Family Forum / Parenting / Mothers / December 2004

I'm on a mission today
DH has been on evening shift - 3pm-11pm until last nite and then this
morning was back on 8-5 for the week.
Over Christmas he's working the night shift :-( 10.30pm start...

check your email please :)
THanks!
~Kat

Well we got a phone call today from my Aunt J.  She needs my mom up in MI
for help.  I'm afraid my Grandma is fading fast.  Her feet are blue and her
chest is rattling.  So in a few days I may be going to her funeral.  It's
all going fast.  Which is good so she doesn't suffer.  ...

What does Turkey taste like?
OK, some wise guy is gonna say 'turkey'
but is it similar to chicken?
and if so, I wonder if I could get my mother in law drunk at xmas and tell

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&e=1&u=/ap/pregnant_woman_slain
/shakes head
Not excusing her but you can't tell me the signs of mental illness weren't
there.

Z is "probably" going to be in a national bank commercial.  The taping is
finished ... and the papers are signed.
I was told as long as the footage was good, she would be used.  They fell in
love with her :)

This from DD in response to my inquiry about her and DGD's final
swimming class.  K & E are mother-daughter friends who attended the
sessions, too:
"It was great! She is the champion jumper-inner! :)  She does awesome!

/rant on
After my first m/c I was extremely upset not to hear from my MIL, not a
peep, until we were almost 2 months down the road and received a X-mas
card (confirmation she knew we still existed). I talked about this a lot

Just what tiny budget girl needs in the already expensive month of
December...my TV died on me about an hour ago.
&#&$*$*%*%()(!
So it was nearly 12 years old! So freaking what?! I'm going on 35 and

Well I went to the doctor today for my foot...this is the doctor that Dr. A
referred me to.  He says that he feels another surgery would benefit me.
Honestly I don't know if I can handle another surgery emotionally.  To boot
it's a 3 hour commute each way to the doctor.  He's ...

C:  MOMMA!  There is a package on the porch!
Me:  Well, go get it silly!
C: What is it?
So we open the package and pull out a jar of cherry jam ... looks WISHISH as Z

If you need clarification of 'words' just ask ;-)
Twas the Night before Xmas and all through the bach,
Not even a weta was making a scratch.
Woolly socks were hung by the pot belly with care,

to bring a 'vegetable' dish to a Christmas Day dinner - what would you
bring.  (salad doesn't count, I'm making that too :-)  )
Teri

to early to break out the bottle of whisky?
The Toddler is going thru a phase right now of absolute destruction. Her father
his nicknamed her The Mistress of Destruction hehe
Nothing can stand in her path.  Basically, if it's on a table, she has to toss

I just got back from Katherines school nativity - talk about need a
hanky time :)
It was all really sweet and very well done. K was a shepherd, she did
really well - a little nervous and she had a huge coughing fit bless