Family Forum / Parenting / Mothers / September 2004

Some of these are ringing bells for me... lol
Hey Jen, the one with the shopping trolley just needs modifying to include a
wedding dress... lol
20 reasons when a girl should call it a night.....

that phase when the little people come home from school parroting
things they've heard their schoolmates saying?  NOT!
If I hear, "What*ever*" one more time, I shall scream.  Loudly.
Nan

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I should have known from the start:
I put the washing on, then went back upstairs to get everyone out the house.
I went back downstairs about an hour later to hang the washing - duh, hadn't
even closed the lid. I should have known it was going to be one of those

Guessw what?  We are going to the Peanut Festival in Plains, Georgia this
weekend. Why is this so exciting, aside from the general excitement of a
peanut festival in Georgia????
Clare has won an art contest!  The schools in the state were sent info about

Forgive me for brining this up, but is Hurricane Javier headed your way?
The current track seems to take him right into AZ and towards Colorado, but
probably as a tropical depression by then.
-Aula, probably spending too much time at intellicast.com

Dd tells me a bit ago..."go look in your room"... this is my about to be 4
year old child.
She had gone into my room and squatted next to the bed.  She then proceeded
to take one of her father's t-shirts and wipe it up (I can't figure out if

Welcome to Holland
Emily Perl Kingsley wrote a wonderful essay, "Welcome to Holland", on what
its like to find out your child is sick or disabled.
Welcome To Holland

Sorry, I suspect this post is going to sound like a whine.
I just checked the most recent set of tropical weather tracks for the north
Atlantic.  Tropical Storm Jeanne's track has made a sudden [and unexpected]
change that puts it aiming smack dab between me and Angela for about

Well, I thought OS (now just about 5) had gotten through the years of
wanting to flush stuff down the toilet.  I WAS WRONG!!!
Last night he came downstairs and very sheepishly told me the toilet
upstairs wouldn't work.  When I asked why he fessed up and told me he put a

ex-posted
3:30 this morning we drove him out to the airport <major yawn>.  Dd is sad
she just can't fathom being without her daddy and her bud for days...
It's been an exhausting few days waiting and then getting him on the road.

lol another link just to bore you all with  - my latest park ventures in
the paper (though the story seems identicalish to the last one. )
http://www.fleet-online.co.uk/story.asp?intid=668&txtpaper=
Im hoping there will be one in another paper (that has a strong editor)

that I thought I would have more time now that DD is in K and my other DD naps
for 3 hrs a day.
It seems I have far less time now .. than I did before before school started.
I was kind of looking forward to getting a few things done around here.

To see the doctor for my foot.  Hopefully the second opinion will be better
than the first.  Wish me luck.......

Okay, I've had the inevitable post-partum hair loss going on for about
a month.  It *is* pretty bad, lol.
While showering with E the other day, she freaked out that there was
hair in the drain.  I plucked it out and threw it away, but she