~~~~May 2004 Mamas ~~~~ Feelin' Thankful it's November ~~~~ - Page 3

[mcsarahb]

Lisa, did you go last year? I'm vaguely remembering something about something about something like that...

[elsanne]

Originally Posted by emmalola

ha!

10 dpo. triphasic chart.

Translation, please. Does this mean, "I may be pregnant"?

I'm here, kk, just wasn't very here earlier.

Jacqueline, I really liked hearing your POV as well. I am glad you are in a place where you feel like you can be yourself. And glad you are able to not participate when need be. I know if I met a person who was a priest's wife I might get all funny at first, thinking I should be more spiritual or something. So I'm glad I knew you as a PERSON first, not as society's label for you!


Jstar! You missed your opportunity to have Uzbeki babies!!! What is WRONG with you!!! And I would love to see you shake your groove thang. When I was first preg with Amara and didn't know it I went to that bellydance conference in puerto vallarta, the one with all the booze included, and I drank about 3 drinks per day. Baaaaaad.

[Miss Juice]

Oh I should so be in bed.

Originally Posted by elsanne

*grunt*

just checkin in for the day.

*snort*

What, 'cha just wakin' up?

Originally Posted by TurboClaudia

belated welcome Miss Juice! (i'm the other unofficial may mama, as our older son decided to wait until 8 days after his due date to be born.)

Thanks much. I must say y'all are very friendly. My other DDC is July 2006, which has only existed for a year. I get a little territorial when someone new comes in *now* and says "can I join you?" so I was hoping you'd be more tolerant than I

Originally Posted by mcsarahb

Ok, so far for the gift circle I have moi, Heather, Jacqueline, Fiddle, Elsanne, Lisa, Claudia, KK, emmalola, Nugget, Renae, and Jess. Is that everyone who wants in? Sorry if I missed anybody - let me know.

I am definitely opting out of the swap because I don't feel I know anyone well enough yet to participate well. Also I barely have time to attend to personal hygeine, much less participate in extracurricular activities. Look for me in the next one, though!

Originally Posted by emmalola

ha!

checking in as well. 10 dpo. triphasic chart. kind of excited. can't think of anything else. Oh, except the house inspection, which went pretty well. We need a new hot water heater and service on the furnace, but other than that the house is good. what a relief.

Miss Juice- I'm in Santa Fe. Born and raised here, until high school when my parents divorced.

Ug- vax reactions. ug.

babydust! here! ! and to all the other mamas who want some. we can share.

Ooooh, LOVE Santa Fe. Never lived there (funny because I have lived in so many places in NM), but have many friends there. Good luck with the move - where are you going? Elsewhere in SF?

You can have ALL of my babydust.

I found recently that when you type too quickly it comes out :guh
and I say :guh to vax reactions. Just :guh (and )

Originally Posted by jstar

i was born in the south. hence the love of fried foods.

I wasn't born in the south, but I lived in Atlanta for 4 years and I definitely developed a love of fried foods. And a tendency to say "y'all" which for me is truly a term of endearment.

OK bedtime.

[mamameg]

Juice, I just gave you a shout out on the Survivor thread. Yo!

You guys were prolific today! I was barely home and I still have to read all the posts.

Very tired today. I was up with Jett from 3:30-5:00 am last night. For no good reason. At least if he was crying or somethin I woulda felt sorry for him, but no, he was perfectly happy, just awake. I think maybe he's caught on that MTV only shows actual VIDEOS during the wee hours of the morn. Kids these days, I tell ya!

Despite my tiredness (and extreme crankiness : ), and against my better judgement, I ventured to Target (what a scene that was - and I Love how my child acts like a crazed lunatic for me, but waves and smiles happily at every passer by) and then to playgroup which was help in a jumpy house extravaganza type place about 20 min from home. And then, because I am complete glutton for punishment, we went to In'n'Out for lunch (mmmmm.... burgers - quiet thyselves, vegan nuns!) where Mia acted like a complete FOOL. She was in rare form all day (what is WITH her these days - pressing every button and pushing ever boundary imaginable) but the lunch scene was the worst. I ended up throwing her fries in a bag and leaving in a "if you can't act right we are going home" frenzy. Then in the car she proceeded to have a HUGE fit about how the fries were arranged in the bag. "OH NO.... THEY SPILLED!!!!!!!!!!!" Oy. Calgon, take me away.

So that's my day, in a nutshell. :

I should also tell you all, you're quite the churchy bunch. And you've inspired me. I've been eyeing a couple of UU churches in my area (both are abut 20 min from my house tho) and I decided to try one out. DH even said he would come! We both independently have been thinking our spiritual centers are a little off center. I'm excited to explore my spirituality without the confines of The Church (I was raised Catholic). I also like tha DH and I can go to one church (he is Jewish) and take the kids and have it be something we all do together. Not sure if it will be this weekend, but we are going to go soon and I'm really looking forward to it. Thanks for being such an inpsiration to me, oh churchy may mamas. :

On that note, I'm off to go watch The Ten Commandments with Dh and Sultan. Just a little light Friday night movie action.

[elsanne]

*grunt, snort*

Now I AM just waking up. Have to go return kitten to where I found him/her even though I love her and want to hold her and keep her forever n ever because Viet put his foot down about bacterias, toddler eyeballs being scratched out, etc...had a mega hissy fit about it. Grrrr.

[A&L+1]

Oh Els, keep the cat and return the man to where you found him. Grrr.

[KKmama]

:

[nuggetsmom]

I have nothing else to say. How weird.

[elsanne]

Lisa, that was a GREAT answer.

[Jacqueline]

I like Lisa's answer too!

Just waking up myself this morning, after a night of not-so-good sleep. Here's a suggestion for all of you: do not watch "Hotel Rwanda" before going to bed. That was a bad idea. But, a very good movie. Extremely hard to watch in parts. Since I became a mama, I can't stand to see any movies where kids get hurt and/or separated from their parents. It was amazing to know that all went on just 12 years ago! I even tried to watch something mindless afterwards just to clear my head before going to bed, but it didn't work. Lots of dreams with Rwandans in them. I guess it should stick with me.

Meg, glad we've all "inspired" you to try finding a spiritual home near you. If dh weren't an Episcopal priest, I think I'd really enjoy going to a UU, while there are also some aspects of Judaism that attract me, too. But, we do love all the tradition and ceremony in the Epis. church. For me, it's important to be part of some spiritual community, and that's why we picked what we did, warts and all.

Speaking of which, gotta get ready for church. Then, I hope I can get ina nap this afternoon.

[KKmama]

Ooh, Jacquie, maybe I didn't share that I did what you describe a couple of weeks ago. Watched HR, went to bed, cried, didn't sleep.

[Miss Juice]

I don't think I could watch that movie. I have a really hard time with people being cruel to each other. It amazes and saddens me the lengths that humans will go to to hurt each other

OK, on a WAAAYY lighter note, I am really interested in getting to know you all. So, can you tell me a few things about yourselves?

1.) What CD(s) is (are) in your stereo RIGHT NOW?
2.) What is the last non-kid movie you watched?
3.) How many kids do you have and what are their ages?

I'll go -
1.) We have a 5-disc changer. DH loaded it most recently:
John Mayer (Heavier Things), Barenaked Ladies (Stunt), Vertical Horizon (Everything You Want), Shawn Colvin (These Four Walls) and U2 (How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb).
2.) The Big Lebowski, thank you Elsanne. I really liked it. Weird, but good. The Dude reminds me a lot of my dad (really). I always like Julianne Moore, and I like her more now.
3.) I have three. My first daughter will be 5 in January. My second daughter is two, and my son is three months.

[Miss Juice]

OMG I killed it. Ignore me, and carry on.

[Jacqueline]

KK-I vaguely recall your movie-watching experience...but I'm still glad I saw it.

Hey Miss Juice-
We do seem to be a little slow today! But, I get the daily digest, so most days, I try to just read once a day. Otherwise, we must be a busy May Mamas this weekend!

Here are my responses:
1. We don't have a CD player, per se. We have iTunes on our Mac and every single one of our CDs has been imported. We do a lot of random play...but I think we recently listened to all our Beatles stuff, Frank Sinatra, and I don't know what else. We have a pretty eclectic collection.

2. Last non-kid movie--Well, since I told you how well *that* went, let me mention we did see "The Departed" a couple weeks ago on an actual DATE!

3. Gabriel is 2 1/2 and is our one and only right now.

That's me!

[jstar]

ben harper (both sides of the gun), built to spill (you in reverse), muse, & modest mouse (good news for people who love bad news). in my car it is the thermals (the body, the blood, the machine) which i'm addicted to right now.

the last movie was just like heaven on on demand. the last movie i rented and watched was matchpoint which was crazy. i honestly can't remember the last time i went to the movie theater. it has probably been a year.

(els i realized we have the big lebowski dvd here so i need to watch it.)

i have isaac, a sassy 2.5 year old :


i haven't seen hotel rwanda yet.

i just ate waaaaaaaaaaay too many enchiladas : soooo full.

we've been having sleep crazies here. i think halloween was a little too scary. some of the kids that came by had insanely creepy masks and we've had lots of middle of the night crying and saying he is scared he slept with dh friday night. i also put him down for nap yesterday and he didn't go to sleep and was fake crying in between talking for over half an hour. i finally went in and he was diaperless and told me his pee pee hurt and he peed in the bed : lovely. the dipe stayed on today and he actually napped after talking in his room for an hour. he napped long enough for me to sew him a new blanket for daycare (the pee pee hurting is diaper rash and these days he asks for diaper cream).

[nuggetsmom]

Originally Posted by Miss Juice

1.) What CD(s) is (are) in your stereo RIGHT NOW?
2.) What is the last non-kid movie you watched?
3.) How many kids do you have and what are their ages?

1. We have a loaded up ipod that we play and most recently we were playing Shawn Colvin then NWA. My car CD is Priscilla Herdman and Joan Baez. Truth be told though, I am really into listening to podcasts these days. Cast-on, The creative mom podcast, Lime and Violet, Wiggly Wigglers, and Barack Obama are some of my favorites.
2. The 40 year old virgin
3 two kids, DD1 is 5, DD2 is well, a may 04 baby so she is 2 and some. She is barely a may babe. Came early on the 31st because she knew...

:Paint

[mamameg]

I'm cracking up at the thought of nugget listening to NWA. Maybe it's because I've you in person, but that is the LAST music I would ever expect you even own, much-less listen to. I love it!

1) Killing Joke, Zero 7, Bob Marley & The Wailers, Best of Toddler Tunes. That said, I most often listen to itunes through the stereo speakers and my most often listened to thing is etherbeat.com, which describes itself as funk "jazz hiphop world reggae deepbeats".

2) I don't even know what movie... lemme think. Ummm.... V for Vendetta, maybe? It was okay. I was lost through most of it, only paying half attention.

3) 3 kiddos. Step-son Sultan, age 14. Daughter Mia, age 2.5. Son Jett, age 6 months. :

And don't worry about killing the thread. It only means you are officially fitting in with us. We take turns as threadkilla! Looks like today was your day!

Mia is sleeping in her BIG GIRL BED for the first time tonight. It was pretty funny... we were finishing dinner and she came out to tell us quite sternly, "Be Quiet. You're making too much noise for me to sleep!" So now the crib is free for little Jett-o. I side-cared it onto our bed, so we'll see how that goes. He is just getting so big and DH and I (neither of whom are small people) only have a queen bed, so sleep has been pretty crappy lately. J wakes up whenever I touch him, so I'm thinking (hoping) he will sleep a little better with some space.

I'm wiped. To the couch with me.

[fiddlefern]

1) CD: Just checked- Sing Along Songs and Lullabies, by my friend Carrie. L is obsessed with it. I seldom get to listen to adult music anymore except in the car, where I usually listen to the classical station because L is into it. Most recent adult CD I think was Fela i ura- Folkemisikk fra Bjerkreim (Norwegian). Most recent tape was Michelle Shocked, which L loved because it has violins and banjos.

2) I can't remember, but I think it was Little Miss Sunshine a coupla months ago. LOVED it.

3) 1 2/3 kids- L age 2 1/2, and W age -1/3. That's my former math teacher sassiness comin out.

Sending out to Meg and Emilie again.

[Mama Faery]

Man, the whole new computer thing is kinda fun, but also kind of a b*tch when you have to put all the stuff you had on your OLD computer onto your NEW one. : I have been reminding DH daily that he is a dork.
Anyway, I'm here, just a little frazzled and confuzzed by the new 'puter, but all is well...well, as well as can be expected when Rowan has a bad cold and now I am getting it too. We're sick, we're staying home and vegging out and even though it kills me not to do ANYTHING all day, it will be good to get some rest. He's been watching WAY too much PBS lately but I m not going to feel guilty about it so there.

Anyway, I'm here, trying to keep up, trying not to get totally ill, but feelin' good about life anyway. I baked 300 cookies for the homeless last week and that's done now (deadline was Sunday--my UU church makes lunches for the homeless shelter nearby once a month) and I am going to PA with my MIL and a bunch of female relatives for an annual shopping trip--we leave Friday morning!
I keep meaning to ask you where you live, Heather! Maybe I can stop by and say hello! That would so totally rule...I have to check to see where exactly we're going too though.
DH and Rowan will have a "boy's weekend" and I am afeared. I'm sure they'll be great. But this weekend Rowan's been testing, testing, testing, partly because he's sick, partly because he's two and that's what they do now. Whoo boy.

Speaking of...gotta go, Rowan is asking for my attention. *sigh* Sick babies. No fun.

Much love to you all. I will respond more later!

[emmalola]

.) What CD(s) is (are) in your stereo RIGHT NOW?
2.) What is the last non-kid movie you watched?
3.) How many kids do you have and what are their ages?

We haven't unpacked our CD player, so it's all via ipod these days. Mostly I listen to audiobooks, or This American Life podcasts. But we have been listening to a lot of John Vanderslice at bedtime.

Last non-kid movie... hmmm. I think it would have been Gros Point Blank, which is in my Dad's movie collection and I watched it while sewing the lentil's halloween costume. In a theater? Little Miss Sunshine, which we saw in October, a mere 2 months after it came out.

We have the lentil, who is 2 and 5 months. And Biscuit, who is a canine kid, less than a year old.

Mamas- think sticky babydust for me. I'm testing Wednesday and am trying not to be too optimistic. My temps look good though...