parents of kids who murder sweet, cute, helpless rabbits? Apparently a lot. Because they just stood in their front yards and watched me direct other kids away from the crime scene. I'm like your satanic kids just killed animals by my house, and all you can do is stand there like the white trash garbage you are and watch. There is a special place in hell for people like that. Not knowing what to do, I called the Police. Two officers came out. They said they could go down and talk to the parents and kids, but other than that, nothing. No laws were broken. Well, they did say if it had been night time or someones pet, then charges would be filed. Are you kidding? Night time? So if they had decided to murder these rabbits an hour later they would get in trouble. Wrong on so many levels. I hope these boys got in trouble. I hope they learned their lesson. I hope the parents are embarrassed beyond all get out. I will tell you, after school I will stand in my yard and I will tell those boys to stay away from my house. Can someone tell these parents that their kids are out of control?! And if the parents are going to let the kids run a muck and cause neighborhood trauma to do it on the opposite side of the street? Not where me & my kids are affected. I tell you what, those boys better stay away from my house.
The one thing I did take away from the talk with the police officers: "Thats sick, I wonder if the parents know thats how SERIAL KILLERS start out".
You have got to be kidding me!