Family Forum / Parenting / Mothers / January 2005

Hey Guys,
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone here.  My Christmas turned
out kind of yucky.  The children had a great time (it's all about them
anyway), but I woke up Christmas morning feeling like I was coming down with

oops.
got the turkey out. It looked lovely. tooks its temp and it seemed fine
180F. Let it rest while I cooked the veggies, sausages etc. It came to
carving and it was raw in parts :-/ The other stuff Id put in the bottom

My Nanny was just hospitalized last night with congestive heart failure.
She will soon be 86.  I have had my issues with her but I don't want her to
be in pain.  Please pray that healing and peace will be brought to my family
and to her

the mommies send to me:
big swollen ankles
bouts of morning sicknes
hourly peeing

My hCG this morning was 293, up from 155 exactly 48h ago. Doubling time
at this stage is typically 48-72h, so I'm happy! Although it probably
won't be twins anyway, but at least there's one bub there doing its best
to grow bigger. I have to go back in a week from now. Hopefully we ...

Happy Birthday for yesterday sweetie - hope you are all feeling tons
better today.
Sarah

Sorry that I did not respond to the earlier thread. When someone posts using
the same header as a post made in the past, OE thinks it is all the same
thread so I didn't even see that a new thread had started until now.
As for career paths- I really don't know what I want to do for ...

As we celebrated today...
My wee monster and his 'pavalova' and big mouth ;-)
http://www.villagephotos.com/pubbrowse.asp?folder_id=1152320

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOO
We did our Xmas Dinner today and I cooked that bird to perfection!
It wasn't dry at all, was perfect!
Thanks to everyone for the various suggestions, I kinda combined a few

their corner.   Have a good birthday!
-Barb

rain!
WTF?  It's raining this morning.  I didn't even know it COULD rain and be this
cold at the same time.  We can't build a snow man because our little corner of
the world is now sheeted in ice.  I doubt very much that DH is going to be able

Today in the mail we got a very special christmas present from our local
  tax office: A refund! *jumpingupanddown*
The refund ist big enough to not let me worry about spending a bit of
money for New Years Eve. ;-)

NOT!!!
It started with a lot of pain which I was convinced was a heart attack and
ended up with ultrasounds* and heart monitoring and panic on my part when
the big C word was mentioned.

seeing lots of double message?  Or is that my server?
Teri

Holiday Eating Tips
1. Avoid carrot sticks. Anyone who puts carrots on a holiday buffet
table knows nothing of the Christmas spirit. In fact, if you see
carrots, leave immediately. Go next door, where they're serving rum