Family Forum / Parenting / Mothers / March 2005

Mailed today.

we boiled 2 gallons of Grade A *light* syrup this weekend! it's
going to be warmish & rainy this week so the sap will be running
fast. i *love* sugar season :)
lee

new news carrier.  do i see me?  do you see me?

I use to have thick hair until Starfire turned 3 and I started wanting to
rip my hair out.
I know that is a normal thing as our children age, however my daughter seems
to be more stubborn than most.  To give an example of her

I sit in my car on the right hand side.  I drive my car on the left
hand side of the road.  My accelerator is on the right, then brake
pedal...
What about you?

I haven't been around much lately, and for this I'm sorry. I'm doing a lot
of sorting out of my own head, and it's taking a lot of time. So if I seem
distant or cool to you when we chat or through posts here, I'm really sorry.
I'm sure I'll stop being a prat and smarten up soon ...

For this Florida mom who hasn't dealt with a cold winter in many years...
I've got a curiosity question.
If the day time highs are in the 30's and you will have ski pants on, do you
think DS (11yr old active boy) will need long underwear (thermals) under a

Now I have been taking great efforts through the live of my children to teach
them to express themselves properly. Maybe because of that I got presented with
the following this morning.
The situation was that DD was doing laundry. Now she has been doing that for

Pass this on
To all the AM ljers, please pass on that I am replying and posting on the ng
but nothing is going through. It is very frustrating. I am, in essence, in
purely lurk mode. I really wanted to send hugs to Joyce and tell her how

Well, one of them is a boy. There was no way around that, he was quite
proudly showing off as soon as they started the u/s on wednesday. Even if
I didn't want to know, I would not have been able to avoid it. The other
baby is probably a girl, but was a bit shy. We'll have another ...

Have taking  a whole new meaing around our house.
8 year old dd comes home from her trip and sees the hats.  She decided to
take it to school for show and tell... the area is buzzing with the notion
of pickle hats.... LOL!

Hey Guys,
It's me!  I'm still living!  I'm at my mother's house and James and I
made the trip in about 4 hours.  The last hour in the car was pretty
excrutiating and I'm in a lot of pain at the moment.  I actually felt

The new series started tonight. We all settled on the sofa - a new
family tradition for saturday night started :) We all thought it fabby -
fast paced, a good sense of humor and a good new Doctor. I expect K and
I will be watching it again tomorrow

May chocolate bunnies and chocolate eggs infest your front and back yards.

to be a totally part time poster? basically my computer is bust (but
maybe not, some days it pretends to still be fine, but i think it's on
its last legs but, i also think if i think that it's on its last legs
then it will be, so i think to myself 'think it's fine and then it