Family Forum / Parenting / Mothers / November 2006

And loving it! I started the Weight Watchers diet 6 weeks ago and I am
down 16 pounds so far! My pants are falling off of me...literally. Must
go buy some cheap second hand clothes to tide me over until I reach my
goal weight. 16 down and 34 more to go! This is really so much ...

Ok to expand on OP about cell phones.  What experience do you have with
PPd cells?  We are debating which one to get but we need more coverage
than a cricket phone.

For my sister and BIL: a nice, posh, pleasure to write with pen each.
For my Dad and his wife: 2 bottles of homemade wine and a bottle of
homemade liqueur.
Please be honest!

I just thought I would poke my nose back into AM.  It's been a looong time
since I've posted here.  I notice that there are a lot of new people here
plus quite a few of our old regulars.  Thank goodness!  I've never been very
good talking to strangers :-)

my daughter is 2 years old,very very lovely.
I put her photo on Http://baby.aige.com ,ID:2
i hope my daughter very smart,very lovely for ever.

i'm trying to thin out some of Boo's older toys. lots of them
have gone to his cousins, but i have this HUGE collection of
Take Along Thomas... there's well over $500 in this with the
trains, extra track, playsets, etc. while it's nice to be

I am having a pampered chef party and am going to hire a babysitter to
watch the kids (not all mine).  What would be a good amount to pay.
All of the adults will be upstairs and the kids will be in the
basement.  I am expecting 6 kids between the ages of 18mo and 6.  there

Where is she.  Froggy... have you heard from her.  I know she's busy and
all I just want to make sure she's okay.
Also haven't heard from Kat and a few other's recently.  Just thinking
of all our MIA's from A.M.

We decided to pass out candy instead of taking the girls out.  We took
them to the mall last night so they got plenty of sugar there ;-)
We've had less than a dozen kids come to the house, but it was fun :-)
Nan, wondering what Barb's question for the teens was this year <G>

I'm so glad I wore an old coat and went outside to do this particular
job....
One of the things for the grotto is a minature chair/ski lift to go up
our Austrian mountain. Its all constructed now and I took it outside to

It was a blustery day today. I was out mowing the lawn and all of a
sudden the wind picked up and it was like the sky was raining leaves!
All the trees are shedding and leaves are turning big time to multi
color carpets.

I posted the Gingerbread man postcard exchange again if anyone would
like to send postcards.  Because I post the addresses of the schools,
I can't post that to usenet, but here's the letter about it.
Hi Everyone,

Bought some vitamins yesterday to try and boost me:
one was a capsule form of cod liver oil with multivitamins.
The other was chewable capsules of zinc + vitamin C
I started them this morning. Opened both containers, took one of each

I woke at about 6am to go to the toilet and just felt like something was
different or was going to happen.
I was going to stay up and make the most of the hour I knew I would have
before the rest of the household woke up,

30 lbs
34 inches
Healthy but dr is a bit concerned that he does not complain when his ear
looks like it did today.. red and fluidy.. He was put on an antibiotic with