Family Forum / Parenting / Mothers / January 2006

there is absolutely nothing like an 80 pound dog & a 110 pound
dog deciding to duke out the dominance thing in a 4' x4'
entryway... unless it's using the dining room, i guess.
however, all is resolved & things are much calmer. all i need

Academic underachievers
First lady Laura Bush and a growing number of physicians, educators and
psychologists say Americans need to wake up and see that boys lag far
behind girls in school, and then demand that something be done.

I'm feeling bla ...  I'm not sick, but have NO motivation to get anything
done.
I'm wondering what others do to get themselves motivated?
Right now I'm waiting for the caffeine buzz to kick in.

Ive been watching (when i get the chance) the rescue of the whale in
London. Poor thing they had to deliberately beach it to put it onto
pontoons and then onto a barge. They were hoping to get it out into open
sea but its really poorly now so they dont know if it will make it. ...

We just had an estimate for our car trunk. (It was backed into by an elderly
gentleman) and they told us that they will have to replace the whole trunk!
They said that if it was lower then he could have bumped it out but since it
affects the top portion of our trunk we have to ...

At last a guy has taken the time to write this all down.
Finally, the guys' side of the story.  (I must admit, it's pretty
good.)
We always hear "the rules"  from the female side.

Hello all, I'm a newbie here and I noticed there was comment about the group
slowing down. So I thought I'd start a thread.
My coffee group started when my first son was born, is four years old this
month. The friends I've met there will be friends for life, we still meet

Here's a little online game to try your hand-eye coordination - or in
my case, hand-finger coordination (silly little laptop eraser!).
http://members.iinet.net.au/~pontipak/redsquare.html
It says 18 seconds is brilliant.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4631396.stm you can see live
pictures
I put the news on just now to see a 7 tonne bottle nosed whale swimming
in central London up the Thames. Poor thing must be lost. Its an amazing

I'm stressing really badly - snapping, right shoulder pain, left calf
pain, shoulder muscles hard as rocks (according to hubby and kids),
pain when touched, headaches, dizziness, nausea, fatigue, behind on my
required paperwork for the exchange program, etc.

Here's a little online game to try your hand-eye coordination - or in
my case, hand-finger coordination (silly little laptop eraser!).
http://members.iinet.net.au/~pontipak/redsquare.html
It says 18 seconds is brilliant.

It may just be happening!  It is extremely likely that we will be moving to
Idaho within the next 2 - 3 weeks!  We were talking and figured it would be
the perfect time.  We're due to get our refund the end of next week and DH
is going to sell DD his truck so we'll have almost ...

/peeks in
/looks around
/sigh
/closes door

An insufferable mummy post :)
Katherines riding instructor said that Katherine was ready to move into
a riding class on Sunday afternoons  - rather than the individual
lessons shes been having. Katherine was sooo excited that she was

She
<waves and says HI!>
She also said that she can see you all but can't reply... So If you need to
get a response :) let me know I'll I'll get it for ya!