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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, August 17, 2007 - 7:25 am
Yay Vee! Sometimes you just have to say NO! With the kids back in school and my nephew not being here this week, it's been rather easy to maintain the house. Worse problems have been the kids leaving their breakfast dishes on the table in the rush out the door and Darren's fishing stuff sitting in the corner. I did start nervous cleaning last night, lol, and that will probably continue for a few days. I didn't even realize I was doing it til about 11pm when I caught myself taking stuff off the kids desk so I could wipe it down. The baby shower for my sister is tomorrow afternoon, she had an ob appt yesterday and the doctor said she is crossing her fingers sis makes it to the baby shower before going into labor. She's dialated to 1cm (not much yet and that can last weeks) but she's also having regular, full blown contractions. They'd done an ultrasound Monday and estimated teh baby's size to be around 4.5 pounds and said the baby looks really good, so if she goes into labor, they will not stop it even though she's only 34 weeks. It eases a lot of worry, but of course I found myself staring at the phone all night waiting for it to ring, lol. Since my older two nieces will be staying with me for several days at least I've got some preparing to do, lol. I realized when talking to sis last night that if they came over I'd be scrambling around trying to figure out what to feed them, so I need to do a little grocery sopping. I need to get Dakota's room ready (it's actually stayed clean for quite a while) but I do need to make room for three girls sleeping on the floor which is going to require moving some furniture and her barbie doll house. And make arrangements with either little adopted sis or our friend to take oldest niece to school and pick her up. We're thinking the girls will stay with me for a week, while sis is in the hospital and a few days after since bil won't be able to take time off work (he's in construction and has been on/off work for a couple months now so they can't really afford him to miss work if there is work.) And yup, I'm just a bit excited!
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Friday, August 17, 2007 - 8:20 am
War, I've got my fingers crossed along with prayers that all goes well with your sister's labor and the birth of her new baby. Put my dh to honeydo work this morning removing the threshhold of the back door to replace the carpet nails that seem to have worked their way out of their strongholds. It isn't a big job, but will keep him occupied for a few minutes anyway. A few days ago he took my car to the garage for a fine tune and new tires since I've managed to finally put over 100 thousand miles on her. They kept her for three days, so she better be in top notch condition! Vee, I completely understand about the garage. The 27 boogie was quick and easy!
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Friday, August 17, 2007 - 5:54 pm
Got back from New Orleans Wed around 11am. No sleep the night before, a terrible sprained ankle, and my new best friend vicodin and not much happened Wed or Thursday. Today I forced myself to mow the whole lawn in an hour and a half. Yeah I know Vee I'm not supposed to force myself but I have to take Benadryl before mowing and once I stop I don't start again. Hubby had hearings Thur and today so I wanted to get the yard done so he wouldn't have to do it. Then I did 6 loads of laundry, scrubbed both bathrooms [while we were gone I set the ac for 80 during the day and 82 at night and I guess it got too humid - beginnings of mold in the toilets], made some potato bread dough and put it in the fridge, made some noodles, cut them, and froze them uncooked for supper tomorrow night or Sunday. I spent the rest of the afternoon watching TV and snuggling with the kitties. I really need to dust but there's always tomorrow.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, August 17, 2007 - 9:42 pm
Thanks ya'll! Sis isn't feeling so great tonight and says she thinks if she goes for a walk, she might go into active labor, however she is still trying to wait til the shower (which is Sunday, not tomorrow.good thing she told me, I'd have showed up tomorrow morning, lol!) I think this will either happen very quickly within the next couple days or drag out for weeks, no in between. To keep this on topic, LOL, me, my sis and my neighbor for years have passed baby stuff back and forth. Sis and my neighbor especially since their kids are close to the same ages, but far enough to share. Tonight my neighbor showed up bearing gifts..a bassinet, a bouncy swing, a baby carrier thingie, and a high chair she had left over from when her daughter was born a couple years ago. All of this stuff is now sitting right by my front door...sigh. She's also got a couple bags of clothes but was washing them before she brought them over. Ack Serate, i hope your ankle feels better quickly!
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Y2krazy
Member
09-17-2002
| Saturday, August 18, 2007 - 8:00 am
Hi everybody, yes I'm on vacation. We're in Sauble Beach. This is the middle of our vacation now. We're having a great time. I've cleaned up the trailer this morning too. That took all of six minutes....wish the house was as easy... Have a great time Skootz! I'm at the library in Sauble..$2.00 for one hour of internet.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Saturday, August 18, 2007 - 12:48 pm
Serate, you need to rest your ankle!! I am very excited. My "handyman" is here!!! I think I forgot to take before pictures of the bath, darn it, but I now have a beautiful new medicine cabinet and light fixture. This condo is really weird. The medicine cabinet is centered over the sink, but I guess when they were built they didn't center the light box over the sink, so the new fixture isn't quite centered. I love it anyway. Next up is the finishing baseboard in the bedroom closet and hall closet. Oh and he is also fixing the shower so that the faucet doesn't leak in the off position and dribble water when it is in the shower position. I am trying to do a few office chores to stay out of his way and then will have to put away stuff and clean the bathroom when he is done. The kitties don't like it much because they hid from people. But they came out got some water, ate some food and did some potty while he has been at lunch. I really like my bathroom now!!
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Saturday, August 18, 2007 - 1:14 pm
Well I thought I had did ok in wrapping the ankle extremely tight but it's all swollen again. Doesn't hurt as bad so I'm not meeting up with my friend V but hubby says if it's not better by tonight V and I will hook up. I've never taken Vicodin before, and when I did take it it scared me. Afterwards. At the time I was a happy little camper, life of the party. For 14 freaking hours. I'd think it was wearing off then I'd stand up and whoosh. I can see how people get hooked on it. Hubby scooped the litter boxes for me today. Told him not to worry about anything else. Wargod how's your sis?
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Saturday, August 18, 2007 - 1:52 pm
Serate, please sit down and keep your ankle up. Wrapping it is also good. I know how painful that can be, but the ankle will improve if you help the swelling stay down by resting it. My sis sprained her ankle just before my bil passed away and had to deal with it all through the visitation and services. Strangely, a pair of heels with a good arch also helped when she had to walk! Dipo, I am green with envy, but also excited for you with your improved bathroom. War, it is so wonderful that you have a loving network of family and friends. You are blessed. Keeping your sis in my prayers. Hi Vee, Lumbele, Serenity, Skootz, Vacanick and everyone else stopping in! I'm just about to end a jammie day, since I have to get dressed to go to the store.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Saturday, August 18, 2007 - 2:34 pm
Dipo, how exciting! I can't wait to see pics of your new bathroom! Hey Serate, this sounds like the perfect (or not cuz you're in pain) time to kick your feet up and catch up on some tv or watch some movies or read! I'm sorry to hear that it's swollen again. Sis is hanging in, though not very comfortably. Talked to her this morning and she told me she'd been up all night, just couldn't sleep and couldn't sit still for more than a few minutes. Said she started cleaning about 4am, dusted furniture, ran the duster around the top of stuff and corners, door frames, wiped out the fridge, and rearranged a cabinet to make room for baby stuff. When I talked to her at 10:30, she was still at it...was actually sitting on the kitchen floor with a sponge, cleaning the floor. I admit I had to giggle at her...me and little "adopted" sis have been going out all week cleaning and getting ready for the shower, so she's basically cleaning a clean house, lol. I went into a full blown panic the other day after her appt. mainly because I realized I had no food in the house and the girls would be staying with us for several days. So I took the kids and we went grocery shopping earlier. I bought a lot of frozen breakfast foods, canned lunch foods, and snacks that will last for a while. I got home and called over and told bil that they could have the baby now, I was ready for the girls to come over, lol. He said you might be ready just in time. Sis laid down about an hour ago with her lower back hurting (she was asleep when I called) and he said she was feeling just terrible. He told her when she laid down that if she wasn't feeling any better when she wakes up, they will be going to the hospital whether she wants to or not. Like me, he thinks she'll either have the baby in the next couple days or this will drag out for several weeks with her having contractions and feeling lousy.
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Serate
Member
08-21-2001
| Saturday, August 18, 2007 - 10:50 pm
Just coming in to check on the baby news. BTW I'm feeling no pain, just very very loopy. *L*
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Saturday, August 18, 2007 - 11:40 pm
Serate, loopy can be fun, lol. No baby news yet, we're all holding our breath though, because a couple times today it seemed like they were going to have to head to the hospital. Laying down for a while helped. I'm starting to think sheer determination on her part not to have this baby til after tomorrow is the only thing stopping it! I'm working on the baby album now. I'm going to have to finish it at her house tomorrow though. I realized a few minutes ago that the little decoration stuff I have to put on the front of it is sitting in a bag with the diaper cake at her house that I dropped off earlier this week. By the time I'm done with it,I may decide it doesn't need anymore on it, but we'll see.
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Sunday, August 19, 2007 - 6:42 am
All the best to your sister, War! Serate, an old yet extremely effective treatment for swollen ankles is "quark", in some areas known also as "baker's cheese", I think. Smear a generous layer on a rag, place on swelling and wrap. Repeat often. (Apparently it also works great for gout when caught at the first signs, according to my cousin. I'll have to remember that next time dh winces.) Dipo, how's that new bathroom doing? Any pix yet? Didn't do diddly yesterday, except picked up our glasses. Allowed myself to be talked into progressive lenses again and still not liking them. It feels like vertigo all over. But I promised to give it more time this round. Then we stopped by the farmers market and the grocery store. Ah well, tomorrow is another week!!! Yep, Scarlett O'Hara and I are on the same wavelength again.LOL BTW, a couple of weeks ago, we picked up 12 lbs of beans for freezing. One stall was offering these purple aubergine beans as well as off-white ones with aubergine marbeling. Curiosity got the better of me, so I took a pound each home and blanched them. Well, didn't those aubergine ones turn green and the marbled ones yellow! Has anyone ever had some? Vee, have your folks returned from camp yet or are you still on Nan duty? Or just sleeping in this morning?
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Sunday, August 19, 2007 - 11:57 am
War, that sounds like your little sis was in her "nesting" stage just before the birthing stage. Did anyone try overfeeding her yet? I took my daughter walking through the mall and fed her every inconceivable thing - Godiva chocolate, Chinese food, ice cream and drove her over the railroad tracks. She had the baby the next day. Serate, hope that ankle has been up lolling around on a footstool or something. Dipo, we all love pics. Lumbele, I haven't tried the beans. We stopped and got real sweet corn from an Amish farm in northern Indiana before we trekked south. So yummy. I missed the farmer's market on Friday afternoon. They only have it open for two hours. Oh I think those lens would make me dizzy, too. Vee, hope you got a date night this weekend.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, August 19, 2007 - 2:49 pm
LOL Gracie, she has promised she won't do anything to hurry up labor til the baby shower is over. (shhh....don't tell, but I snuck home to grab my camera!) Everyone who's come so far has commented on the fact that she doesn't look like she's feeling well, that she's pale, and maybe she should sit down and rest for a bit. Anyways, I better get back over there before they think I ran away. LOL, not a small possibility with my family!
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Sunday, August 19, 2007 - 6:10 pm
Sounds like a very exciting time in your family, Wargod! Your sis will be in my thoughts. Serate, I'm sorry to read that you are suffering with a swollen ankle. Don't overdo it! The grass can be cut next week with a scythe if need be. To heck with the neighbors. Let them enjoy a field or offer to help out. Dipo, I see that others have requested pics, too. So glad that your bathroom turned out just the way that you had hoped and it goes without saying that I'd love to see it. Ha! Lum, parents called today requesting more time. I, feeling magnanimous, have granted that wish. They won't be home for another two weeks. It could all be endured so much more easily if mother had not given up her slowwww DSL (yes, it was the cheaper DSL so it really was slow) for dial-up again. Ackkkkkkkk! It tries my patience so that I have to be truly desperate (as I am now) to come to the CH except for first thing in the morning when I am on my own computer. Urgrace, a date night for moi? Silly girl!! Well, unless a date with my grandmother counts. We went to the balloon festival Friday evening and watched one measly balloon launch. Too windy. Hi Skootz, Serenity, Y2krazy, Vacanick, Hermi, and anyone else who might be peeking in. Catch you all in the morning with a new mission. Can't wait! 
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Monday, August 20, 2007 - 2:44 am
*August 20–24* *Monday's Mission Have a great Monday, everyone!
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Monday, August 20, 2007 - 4:17 am
Magnanimous indeed, Vee! I bet your folks are very relieved to be able to extend their vacation and not have to worry about Nana. You should have blackmailed them into a DSL upgrade, though.LOL Now today's mission is one that I just might actually participate in. Our dressers aren't bad, but still a bit too cluttered for me. With these new lenses, I am not sure I am going to see clearly enough, though. LOL Man, I hate having to get used to them again. Anyone got any tips?
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Monday, August 20, 2007 - 8:20 am
Ugh. My dh loves to clutter the top of one of the dressers with so much piddly junk, I got one of those swiffer dusters to go around the stuff with, but truthfully all that junk needs to be moved and the top dusted properly. Maybe I'll make him do it. This morning I asked him to get a hammer and knock the pegs back down in on a few of the door hinges around the house, to which he grumbled at me saying that job was not necessary. pfffttt Guess I'll end up doing that.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Monday, August 20, 2007 - 12:19 pm
I will try to take some pictures when I get home tonight, I do need some advice. Talk to you all soon!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Monday, August 20, 2007 - 11:58 pm
I'm almost positive at times that Flylady is sneaking into my house. How the heck does she know I need to clean off my nightstands???? The top of my dresser is hopeless. We need more closet space and more dresser space, so I have stacks of folded clothes sitting on top of the dresser. I didn't do anything today except fold one basket of laundry. I went shopping with my sister to find a dresser/changing table for the baby earlier, came home and then laid down with a bad headache. I finally woke up at 6 freaking out. Hadn't done nothing around the house and worse hadn't cooked dinner for my aunt. I called my sister while I was standing in the kitchen staring at some ground beef and wondering what I could do with it quickly. Luckily for me, sis had called earlier, knew I had a headache and cooked aunts dinner and had already dropped it off. Sigh...i pretty much blew off all the housework this weekend with the baby shower, so tomorrow I'll be busy cleaning here and then at my aunt's. My nephew still isn't coming and with the kids in school, it's pretty easy to get it all done. I hope. Sis is feeling absolutely 100% wonderful. She had some contractions today and the baby was kicking like heck but sis is full of energy. I told her this morning I was so used to her beign pale, I'd forgotten how dark she really is when she's feeling good! As of right now, they are ready for the baby to come...shower is over, they have the furniture set up in their room, the baby's clothes, blankets, and bedding are washed and put away and she's armed with diapers, wipes, bottles and formula. Now watch her not come for another month, lol!
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Tuesday, August 21, 2007 - 2:33 am
*Tuesday's Mission* Wargod, even that burst of energy that sis is enjoying sounds mighty suspect. I'm thinking baby will be arriving soon. If anyone would like to see what Wargod's been up to of late, check out her folder for some really cute pics. Dipo, don't worry. We can be patient. Kind of. A little bit. Ha! Hi, Lum! Hi, Urgrace! Happy fluttering all!
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Skootz
Member
07-23-2003
| Tuesday, August 21, 2007 - 8:42 am
Night stands....hmmmm...well have to see if I get to them today. Getting ready for ~RG~ to come here (3 more sleeps) so have been doing a really good cleaning. Kids are going to my moms tomorrow, so from Wednesday night to Friday,what ever I clean I hope it will stay clean, as the only one to mess it up is dh and I. I am working today, so have strict orders for the kids to do their bedrooms...we will see how that turns out when I get home. Have a great day all....oh and War...like Vee said, this burst of energy is very familar - even though I have had 2 out of 3 premies...I still had the burst of energy (bedrest or not)
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Tuesday, August 21, 2007 - 10:31 am
Skootz, give RG a hug for me! And LOL about the kids and their bedrooms! Last week I made the mistake of picking up the kids rooms (they weren't bad, few toys out, made the beds, grabbed laundry) and somehow they think now I'm going to do it all the time. Darren told them last night when he gets home today he expects their rooms to be clean, they have maybe 10 minutes of work to do. So far today I've cleaned the kitchen and living room and done three loads of laundry. Not really rushing around though. I need to sweep/mop the den floor, vacuum the hallway and wipe down the bathroom and I'll be happy. Oh, and clean off the night stands, lol! I don't really remember the burst of energy. With Caleb, my feet swelled up so big and bad the day I went on maternity leave I spent as much time as possible staying off my feet with them propped up by drs orders. WWith Dakota I could have had it, but I don't remember it like that. I started maternity leave two weeks before she was born and we had purposely put off getting ready for her til I was off work. If i felt the burst of energy or nesting phase, it was hidden by sheer panic that we'd procrastinated for 37 weeks and nothing was done to be ready for a new baby, lol!! I did talk to her for a long time this morning. She's been cleaning and resting in stages. Said she's having contractions, somewhere every 15-20 minutes and then they stop for awhile. Despite what her dr told her, she's not running to the hospital until she thinks it'll be time to stay. She does have another appt tomorrow morning.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Tuesday, August 21, 2007 - 11:03 am
I tried to do the picture thing, I took the pictures but I can't get them off my camera. I have a friend coming to lunch this week so will ask her to bring her camera and try to do it again!!
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Wednesday, August 22, 2007 - 3:16 am
*Wednesday's Mission* Awwww, Dipo, you're a sweetheart to try to accommodate the sheer nosiness of some people around here. Hope that your friend is a good teacher and can show you just how to go about uploading your pics. Good luck! Wargod, I think it's sweet that your sis is flying even now. All my best wishes to her at this exciting time. Skootz, I am so happy that you and RG are going to have some time together. I can't imagine the excitement you must be feeling in anticipation. Hugs for you both! Nothing exciting going on with me. I am still nan sitting and we spend our days following a pleasant routine of regular meal times, chore times, games and tv programs. She seems to do well with that and enjoys knowing what's going to happen today. Ever in teacher mode, I can tell her! It just so happens to be trash day today so we're going to take a lovely drive to the top of the hill and drop it off at the transfer station. Yay! Beautiful crisp, clean autumnal days we're enjoying these days. Hope that you all are having terrific weather, too. Happy fluttering all!
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