Family Forum / Parenting / Mothers / June 2005

Got back from Le Mans 24 hours this morning. It was a great race,
fantastic to watch. It was brill to see Aston Martin there.
High points were at the beginning when the engines are started up one by
one until the air thrums with a symphony of car engines and then theyre

FYI, for those who have had messages not appear,
it seems the problem is that your ISP has run out of space on their
newsgroup area. So until they fix it, they can't record any new messages. I
don't know if it is just for a newsgroup, or a user, or all newsgroups and

There are a few good things about today!
First, it is the 12th birthday of my younger sister. She and I are very
close and I will probably get to take her shopping as part of her present
from my parents. Yay!!

When I do something that she doesn't like, she will breathe fire.
What can I do now?

Do you give your kids Kool Aid?  If you make it do you use 1 Cup of sugar
per packet?
I found "Kool Aid Invisible" it has no dyes ...  I'm thinking that this may
be a good choice for use but not w/ a cup of sugar in each 2 qts.

I had such a BLAST last night!
I've been a Judas Priest fan since I was a kid. I saw them once in maybe 88
or 89 but I had a migraine and thought my head was gonna explode!
Bell Jar: Where did DH see them recently? Why didn't he like the show so

An uplifting Happy Friday song  - it's been a while since we've had a
singalong..
And it was morning.
And I found myself mourning,

I'm finding that the more we look the more we find that the houses we really
love are all 50-70 thousand dollars beyond our budget :o(

We were just reading an email entitled "mysteries of life" which spurred a
bad bad bad pun from hubby.
Talking about Skydiving...  "if at first you don't suceed, die die again".
Caroline - who is looking into disowning hubby. :)

Me: I just want to straighten this room up then we're going out.
DS4: Why's it curved?

My happy Friday post is my great aunt here in the city has invited me to
come over anytime :)  So I think I will call her tongiht and go over  and
meet her for the very first time :)
Caroline

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Went in for another OB check this morning, and the babies are now growing
ahead of schedule by a full week! They measured 29w, and I am only 28w
along. Chances are that they will slow down their growth when space gets
more limited, but this is all a very good thing. I am feeling ...

Ilse, have you incidentally put a puma in your luggage when you flew
back home? :-))
I've just seen a news report about your people's newest hobby :-), but
I'm sorry, I was not able to find an English-language website covering

Got a call today from a middle school math teacher who will
be going on maternity leave in late September or early October
next year and wants me to do a long term two month leave for
her...  do you think I should tell her yes?