Family Forum / Parenting / Mothers / April 2008

And a few days by now: I got married to DH. Don't ask how we managed to
get through, we've had our ups and downs. ATM we're considering marriage
counseling, since we seem to be one of the many couples unable to manage
a family, two jobs, a relationship, and the remnants of a once ...

I can't believe all the spam here these days. It's a chore to wade through
it all searching for the real posts!
How are you all doing?
Madeline (5 years in 2 weeks, where did the time go???) is starting French

The rain pelted the players and field with ice-pick precision.
October's mild wind swirled lighter drops of water about where
they'd land and disappear into the girls' blue jerseys. Drops
speckled my glasses and hung suspended from my baseball cap's

My friend Suzanne is a mother of 3.  She's a scientist (an astronomer
and mathematician, actually!  And she also builds web-pages!)  who,
with her FIRST BABY, realized some CHANGES were due in BREASTPUMP
TECHNOLOGY to make them more comfortable, useful, and less expensive!

at all the familiar faces. It's been years, for many reasons, but I'm
glad to see so many of you still around. I can't promise I'll be
visiting more frequently, work and family already require more than 24
hours per day.

I was discussing with my two sister-in-laws recently that my
two teenangsters attended the Taylor Swift/Rascal Flatts
concert. Neither daughter-unit went alone -- there were six
other girls and one shepherd -- and the venue was local.

That is when DD makes some money. She is quite in demand. Checking HW,
explaining things. Etc. Looks like there are quite a few kids with
money and parents who either do not have the time or capability to
assist with HW or who do a worse job then DD. So she charges 1-2 bucks

My OS is 6 and had a habit of chewing on his shirt collar or jacket zipper
or whatever.  It was a bit annoying as he ruined a couple of jacket zippers
that way but I didn't worry about it.  His newest habit seems to be playing
with himself.  At first I thought he was just ...

DD has a free period in school they can use - within limits - for
pretty much anything they want. choir an band practice in that period,
other kids do HW, Receive some tutoring, read books or go to the
library with attached computer lab to do some computing. Last year the

So dh has been complaining about his chest hurting for a while... it
didn't sound like cardiac symptoms so I wasn't alarmed, but I kept
nagging him to get it checked out.  Being the typical guy he just kept
going and going until he finally decided I was right and he stayed

It's hard to believe my youngest "baby" is 4 today!!!
We had cake and presents yesterday and she tells me, "I'm a Big Kid
now, but still the Baby"  ;-)
/sniffle

or why I am and will post more about DD then DS.
DS is Aspergers PDD NOS SID. IOW quite problematic and with that the
center of RL attention. Seems like people just enjoy hearing about
him. I call it the Jerry Springer effect. You know sitting there and

DD was pressured again by her L.A. teacher to change the answer to a
question for having an inapropriate opinion. The question was:
In your opinion can prejudice be eliminated and how can it be
eliminated.

First i want to say that DW is in what is considered "the best
hospital in the state" complete with university etc.
A few weeks ago when DW was still not waking up from the anastesia the
following happened: I come home to see that a resident from the

CNN has been doing an in depth story on Autism and Aspergers, well what
I want to know is this, the more I hear about Aspergers, the more
convinced my husband is an Aspie.  He also has seen the reports and
says it's like looking in the mirror.  He is not diagnosed but what I