Family Forum / Parenting / Mothers / October 2006

hi - so busy lately!! been unhappy with DS's bus from our district, they
won't provide a matron for these poor 5 year old's because they aren't
"special ed" Argh. What would you call kindergarteners that are working on a
3rd grade level (and i don't think these kids are ...

I will be a bit absent this coming week, as my MIL is coming in from
England!  I am so excited, I'm surprising DH with her arrival!  This is a
late Welcome to the U.S. gift from me and his mum.  Y'all have a great week!

OK, today, I'm working on a newspaper ad for new members for our
chicken CSA.  Doing some brainstorming here, and would like some help.
Need to let folks know our chickens are local, farm-raised, free-range,
and of limited availability.  What else would be important for you to

So it seems nobody celebrates Halloween anymore.
E's teacher is having a party, but is calling it a Fall Harvest party.
Boooring!  Although I'm happy to help her with it :-)
Come to think of it, nobody out here does Trick or Treating anymore,

Dgd got homework today - a questionaire to fill out with questions
about her family and a few other things.  The last question was
on the order of who are you.  I didn't get the exact wording.  At any
rate, my dgd said:

My 4 yo dd wants to be a spider. A princess spider of course. Pink
spider legs, tiara, sparkles, etc etc. LOL. She should get points for
creativity if nothing else! Course, I have to figure out how to create
pink spider legs...and I'm not crafty....

An issue arose this evening with DS 12 (nearly 13)
A few weeks ago he dl'd and installed a game that DH has been playing for
several years.   Its an online based game like capture the flag where you go
on to some servers and play with other people.   OK, not my thing but was

Hello just wanted to introduce my self .....my name is teresa....I have
two sons...
Danny is 7 and  Dylon is 8.  I hope this is a good group so that I can
make "adult" friends instead of just having my children as

Hi group,
Been looking for some support with my "out of the box" lifestyle and I
hope I've found it here.
I just got back on line since my 4yr old was born. Was not up on

My dd (age 6) got a gift from the Discovery store.  It was a habitat for
a tadpole.  Obviously at that point the tadpole didn't come with it.
I'm wondering... well I've got quite a few questions for some of you
whom I just *know* have had experiences with Tadpoles.

Hi group,
Been looking for some support with my "out of the box" lifestyle and I
hope I've found it here.
I just got back on line since my 4yr old was born. Was not up on

Please note the x-no-archive, please.  Snippage is good.
Chewy just called me.  He's in a pretty good mood because...
The up-levels where he's worked for the past 2.5 years have been

When can babies start having squash such as Orange, black current sqaush,
Joanna is almost 9 months old, can she start having some older kiddies
drinks????
April

Some of you know the story with Joanna from seeing what has been said on the
pregnancy forum, thats all I'm going to say there but went to see my darling
daughter today and she's not so happy at the moment. She's got 3 more teeth
cutting through at the moment making her a little ...

Not sure if I'll get much time to post later. Off on our trip to the
states tomorrow morning. Thanks for all your support this week.  Have a
good couple of weeks all.
/waves vigorously