Family Forum / Parenting / Mothers / October 2007

i registered the farm as an official wildlife habitat with the
National Wildlife Federation. yes, it costs money (it's a
fundraiser as well as an awareness raiser), but you do have to
meet certain requirements. it's open to anyone with a bit of

Got a job for some persistent soul with more time than I've got, at least
today.  During today's ride home we got talking about the old rhyme:
Engine Engine number 9
Going down the Chicago line

Very basic.  How do *you* prepare them?  I use thin sliced cutlets - wash
and pat dry. I dip cutlets in an egg mixture (eggs, black pepper, plenty of
fresh chopped parsley and grated romano cheese) and then in bread crumbs
(seasoned, preferably fresh from local italian shop - but ...

They asked me to make them pudding tonight.  It's not something that we have
very often.  I found a box of Jello Chocolate Cook and Serve Pudding in the
back of the pantry and went for it.
Well, I got distracted and the pudding didn't blend well.  It had little

so, it's been dry here & the dug well was getting low, so i
switched over to the drilled well. the drilled well has
sulpher, rust & iron bacteria so it goes through a filter
system. wasn't getting water pressure, so changed all the

Having just spent the last 2 hours on the phone w/ Verizon, I'm
finally online /knock wood.  But if I disappear, that is why!
Nan

My 4  year old was bitten by a mosquito yesterday.  She always experiences
quite a bit of swelling when she ends up w/ a bug bite.  The problem is, the
bite is on her eye lid :(
She looks like she has gone a few rounds w/ a prize fighter.  She can still

So I found out today from best friends mum.
Apparently he wanted to see their lunchboxes.
We had got them laptop lunches lunchboxes and you don't really get them
here. K said he said they were 'very very impressive' lol!! (I assume he

So, the boy has noticed what we older folks had noticed a little while ago -
the hair above his lip is darkening.  Its not particularly noticeable but he
is already worried that he will have a moustache.  See, he doesn't want one.
We have already discussed that shaving at this  ...

My BF George's daughter G auditioned to play a part in the Nutcracker
ballet when they perform in their city.  Well, she got the part!!!  How
impressive is it that she is performing with the Moscow Ballet Co.?
I've known her since birth and she is like my daughter and I'm super

whatcha gonna get me for our anniversary???
you were complaining about some guy videotaping people coming to his house
last halloween for trick or treat, and thats when we first started our
exchange of pleasantries on this newsgroup.

What a week that was. After Katherines guinea pig died on saturday the
whole week took on an air of a black comedy:
Sunday: Computer died. Went to Christening came back and spent evening
trying to fix pc.

/waves frantically at all
I'm here - what a miracle!!! On a new pc after old one died. Computer
repair shop managed to recover the data on my hard drive. Astonishingly
(with some bad language) we finally managed to get passwords off it and

so, if you were designing your perfect house, what things do
you think are indespensible?
so far, mine would be:
1) a mud room, with tile floors, a floor drain, a walk in pet

I was wondering if some dishwasher detergents are more corrosive than
others. We have a 6 year old automatic dishwasher whose trays are
badly corroded. The tines are breaking off into powdery rust. My
friend whose dishwasher is almost 15 year old. The trays are just