Family Forum / Parenting / Mothers / March 2005

Stepped on the scale this morning and I've lost 5 pounds already

Nan

I went to the eye doc today.  Time to order new glasses.  He let me know
that my eyes are worse now than they were before.  But not to worry, that is
just because of aging  (OK, I think he was trying to make me feel better ...
somehow, that didn't work lol)

I am such a clutz.  Yesterday I was returning my mom's truck as I turned to
leave my foot caught a little lip in the newly poured cement I
fell......hard.  I skinned both of my hands,  my right elbow and upper arm,
landed square on my left knee and it's swollen and severly ...

Well..
Off work today - boys are busy - just sitting here chilling on my very
ownsome... :o)))))
How cool is that????

Going to the Zoo with the kids, grandkids and a friend of my
ds's.  Should be fun.  
I have no idea whether it will be crowded because kids are off
from school or totally deserted because all the Christians will

Joyce asked me to post about her surgery:
All went well.  Although we were advised the surgery would take about an
hour, it was more like 2, which made for some tense moments for her mother
and I in the waiting room.

Take your kids to a chocolate factory while on a diet.
'nuff said.
/hiding the wrapper

Home life has been too much for DW for quite some time. Looks like we found a
place and she will move there into that assisted living facility in April - if
all the paper work clears. There go another 400-500 a month out of the family
budget. Hope it will help her to improve. Hope ...

Parents and teachers should not put up with crap from bratty kids. A good
buttraping would straighten them out.

Barb here, reporting in from Tucson.
It's good to be me!  Rob and I met Anni, her sprout, and her husband
for lunch today.  What nice folks!  Interesting people.  Adorable
sprout.   We had a great visit with them and enjoyed some really good

How was your weekend away?what did you do/see?
Alissa

We are travelling at Easter - mostly in short bursts. The longest legs will
be about three hours but we have left plenty of leeway for stopovers,
especially for toddler toilet stops.
I am creating a goody bag and plan to wrap things up individually. So far I

I decided to make cheese chips.  Essentially they are little piles of
parmesan cheese placed on a non stick liner and then put on a cookie sheet.
They bake for about 12 min at 400F.
I went to pull the cookie sheet out of that 400F oven, somehow the hot pad