Family Forum / Parenting / Mothers / May 2006

Two weeks in the Florida sun, and I come home to temperatures I would  
normally be out in shorts in, but find myself wearing a coat. Brrr. :)
A few points I learned in the USA:
Merkins are friendly, and often more polite than people in the UK, if  

..... and I'm wondering - hypothetically of course, after seeing that
Montenegro has voted for independence from Serbia, can dh and I declare
independence from England? Make our teeny tiny plot of land a seperate
country? I realise it might be a bit annoying to have to produce ...

Having some major anxiety and depression this evening, so I'm
combatting it with focusing on our rescues.  Here's the info on our
newest one.
Yesterday evening, I got a call about a new rescue.  She's a little

there is a red paper poppy taped to my filing cabinet at work.  I got it
some time ago from someone who wanted to share their memory of W.W.II with
me.  so here I sit, early this memorial day morning,  remembering, even
though the poppy is only visible in my mind's eye.

...who thinks that the name Geri Halliwell (formerly know as Ginger
Spice) chose for her daughter is totally ridiculous?
Bluebell???
Bluebell Halliwell...

was looking at stuff on Ebay... and found this
MOOOO!!!!!!!
poor cow.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8069389179

I am about to have a baby. I was wondering if anyone has ever tried the
nipple guards while breastfeeding. My daughter was breastfed for a few
weeks but I had to quit because of medical reasons. At first with her,
she blistered my nipples and I didn't want to continue. I was told ...

If you had one week to do the try the impossible and boost a childs
immune system in a week how would you go about it?
Katherines been going through one minor illness after another at the
moment poor kid. We are going for a weeks break to paris in a week and I

The neighbors that is.. I was all bundled up in bed with my favorite
blanky.. I was thinking of the dumbest non important things I could, my
brain was just heading towards dreamland and then
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRR Some idiot peeled out in the driveway.. my

Well, my sis and me mum are now speaking again.  After a year of them both
being STUBBORN, they both gave in and start speaking.... WOOHOO.

Well we just had a bit of a scary evening, we had tornado's all around us,
my mom lives about 15 min away from me, her neighbor's barn is no longer....
And here the tornado siren's were screaming, so we all sat in the basement,
all 6 of us for about 2 hours, i HATE storms to begin ...

I always stop to stroke cats when I can. On our street there is a little
black cat that I stroke on the way to get K from school. He always seems
pleased to see me :)
Yesterday I thought he was cute that when I walked away he wrapped his

woke up at 6am by a big crashing sound. thought it was K falling out of
bed. Fortunately it wasnt but bathroom blind falling down knocking pot
pourri everywhere.
Then lots of minor incidents like papercuts etc. look at Ks throat

Well it took all day but mom is home and fine.  They didn't find any
blockages and her previous stints are fine.  She was almost 3 hours late
going in though.  We found out they had a major accident and had
emergency surgery that backed up the OR.  Also somewhere along the line