being unfriended on facebook

Well, I guess blogging is sort of out of fashion now and everything is on facebook. you can only write a little snipit but the whole world is usually watching, at least the thousand or so friends that most people have. I don't have nearly that many, the majority that are not my kids being people who found me and asked to be my friend. It is interesting and I enjoy facebook more or less. A recent comment of mine in my status box brought on a whole raft of comments...it went something like "some of my children become my best friends while others unfriend me on facebook. It's a good thing i have so many of them."...most were condolences, being unfriended is a major deal on facebook..and some were encouraging words about what a great parent I am, staying strong, they'll come around and such. I was encouraged but was defriended by yet another kid yesterday, bringing the total to two. This one hasn't run away from home like the other one, still using my hot water and heat and abusing everything and everyone else here. I don't know if these malcontents will leave never to return, as they claim, or if the venom they have spewed out at me is displaced anger at their biological mothers and that one day they will calm down and see that I truly care about them. Either way, it is a process that I am going through to distance myself from their anger and minimize the damage to others that are still claiming to be part of the family. Their time may come also to erupt like volcanoes but they are still trying to make me their mother and this their family, so I try, by the Grace of God, to maintain some sanity around here. It isn't easy....