Family Forum / Parenting / Mothers / May 2007

Hi my name is Sandra and I am new to the group.
I am a mom of 3 wonderful kids. (I love them but they try my patience)
We live in New Jersey.
I am married, been together since we were 16.

I'm sitting in the auto shop waiting for my car - mechanical work.
The good news:  They've got a wireless network available for my use.  
Hoo-yah,
The bad news:  There's a woman sitting 20 feet from me talking on her

Alright, this is driving me absolutely bonkers.  I really don't know what to
do with this one, so I'm hoping someone has some ideas!
I'm x-posting (alt.mothers & misc.kids) - hope no one minds.
DS is now 6.  He seems to be a fairly fussy eater, and has been for some

DD sang her rendition of "Little Miss Muffet" to me in the car today:
"Little Miss Muffin
sat on a tuffin,
eating her turds away.

Katherine needs a new lunchbox for junior school. She doesnt need it til
 september but I had a bit of spare time today and found what I was
looking for on the net. I ordered it this morning.
5 hours later the doorbell rings -  its a chap with Ks new lunchbox!

ok, so you all are off having grand weekends [long weekend in the US,
anyway], but couldn't someone at least post something other than spam?
Please?
I'm afraid I"m going to start typing to myself, and you know how bad a sign

Happy anniversary Sarah and hubby!  I hope today is just marvelously
enjoyable for you both.  Do you have any particular plans?
Aula

I am so doing a happy dance.  Today there are a number of tag sales [aka
garage sales for you southern US folks, yard sales for some others....] in
town.  So, off I went, without the disinterested family members.  I took $20
with me, came home with $10 as well as two decent ...

Ok, I've posted about my sister and her son and I want to know how you would
handle the situation about lack of discipline etc.  I am not really close
with my sister as we disagree on most everything (especially parenting).  I
do not let Tadpole around her son without my ...

The video of one of my eye surgeries arrived in the post this morning. I
just watched it. errrrmmmm. it was a bit weird actually. not something
I'll be showing at parties I think........
Sarah (bit squicked out)

Following on from my 'that was odd post'..... Feeling thoroughly
nauseous now.
Before todays post arrived I decided it was high time (small pun there1)
I cleaned out our wheelie bin that takes our general rubbish. Our

http://www.rte.ie/news/elections2007/
I'm as happy as a pig in sh.t tonight, lol, sitting here watching the counts
on tv and eating a big bag of Doritos. It helps that the party I support are
on track for a 3rd term in Government.

since I started the Thursday threads.  Sorry, life, stress, and the end of
the school year have been in the way.
My current weight loss is 27.2 pounds.  I'm still doing weight watchers but
have changed from the flex plan to the core plan.  It's a good change for

Sometimes you just have to laugh!!
Finally dcided to have that haircut i'd promised myself before the ops.
Didnt go for having it coloured as its too expensive at the moment. But
I've been pretty low this week and decided this morning that letting

My computer died.  I think it is the hard drive as all my other parts
seem to work in the computer I am using right now.  This computer
isn't mine it is a friends but I don't have to give it back till we go
over, and that might be tomorrow after Jeff gets out of work.  After