Family Forum / Parenting / Mothers / June 2007

A month or so a go we had a letter from the school fundraising committee
   asking for ideas for the school carnival entry - the theme this year
is celebrations round the world. So I duly wrote my idea down (obvious
one of a chinese dragon). I got a bit carried away and drew ...

DD3 (well, turns 4 this week) did a stunt involving the couch and coffee
table and gashed her chin open. She's so lucky - if it was her head or neck
it woulda been a disaster.
3 hours in the ER,  a chin load of stitches and you would think she was just

His name is Gus and we rescued him from a shelter.  He's a good 'ole boy who
loves our attention.  Although he's still getting used to Tadpole.  Gus
didn't even pay our cats any attention!  It was so funny, Kit, who's our 7
month old kitten arched her back and hissed.  I think ...

puberty is nigh upon our household.  I am beginning to detect it daily.  So,
which comes first:  underarm hair or increased sweat and a related odor?
-Aula

Stroking my badcat just now and I felt a hard lump on her back  so I
pulled it out thinking it was a claw from a fight or something. Turned
out to be a small flat black creature with legs that ran across the
sofa. I'm wondering if it might be a tick that hadn't embedded itself

also posted on mkfl....
I am wondering what, if any real science is behind the behavior described
below.
Have you noticed how many people will turn on bathroom fans or open bathroom

http://www.11alive.com/life/article_life.aspx?storyid=98604
It's a small miracle that a little 3-year-old girl is even alive after
a perilous ride.
The Hall County toddler somehow climbed on top of her dad's camper on

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070614/us_nm/rc2_recall_dc
Thu Jun 14, 10:28 AM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 1 million of the popular "Thomas & Friends"
wooden railway toys made in China are being voluntarily recalled because

Lingerie is a term for women's fashion underwear. It derives from the
French word 'lin' for linen. While the term in the French language
applies to all underwears for either sex, in English it is applied
only to those women's underwears designed to be visually appealing or

Ok, not quite done with grumpy here.....
I'm also grumpy that I have to submit an internal, web-based ticket
requesting the answer to a question on how to reconfigure outlook after the
techies go through to install the latest version of office rather than just

So.... last week I was in the area of town where my parents are
buried.  I had some time on my hands while waiting for E to finish her
art class so I decided to go to the cemetery to check on the head
stones.

lol.. Not to insult you!
What would be a normal serving for you.  Say tonight you are having
Boneless skinless chicken thighs, Mashed spuds, Corn on the cob(3 inch)
and stove top stuffing.  What would you take of each?

Build-A-Bear Workshop has a 'summer reading program', where the
child reads 5 books by July 31st & they get a BABW 'reader's
pack' gift, with 6 bookplates, a bookmark, a $3 BABW certificate
& a Border's certificate.

just a grumpy vent.
in no particular order
irate customers who won't stop complaining long enough to hear the answer to
their issue.

For some reason my computer is not getting this one out, so starting new
thread....
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