June 2006 Mamas chattin' away December 2006! - Page 87

[BundleFishMama]

Merry Christmas everyone!! We are having a wonderful Christmas (remember, it is 12 days, lasting until Candlemas, not just one day!!) despite the flood....anyway I just caught up since I hadn't been around in a few days, and will be back later to respond & post pics! Thanks again for all the cards, they are all beautiful! Korin, yours was so sweet. And all the June babes (+ one July babe of course, Kelly!) are just adorable!!

[sehbub]

I'm so glad you've been able to have a wonderful Christmas season despite the setback!

[Paddington]

Originally Posted by mommy2girlies

Did you get those fabulously, decadently, uber soft footie pj's?? The girls and J.C got a pair and they are sooooo soft! Love 'em! But they're run so big! Kya's size 4T looks like it could fit me!

We actually did Old Navy. I would find the links but don't know how you folks do that with the kiddos trying to kill themselves. But C got penguins and J got snowman. But J did get some very warm and cozy ones from his grandma... We go to celebrate xmas with the in-laws tomorrow!

[*guest]

Originally Posted by Megs_BK

For the rest of our Nordies time, every time my mom or sister picked a particularly "juicy" outfit off the rack, I'd just say "All it needs is a lower back tattoo!"

We call such tattoos "the tramp stamp" 'round these parts! I saw a onesie the other day that said something like "Don't worry, my boyfriend's out of town." Augh!

Originally Posted by mcimom

helen - how sick am i that i wanna watch the parental psycho power point show? me thinks i come from your IL stock...inhumanly average and "normal" ...sigh...how typical!

ha! There is nothing wrong with normal! I should really make a PowerPoint. That would be funny. My parents are misguided quirky coots at best and actually abusive in other instances. Highlights include being raised in isolation in rural VA as a result of a confused "back to the land" attempt, homeschooled with no social contact or activities, hitting and yelling as teaching tools, and being told the world was going to end soon. My sister summed up their child-rearing philosophy better than I could here (middlin' swearing in that link). Eventually I wore them down and moved away, the end. These days they wile away the hours with quack internet remedies meant to prolong life. They hoard 20 year old cans of cigarettes to use as currency after "the crash." Lots of conspiracy theories, that type of thing. Oh, and nothing from my childhood is actually true, even though both my sister and I remember specifics. It's a tid bit frustrating at times, and we have the dilemma of how much access to allow with Harper. So Amy, I feel for your situation with your mother entirely. Boundaries are rough, especially with people who refuse to accept there is a problem or to get help.

Originally Posted by The4OfUs

What is this method?

I find you ideas intriguing, and wish to subscribe to your newsletter...
[obscure Simpsons reference, anyone? I know it's used as a flamekiller online sometimes, but I mean it seriously!]

Haha! Oh man, this needs a visual aid. You find the end points and the natural arch using a pencil - line a pencil up vertically with the side of your nose. Where it hits the inner corner is where the brow should start. Tilt it from the axis of your nose to align with the outer corner of your eye. Where the pencil touches on the brow is where it should end. Then move it so the pencil appears to cover the pupil of your eye when looking straight ahead. this is the natural arch's peak. Then the trick is actually minimal plucking for shape, and more trimming with scissors. So no overplucked brows. And I should say you only do the pencil measurement once, after that it's basically maintenance. I do not stand in front of my medicine cabinet with a pencil every morning.

[Paddington]

Originally Posted by Marlow's mom

Here are photos!


Gift Opener

Papa and the Puppet

A Ribbon in her Hair

Silly Face

With Bumpa

She Looooves Paper!

Cute pics! J has that onsie~the beige with the light blue trim. Old Navy! And my mom got C that baby Tad when he was a babe. Ours was defective. Croaked it's last croak within a few days of being opened.... Poor thing...

[Paddington]

Originally Posted by Marlow's mom

She got a bunch of toys. All plastic, some with scary loud sounds and some she already got from my mom. She got a phone that sounds like the "b" word when you push 6 and sounds like "wh*re" when you push 4...it's delightful.

We asked the IL's if maybe next year they could stick to one gift for Mars. I saw how horrible my 6 year old niece was about her gifts and I really don't want my kid to be so ummm..bratty. She says things like "that's all I got", and "I didn't ask for this, can we go get what I wanted?". Maybe I am remembering things wrong but isn't 6 old enough to know better?

And isn't 3 old enough to not chew up a bunch of creamed corn and run over and empty your mouth on Aunt Lindsey? I said ew, gross don't do that. and Lee's mom said "he's only 3, you can't expect him to know better". Is she right?

Great phone...

I worry about the same thing with C getting spoiled. Let's hokpe we find the happy medium...

And yes you can begin teaching such things at 3....

[Paddington]

Originally Posted by The4OfUs

OK, some pictures of DD and DS (cause they're both super cute, as far as I'm concerned : )

Santa shot DD looks to me to be thinking: "OK, who the !&^@ is this guy holding me, and mom, why are you standing way over there?"

DD's "fancy" picture

DS rolling cookies

DS sprinkling cookies

DD hanging out while DS sprinkles cookies

DD her first Christmas Morning

I swear we didn't pose this! Hat malfunction

DS opening stocking stuffers - He had NO interest in opening his regular presents, but was SO excited to open stocking stuffers

Let's see some more pictures from everyone else!

too cute. i think we have the same eating chair.

[Paddington]

Originally Posted by Marlow's mom

Ok, now I totally see that these kids were just acting normal. I just don't know what to do about my own negative feelings about their behavior.

here's the thing, yes it is normal for the age but yes it is time for a parent to start teaching them proper responses for given situations. c does the spit things out in his father's hand thing because dh is okay with it, but he is also being taught to get a napkin and if it were someone else's kid spitting regurgitated food on me, i would think yuck and try to redirect them to use a napkin. so age appropriate yes, but old enough to start learning, yes as well.

[The4OfUs]

Originally Posted by mommitola

I do not stand in front of my medicine cabinet with a pencil every morning.

I prefer to visualize you with the pencil...much more smile-inducing.

I think even I could do that.....once I manage to carve out 5 minutes a day for it. Thanks!

[The4OfUs]

Originally Posted by Paddington

too cute. i think we have the same eating chair.

Thanks! Yep, Burlington Baby Depot, $35....she'll be able to use it until she sits at a regular chair. Can't beat it.

[Paddington]

Originally Posted by sehbub

I changed 'em yesterday.

That's the no sew wrap I made. I love that thing, and carry her around in it everywhere.

A grumpalux is the height of grumpiness, or what happens when mamas are not adequately rested.

And I don't think they all ran away, I just think they all have lives.

And now my dear I am going to bed. I'm exhausted. Night night.

Gotta try and look at those pics.. If j's nap holds. course, got babe in arms right now... sheesh, didn't get to the computer at all yesterday. j did not sleep for more than 20 minutes and then dh was running around trying to get stuff done with the car (replace flat tires, get patch on another, smog check that the car keeps failing...)

friends were supposed to come by today but decided i live too far and it would be better if i came down to them by myself with my 2 kids in the car though i commute 5 days a week down normally and i am the one who always comes down to them and i have lived in this house for 4 years and this is only the second time this friend has been in it. not bitter though. kind of glad to have a day to myself. just irritated by the rational...

[chiromama]

Ladies, i've been toasted so many times, I'm roasted.
and...

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I have a lower back tattoo :

[Paddington]

real quick while i still have a nap going on...

um, my mother drives me nuts. it's a love/hate relationship. i love her to death and constantly wonder why she has so much trouble relating to me. we have good moments and many bad. and i end up giving and giving and then wondering why i am getting nothing in return and then feel guilty because she is my mother and she gave up a lot to have a raise us. my father passed away while I was pregnant with c. and he drove me even crazier and i miss him so dang much it hurts.

in-laws... they are both usually great actually. i just have to make sure i stay vocal and let them know exactly what i want and can't assume they are just going to know. but the pg rating on movies really means the kids have to screen them to make sure it is acceptable for them to watch and being so nice all the time can drive you batty... if that makes any sense....

primping... i never wore make up before and thankfully locking my hair means it takes a lot less time. i get generally about 5 minutes in the shower and if i am lucky i MIGHT shave something on the weekends. um, or every other weekend... or once a month... have to ensure i put lotion on or i look like the snake skinned woman and that ends my primping....as bath routine is at night (can't wait to go back to my lovely morning showers....) morning requires brushing teeth, washing face. fluffing hair and throwing on clothes quickly...

J...has mastered his crawl and is now pulling himself up on everything and then falling over and screaming. *sigh*. but he has that look of trimph before he falls over...

C... when in pants potty training still sucks. will not tell me at all if he has to go. so we are having some naked time and i have resorted to bribes for when he goes by himself. we are at about 99% accuracy without pants and i don't have to tell him when to go more than once or twice. hoping to reintroduce pants tomorrow...:

[papayapetunia]

I've got a lower back tattoo too... It's a nice one though. It doesn't say JUICY.

Helen, your childhood sounds a bit like my high school years spent at a Fundamental Baptist boarding school. It was like homeschool because there were no teachers, and we couldn't leave the campus. It was friggin nutty. We had to wear culottes, the kind that go past your knees. I wrote an essay about culottes if you want to read it. We also had to watch the Left Behind videos. Not the remakes by Kirk Cameron, but the friggin scary-ass 70s ones. Some weird stuff. I had nightmares of hell for ten years after that. Thank God for atheism.

[The4OfUs]

Originally Posted by chiromama

I have a lower back tattoo :

Tee hee!

DH printed out a nice pattern of one from a tattoo shop and wanted to draw it on me with some kind of temporary ink....just to spice things up a little : ....I told him he could henna it on, I think I might get him a henna kit for his bday to do it on me...

[The4OfUs]

Originally Posted by papayapetunia

I wrote an essay about culottes if you want to read it.

Love it. [shudder - you poor, poor girl]....I noted in the description that it said they fall 24 inches from the inseam.....my entire inseam is only 24 inches - so I'd be wearing......PANTS!!!!!!

[sehbub]

Originally Posted by chiromama

I have a lower back tattoo :

Me too. It's a bouquet of snapdragons, in honor of my paternal grandfather. I also have healing hands on my left hip, which were drawn from MY hands, which is kinda cool, and I'll be getting a bouquet of the kids' birth flowers in between my shoulder blades when we can afford it.

The tattooing is addictive. So is piercing. :

[The4OfUs]

I just ordered a black henna kit for DH for his bday....he's gonna flip!

Yay me.

[rikiamber]

Aliens, it was beings from outter space I am telling ya...they are to blame for everything.

Just kidding probably just a really weird snafu in the package handling business. I am glad you got the package back though I think books are the greatest gifts ever. I got 'The Bread Bible' and two silacone bread pans...dh and my friends know me so well. Dh got ds a chewable book since he knew that i wanted to buy books for babe. I need to really start his collection they have so many cool books out there. I think I am going to start collecting knights and castles stuff for ds's future bedroom. Anywasy rambling....

Okay so whats the cutest of the cutest? Dh crawling over to me and into my lap to pull at my shirt...he's only 6 mo!! : He already pulls himself up to a stance, not for very long but long enough and crawls like crazy. Last night, while I was paroosing my bread bible, he got bored of me and started to whine and cry that 'I am bored someone pay attention to me' kind. He decided taht I wasnt fun anymore and started to crawl across the house to dh who was *gasp* playing on the computer : , anyways it was too cute and dh came and meet him half way and they went to play on the compy. He does this cry and crawl thing, its cute though cause I know hes not hurt just annoyed with something. I cant believe that my baby is crawling already, cut his second tooth somewhere in this last week, pulls himself up and sits up by himself. Now only if he could quit bumping his head into things, like the floor and trying to get under stuff and bumping his head. I cant believ that this time last year I was just bearly starting to feel him move in my womb, its all going so damn fast and I find myself wanting another one too. But I know its best for my health and for ds that I wait for a while.

Anyways I try to post on here so thats what I got...have a happy new year to you all...thanks for Toasting me you know who you are. I will try to toast others too. *Big Hugz* for all.

[rikiamber]

The4OfUS...have you checked that out...what kind of Black Henna? that stuff tends to have hair dye solution in it so please check it out, ooh that scaires me. I did some research on henna back in the day and Black Henna was ubber terrible but it might have changed by now (5 yrs ago).