Usually, people don't ask for much. We're all just looking to love and to be loved... I completely get that. Rough childhoods will really screw somebody up.

It's great that she found you and you were able to help. Some people don't get that.

and it has died. i give up onthis one guys.

Well, I am on my way out to Indiana to go see some fireworks. I'll check back later to see if Chicago is still here!

Niles is taking her kids to dinner... and then more than likely, she'll be back. Enjoy the festivities.

Wow!! Two pages of posts in Chicago!! Welcome Singing and your corny jokes nice to have you here. Lex Is the number one poster on the Chicago site so you'll see alot of him on here along with a few others that post from time to time. I look here every day and post when something is going on (like someone cracking jokes). Happy Fourth

Hi, Jenn. I'm Amber. I'm pretty new here, too. I try to post as much as possible. Welcome to the group! Love the jokes, btw. I have a lot of emo friends, so I understand the jokes more than others might. Loved the pizza one. That was cute. I'll see if I can think of some for ya.

Hello Singer! I post on occasion. Well, I try to at least.

Again, Lex and Mike, I hope you didn't think I deserted you.

YAY! I came home to work to find the board I started has a pulse! Maybe there's hopes for bringing Chicago Alive afterall! Guess Lex is gonna have some competition though.... I'm a single mom of 2... I work a 9-5 and spend my time at home... so you'll see me online alot. Lol!

Okay... another joke... feel free not to laugh:

What do you get when you play a country music song backwards?

The truck is fixed, the dog stops barking, and your wife comes back to you!

And we're dead again.

Ok... when you play a country song backwards you get:
1. your truck back
2. your dog back
3. your wife back

y'all leave a reply now, ya hear?

Lol....

I just did...now i feel like a country song.

Lol... it wasn't posted when I posted my answer....

and my whole life's a country song... it's not so bad... ya just gotta learn to hold yer head up and git er done... (that's right).

I got 21 years on ya singing...alot more lyrics been added to the country song of my life!

Do they line dance in Chicago? Any urban cowboys walking around in riding boots?

You may have the years.... but I power dove into life at a young age. I'm up there with experience....
2 kids
2 divorces
rock bottom....
bounced back with some attitude... lol

I don't get to get out much because I rarely have baby sitters and I don't drive... but I know they have a few country clubs...

Urban cowboys? Not by me... I wish, though.... lol.

Good for bouncing back! Three marriages for me...and I'm bouncing along!

You can't miss the urban cowboy...neatly pressed jeans and western shirt, very pointy cowboy boots where the heel curves toward the sole (riding boots-not made for walking) and the hat!

Most of them are scared to death of horses too!

Yeah... no Urban cowboys here.... but I live in Suburbia... just outside of Chicago... and my neighbors are all dead (cemetary)...lol...

Besides... not like any of 'em would notice me if they were around... guys in my neck of the woods tend to shy away from a woman with 2 kids...

and since babysitters are rare... I always have the kids with me...

maybe I need to find a nice single dad... lol

Cemetary...must be very quiet where you live...there must be a park or other such place(s) around where single weekend dads take their kids?

Is there a shortage of reliable babysitters in suburbia?

It's having the money to PAY a sitter.

I work my ass off, live on my own, pay all my bills and daycare... raising 2 kids without any financial assistance. My kids' dads are both deadbeats- no support of any kind (emotional, physical or financial) to their kids...

In suburbia, mostly the moms take the kids to the park... or they're all happy little families....

Wow...sounds like suburbia sucks! But it also sounds like you are doing right by your children and i for one am very proud of you for that!

You are new here, singing, and there are a lot of great people on this site. I know Lex has a gripe about the lack of Chicago participants, but there are plenty of people in the tri-state area that belong to this place.

Maybe this is a good outlet for you to get some grown up conversation? And perhaps meet someone nice? A single working mother such as you deserves that and more!