Quick post here….
My friend Jackie, who many of you know or have met out here, has an awesome mom. You know those jr.high/high school years where you may live at your own home, but when you also have a few friends’ homes where you practically live as well? Well, for me, Jackie’s house was one of those places. Especially when my Dad was sick and my parents had to travel for his treatments, Jackie’s house was a haven of security and safety for me. Her mom had a lot to do with that. She’s one of those moms that, while she definitely wasn’t someone you could walk all over, was one who you felt understood and cared for by.
Well, her mom hasn’t stopped caring. She is working super hard to get the funds for a skate park in the small town where we grew up. At the time that I lived there, the options for activity were shooting hoops, taking walks, hitting a tennis ball, and nothing much else that I can think of. I don’t think much has changed. As you could surmise from my story, she is no longer a mom of young kids who would use this park. So, it’s not for personal gain that she works for this project; she works for the benefit of the community and the kids of her hometown. So far, they already have the land secured and the concrete poured. They are just waiting for the rest of the funds to be raised to help finish up the project.
Why does this matter to you? Because there is something that you can do to help her!!! Hamburger Helper is holding a contest we want her to win!!! All you have to do is go TO THIS WEBSITE RIGHT HERE, leave a comment, and know that you helped my friend’s mom help others.
Get to it!!! And thanks so much. 
Thanks Kerri. That’s about enough gushing on my parents as I can take for a nite. And I think that our parents just pushed us back and forth between houses when each was sick of us. But the skatepark is a good thing for Fisher to get and I am all about getting kids away from video games and outside.
I play a skateboarding video game occasionally, so I think that represents the best of both worlds.
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Jack: I like your parents, even the one that didn’t know I was gone for a whole year.
And I agree on the shuffling us back and forth.
Bald Man: You go, Tony Hawk impersonator.
I don’t skate and made fun of skaters through much of high school (I think I may have been jealous because my mom wouldn’t let me have a board, but I’ll never truly admit that. But I do think that the local skatepark is good for the kids. Not to say that everything that goes on there is good, but they are out and active and have a place to go.
Skate or die, but don’t die skating!!!
Rantz: You were making fun of the skaters? Which of you in the basement had to hold your turn with the 12-sided die so that you could run off and do that?
Thanks so much for commenting out there to help her win the money!! 
Listen, we had to come out for more Jolt and Doritoes sometime. And when we did we could always just throw down some spell on the skater geeks and make them fall. Once, I even opened an oil flask on a pole before one of them tried to ride down it. That was well worth the trip into the sun.
Mmmm…..Jolt and Doritos…..
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