Top o' the year to you, May (04) Mamas! - Page 24

[orangecanoe]

Els---will keep you in my thoughts today! Imagine you're this tree : and imagine me with a more sincere and less cheezee grin.


C is going to flip....just got her bday present! Tickets to see Elizabeth Mitchell in NYC in early June! She adores her music like nothing else. It's always on in the car. We'll probably get a hotel and make a fun trip of it.

[Jacqueline]

Is it almost February yet, cause 23 PAGES of posts is just too dang many to keep track of! I'm trying....And, of course, I love hearing about you all, and it has been a big month for us. Maybe what I'm wishing for is a quiet month for the May Mamas. Is that possible?????

Welcome back, jstar. We feel ya on the vacation sleep issues. Our trip to Phoenix went pretty well, actually, but getting into a sleep groove with both kiddos was tough. G had probs not with constipation but the other extreme. Must have picked up a little GI bug. He's okay in all other ways, but had to wear Pull-Ups on the ride home, just in case.

Family loved seeing the new baby A and G was just glad to have so many people around who enjoyed his stories and talk of race cars! Getting together with family always makes me wish we lived closer to them. Perhaps we can change that with the next move.

Renae-I'm so envious of your weekend! Sounds great.

els-you're definitely in my thoughts anyway, but especially later today

I received "Eat, Pray, Love" as a loaner from my sister. Haven't started it yet, but want to. I've seen her on Oprah numerous times.

I know I'm missing lots of personal responses, but I do want to answer the questions posed and I don't have much time.

username: I'm so creative...it's my actual NAME! No one calls me Jacqueline in real life, though. I've always been Jacquie. And Jockey. And Jack. And Jack Attack. So, you see, I've never loved my nicknames yet I really like my given name that no one calls me. Tried to use it when I started HS, and then college, but Jacquie just sticks.

how I met dh: we met the first day of college, but he was dating another, and then he dated another, and another. We were just friends. Then our good friends started dating, so we were kind of left together many times and our friendship grew into more. He's my first serious boyfriend, first kiss, first everything. We met 17.5 years ago and just celebrated our 15th wedding anniversary a couple weeks ago.

pets: two cats, Oliver (10) and Sarah (7.5) Very mellow cats that are often neglected.

kids: two (in my siggie). And that's it. I always figured we'd have 2, and it's worked out well with one of each!

hobbies: kinda like TC said....I'm a doula, too, and tend to gravitate to birth-related books, mags, and videos. Again, not doing the doula thing now as the two kids are plenty. I love movies and Netflix (currently we're viewing the entire "Office" series) and reading a variety of books. I also enjoy cooking (especially baking). I love doing crossword puzzles, too, and am gradually working up to being able to complete the Sunday NYT puzzle on the same day it's printed (without cheating). Oh, and dh and I do the Jumble together each morning. Kinda geeky that way.

[DucetteMama21842]

Still here I swear! It's hard to post with a newborn, two toddlers and fulltime college courses online.. Bear with me mamas, I'm listening... just can't always respond..

[jstar]

ahhh home sweet home!!! and snow seems to be following me : i woke up to feed ebin at one point and saw the big fat flakes falling

classes - i want to do swimming again for pool safety reasons. i keep missing the signup day though and they fill up quickly. and i want to look into tae kwon do. isaac loves to play "fight! fight!" in which he does jump kicks and i'd like to channel that urge to fight into a disciplined fighting type thing where he would also learn control and meditation. i'm actually a green belt in tae kwon do and it was something a bunch of us did in high school in pakistan. it was pretty fun. i haven't even looked into it yet but it's on my mental list of things to get to at some point

isaac is also in a daycare preschool class 3 days a week. he's been with 4 of the kids since he was an infant and it is so cute that they're his favorite buddies. i really love the teachers and they do tons of crafty activities and the occasional field trip. his class of 3 year olds is combined with the class of 4 year olds and they usually set up 4 or 5 different stations so the kids have a lot of flexibility of what they want to play with or do craft-wise. so enrolling in any other class type of thing really needs to be a once a week for an hour or so type thing. life feels scheduled enough already and he has lots of interaction with other kids around his age.

els - i'll be thinking of you this afternoon. : on viet's insensitive comment.

jacquie - i should have probably done pull ups on the way home. the laxative went into overdrive and the night before we left he had 2 runny poop accidents. i packed lots of extra underwear in the carryon and was just ray i was also praying ebin wouldn't poop on the flight because there is practically no way to change them. flying home yesterday was a little frazzling. isaac was really trying to battle with me in the airport. at one point we were playing tug-of-war with the umbrella stroller i hate being "that" mom but i was really trying to keep calm. very frustrating. i'm flying to oakland for a weekend trip next week and i think i might leave isaac home. we'll see. then again doug asked him what his favorite part of the trip was and he said the airplane ride.

doug had an awesome trip. they took the train all over holland and stayed with various dutch people in tiny picturesque villages. he had a true "dutch" experience...moreso than any experience i've had there (insert jealousy!). they even went out with a friend of a friend who owned a restaurant and some oyster beds and he took them out to see the oyster beds. pretty neat.


ok i have waaaaay too much to do around here to be sitting for so long

[Miss Juice]

Thinking of our sweet elsanne this afternoon.

Recovering from 24 hours of intestinal misery myself. Hoping it was just something I ate on the way back from Michigan yesterday, and that nobody else in the fam gets any part of it.

Had a million things to say, brain not makin' it happen right now.

Really, truly loved "Eat, Pray, Love" - first book I've picked up in a long time and really had a hard time putting it down.

[mcsarahb]

Aaaaahh, hola everyone. Rough morning at clinic but then my preceptor went home sick so I got the afternoon off unexpectedly, and DH met me for lunch, which was soooooo nice.

Els, thinking of you SO MUCH all day, and at 5 pm central. Mucho support.

Classes: Lily has been in swim classes with DH a bit, but not recently. We JUST started an acrobatics class this past Saturday, and she seems to love it. We missed the first class, and after that parents aren't allowed in the room, so we didn't actually observe the class. But, she was happy to be left at the beginning, and smiling and happy when we returned an hour later, and no comment from the teachers, so we assume all went well. It was a bit odd to drop her off and leave her with strangers for an hour, but so far, so good. The classes are mostly gymnastics-type stuff, but it's an actual dance/trapeze/circus company that teaches them, so she got to hang on the trapeze, etc. I hope she gets into it and wants to continue. We asked her if she liked it, and she exclaimed, "Yes! I LOVED it! Maybe next time they'll teach us to play the FLUTE!" Don't know where she got that, but maybe we'll look into a music class of some sort soon, too...

We are planning to homeschool/unschool, but also participate in a local freeschool when she gets old enough - probably 5 or so. Going to an open house there to learn more about it this weekend, actually. She is so social and loves the idea of "school" so much that we think she will benefit from it. Just playing by ear.

Hi, Jacquie!

Welcome back, jstar!

Juice - Hope the GI bug is truly over and done with. Eeeeew, no fun.

OK, must.do.homework. Hasta-

Sarah

[A&L+1]

Welcome back travelers and sick-ones! I love to come back here to see who has popped in throughout the day.

Thinking of you elsanne. With love, peace and strength.

Eleanor does pre-school fulltime. She also has Ice Skating class (Mom&Me with me) on Wednesday evenings and one-on-one swim class on Thursday afternoons. She wanted to take a basketball class on Saturday mornings but it was full (phew). She has a SERIOUS love for her swim teacher, Teacher Brian He is great with her and every week she gets so excited to go.

Gotta run...work.

[elsanne]

The m/w called and pushed back the appt to 6 pm...*sigh*...having another cappuccino here in my fave cafe before I head off in about 20 min.

Resigned, I am anxious to have this over. I shove aside all doubts, or rather, they don't even make it past the secretary, who insists to them I'm far too busy to be bothered, just leave a message with the Grief Department and she'll get back to you later.

Juice, I am glad to hear that you're out of the intestinal woods, so to speak. Hope you continue on the up and up and that nobody else in the fam gets it!

[orangecanoe]

Els---I just phoned the secretary and asked if I could hold some of that grief for you for the next little while so you can focus on being gentle with yourself. You can have it back in small sips as it were. Sunday was HJ's first time at church and I introduced him to one of the long-time members and he commented how he has a big world out there to take in and he advised he do so in small sips. I found that touching and fitting at the same time. Warm hugs and comforting thoughts headed your way!

[TurboClaudia]

thinking of you, els... giant from all MMF sending their love...

heath: love the small sips comment.

~c

[mamameg]

Thinking of Elsanne this evening. ::

KK, re your post oy. I'm so sorry.

I am, as usual, delinquent in answering the questions. get used to it, newbies. I'm the lagger of the group.

Classes: Mia is in ballet and she's really starting to enjoy it. She has been going weekly since Nov or so. It took a few sessions for her to get the hang of participating for 45 min, but now she really likes it. They have their first recital this Sat - cute! (better find that camera cord before then!) They tried on their tutus today in class and they all looked so adorable. Some of the other girls she knows take tap on Tuesdays as well, but Mia has told me, quite emphatically, that tap would be "way too loud" : That's my girl.

We are also planning on starting her in tae kwon do after she turns 4 (perfect timing for summer).

We also NEEEEEEEEEED very badly to do some swimming lessons this year. We have a pool and these kids have got to learn how to swim, asap. Our deck is fenced in with a locking gate, so they can play out back safely, but the sooner they know how to swim, the better. I'm lagging. (noticing a theme here? )

Okay, fussing toddler, dinner time?

[TurboClaudia]

kk: thinking of you, too.

on commune idea

~c

[orangecanoe]

Meg---randomly happened upon one of your posts on another thread and avoiding a UA violation will not say more....but wanted to hug you for being so forthright. LOL at your lagger status. Ballet! Gosh do you ever need to take and share pics! I'm wondering if C would like some form of martial arts? I know it would do good for her to work on core strength...hmmm....may have to ask around.

[mamameg]

Thanks Heather. : I know how to play the game.

[jstar]

rough day in the cosmic universe of mmf

elsanne - you manage to make me laugh even when the going is so rough

you all motivated me to look into the parks and rec tae kwon do classes. the ones closest to us start at age 4.....so it sounds like a plan for summer!

i managed to unpack the boys' clothes and clean and dust their rooms. unfortunately the rest of the house is still a dusty tornado scene doug stayed home today which was nice. he's been doing laundry all day.


babe awakens from late nap.....

[nuggetsmom]

If mamameg is the lagger, I am the lurker.

Elsanne in my thoughts.
KK too

J takes gymnastics and LOVES it. I started her because N who is 6 goes, or rather went, got bored and no longer participates. I also take J to a coop preschool which is really fun but being on the Board of Directors is stressing my out these days. It is cheap since it s a coop. Maybe there is something like that in the area? It doesn't really give me much time off but it gave me a really good group of friends... and it is lots of fun.

[meesa143]

Elsane~I hope everything went well. Thinking of you

Sarah~I wish there was something like that around here. I mentioned before about DH and I being jugglers. We joke all the time that we're circus freaks

Yesterday turned out to be really fun. Me and Saige melted red pink and white crayons and cut hearts out of them, then made sugar cookies. She actually helped me do the dishes and clean up the living room *shocked* We went to my neice's bday party and she was coughing quite a bit. Then, we get home and she's complaining that her throat and ear hurt. We almost took her to the instacare at 2 am, but she finally fell asleep. I guess we're going to the dr again :

[DucetteMama21842]

can sum1 post the ?'s again?

: :

[Mama Faery]

Danile, if I remember correctly the questions went something like this:
*Where did you get come up with your username?
*How many kids?
*Pets?
*Hobbies?
*If you have a partner, how you met them?

Forgive me if I missed anything, it's a wild week here too. Rowan came home from Gramma's with a nasty cold : and therefore cannot be bothered to do ANYTHING but sit in front of the television with Blue's Clues. My friend M.'s son has croup and therefore she cannot watch Rowan tomorrow, so I am going to miss another day at work, most likely (we missed yesterday). So, no money for me and cooped in the house with a miserable sick poopy kiddo. Everyone's sick in our neck of the woods, I'm just waiting for it to be MY turn. *sigh*

When DH gets home I am going to the grocery store and you know, it sounds like fun!

My issues are SUCH a drop in the bucket though, so I am just here to offer love and s and support to everymama who needs it right now.
Elsanne, let us know how everything went, sweetie.
KK,
Heather, you're amazing. Love the small sips thing. How appropriate!
Everyone...

More later. Here's to a much quieter February!

[DucetteMama21842]

Originally Posted by Mama Faery

Danile, if I remember correctly the questions went something like this:
*Where did you get come up with your username?
*How many kids?
*Pets?
*Hobbies?
*If you have a partner, how you met them?

More later. Here's to a much quieter February!

Username equals my lastname, i'm a mama, and the start of the two areacodes i was lovin at the time- though the last # wouldn't go on.. so the real number is supposed to be 218, 425.

3 kids. My may babe Dom who was the shock of our lives (and probably the only reason either of us sobered up, went back to church, got married and went to couple's counseling. In essence, we should thank him for turning our lives around. Isaac was our much planned for- yet very much a surprise baby, and Jasmine my new little freshie nursling.

Pets- Not anymore. After a thousand dollars in damages to my property/neighbors property... we found that dog a very loving home where someone not six months pregnant with two babes could handle her.

Hobbies- Trying to master everything. I'm in college fulltime working towards my midwifery degree, am a Bradley Method Childbirth Instructor, very much have a reading disorder (anything birth/parenting/baby related- even textbooks!)and absolutely LOVIN my babes.

How I met TJ-

That'll take more typing. be back later- nak

And thinking of u Els!