Family Forum / Parenting / Mothers / March 2005

I've had a LONG and very tiring weekend
it's Sunday night
It's 9.10pm
Normally small boy goes to bed around 7pm with NO fuss, says "goodnight"

Improbably, a lioness adopts an oryx calf.
http://www.douglas-hamilton.com/films/lioness/index.htm
Airing on Animal Planet, Sunday 3/6/2005. 7 pm EST.

Give the little monster a hug for me will ya?
And happy birthday wishes as well.  :)
Glad she had fun.

Ok does anyone know the name of the style bed that you need a step stool to
get on?    They are really high off the ground.  We'll be shopping for new
bedroom suites for us and Z once I get my settlement and for the life of me
I can't find out what the name of that particular ...

One of my oniine *kids* just invited me to her
wedding.  She and her sisters had a really rough
time during the teen years and they are all doing
much better and will be at the wedding.  I don't

My jammin' class was Wednesday evening and we had a great time and
turned out 10 wunnerful jars of strawberry jam.  Six people -- that's a
lot in a hands-on class but it worked out and I got high marks in the
feedback.

Silly computer blew up again.  And it's brand new!!!  Third time in
the shop.  Bugger.  So I'm having to use google at the moment while I
set things back up - I hope this works.  I've lost my password for the
german server too. Things just get better and better!!

Today, for the first time ever in my life, I got homesick. It's a nasty
creepy feeling that all I want to do is move back home, this instant. I'm
pretty sure it is the pregancy hormones that do it, and a bit of added
friday end-of-workweek exhaustion.

Have you ever hit a rut where you're doing so much that you don't have time
for the important things, like babies and husbands?
That's us lately.
With my work schedule co-inciding with DH's, and then birthday parties,

I was on the edge of one of those school pick up conversations this
afternoon, where they were comparing how well their kids were doing at
reading. I stayed out of it.
One parent told the other that she had all the keywords (words they are

Still no baby! I'll make this quick. Just got back from the hospital where I
received antibiotics for GBS. My midwife will now come every 4 hours to
administer more antibiotics. She checked my cervix while there and no
dilation WTF??? But contractions are now definitely way more ...

Is this thing on?

~Kat

For those of you that are sick and tired of hearing me rant and rave about
the bad stuff, read no further.  OK, I had the pre-surgical jitters this
week.....I added stress (some would think unnecessary stress) to my already
stressful life and I guess I am now paying the price for ...

I have white and green sippy cup spout/teat thingys from avent that fit on
the magic cups and bottles from  when I had DD (she never used them) and
today DS had a go at one with water and actually sucked instead of chomping
.