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Gidget

Saturday, November 29, 2003 - 08:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Right now I am watching Tarzan wondering when he is going to grow up into Christopher Lambert... wondering if indeed he does grow up into CL

Weinermr

Saturday, November 29, 2003 - 08:19 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
If he grows up and turns into Jock Mahoney, you can go back to scrubbing the porcelain.

Gidget

Saturday, November 29, 2003 - 08:32 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
rofl I am a little disappointed in his legs... kinda skinny but with eyes like that I can get past it

Tabbyking

Sunday, November 30, 2003 - 08:44 am EditMoveDeleteIP
right now, company is all gone and i have to get on the treadmill before doing the old round-trip to return ds to college. it's a very nice drive, pretty scenic and all, but my legs hurt so bad from sitting in one position for 7 hours. plus, after i had my DVT last year, i have to be very careful about getting another one. i will take an extra asprin, too, before i set out.
i hope everyone had a wonderful time with food, friends and family. i am thankful for all of you!

Reader234

Sunday, November 30, 2003 - 09:47 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Right NOw, I'm contemplating on surviving another teenager.

Right Now DS is packed and waiting for DH to get back from scouts so we can drive him back to school (only 6 hours, but with the CHicago Sunday traffic, we expect the car ride to last well over 10hours!)

DS, 15, and I had a huge blowup, tears, no screaming, I held his hand and told him how proud I am of him, how I feel its my job as a parent to be involved in his life. He told me "NO, just stay away, I want to be with my friends." I know he's not hiding anything (we talked at lenghth and this came up) he's just, different. I give of my time, and I feel I need to be there, chaperoning a trip or two... (one year the coach bus turned over killing a chaperone, it was very tramatic!) one year I chaperoned a trip and this ds had a fever of 104 (on the trip - I was able to stop at a Walgreens and medicate him, till we made it home! it was walking pnemonia) Chaperoning is what I do. I dont embarrass him, I'm not in his "group" (or even on his bus!). The blowout was because I want him to come to a Chicago Christmas Shopping Trip with the Church's Youth group, 5 guys, maybe 2 girls. (Its a cool outdoor/heated tents market, all German flavor items, wooden, blown glass, steins, etc, etc...) He could've brought a friend. It was awful. Today the trip was cancelled. Maybe we are both very much a like, and very stubborn.

Tabbyking

Sunday, November 30, 2003 - 05:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
right now, just back from taking my son to school. 7 hours door to door and back to door.....we went 80 most of the way there and 45 most of the way back:)

there is one place where you have to turn left from one highway onto another and oncoming traffic does not have to stop...i learned last week to go past the turn, and make a right a quarter mile up at a horse ranch. then make a u-turn and come back at the junction from the way with traffic that doesn't have to stop LOL ...when we came back there tonight, the turn lane was backed up more than 3 MILES!!! it was maybe 1/4 mile or so this morning when i went past it.

my leg hurts, but i survived the trip. i get to do it all again in less than 2 weeks for christmas.

reader, your 15-year-old sounds like my 18-year-old. he thinks he doesn't need anybody, doesn't want me involved...but guess what? he really does and he counts on me for so much.
right now, it's the 'i don't want the black bug' fiasco. what kid does not want a free car?! well, he is upset because his sister got a car at an earlier age than he did (he wouldn't even go get his permit til he was 16.5 and could have cared less about driving). plus, daughter has an 'early' birthday, dec 4, so will be 16 as a sophomore. anyway, to 'teach us all a lesson' (and save us 1,600 in insurance costs!) he is now saying he doesn't want the car. we told him to let us know by christmas when he comes home. if he doesn't want it, we will sell one of our vehicles.
my guess? he'll take it!

Midlifer

Monday, December 01, 2003 - 07:37 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Tabby, Reader, I'm with you guys. Reader, I also said that I didn't know who was going to survive my youngest daughter's teenage years, she or I. It turns out that she got progressively better (she and I were extremely close when she was a child, then she distanced herself in middle school...very normal behavior). Anyway, by the time she was a high school senior, she was beginning to realize that I wasn't so stupid. Now, she's a college junior, and we just had the BEST time over Thanksgiving. Hang in there! It WILL get better!

Mamie316

Monday, December 01, 2003 - 07:42 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I've been very blessed because my daughter and I have always been close. We never had the usual teenage rebellion. My son doesn't share as much as she does but I've been lucky with him too. But I was the teenager rebelling when I was young. Once I got older, my relationship with my mom changed. But I went through just wanting my space and wanting her to leave me alone.

Tagurit

Monday, December 01, 2003 - 09:29 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Right now I am feeling sick. My muscles ache, my head hurts, my eyes hurt and my ears are clogged. I want to just crawl back into bed. I think my 4.5 y/o would have a problem with that though. Think I am a bad mom if I let him watch videos all day??? This is so typical too as dh just left yesterday and won't be back until Sunday.

Midlifer

Monday, December 01, 2003 - 09:39 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Tag, put those videos in the VCR and give yourself a BREAK! This comes from a mom with experience.

Tagurit

Monday, December 01, 2003 - 09:44 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Right now, I am definitely agreeing with you Midlifer. I just made him his lunch and it wore me out! I am just dreading my ds getting this. Usually he and I are very good about sharing sick germs.

Mamie316

Monday, December 01, 2003 - 09:55 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Tag, let him watch and don't be so hard on yourself. You are sick! You have this one day that you let him watch the videos and you take care of yourself. Why are we so hard on ourselves as moms if even when we are sick, we feel we need to take care of everyone else? I hope for your sake that he doesn't get it!

Grannie

Monday, December 01, 2003 - 10:10 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Has anyone received a huge increase in their medical insurance costs?

Mine was outrageous.

Do you know how to compare the benefits/costs? Is it online?

Thanks.

Bobbie_552001

Monday, December 01, 2003 - 10:28 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Right now...I've been thinking about Queenfish all morning. Has anyone heard from her??

Tabbyking

Monday, December 01, 2003 - 11:05 am EditMoveDeleteIP
right now, poor tag.
when i had morning sickness for 8 months straight, my husband got the flu or food poisoning for 2 days. we had no one to watch our son, who was about 22 months old at the time.
we gave him the remote and a box of life cereal. he would watch a little tv, eat some cereal, run in and check on us and start over. when it was dark, he got into his jammies and came to say goodnight to us and went to bed. poor little guy! we literally had no one to take care of him and we were both totally sick.
haven't seen hide nor hair of queenfish.

Lostintheglades

Monday, December 01, 2003 - 11:40 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Right now I'm remembering when my girls were 4 and 2 and I would have one of my 2 day headaches. I would do exactly what Tabby did and it's funny because at those times they were always so good and it was just so darn cute the way they'd come and check on me.

Texannie

Monday, December 01, 2003 - 02:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Right now, I am so excited! The mixer that Eliz87 gave to me FREE just arrived!! What an incredibly kind thing do for a complete stranger! I can not wait to start using it. I have dreamed of having a stand up mixer for years!!!!!

Hippyt

Monday, December 01, 2003 - 02:31 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Wow,that's cool!

Texannie

Monday, December 01, 2003 - 02:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Isn't it!!

Reader234

Monday, December 01, 2003 - 03:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
WTG< What a wonderful gift Eliz, I am totally excited for you Texannie, want me to share my first and favorite recipe I use in the KitchenAide mixer????

Texannie

Monday, December 01, 2003 - 03:48 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yes!!! Please!!!!!

Reader234

Monday, December 01, 2003 - 03:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Right now, I posted the recipe in the Gen Disc thread for recipes!! :)

Yeast Roll Recipe

caution, these are addicting, I've been known to start the things at 4:00, and have them on the table by 6!! (they dont rise quite so much, but like I said, they are addicting!!)

Not1worry

Monday, December 01, 2003 - 05:15 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Right now I've got the suitcases unpacked, I just have all the odds and ends to put away. We got home today fighting horrible lunchtime traffic. Why does the military give all 10,000 soldiers lunch at the same exact time so everyone is trying to get in the gates at 1 p.m. I should have just pulled over for 15 minutes and waited. The sun was blasting me the whole trip and my left arm is sunburned. Such a cranky trip, but at least the kids had their new tv/dvd for the van to watch.

Reader, have you ever read "Bringing Up Boys"? Your issues with your son made me think of it. Something about how teenage boys have to figuratively "kill" their mothers. It sounds terrible, I know. But they realize they need to become men and women stand in the way of that. Mom is the #1 woman, so she has to be cast off for them to become a man. I'm not explaining it very well, but it made sense to me when I read it.

I've been doing the low carbs for almost 2 weeks now and I ran into someone today who said I looked like I lost weight! YAY! I have lost some, but I'm not sure how much. I've decided I am going to stay strict with it till DH gets home, which could be 6 weeks to 3 months. Then I'll switch to a low glycemic diet.

I've got so many posts to catch up on!

Tabbyking

Monday, December 01, 2003 - 05:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
oh, not, right now, i am so happy that people are wondering if you've lost weight!!
i put on a pound or two over thanksgiving, so back to the grind again! stuffing was my downfall:)
tonight, it's stir-fry with chicken and veggies.

Not1worry

Monday, December 01, 2003 - 07:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Right now I can't believe they voted Sarah to the Gauntlet again and I can't believe I care that much about it.

Thanks Tabby, I took Thanksgiving off! There was no way to eat turkey without cranberry sauce, and forget about pumpkin pie. I didn't eat any carby leftovers though! My mom was so impressed with me.