Bullying

We recently had a "falling out" with our neighbor over something very trivial. Actually more like IGNORANT! Since all this happened we have seen the "real side" of her. She bullied my girls on FB. She allows her children to taunt and call my kids names while my kids are playing in their own yard. Mind you my kids are not perfect and I am the first one to admit that! Normally we ignore them or look the other way or SAD but true just stay inside BUT last night I had enough! My daughter was sobbing when she came inside and told me the kids were calling her FAT! The biggest shocker is the mom of these kids was right there working in the yard! I went into full force "momma bear" mode and marched out there and asked her nicely to tell her kids to stop right now! Her response, which still just blows my mind how ignorant it was, "it's a free country"! Are you kidding me!? You are condoning bullying! My response was "I will remember that". Which honestly doesn't make a whole lot of sense but I was so dang mad! You hear about bullying all the time but I never thought in my lifetime that it would be so close to home! This is my home, my safe zone! My kids are suppose to feel safe here not afraid to go outside in their own yard. I hate this situation 100%! And to make things worse it has spilled over into school now. My youngest is in the same class with the little girl from next door. My daughter cried and did not wanna go to school today! Which for those of you who know my baby she has had a very hard time in the past with separation anxiety and this is the first year that she has not cried when I take her to school and now this! I am very thankful for a teacher at their school though....she my hero! She was such a help last year when Claudia was upset in the mornings and now once again she had swooped in and made it better! I wish that their was more of her in the world than people like my neighbor! It breaks my heart that these poor kids are being raised to HATE! Isn't it 2011 and not 1950????? It is really weighing heavy on my heart that my kids have to experience this first hand but I hope that this will be an eye opener for them. I hope that I handled it the correct way!!!! Anyone that knows my girls will tell you that they are not angels all the time but they really GOOD girls with BIG hearts and would never NEVER intentionally hurt anyone's feelings! This I KNOW FOR SURE!!! 
This has been a very stressful week and tomorrow is going to be a tough day also! We go to court for visitation with my step daughter. This has been on since March and it really needs solved. Things have been rocky between my hubby and his daughter since she turned 13! It is another situation where momma is influencing the child! GRRRRRRRRRRR! But all I can do is have faith that it will work out how it is suppose to! It is out of our hands now! All I know is we are doing the right thing! 
“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” ~Marilyn Monroe~
Until we meet again......Jen <3