Family Forum / Parenting / Mothers / September 2006

Up since 3 a.m.
Yuk.
Nan

Today, makes a week that my 12 year old son a friend in an accident.
It is hard when you know your son wants to cry but is ashamed to cry in
front of friends.  He has been crying at night in his room, and that
breaks my heart, because allthough I hug and comfort him he will cry

Where is everyone?  It's very quiet in here!  Today I got two assignments
done for school, two more to go, and got the kitchen cleaned.  What about
y'all?

Any suggestions to help ease the pain from a pair of EXTREMELY swollen
tonsils on a 5 year old? The ped. can't see him until tomorrow =( and
he is way miserable. Poor baby.
They are very swollen, with little white bumps. I can't see down his

Anyone practise voodoo? Could you stick a dozen or so pins in a doll
representing Open University? Pretty please?? :-(.
I don't even have the time to explain right now, their continued idiocy
has taken up way too much of my studying time today already... Exam

DS5 wants to be Mario (from Super Mario Bros) and DD3 will be a princess. I
don't have to do anything for her costume but his I think I am building his
from scratch. I am working fromt his pic i think
http://cheesebx.tripod.com/photoland/mario.JPG nothing much really. I may

Three years ago today my little man burst into the world.  Charles is
THREE!!!!!
Happy Birthday, My Sweet Little Man!
Mommy loves you very much.

So we got hubby to the dr and back, which was very painful for him.  He
could hardly walk.  essentially its pain pills, don't do much, cold to the
source of the pain, and don't do much.  been that way since his first back
injury in 1996.  sigh.  dr was really good though.  came in ...

Oh, I almost forgot!  When I took my Little Big Man to the doctor's the
other for the asthma diagnosis, they weighed him and measured
him....Pittsburgh Steelers here we come!      39 & 1/4 inches
tall------------44 & 1/2 pounds!  And, he's NOT fat.....he's solid and I

ugh, there are times I hate living here.  We have been in this city for 3
years and you would think that I wouldn't get lost so often.
Today I got lost 4 times.
I know that when I'm not feeling well I get lost more often ... But really,

Woohooo!!!  Got both new babies taking bottles!
Of course, it only took 2 days to get the little black Spanish buckling
to decide to take a bottle.  The little dorper-cross ewe lamb I picked
up at 8:30 this morning just figured out how the nipple works.  Only

I received  your snail mail.
Thank you :-)
Nan

yesterday Boo was arguing (a new pastime of his) with Tom over
something totally impossible. Tom was trying to explain just
*why* Boo's conjecture wasn't possible, when Boo said:
"well, in *my* es-perience..."

I have a friend over in Iraq. He works from midnight my time unitl noon my
time. We're constantly emailing back and forth little jibes and banters and
information.
I can't sleep tonight as I'm mulling over some problems and he's always a

I got a called from DS's kindergarten homeroom teacher (scared me when I
answered!!) She was calling because we finally finished a full week of
school and she wanted to touch base with the parents. She told me that DS is
just *delicious* and that she loves the way he talks (he ...