July 2006 Mamas & Babes - Nov thread - Page 52

[ksjhwkr]

Originally Posted by elsanne

I would just like to let Beth know that the secret password for our club is:


penis.

Don't tell anyone I told you.

And the secret handshake is, well, hard to describe but imagine the secret password and you might get an idea.

: : : : : : : : :

Oh my gosh, you all are cracking me up!!!

Welcome Beth!

Pav, so sorry about the house. I hope something better comes soon (VERY SOON) for you guys.

Retreat?? Oh man, I'll go anywhere, count me in!

[ksjhwkr]

Originally Posted by PancakeGoddess

so mamas. what's your favorite winter/holiday/solstice/xmas music? I just discovered the james taylor xmas and it's nice.

Ooh, I LOVE James Taylor!!!!

I like anything that isn't poppy. For example, the radio station here plays Christmas music and I don't like most of it! I love Kenny G Christmas and Harry Connick Jr. (he is so yummy). I have one CD that I got from Target a few years ago with some Sarah McLaughlin on it, ooh, I love that.

[Miss Juice]

Coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee
How do you live without this stuff, Tanya??

Originally Posted by soapdiva

This one is a little embarrassing...but I LOVE Kenny and Dolly's Christmas CD. We used to have the record when we were kids so it just brings back fun memories of decorating the tree. I torture dh with it!!

My other favorite though is Jimmy Buffett...I love listen to "Ho Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rum...Santa's run off to the Car-i-be-yon" (to sorta rhyme with rum)

That's not embarassing. I have a Tony Bennet Christmas album I love. Not that there's anything wrong with Tony Bennet, but it's just not an album I thought I'd own if you know what I mean.

The Barenaked Ladies have a great holiday album. BNL.
And I didn't know Jimmy Buffett had a Christmas album - now I know what to get my mom! She's a major Buffett fan. Though you should have seen the look on her face when I told her the guy in Margaritaville was looking for a "shaker of salt" not a "jigger of songs".

Originally Posted by elsanne

Okay, so let's find the midpoint of all these places! And shoot, if it's an island out in the Pacific, so be it.

I'm surprised ~pi hasn't already triangulated it
And soapdiva could make us a spreadsheet using all the data points
I love you guys.

Originally Posted by ~pi

We're planning to attend Midnight Mass.

Literally or figuratively?

Recovering from a scary low blood sugar this morning. (Same level for which DH called the paramedics around this time last year. This time I was more or less conscious so he spoon-fed me honey.) He took the morning off because I couldn't move my legs for a while and therefore was not a great person to be caring for DS. Bleh.

I'm glad you're feeling better. That sounds really rough, and scary.

Originally Posted by writermommy

Me too. I'm still up working. Logan has been really rough this week. He's tired but not napping well. This means I don't get much done during the day and need to work at night to make it up. Now, tell me to get off MDC and get my butt back to work! Fifteen more minutes and then I have to get to bed. The girls are up early for school.

Ethan is on a nap strike as well. Ugh, it makes things hard. I swear I need another 6 hours in each day just to catch up. But I still get up half an hour early, so I can sit here in my living room, which is lit by the Christmas tree, and drink my coffee and check in with all of you. It's a good way to start the day :

And now, back to the real world.

[~pi]

Originally Posted by Miss Juice

Literally or figuratively?

Well, both. Although when I wrote that paragraph, I was referring to the figurative sense.

[Sandrine]

Good morning!!!

Can i brag?? DD1 slept thru the night in her own bed!!!! And dd2 slept until about 4am before she came and join me in my bedroom.

Can i vent now?? dd3 didn't have a good night sleep. She was the one waking up every few hrs for either her soother or for nursing. I nurse her 2x before 6am and usually it's only once. DOn't know what' her problem last night.

Oh well, it's part of life, being waking up by your children no matter what age they are.

[PancakeGoddess]

Originally Posted by Sandrine

Can he come and teach the girls that they don't have to be afraid of the vacuum??? The girls are afraid of it,

Last year, R was 1.5 and wanted to always help with the vacuum, so we bought him a little dirt devil. This year, he's afraid. What can I say... I'm relieved. I can run it around him but he has to be up on the couch for safety. Just where we like him.

Originally Posted by ~pi

Sort of along the same topic, I am feeling like it's been way too long since I cracked the good book.

: I thought you said "a good book" and I was all set to make some recommendations,but, uh, I'll leave that to you. I know nothing about the julyddc version of the good book, if my cranky spouse is any indication.

Originally Posted by writermommy

Me too. I'm still up working. Logan has been really rough this week. He's tired but not napping well.

K is taking mostly reaaallly short naps and wakes up unrested and high-maintenance until his next nap, repeat repeat. :

Also, someone please help me with ideas- he is just like my 2nd baby: absolutely cannot nurse when we're out of the house. he is SO distracted, but will be fussy and fidgety because he's hungry/tired. He naps too frequently to start staying home for "naptime," so what to do? I'm not actually going to do it, but I find myself wishing I could give him solids so he could get a belly full when we're out. I guess I could try breastmilk in a sippy or something.

Originally Posted by Miss Juice

Coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee
How do you live without this stuff, Tanya??

That's not embarassing. I have a Tony Bennet Christmas album I love. Not that there's anything wrong with Tony Bennet, but it's just not an album I thought I'd own if you know what I mean.

my

Also, my embarrassing admission: I love Barbra Streisand

Thanks everyone for the music recommendations - great ideas!

[MsGrizzle]

Originally Posted by Miss Juice

Coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee
How do you live without this stuff, Tanya??

The Barenaked Ladies have a great holiday album. BNL.
And I didn't know Jimmy Buffett had a Christmas album - now I know what to get my mom! She's a major Buffett fan. Though you should have seen the look on her face when I told her the guy in Margaritaville was looking for a "shaker of salt" not a "jigger of songs".

I'm surprised ~pi hasn't already triangulated it
And soapdiva could make us a spreadsheet using all the data points
I love you guys.
.

I forgot about the BNL album - have that one too - very good!

LOL about your Mom's lyrics! My mom is a huge parrothead as well...

Another not napping well here either...He did well for a while, now not good at all. And you already know the night stuff. Last night dh took him (after he was up an hour trying to play) to the recliner and he promptly slept 3 straight hours with dh!! This tells me that either he is waking so frequently because he smells me or that my movement when sleeping is waking him up??? I'm making dh set up the sidecar crib this weekend. I don't want to give up co-sleeping and I don't mind nursing a few times during the night...but every 45 min to 1 hour just ain't cutting it...I thought we were seeing some improvements with the no-cry stuff by I don't think so anymore. I'm seriously considering emailing her and seeing if she has ideas...I could type a mile-long post of what we've been doing the last 4 weeks but I don't want to make you all fall asleep at the keyboard...

Sandrine - glad dd1 and dd2 had such good nights! opefully you'll get a better night with dd3 tonight!

[elsanne]

Originally Posted by Miss Juice

Coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee

The Barenaked Ladies have a great holiday album. BNL.

I told her the guy in Margaritaville was looking for a "shaker of salt" not a "jigger of songs".

I'm surprised ~pi hasn't already triangulated it
And soapdiva could make us a spreadsheet using all the data points
I love you guys.


drink my coffee and check in with all of you. It's a good way to start the day :

And now, back to the real world.

about jigger of songs, and triangulation, and spreadsheets (spread what?). I too looove to start the day with coffee and mdc.

I would really love a copy of BNL's holiday music! I really BNL.

[fenwickmama]

you ladies crack me up!!!

embarrassing admission: my holiday fav is actually the carpenters it just brings back memories of riding from christmas eve mass to holiday dinner and seeing all the lights along the way. ah memories! love BNL too, haven't heard their xmas album.

kimya-woohoo!

retreat: i'm in -tanya, arkansas-ha!

and i also

midnight mass and the good book-i sometimes can't tell who's being literal either but i at pi cuz that time i definitely thought you were being literal... i hear ya amy!

pi-that's very scary-so glad dh was there!

welcome beth! it's a crazy, supportive group-jump right in!

ok, crying babe-kel

ps real quick , i also read first thing in the am and then again whenever i have a chance to pop in-these are the best mornings-when you guys have been really chatty and there's 2 whole pages to catch up with-i can never reply to everyone but it's so fun to see all the action in the group and hear from everyone.

[Miss Juice]

Originally Posted by elsanne

I would really love a copy of BNL's holiday music! I really BNL.

I'll slip one in your holiday package

[TanyaS]

Originally Posted by Miss Juice

Coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee
How do you live without this stuff, Tanya??

I'm not sure. I think it's a subconscious effort to be the opposite of my mom. She's a coffee fanatic.

Originally Posted by Sandrine

Oh well, it's part of life, being waking up by your children no matter what age they are.

So true. And even when you get a night where they all are sleeping through then it's bound to attract a thunderstorm so you get them all in your bed.

Originally Posted by PancakeGoddess

Also, someone please help me with ideas- he is just like my 2nd baby: absolutely cannot nurse when we're out of the house. he is SO distracted, but will be fussy and fidgety because he's hungry/tired. He naps too frequently to start staying home for "naptime," so what to do? I'm not actually going to do it, but I find myself wishing I could give him solids so he could get a belly full when we're out. I guess I could try breastmilk in a sippy or something.

The sippy cup might work. At least he won't be hungry. You might try tanking him up in the car before you go inside. This only works if you are not like me. I only have enough time to get somewhere on time, and that's not a guarantee either.

[ksjhwkr]

: I figured out how to do the multiple quote thing!!!! Sometimes I am amazed by myself

Originally Posted by elsanne

I would really love a copy of BNL's holiday music! I really BNL.

: I think I'll have to tell my mil that would be a good stocking stuffer for me!

Originally Posted by Sandrine

Can i vent now?? dd3 didn't have a good night sleep. She was the one waking up every few hrs for either her soother or for nursing. I nurse her 2x before 6am and usually it's only once. DOn't know what' her problem last night.

Oh well, it's part of life, being waking up by your children no matter what age they are.

Isn't that the truth?? My ds will sleep sometimes, but he is usually up a few times a night. dd doesn't like to go to sleep before midnight *yawn* and ds is up around 3. This morning he needed his diaper changed, then wanted "milkers". He hasn't nursed in the middle of the night in over a year. I pray this isn't going to be an all the time thing.

Originally Posted by PancakeGoddess

: I thought you said "a good book" and I was all set to make some recommendations,but, uh, I'll leave that to you. I know nothing about the julyddc version of the good book, if my cranky spouse is any indication.


Also, my embarrassing admission: I love Barbra Streisand

Your spouse and mine can talk about it to eachother. Mine is just SO neglected. I have such a hard time going from Mommy all day to being not only a wife, but a woman. It is so hard! literally :

Oh, and I love Babs too. My Dad has a crush on her, so I grew up listening to her

Originally Posted by fenwickmama

you ladies crack me up!!!

embarrassing admission: my holiday fav is actually the carpenters it just brings back memories of riding from christmas eve mass to holiday dinner and seeing all the lights along the way. ah memories! love BNL too, haven't heard their xmas album.

ps real quick , i also read first thing in the am and then again whenever i have a chance to pop in-these are the best mornings-when you guys have been really chatty and there's 2 whole pages to catch up with-i can never reply to everyone but it's so fun to see all the action in the group and hear from everyone.

: on both of those. I love the Carpenters!!! And, I get as much time on here in the morning as I let ds watch tv (30 minutes). So...I better hurry to make sure I didn't miss anything!!!

Oh, and maybe an update from me. I am almost done with all my holiday knitting. I have knit 10 purses that I am selling this weekend. However, I've already sold a few of them, so that is good I just started on some hats for a friend and her boys and have to tear one of them out today. I don't like how it is turning out. :

Ok, here is a question...anyone else have a very sassy 2.5 year old (or experience with it?). Ds is driving me INSANE!!! he is just so sassy and not nice to me, dh or dd. I try to model the behavior that I expect from him, but he throws the biggest tantrums when he doesn't get what he wants. He talks really well, so I always understand him and what he wants. He is just very headstrong and very active. I don't have time to read the "Raising Your Spirited Child" book...I don't know that anyone with a spirited child has time to read this book (or any book for that reason...including the good book
Anyway, I'll take any suggestions...

Dh started a job today. He's been unemployed since May, when he finished his thesis in grad school. He finished school in August officially, but still no job. He is doing some temp work at a medical device company, but it is part time. Please send us some good job vibes. We need them. I am just so glad that he finally has somewhere to go. He's been driving me nuts for the last 6 months!!!! Maybe now that he's gone all day, I will actually want to crack that book....boy, I hope so.

Ok, I'm off now...really

One more thing...how do I get my thing to change to Senior Member?? I have over 1000 posts, and I am still just a member

[JoyofBirth]

I love BNL. I had no idea they had a holiday album. Here's how sad I am. My favorite Christmas CD I have is 98 degrees. Remember them? I haven't bought new music for me in forever. I wish I could. Maybe I'll look for that in a used music store. Although I don't know if CDs are really all that more affordable in those stores. My dh used to be able to download music and burn me CDs, but we have dial-up now and he says it's not worth it to try.
You guys are cracking me up with all the Bible study discussions. I keep thinking I'll tell dh about it and start throwing that around, but we actually do bible study so he might get confused. But then I could just ask him if he wanted to right in front of everyone and nobody would know. I check in with him every so often because it's not something I think about much. It's not extremely enjoyable to me just yet. But not as bad as with Emma.
I'm up for a retreat, but I'd have to do dh in hotel nearby with the girls or something. I vote for a family retreat so we can all meet each other's kiddos and dh's with several girls nights.
I'm beat. I think my girls have already started conspiring against me. It seems that if one goes down without issue, the other gives me trouble. It stormed here last night, so I picked Emma up out of bed and brought in our bed with us, because I'm a freak who worries too much. Boy, was that a mistake. I hardly slept. I woke her up and she wanted booby and then Mattie and then back it seemed all night. Ugh, I just couldn't have her across the room during a storm. I wouldn't have been able to sleep then either, so it's a no-win situation. Oh well, such is life.

[JoyofBirth]

Originally Posted by ksjhwkr

Ok, here is a question...anyone else have a very sassy 2.5 year old (or experience with it?). Ds is driving me INSANE!!! he is just so sassy and not nice to me, dh or dd. I try to model the behavior that I expect from him, but he throws the biggest tantrums when he doesn't get what he wants. He talks really well, so I always understand him and what he wants. He is just very headstrong and very active. I don't have time to read the "Raising Your Spirited Child" book...I don't know that anyone with a spirited child has time to read this book (or any book for that reason...including the good book
Anyway, I'll take any suggestions...

We have the same situation. Emma gets it from her older cousins who have very smart mouths. My advice may not jive with your beliefs, so you might just throw them out the window. I refuse to have a disrespectful child. And I tell her that. I say that's a sassy voice. If you're going to use that voice, please don't talk to me. Or whomever. If she continues, I send her to play in another room. We also feed her appropriate responses. Like you say, yes mommy, not NO! Say No, thank you, not I DON'T WANT TO!,that sort of thing. With fits, it depends on the situation. She has hypoglycemia so if she's hungry she metls down over anything. She also gets fussier when tired. But I try to keep on top of hungry and tired, and she usually cries for booby in either of those situations. When she is just having a tantrum over not getting her way, it's a different kind of cry. And she will often jump up and land on her bum and then roll over and she screams. It's a lovely scene. That is not allowed. So I usually try to calm her down and explain things to her. If she refuses to calm down, I just tell I can't talk to her like this. We sometimes use timeouts, too. Sometimes I just hold her tight in my lap. I try to put myself in her shoes. Is it a selfish fit or is it a fit because she really wanted something and is just sad? YKWIM by that? Hope any of this is helpful.

[MsGrizzle]

Originally Posted by JoyofBirth

I keep thinking I'll tell dh about it and start throwing that around, but we actually do bible study so he might get confused. .

I don't know why, but that line just totally cracked me up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[elsanne]

Originally Posted by Miss Juice

I'll slip one in your holiday package

OH, yay! Thanks. Your handle is a mistake, btw, it should be "miss coffee".

Originally Posted by ksjhwkr

It is so hard! literally :

Oh, and I love Babs too. My Dad has a crush on her, so I grew up listening to her


(

When I achieved 1000 posts, they neglected me for a looong time. Unlike a fellow friend who achieved 1000 'bout the same time, whose thingy said "senior member" RIGHT AWAY. The UNFAIRNESS.
Eventually, someone gave me a ddddc that said, "senior member, darnit!" and right away it was changed.

Barbra Streisand? The Carpenters? For shame, people. If anybody here has Englebert Humperdinck's Christmas album, I don't want to hear about it.

JK!!!!

And yes, it is so hard.

[Miss Juice]

Originally Posted by JoyofBirth

You guys are cracking me up with all the Bible study discussions. I keep thinking I'll tell dh about it and start throwing that around, but we actually do bible study so he might get confused.

You definitely wouldn't want to show up expecting one thing only to find that your study partner has something entirely different in mind.

[kimya]

Look what we have here this morning!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujP2miBnJHU

It looks like she is riding a bucking bronco!

[gumby74]

Hi Ladies! Not sure if anyone else has suggested this, but I think we deserve our own due date club smilie! Something we can proudly display! We're worth it!

[ksjhwkr]

Originally Posted by JoyofBirth

We have the same situation. Emma gets it from her older cousins who have very smart mouths. My advice may not jive with your beliefs, so you might just throw them out the window. I refuse to have a disrespectful child. And I tell her that. I say that's a sassy voice. If you're going to use that voice, please don't talk to me. Or whomever. If she continues, I send her to play in another room. We also feed her appropriate responses. Like you say, yes mommy, not NO! Say No, thank you, not I DON'T WANT TO!,that sort of thing. With fits, it depends on the situation. She has hypoglycemia so if she's hungry she metls down over anything. She also gets fussier when tired. But I try to keep on top of hungry and tired, and she usually cries for booby in either of those situations. When she is just having a tantrum over not getting her way, it's a different kind of cry. And she will often jump up and land on her bum and then roll over and she screams. It's a lovely scene. That is not allowed. So I usually try to calm her down and explain things to her. If she refuses to calm down, I just tell I can't talk to her like this. We sometimes use timeouts, too. Sometimes I just hold her tight in my lap. I try to put myself in her shoes. Is it a selfish fit or is it a fit because she really wanted something and is just sad? YKWIM by that? Hope any of this is helpful.

This makes me feel better, I do those things. We redirect, send to his room, tell him that it is not appropriate and acceptable to talk to us like that. I guess it will just take time huh? I'll keep modeling how I want him to talk to me and hope that it rubs off on him soon :