Discuss holiday items, ideas, and cheer!| Give it to Mikey!...He hates everything!! | | Remember the Quaker Life brand cereal commercial years ago? The 3 brothers are introduced to this new cereal. Instead of eating it themselves, they give to the littlest brother named Mikey. "Give it to Mikey!" They exclaim sarcastically. "He won't eat it. Mikey hates everything!" It ends with Mikey eating it and the other boys shouting "He likes it!"Did you ever have a time where you felt just crabby and plain old biitchy all the time?Tired of the stuff that surrounds you? Are you just plain old tired?Did you ever feel like just wrecking some body's day... JUST CUZ???Summer is a bad time for me. It is two full months of emptiness. I am a junkie and I don't get a good fix from June until September some time. And in the mean time I am CRANKY!!! So I am Mikey. I don't know what things anyone is dishing up, but I probably won't like it. | |
| | repeat this, and it comes out wrong? | | I just had a good laugh. The grand kid's were playing password. So I had to say something to walk through the hallway. So I said Albert is brainless. Then I laughed and walked through. So I told the littlest one repeat what I said, and she repeated it. She say's "Albert is pregnant" They let her through but it was just so darned funny. Have you ever heard something repeated that came out all wrong? | |
| | I have a question for other mothers out there. | | I have an eleven year old daughter who claims that I am 'yelling' every time I am not talking in a normal voice. but I'm not yelling as in raising my voice. I may be talking to her a little different because she has done somthing wrong or telling her something she doesn't want to hear but I don't yell. she is very sensitive about the littlest things and sometimes it drives me up the wall! I've tried everythng I know. do you have any other suggestions? | |
| | Riley learnied to play today | | I am so happy today as my littlest man"Riley"learned to play today!
I know that to most that this is not such a big deal- but in Rileys case it is:
When I recieved Riley over 18 months ago he was in bad shape. He was three weeks old and had suffered serious head trauma.My sister had rescued him from a monster who had decided to euthanise him and his mother with a hammer-still enrages me when I think about it.
By the time my sister knew what was going on Rileys mom was gone and Riley was alive but just. She couldn't afford the vet costs and I could. I couldn't resist his eyes or the love the little man gives unconditionally( he stole my breathe when I first held him in my arms)
Riley had suffered multiple skull compression fractures and the vet did not hold out much hope. Even if they could control the bleeding and swelling of his brain he would never be "normal":( what normal is I have no idea- nothing in life is normal LOL)
Any way Riley has had 3 surgeries and is motoring right along- he has strouble cornering and jumping. He has no depth perception and some of his earlier attempts at playing while funny where somewhat of a learning curve- for all of us!LOL
but today he... | |
| | Do you have a favorite child? | | I have two daughters and had pupils by the thousands. I liked many of my students, sort of admired them for their cunning and resourcefulness. Many are gifted academically, many still are blessed with that intelligence called common sense. Amongst my colleagues, almost all confessed to having a favorite. I don't have one though. I like each child the way he or she is. One child may give me a difficult time but that child is still the true person that he is to me. My daughter told me though that she tends to have a favorite child. She feels that she is more affectionate to one of her littlest cousins than the others. I was surprised of course. Have you a favorite child? | |
| | How do you deal with the ex? Where to draw the line..... | | My boyfriend has shared parenting with his childrens' mother. She is working and going to school full time and rarely spends time with the kids and they live with her. When I say that she rarely spends time with them, I mean, she gets them back from him on Sunday, then she sends them to school Monday morning and after school they go to a sitter. She doesn't see them again until Friday afternoon, where she rushes them back to dad for the weekend. I am so aggravated because there are more than enough reasons for me to bite someones head off.My latest problem is that the kids are 10 and 12 and when they come here they stink to high hell! The 12 year old (boy) has a dirt ring around his neck that we have tried relentlessly to get off of him. Personally, he grosses me out. He's a good kid but lazy. The 10 year old is whiny and tattles on the littlest of things and fights tooth and nail to take a shower. She is constantly talking about what goes on here and over dramatizing it to her mother, which in return, she calls and cusses my BF out. For example, I just bought my little one a new dress for her daddy/daughter dance for church. The 10 year old got mad because I spent $70 on it... | |
| | Not allowed to nap | | I haven't been getting a lot of sleep lately, which leaves me really tired during the day.Today I'd done quite a bit of my cleaning already, and much of my online "duties", and then couldn't find much else I could do (or had the energy to do). My littlest was still asleep, and my 3 year old was quietly watching a movie, so I thought I'd lie down for awhile. The house was quiet all morning, but the moment I lie down, everything seems to begin happening. My neighbor knocked on the door just as soon as I began dozing off. After that my son had to potty. I begin to doze off again after that and the phone rings. I give it one more try and finally the baby wakes up! I just couldn't catch a break.Has that ever happened to you? How often do you try to nap during the day? | |
| | What makes you happy? | | The things that make one happy is one way where his/her personality can be measured. But, not judged, because no one deserves to be judged...it can be the littlest of things: from the chirps of the robin, the smile on someone annonymous's face to being a tycoon. Show the world a part of yourself! Now, what makes you happy? | |
| | how many single moms............ | | Hey mom good morning to all. How many single moms that have been single for many years are wanting to date but feel as if that would be taking away from your kids?
As much asi want to date and try to, i find that at times i feel guilty at taking time away from my kids. Then i have all kinds of excuse not to date, such as im dont want to deal with a man, to have to share the littlest things, i have even want to be greedy about sharing my couch. lol. I know this sounds crazy, but i always seem to overthink everything, i think about the good things about a realtionship, but then creeps in the thoguht of having to share my time, answering to someone, ect. what is you ideals on this and is anyone else out there feeling the same? | |
| | How to get them in BED | | Ok, i have six children, as some of you may know, but I never had this problem before. My four oldest were easy. They would go to bed when told, and would fall asleep quick and easy. This is not so with my two littlest ones. They are 3 and 4 years old, and they are impossible. I swear bedtime is like a never ending struggle. I dread bedtime each and every night. I have tried everything I know of to get them to go to bed. I've read them stories, sung a lullabye, kisses and hugs before bedtime. Thats the normal routine. Its the routine I have with my older kids as well. So now Ive gotten to fussing, i realized I began yelling but once i did it and realized i wasdoing that I stopped. I dont want that added stress, and I dont want my kids afraid of me. Which brings me to my next fear. A friend of mine threatens to pull out the belt. Granted she says she just threatens with it and never uses it, but it still scares the heck out of me. i don't want to be that parent. I also have no support from my husband on this. He used to help with bedtime, but now that these two have become utter nightmares he goes off to the bedroom puts on his headphones and listens to music. But I won't... | |
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