Family Forum / Parenting / Mothers / May 2005

Moms in the rat race
at http://www.washtimes.com/culture/20050510-120138-4180r.htm

I have a goal of getting us all in bed at a more reasonable time so that I
can try to make a schedule for us that makes sense for the entire week.
Mainly I would like to be up by 8 so that we are ready to go by 9 everyday
even if nothing is going on.  Currently Bonnie is not ...

Is two today:o) We have some moms and toddlers coming over to help us
celebrate. I've made a fruit tray, veggie tray, cheese, cracker and meat
tray, chips and a carrot cake. Friggin cost me $100 for the food!! Got to
think of something cheap next year. Although I think I made WAY ...

My cousin who is only in her mid 40's passed away today. She had leukemia
and caught pneumonia a few days ago and because her lungs were not good
(only stopped smoking a year ago) she passed away of complications from the
pneumonia :o( She was such a lovely woman, full of life and ...

When Older Brother buys bumper kits for his car and it comes in a
*huge* box lined with yards of bubblewrap!!!
So far it's been a boat rocking on the sea, a fort and a cave ;-)
Nan

Well I'm post op now and I want to thank you all for your well wishes and
healing vibes.  The surgery went well, the hole in my muscle wall was
smaller than first thought.  W00t. They were going to put a mesh over the
hole to stop future hernia's.  However, since the hole was ...

(as told to her pre-school teacher)
...has blue eyes
...is 50 inches tall
...weighs 60 pounds <G!>

Is it sunday night yet in the US...come one I'm waiting for episode 7,
I'm hooked on this show.
Alley

Well, someone finally did it:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5579589222&ssPageName=ADM
E:B:LC:US:1

DH is pretty sick
can we please please please have some more Mummy Vibes?
I don't want to go into it publically but he ended up at A & M twice
today and ended up being injected for pain relief.

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DS (4) decided this morning that he wanted to make mommy some breakfast -
ALL BY HIMSELF-. WIth that kind of emphasis lol.  So he made me toast (under
dh's supervision) and put PB&J on it.  I was ready to cry it was so sweet.
The best part of this was he did it all on his own.  DH ...

Hey Guys,
Happy Mother's Day to everyone here.  I got a little surprise this morning
for mother's day...........Charles was up at 6:00 this morning......6:00
AM!!  Mommy can't even sleep in on her day.  I stuck him in his playpen (we

It's Mother's Day today, at least in the U.S., Australia, Canada, and
New Zeeland.
So the trend seems to be if
A.) The country is mainly English speaking.

not trying to start a flame war or anything here... but
today I was listening to the green day cd when 'american idiot' came on..
which made me wonder how is the song taken in the US? is it liked/hated?
TIA