Smokin' Hotties - August 2 - 9

[Sara Mama]

Are you in (or near) the Twin Cities?

Well, then you have found your tribe! Despite our diverse backgrounds, beliefs, and interests, two things bond us together: living in the coldest state on earth...and the love for our children which warms us. The weekly tribe thread begins anew each saturday. Watch for the new thread on the main Minnesota/Wisconsin board.

Some of the individuals who post here meet weekly. If you are interested in attending a get together, please post your interest on the thread or send any one of us a PM. We welcome with open arms and minds the input of all parents, regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, political view, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability,etc.

Written by Marsupial the great!

[Sara Mama]

Humor me, (the thread title) but I just had most of a BEER!!! Went out in my little red car to go to Dairy Queen, got thirsty, went to the bottle shop for :champagne , bought some cider, opened it, it was flat, split a beer with my dh and WOOO HOOO, half a beer and I'm giddy!

Should go do :laundry, but sleep and a big glass of water calls!

Anyway! Welcome to the weekly thread (15 minutes early) mama's!

[browneyedsol]

Oh good, a new one! The last one was getting too fun.

Have a beautiful soverday all...not sure if we'll make it.

:flower ...AUGUST???

:hippie

[cattrane]

dammit sara and here i was gonna make a smartass comment about you being in a slightly further east time zone

happy soverday, yo

[kdmw]

:love Hey mommas. We won't be at SG today as we will be at my brother and sil's anniversary party. Hope you all have a great soverday, though! I have missed so much this past week-- been busy working on my kitchen floor.:rolleyes: It is an absolute nightmare trying to get up all the old linoleum. Blech. We did pick out tiles the other day, but who knows when we'll actually be able to start putting them down.

Big news from this past week: Alec is now riding a two-wheeler!:jaw Sonny took the training wheels off his bike, and he was off and riding just like that! Can't believe how my little boy is growing up so quickly...

Congratulations to the new mommas!!!:love :diaper

Am forgetting tons, but hafta go exercise...

:dust

:drool (who *is* this guy?!?)

Love to everybody!

[kdmw]

Dust bunny exterminator, huh? Yep, guess that's me.:LOL :-wool

[Sara Mama]

Mama's!

Fun stuff up ahead!

Berry Picking on Monday PM/email/call for details

Camping! PM/email/call regarding your desire to go and for a planning meeting.

Hope you all have a great weekend! My first project as a "consultant" is due this week, so I gotta go write (kind of like pulling teeth for me, but I do love the research part!):jammin


Still wanting :champagne

AND DENISE, do not forget that St. Paul IS 15 minutes faster than Mpls...

[moongloe]

happy soverday!!!~

man i could really go for a soverday today. hell is breaking loose with a few friends and i'm read to just screaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam!

jess...sadly there are no winners in the bashing game. we play for the sport alone.

catt...i love the under the door thing! how sweet! did you get the thing for ds from curvie that i sent in the package???? went to the video store last night and thought of you. wish you were here.

gotta jam. have a great day my sisters!
~peace and love, moon :dust :rainbow

[Snow]

OK, so there's some triatholon thingie going on in Mpls today and one CANNOT get to SG. yikes! M and I were in the car driving for ONE HOUR and obviously never made it, or maybe not-so-obviously as I called Hakan and he was so sad, totally no business, and said only one of our group showed up. He's hurting for business and this triatholon thing didn't help. (can't they just bike/run/swim around Lake Harriet repeatedly? - don't answer that) So one hour and we only live, what? 2 or 3 miles away? Arghhh.

Oh, hello! For a minute there this was Snows rantarama, just now realized it's a thread. So how is everyone? Glad to see you all popping in here.
Life is difficult right now for me, but at least camp is over (yee haw) and there's berry picking and camping to look forward to.
love you all

[mamarsupial]

hey mamas...love that we're the smokin' hotties this week.

i thought i posted last week in response to willow's post re: dhs. it must not have gone through. bummer. my dh is pretty darn good...but he has only cleaned the bathroom 2-3 times in the 5 years we've lived together. he doesn't get on my about keeping the house ultra-clean though. i knocked myself out when e was wee, trying to do the martha thing...and it made us both miserable. we both agreed to lower our standards a bit. what used to be 'messy' now passes for 'clean' around here. hee hee.

spent what will prolly be my last morning in the garden. did some weeding, put in a second round of peas and beans, pulled out the bolting lettuce. its really getting hard to bend over or squat for more thana few minutes. its prolly good for me, but not very comfortable.

dh also had a productive morning...installing the new under the sink water filter. woo hoo!

cattrane - thanks for the cat advice. sorry you had 'puter/email problems. :( we did set up a new cat box...and cleaned the other two...so far so good. little bugger.

kdmw - 2 wheeler? wow. very cool! :)

snow - sorry you are blocked in today. we didn't make it over to sg either (what's new?).

berries: we can't go. no car...and no real ability to bend over anymore. hee hee.

camping: we might go saturday night. the st. paul api meeting is saturday morning.

okay. time for nap.

[browneyedsol]

Oh good and poo... I was feeling guilty about not leaving the house yet for sg or anywhere (busy at home with stuff but wishing there were more than one of me). My neighbor lady is sick says her big son , so I was lacking in inspiration...don't know with what yet...guess I'm already getting co-dependant though. :rolleyes: :p

DAAM: This has been going on for almost two months, so, MAAM, but today I am needing to vent. It is saturday and does me no good to worry today...nine to fivers cannot be reached. My student loans have been delayed for two months. One reason was that the person to begin my paperwork went on bereavement leave. When she did her job upon returning, the next person in the process went on vacation. No one could do the others job (hard to believe but it is a small college), so I was waiting and we were strapped...still are. I had a confrontation with the financial aid person who had been curt, short and NOT helpful at all...when she took my calls. NOW, I dunno what the problem is, but I have had it with the financial aid woman who I believe is treating me differently from other students because of status. She has been avoiding my calls again. The last time I talked to her, a week ago, she said she felt attacked by me. :shake I was assertive, after months of her hanging up on me without giving me any good information to help me understand the process. My bio mom who is also a grad student says that I need to go over her head now and file a formal complaint. I feel conflict like this in my heart, so it is not so easy for me to just go swinging anger around over her head. I feel like I don't have a choice though at this point. :bang I hate beaurocratic bullshit.

Snow, sorry you are so loaded up right now. I hope you get some rest soon. Don't forget you are human! Take a day if you have to!

Poor Hakan. I'm imagining a hosted mama ball at sg with a charge sliding admission. Mamas in one room chatting and some sitters in the next with the kiddos. Maybe a dinner to not detract from his day to day biz...he and fam could maybe use some help and have been so good to us.

Oh, and Moon, you know me and my interest in non competitive games, I would be a happy loser at that one in particular!

Sara good luck with your writing! Hope you find some bubbly soon!

HURRAY FOR ALEC! :thumb :thumb :thumb :thumb :thumb

Okay, back to work for me.

:hippie

[battymomma]

brown--sorry to hear that, and sorry that lady feels threatened by you, but this is your academic life, so rant and rave until you get answers and get what you need.

ohh, poor hakan...

and poor snow and M, driving aimlessly...how aggrevating!

our b-day party was very relaxing! it was at a park in eden prarie, under trees, with the kiddos playing cute games like pillowcase hops and keep-the-marshmellow-on-the-spoon-as-you-run games. bagels and coldcuts, pinata and cake, then play at the cool TotLot-like playground. so lovely and innocent, esp compared to those awful Chucky Cheese parties that some of DS' classmates tend to have!

i found a new store I LOVE LOVE LOVE! J.Jill. ok, so i could never buy those clothes full price, but the sales racks are treasures! i found a soft, comfy light "plum" sweater for $15!! almost wish it was autumn/winter so i could wear it!

and i got a new pair of shoes, compliments of my MIL!! i went shopping with SIL on thursday (when i discovered j. jill) and saw these cool doc marten mary janes (but not the old school Docs...a new sportier look). $80! EEK!! walked away. slowly. sadly. then i talked myself into them thurs eve and fri(i need non-summer shoes, docs will last so long, so the initial $$$ is worth it, etc). was going to go back and buy them fri. then my SIL called and said she was headed to our place. ok, so i guess i could wait one more day to drop the $$$. when i pulled up she was here WITH MY NEW SHOES! my MIL felt bad that my SIL bought herself something with my MIL's credit card and i got nothing...(not that i would ever buy anything with her card!). so she sent SIL to buy them and surprize me! yes, i am blessed with the nicest MIL ever (and i say that even when she hasn't just bought me new shoes!)

won't see ya'll this upcoming weekend, due to best friend coming to town. i was actually planning on dragging her to SG, but then we got another b-day invitation for DS's classmate, at the Build-a-Bear at ridgedale...

sara was mentioning perhaps doing another swimdate up here, on a Sunday. if this sounds good to anyone else, let us know! i was going to find out the next Sun DH has to work and plan it for then...

and my DH works too much and helps too little, to continue that from the last thread. he does help, but he never picks up after himself, which is SO SO irritating, esp as i have enough other people and criiters to care for/pick up after! stinky socks pulled off and left on the LR floor, dishes and beer cans just left on the counter, mere inches away from the sink or the recycling...EEK!

ok, gonna post before computer eats this!

[Sara Mama]

Maybe we should ask Martha how to get men to pick up after themselves?

Alec! Yeah!!!

Brown, this is what you do. Monday morning, you call the Dean of Students and politely and firmly make an appointment for ASAP to discuss your difficulty with financial aid. Do not take "next week" for an answer. Be firm, but very polite and say that you absolutely have to get in to see her/him right away. When you have an appointment, drop the munchkins off here and go explain your predictament, they may be able to cut you an emergency check (that will come out of your financial aid awar) to tide you over.

Batty -- we have beer bottles AND glasses (that cannot go in the dishwasher) EVERYWHERE....guess who hand washes them...Would love to do a Sunday swim in your neighborhood. But many are camping this coming weekend, so how about the following one?

Supi - squatting is so, so good for you! Great way to birth a babe too! Good for you weeding!

Moon - sending you lots of coffee joy!

Gotta run, going to the drive in!!!!

PS I was BAD today!!! Very little writing and went estate sale hopping with my parents! So fun!!! Only spent like $2!

[browneyedsol]

Oh Batty, so sorry you discovered J.Jill...:LOL Hurray for the shoes, though! Can't wait to see you in 'em! You smokin' hottie!
And yep, great sale rack. I used to work there pt when Fish was wee 2...that 'drobe is getting outdated, but the discount was sublime! :thumb I'm wearing some hemp pants today from back in the day though...will last me at least two more summers. Okay enough fashion...can you tell how fashion deprived I am? :p *sigh* thrift thrift thrift...swift I go...

Sara, ya think? I am feeling that desperate but want to consider her feelings too. I tried to meet with her a week ago face to face to try and talk about her feelings...um, and my needs and questions. She actually closed her door when the secretary said I was hoping to speak with her...and she *left* for the day! I could tell that the secretary was picking up on what was going on and behaved in an apologetic and shocked way...so that was validating to know someone else saw her behavior. What I did before she told me she felt "attacked" is, in a very frustrated voice (not a raised one) asked her if every student in my department really had to just remain in ambiguity and take a leap of faith with there lives based on the short answers given by her or if it was just_me. The silence was long...then she was victim and I was perpetrator. :rolleyes: It is a *small* college, but I will give it a go with the dean, especially since the secretary didn't quite know who her supervisor was. After all, if and when I do get my loans, I'll be keeping them in business. Thanks for the "permission". :thumb

'Supi can you weed on your birth ball deflated some and hose it off when you are done? Or get a pad for your knees and weed on all fours? Just suggestions mind you..."Martha" *can* take a break when she is just a couple months away from birth...:love
You are the real Martha, after all...birthin' and APin' and gardenin' and cookin' and cleaning up a pet peein'...etc... "Revolution Martha" if you will. :p

I must say, I envisioned fake Martha responding to dirty socks left by dh's in her blue shirted tighty manner, "Oh, yes...a common complaint among us when striving for art of home. Here is a savvy little rack for the end of the sofa with vintage clothes pins...so charming...pictures of feet complementing the black and white wall hanging...and the kids' lunch bags with the colorful shoes on them that we designed last episode...so make it fun for him and give him a chart with stylish star shaped push pins...he gets one every time he hangs the socks for you or the kids to launder for him...and if that doesn't work, crack a fine german beer open for him as incentive...don't forget to peel the label for your decoupage project..." :D

Wow I've been a piggy lately...off to put my worries and sillies to bed.

:hippie

[Sara Mama]

Brown, you go girl! St. Kate's is small, but the Dean of Students is a gem and really cares about students and great with those pesky $$ aid folks. I'm sure yours will be the same!

PS LOVE the martha socks/pushpins and decoupage!

[mamarsupial]

'Supi can you weed on your birth ball deflated some and hose it off when you are done?

:rotflmao oh my goodness. just the image of this has me laughing and smiling. hee hee. thanks, brown.

[mamarsupial]

oh, and i second what sara said about going to the dean of students. having works in admin too (at the u and at sptc), i am actually shocked that they don't have some sort of back up system for one someone is on leave...small school or not.

jjill - i don't even dare go in there. i can look from afar...but that's it. it would spell financial ruin for generations to come. ;)

DAAM - CONFESSIONS OF A MAMA IN TRANSITION (not literally transition, as in labor, but...well, you know) - yesterday i sat in our full sized bed, e sprawled next to me, her small hand curled around my finger, napping peacefully for the first time in two weeks. as i read 'the family bed', browsing through the personal accounts of mothers who didn't family bed until their 2nd, 3rd, 5th child, i sobbed. while i feel so lucky for trusting my instincts when e was wee...i feel like the last two weeks have undone all of it. we bought her 'big girl bed' 2 weeks ago and while she enjoys it some of the time, she hasn't been sleeping well...and neither have i. it feels so wrong to have her so far away from us. many nights, she has come back to our bed...after protests of 'i want to sleep with mama. i want to sleep in YOUR nest.' at naps, i cuddle with her in her new bed until she falls asleep...then sneak away to get stuff done. as she starts to fall asleep, she says 'mama, don't go away...'; when she wakes, she asks 'mama, where did you go?'. what is most heartbreaking for me right now is her discomfort with things as they are, but also that, as i look at why we bought this bed in the first place...i can't find a real reason. i feel like, despite KNOWING what is right, we are still letting what we 'should' be doing dictate how we are parenting. this realization tore my heart out yesterday. to KNOW, and not follow, is prolly worse than not knowing at all. worst of all, the last two weeks have left both e and i short of temper...and yesterday i yelled at her. it was just a second...but it left both of us in tears. obviously, something is not right. today we go shopping for a king sized bed.

when talking to people about AP, it seems like we always say "oh, people have been doing this since the dawn of man! breastfeeding, babes in arms and sling, family bed, etc..." in so many ways, though, we are reinventing the wheel. humans parented in their natural biological way, free of the confines of medicine and methodology, and had their mothers, fathers, grandmothers, etc. setting the example and participating in childrearing. it just WAS. now...not only do we, for the most part, not have the example...we have the opposite...mothers and fathers who were told not to respond to their children for fear of 'spoiling', puritan sleeping arrangements, formula, crying it out. from 'the family bed':

“Bottles took the place of mother’s breasts. Cribs took the place of the family bed. Playpens and strollers took the place of his parents arms. Schedules took the place of mothers intuition. Aloofness took the place, or at least was strongly urged to take the place, of parents’ indulging love. The child was along in the midst of it all.”


sigh.

[willowsmama]

aaawwww, supi!you're doing what's right for your kids, there's nothing more you can do but spread the word. I too, don't understand how some folks can view wee, innocent babes as conniving, manipulating headstrong people. It seems like alot of mainstream is more on how to break your childs' spirit..... :(

Brown- I second what saramama and supi said....if that doesn't work I say you and Fish and Blue go in yellin' 'Show me the money!!!!':p

Snow- poor you and M!!! I was there when you called, hakan was sad....Sg was deadwhen I got there. He said the triathon was horrible for biz. Starfire and Jessikate showed too though.

oh, please kep starfire and fam in your thoughts. Her house was painted and the people said they checked for lead paint. Long story short , they DIDN'T and now she has chips all over her yard.
She's working on getting it all cleaned up and the city said it qualifies for a emergency cleanup, I think but it was fri so everything must wait till a weekday.

W learned how to walk up the slide yeaterday. Then I couldn't get her quit! My child has no fear!!!!She's scaling everything. This is the child that will give me gray hair........

Batty- neeeww shhoooeesss.lucky you!

Moon- hope you're doing ok.....


thinkin' about going back to bed....

[moongloe]

hey mamas~

snow...that sucks! poor hakan. i hope everything is ok with you. you're on my mind.

batty...i love jjill, sadly getting the catalog is all i can do. that is so cool about the shoes! i'm jealous.

brown...i hope the financial aid trouble is fixed asap.

supi...don't get rid of her big bed yet. you never know how things will be once the new babe comes. most likely you'll all be content in one bed; but don't forget how unpredictable new children are, and what changes that could bring. do what you believe is right, prepare for that, and allow for the possibility nothing will go according to your plan.

everyone...have a great day today! ds and i are off to a flea market. i can hear my monthly budget quaking in its boots!
~peace and love, moon :dust :rainbow
ps...where the bleep is everyone?

[Sara Mama]

Supi, I second what moon said about the big bed. She may want it back. Try Room & Board Outlet (hwy 100 & I forget in Golden Valley -- open weekends only.) Great deals on beds. We bought ours there

SHOES! Lucky you Batty!!!

J Jill. Have yet to go in a store, but my sis loves their sale rack!

REALLY going to write today....

Berry Picking tomorrow!!! 10 am!

[battymomma]

supi--we're here for ya! thanks for the beautiful heartfelt words and the borrowed literate words...yes, a family bed is a wonderful wonderful thing. and so is sleep. and perhaps letting E come and go as she pleases, sleeping where she needs to when she needs to will help. and she will eventually sleep only in her bed. but by giving her the choice and the knowledge that she can sleep both places is ok will provide great comfort and love. and since you seem to be leading that way anyway...keep her bed and get a king! then down the road in 10 yrs, you and B will have a BIG BED all to yourselves...

oh no, poor starfire...

so i saw today that The Vagina Monologues is coming to the Ordway in Oct , the 14th--19, various times, $28--45. any body interested? i would love to see it, as the HBO presentation of it rocked. should i look into tix for a MNO? guessing that since it is spoken we need not go for the highest price...

ok, off to see about doing my tabs, as ours expire this month...

love ya all!

[battymomma]

CATTRANE--built to spill coming to 1st ave, sept 15th and 16th (the 15th is a 21+ show, 16th is all ages)

Vagina Monologues is showing 8PM Oct 14--17, sunday the 19th at 2 and 7:30 (thurs would be best for me, but other nights i can ask MIL to watch kids...). tix are $28, $35, $40.

[cattrane]

:D my ticket showed up in the mail a few weeks ago!

[Devi]

With all this talk of J Jill I thought I'd provide a link for the curious...

http://jjill.com/

Poke around at the sale stuff (the rest is a bit pricy) What we really need is a JJill Outlet. They have them in some sates :D

I think it would make a fun moms night wouldn't it? (hit J-Jill clearance are in RV and then head to dinner?) hmmm, takers ... Central location and all?

I would be interested in the Vagina Monologues too depending on finances? Don't know who built 2 spill is ... but heck am always up for a night out :shrug I know, I still listen to U2 what can I say ?

Berry pluckin we will go :exclaim :drool

See some of you tomorrow :wave

Snow~I don't get to SG much, but perhaps we'll have to have a mass momma/kid gathering at SG soon, to support Hakan ... after stuff dies down?

Brown~give it to em, grrrr! Fargen Bastages... :cuss

*sorry if I missed anyone, I am on borrowed time

Peace

D

[Sara Mama]

J Jill clearance...too tempting, besides I have 15 pounds to pre pg weight, so I should wait or is it weight???!!?!?

ANYHOO! Son #1 happily fell asleep in his own bed tonight (after a couple drinks of water, but still!!!) I am so proud of him!

Berries!
I sent directions (twice)
Bring a picnic lunch.
I think they take checks, I had cash last time!
Bring bug stuff, too!

It's a small place, so if you are late you will prolly see us picking in a field right before the turn into the farm.

[DoulaSarah]

I dread the thought of even telling anyone this... I just got $400.00 dollars worth of J. Jill from my mom. My goal was $500.00, but the girls were crazy and i didn't have the time. So, it was the best I could do. She said if I lost weight, Goal 25 pounds, reality 15... She would buy me new clothing. So i did the best I could. YAY for mamas!! BTW, she said that because I am so down on myself and she knew that was the right incentive! That is my most favorite store and I always go in at the MOA. I hit the clearance sale and you always get a 5% discount from the catalog prices. She also did it when i had gained 75 pounds from being pregnant with Hannick. I love her for so many different reasons. One of which is her way of cheering me up sometimes! It doesn't happen too often, although the girls are spoiled.

[Snow]

JJill, huh? Have heard of it is all - will check out the link tho, thanks Devi. So is there only a store at MOA?

Berry Picking - yay! Am bringing Q and her friend S - both of whom will be told that they are to help w/ the child-herding, already warned Q and she says it's fine. S is a kid counselor too and you'll all love her. Am also bringing The Midget of course and a surprise....a hipMama friend from Vancouver who is presently sleeping in my basement w/her 2 kiddos! (they'll follow us out there tomorrow) This is the first time I've met her irl, so it's really interesting and she's excited to meet you all tomorrow, is very jealous of what we have going here w/ the mamas in the cities.

Supi, you haven't done any wrong w/ your babe - all you have to do is just look at her to know that! Am sure that whatever feels right to you at that moment in time IS what is right - you have good instincts. Trust them, you're a good mama whether you're all in a king size bed or your own spaces, am glad you can do whatever feels right now too.

Brown, well, you've had enough echoes to Sara Mama's post, but here's another. She knows what she's talking about, so does Supi, so I hope you get to speak your piece and that the dean listens and acts.

*yawn* big day today so might even go to bed before midnight. (nawww)

[browneyedsol]

Sign me up for Vagina Monologues! "Neighbor lady" and I just rented it from Amazon the other night and were in awe. I had read parts, but never been...must must must must go.

Sign me up for Sara's mom, too...$400 bucks anywhere would cheer me up right now! :D

Likely won't see berry pickers tomorrow as my wheels need new brakes and smoke if I drive. :eek Have fun!

:hippie

[browneyedsol]

Oh ps...all this J.Jill talk my goodness...what lusty ladies!
Snow, it began as a mail order catalog and now there is a seperately owned retail chain. There is a J.Jill in Roseville, at MOA, and Ridgedale.

I am imagining all of you showing up to sg in the same outfit now...:rotflmao

[hugosmoma]

PEEKAB0O!

Its the neighbor lady!

Two months later, and I'm hooked up (albeit from my closet with an extension cord running into older ds' room).

WooooHooo!

LOVElovelove y'all.

S.

[Bri's mummy]

Hey, all Ap mumma's,

I am not formally a gang member yet, but wanted to quick post on here about the movie "Daddy Daycare"......
Yes, it is another Eddie Murphy mainstream flick, BUT,
there is one scene in the movie where Eddie is portraying a business oreintated husband/father trying to understand parenthood/early childhood better, and the camers pans in on his wife in bed with a chicky, chicky (I say icky, icky, but anyways) magazine like "Vogue" or something, and Eddie is SHOWN reading "MOTHERING MAGAZINE"! Whooppee! They could have had him holding the unattached popular mum magazine "Parenting" or "Parent", or even "American Baby". Or some scholastic or early childhood research periodical, BUT, NO he is reading "Mothering" magazine!!!!!
Granted it is only a few second clip, but hey, he is seen reading "MOTHERING" magazine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Yep!
Us Ap mummies have alway's known that -that is way to the light!

AP rules!
Bri's mummy (just a little bit of ferver tonight-too much caffiene!)

P.S. it is a cute movie for teenie ones, 5-10 or so,
there is no naughty words, no bang-bang your dead stuff, no hanky-panky bedroon stuff, not many cute mainstream movies for this age group anymore!

[moongloe]

hey sisters~

snow...have fun with your visiting hipmama! ok you must ask m what 'pokonuts' means. i recall her saying it alot on the visit and then cracking up. now ds won't stop saying it and of course cracking up.

hugos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

doula...ooooh i want a shopping spree paid for by someone else.

sara...aww congrats to ds #1!

daam...mil is driving down to spend the day with b. if that isn't enough to get me all a-fluster....dh will not be here! the 'man' is playing in a golf tournament. all i have to say is he had better win whatever place comes home with a cash prize...i will be in desperate need of a shopping trip after this day.

gotta go reclean the recleaning i did after cleaning for her arrival!
~peace and love, moon :dust :rainbow

[mamarsupial]

hey mamas - have fun w/ the berries today! i'm sad we can't be there. yum. berries. i'd be like sal in 'blueberries for sal' though...eating more than i put plink plank plunk in my pail ;)

thanks all for your words re: the big girl bed. i know i'm not very good about posting often, but its such a comfort to know that there is this amazing group of women i can talk to who KNOW what i'm feeling and understand. anyway, THANK YOU!

last night e ASKED to sleep in her own bed...and did so NAKED, waking dry this morning. she came into our bed, and cuddled with us. having her nudie arms and legs wrapped around her nudie mama felt so nice after such a hard week.

we're still getting a new bed...so that we have options. the big girl bed will stay where it is...and i'm sure she will bounce back and forth for a while, which is fine. and again, THANK YOU ALL.

[cattrane]

i just wanted to add that ds also went back and forth from his bed to ours until he was a bit over four. his bed actually broke a while ago (um jumping too much LOL) so now he does the big bed when dh is at work and "camps" on the other days. when we *tried* to transition him solely to his bed after moving here 'round age 2 he was NOT keen on it, but a couple months later did so on his own.

i am such an idiot. i had horrible weirdo dreams last night and at one point got up to dh's alarm and turned off all the potential alarms, so we totally missed berries. and i was so stoked to see y'all again! plus have pics to show you snow of asher's facepainting adventures :D and who can resist meeting hipMamas, especially from the NW! or SW in her case LOL

a few of my dreams were revolving around roadtripping, and one involved the other three mamas having flown back after wacka KILLED a chick that bugged her and stuffed her IN MY BAG in the trunk. curvie and hugos weren't precisely cheering her on but were very willing to help, and i was standing on this sidewalk in broad daylight going WTF??? then i had to figure out what the heck to do with my bag and the car, because wacka had somehow explained how this was a great crime and she'd never be caught. i was torn between driving the car back myself and having to pay all the penalties and be arrested for murder, or ditching the car and having to touch what was inside my bag and being arrested for murder, or catching my flight with my bag full "ohmygod that's why it's so heavy" and being arrested for murder etc etc etc

then when i woke up i felt a wee bit weird about facing all you this morning LOL so ended up sleeping in waaaaay too long!

[kdmw]

Hey mommas. :love Posting from the sickhouse.:( Nygel is napping on the futon right now and keeps hacking away in his sleep. Last night he gagged on his snot and shot breastmilk and ickiness all over the bed.:Puke :shake It wouldn't be so bad were it not for that fact that I have Kenny and Philly here today (since *way* too early this morning), and am stressing out about Sonny (who is right now in a private jet on his way to Michigan for the next four days). Sooooo, guess you all can tell I am feeling crappy. Okay, gripe over.

Cattrane~ You sure know how to dream!:eek Think that would have me feeling pretty freaked out, too! Wonder how Wackadoo will like her role...:LOL

Mamar~:hug 's to you. I think it is great that you are doing what feels right for you. Alec and Imala just moved out of our room this past year. (Why the heck didn't we invest in a king sized bed?!?:wink ).

Brown~ Any progress yet on the financial aid crud?

Moon~ Hope your day with your mil goes well! Maybe you should share my title with me?:bgbounce

Hugosmoma~ YAY!!!! So glad you're back online!:love

What else?... J.Jill~ There is one in the Galleria, too. Love, love, love them and also Garnet Hill.

'Kay. Gotta run and get back to my knitting book. (Summerlover: HELP! :D ).

:-wool

[willowsmama]

Berry pickin was fuuunnn! yum.

Snow- great to meet your hipmama friend!


Anyone hear from the mama that lives in FL? I have some questions....since....

Dh *might* ( fingers, toes and everything possible crossed) have a temp. transfer to FL for winter!!!!:eek From Jan. on for a few months he might transfer to FL. The shop up here is dead while the ones in FL are swamped so they wondered if 8 or so guys would mind comig down for a bit? Gee, it's such a hard decision..........uuuummm, YES YES YES!!!! Dh thought I might not want to go, silly man. Was he temp. possesed to think such thoughts?

Anyway,we going to *see* if we could make this work...our major things are ~

housing- dh's parents own a condo near naples so we're hoping we could stay there. If they say no ummm we prolly won't go unless I can find a rental mega cheap(still have a mortgage to pay)

S's bio dad ~ hoping if he understands that there is no possible way this would become a perm move, he won't pitch major fit. Would have to come to some visitation compromise, possibly flying S back for 1 week or so or giving him extra time when we come back......

Dogs~ we're thinking maybe our basement dweller would step up and care for our fur babies, after all we only thought he'd be here for a week or 2....that was over 2yrs, ago!

The whole me being preggo, having MN care and prolly giving birth out there~ well i think the title pretty much covers that one....really don't know how I'd handle that. Mayhap a midwife as I don't think MN care would pay for anything in FL. hopefully I'm wrong but i still think a midwife would rock.lol

O' wise friends, I beg ye for advice!!!


wantin' to not be seein' snow come Jan.

[mamarsupial]

and also Garnet Hill.


oooo. me too! get this. when we were pg with e, and we hadn't yet read any of the sears books, and thinking we would actually use the crib for e versus as a storage facility, i actually bought a matching bumper and crib quilt from garnet hill. $180 or something completely stupid like that. arg. did they ever get used? um, maybe as decoration...surrounding the piles of clothes and dipes that populated the crib for the first 18 months of e's life! hee hee.

[Sara Mama]

Well, Supi, I've been meaning to make a bumper for..james' crib for the last 3 years!!!! As we speak the crib is back AND full of laundry! Although it is a safe place for john when I'm running to the bathroom or to attend to some other urgent matter...!


Camping!!!!
How's this for a plan:
Camp ONLY on Saturday night
AND have a tribal potluck dinner on Saturday for campers AND everyone else.
Other meals will be bring your own, as are plates, utensils, clean up stuff etc.
Email / PM me for details


:dust :flower:sunshine :dust :flower:dust :sunshine :flower:sunshine :dust :flower
:drool (that's me)
Helen - hope things work out in the south. Housing is really, really cheap there! The FL mama is near Orlando, I think.


:greet Bri's Mommy!



:-wool Hugo's mama! We've been missing you! What a neighbor lady!!!


:scared :hammer Cattrane, there's a real, live book very similar to your dream, did you see the book reviews in Sundays' Strib? Also we missed you this am, but there were hardly any berries and james was a terror....got up at 5:30 am, so....of course he's still up at 10 pm....ugh!

[moongloe]

hey girlies~

catt...my oh my what a dream! i bet wacka would love that she was the bad ass!

kd...i hope he is well soon! you're gonna be one tired mama at the end of the day.

crud. gotta go, i hadn't realized the time! i'll try to get back later in the day.
~peace and love, moon :dust :rainbow

[Devi]

Originally posted by Sara Mama
Camping!!!!
How's this for a plan:
Camp ONLY on Saturday night
AND have a tribal potluck dinner on Saturday for campers AND everyone else.
Other meals will be bring your own, as are plates, utensils, clean up stuff etc.

Love that idea. Still waiting to hear from a mama or two .... ?

And~Way to go James!!! :banana The dancing banana is for him.

Welcome Bris mummy, thanks for the movie thoughts.

Cattrane~I also have strange detailed dreams :eek, something in the name perhaps :shrug Apparently ('Wack' a doo) is a very appropriate user name for certain posters hmmmm...

Willowsmama~Florida it is! Need you ask?

Nygel, GET WELL SOON!!! :hug

Hugosmama~Woo Hoo! Online :jammin

Moongloe~Best wishes with the MIL :eyes

Snow enjoyed your friend much! Berrypickers, t'was nice to see you albeit short in some cases.

:wave

[Snow]

Have got my laptop out on the deck doing my writing, such a gorgeous day. So cool and just enough breeze to keep the bugs away. M just came out self-dressed in a leopard print long sleeved top and neon-bright striped shorts. Q approves.

OK, so the berry picking was fun if not fruitful - hee hee, pun intended. But I ordered a crate of fabulous mouthwatering peaches - the farmer has them trucked in fresh picked and says they'll just melt in your mouth. Anyway, when they arrive he is to call me. So I'll need to be making another trip out to that pretty farm and am sure that late crop raspberry patch will be loaded w/ berries then in another week or so --- if anyone else wants to come along, let me know. And if you want to call the farmer to order your own peaches I think Devi and Sara Mama have the number. Am working on getting the pics loaded into shutterfly (which means I'm not working on it at all but am fooling around on my writing sites while hanging out on the deck w/ my mismatched dd)

Sorry Nygel is sick again, poor little guy, best wishes to him

Anyone been to the farmers market lately? Seen Colin there? Is he at the Mpls one? I'd like to go check out his booth.

Can't figure out what is going on w/ camping so am laying low till it's clear. We'd still like to come fri aft - sat eve and then leave sometime late sat night. Q has a pretty cool commitment Sun a.m. so we wouldn't spend sat night. But if all else wanted to just do a swim and potluck, that might be ok...

(edited for grammar, not that you can tell)

[Devi]

Camping poll to help us undecided hotties make up our minds...

HERE YA GO! (http://216.92.20.151/discussions/showthread.php?threadid=78560)

[willowsmama]

WOOHOO!!!!!

SO dh parents said we can't stay at their condo when they're not there and when they are there, me & mine are welcome for a week.:rolleyes: Expected that thought. If the favor is something we would do for our kids, we pretty much know they will not .

but I was looking at the Gainesvilles sites and newspapers- I could rent a house bigger then mine for under 500.00!!!:eek :jaw :jaw I even found a few in around 400.00-450.00!
Um, if this works out with dh's work can we Gainesville here i come. There is still that little matter of me prolly giving birth there, but hey! it'll work out right?


Dreamin' of winter fun in FL

[battymomma]

no camping for us, as i think i have stated, as dearest friend is coming into town Fri eve--Wed aft.

darling bro moving to AZ as of Oct, for a 7 mo job at a "ranch" resort...

got Jayhawks tix today for First Ave in Sept--perhaps a last bash before dear bro leaves for the SW...

anyone else besides brown for Vag Monologues?? would like to get tix ASAP...

ok, tired tired momma here, after the kidlets and i were up at 5:30...eek!

hugos--GREAT to see you here! want to see you IRL soon!

willowsmomma--best of luck figuring this all out! and yes, it will all work out!

love to ya'll!

[cattrane]

mamar your email account hates me!!!

if you decide to camparoo, we've heard TONS of great things at work about Auntie Ruth's - and one of our clients works there and i'm sure would be happy to talk to you :)

dh and ds are out buying cake mix to make ds' birthday cake. apparently he has been harboring a grudge that we both told him he'd get a cake, just not ON his birthday, and he didn't, he only got cupcakes and a half-cake made with the leftover mix.

that was over FOUR MONTHS ago!!!! heehee

i despise bank balances today! my hospital director forgot while i was at mamagathering to put any of that time off in, and this last check also forgot to add the extra... for the first time in 3 years i am regretting my "oh autowithdrawing all our bills from my account would be soooo much easier" decision :eek

"Wack"adoo BWAHAHA!! but really, if anyone was gonna go all psycho like that i'd expect it to be hugos LMAO

[browneyedsol]

I'll second that LMAO but she'll argue with me after hearing the domestic up here tonite...just kidding...but bad mama night for Brown. :af Hey look, it's Fish and Blue's portrait of mama! :( Cattrane funny you should bring up cake...it's cake night I guess. I won't go into to it, but trust me...it's cake night. I WILL have my cake and eat it too is the moral of my story.

So yeah, I'm maxed. Just comin' on in to check up on y'all.

Loved the berry pickin' photos! Glad y'all had fun! I'm up for it next time. My brakes are done...after much ado...again, won't go into it...

Is this the, "I'm a zombie emoticon?" :eyes

Nygel are you feeling better? I sent your mama an email because calling tonite from brownhouse would have been not so good...

Okay, put this here mama to bed.

Update on my beaurocratic bullshit story when I have more energy.

Y'all are so durn attractive keepin' me up this late.

:thumb

I mean,

:zzz

[browneyedsol]

:D Snow IS the wise woman of the smokin' hotties...can't believe she even puts up with her shadow...LOL.

Okay for real...shaddup zombie bg!

:zzz

[Snow]

huh? OK, Who did that? Funny mamas ;)

Brown, sorry for the tumult in brownhouse, happens to us all, don't feel badly, you're an awesome mama and you're human too

Batty - what city in AZ? here I'm excited for him & haven't even met him irl!
(my home state ya know) oh, and I saw the Vagina Monologues w/ Nell Carter & Laurie Coleman a couple yrs back so will pass, but you'll love it!

Cattrane, got the "script" for CATS - made a copy for A. It's not a script per se ('cuz there isn't any dialogue, duh MEOW) but kind of a synopsis/stage direction and it is different than video or Broadway of course, we're trying a London theatre alley setting w/ abandoned marquees, props in a dumpster, that kind of thing. I also made a copy of the Broadway synopsis for him so he can compare and contrast, perhaps give us some notes ;) hee hee First prod mtg is Thursday...will have to see who is playing Victoria

Willows - great news about Fla, but you must come back - still waiting on Lizzie to return to us

Moon - how's the nannygirl drama going? hoping it all works out smoothly, so wise of you to end the situation. Is your MIL still among the living?

Sara Mama - how are things today? I never noticed James melting down while berry picking, just for the record - but am sorry you had a rough time of it. Hows the little guy and his colic?

Hugs to all

[moongloe]

hey mamas~

brown...there have been many a day when i went to bed wondering when the neighbors were gonna storm my place and demand all our vocal cords cut.

catt...again!?!?! omm that bites honey! can you ask for a non-sequencial check? i don't know what that is, but hopefully you know what i mean.

snow...yeah the job is over by month's end. i'm thrilled about it, but there is a part of me that is sad. i've been trying to figure out a way to bring in money...how about you move to sb and we open a theatre there? and lol, yes emil survived intact.

daam...today is ds' unbirthday. dh called in sick so we could spend the day together (ng left for family vacation). i can't believe he is 5 and a half already! life is speeding up. i gotta jam though, just got reminded i'm online to find out what's up at the museums, not 'chat with my hags'. rofl

~peace and love, moon :dust :rainbow

[kdmw]

:love Hey mommas. I should be scraping away at my kitchen floor, but had to take a break. Have probably said this here before, but linoleum *sucks*...why they ever put it over a wood floor is beyond me. :tsk Got the new oilily and jjill catalogues in the mail today!:drool Am drooling over both. Anyone wanna buy me a shopping spree?:wink

Thanks for the sickies-be-gone wishes. Nygel seems better today, but now Alec has come down with the crud. I shouldn't complain, though, as we have been so healthy this summer.:nod

Moon~ Happy unbirthday to S.!:love I still can't believe Alec and Imala will be 7 and 5 soon!

Snow~ I never knew you were from Arizona. My aunt lived there for many years-- she says she still misses it.

Willowsmama~ Am happy things are working out for you guys! I am sure Lizzie could give you some tips.

Speaking of Lizzie~ How are you? Feeling better, I hope?? :love

Brown~ Sorry for the bad momma night. I have felt a little :af around here myself with Sonny out of town. :hug 's to you.

Cattrane~ Banks suck, don't they? :angry I won't even bore you with what our's tried to pull on us, but they sure can be a pain in the :moon . Hope your stuff gets straightened out soon!

Okay, back to my scraping and drooling...:LOL

:-wool

[willowsmama]

OMG! W just took her first and hopefully last fall down the stairs. Of course, she's fine and I'm waiting for my heart to commence beating again. S took some recycling out and forgot to lock the gate when she came back up. W opened the gate and crept down backwards. S saw her and flipped. Dh *almost* had her arm i saw his finger graze her arm. When W looked up she tumbled down backwards, I swear in slow motion. Dh managed to grab her before she hit bottom, I could only scream. My poor baby........at least she's not bothered by her fall. Poor S is kicking herself now too......should be an interesting night 'round here.....

[mamarsupial]

helen - ack! poor babe & mama! would have given me a heart attack too.

campin' - i was hoping to call about a kennel, but still haven't gotten around to it. i will try calling feist tomorrow (thanks for the recommendation, sara) and see what we can work out. the only other glitch is that my mom's 3 year old dog, who she is VERY bonded too, was just diagnosed with an aggressive lymphoma. they may have to bring him down to the U vet school this weekend to start chemo, in which case they would be staying with us saturday night. they should know that by tomorrow too. so, we're very much on the maybe list. we really want to come and it should be a beautiful weekend.

ps. sorry i post all this downer news all the time. lemme think of a happy thought. hmmmm. oh, we got a new grill! dh got a bday check from his dad...so he bought a new grill with it. aaaaaand...i got my hair cut...and my eyebrows waxed (i'd been looking like a wild hungarian woman). oh, and my cat hasn't peed on anything lately! woo hoo!

[browneyedsol]

:eek Glad little Willow is okay! Hope the rest of you recover asap! How scarey.

I am feeling a bit more myself today. Last nights impatience and tension around here seemed horrible, but today we are all better. It was much like the very needed thunderstorm...comes in to cut through all the heat and stickiness and reminds everyone to go inside. Fish is very into button pushing lately and I have not been so centered these days so that is not the best combo...but he got the big boundaries last night, so hopefully things will chill. Thanks for the words!

I am realizing that when we are out in public, people react to Blue...more than I think is usual. O yes he's cute, and some of it is adoration, but when he is throwing his mega fits...it is quite the scene. People can be VERY disapproving and even shaming. I won't go into details, but when it all happens excellent to horrible in one afternoon...PHEW! I'm tired and confused.

Sara~ I did not get a lot from the guy, not sure his title...but the closest thing to a dean of students. I am more clear about some things, but not feeling good about about how things are handled at my new college...it seems not even he understands exactly how things work in my program. This is not such a good foot to get off on. My program is unique and I guess there's a side effect.
At least I'm feeling great about what I am doing, so...trying to let it roll off at the moment. I contemplated not continuing forward, but my neighbor lady has talked me out of that for the time.

Still trying to figure out camping, but pretty darn sure we will be there saturday.

Okay, off for now.



:hippie

[moongloe]

hey sisters~

will...i'm so glad the babe is ok! how scary!!!

kd...ugh more sickies? i hope he's better asap too! linoleum is nasty. i am a floor snob and hate everything but tile and wood. sadly in our apt we have carpet and linoleum. thank you for the unbday wishes!

brown...i think i know what you mean. i don't get it though, what would make a person think it was ok to comment? the other day ds was whining and my gf asked him why he was, and pointed out that he wasn't a 2yo. *sigh*

supi...it's ok to complain if you need. i'm glad to hear that there are good things going on too though. yay to no catpee!

daam...we took ds to the getty museum for the day! it was AMAZING! he was so well-behaved, and had such a great time. he said his favorite was 'the statues that had no heads' (the antiquities). they were breathtaking. i got to stand in front of a sketch by michelangelo. i just stood there staring, and crying. i don't know what it is about his work, but i love it so much. to know that inches from my face (and they are lucky it was locked behind glass) was the real thing!!!! pretty damn good day i must say. and great food! i got a mixed greens salad with artichoke hearts, asparagus and roasted pepper dressing, and dh had this yummy olive baguette with roasted veggies. ds had pb&j lol.

~peace and love, moon :dust :rainbow

[kaje62]

Hey all have not posted in awhile, been reading but not posting. Focusing on my last couple weeks of the pregnancy and going to three appointments a week from anywhere to 2 hours to 4 hours long, and talks about induction and my blood pressure that totally bum me out. Have not been doing any playgroups in a month but have been cleaning out drawers, organizing Charlie's baby book etc. And have been cooking on my non bedrest times.

Anyway tomorrow is my due date and I am depressed. I have been a bit weepy this morning. I have a c-section scheduled for next Friday and not sure how long they will let me go before they threaten induction again. I know it is not the end of the world but I so want a VBAC.

But I am popping on to say, I could really use some support, prayers, energy etc....

Going to see a foot reflexologist today, eating balsamic vinegar and keeping my legs uncrossed. By the way if anyone wants to meet up with Charlie and my mommy's helper at LH Park today around 1 p.m., let me know or see you there. She will be there with him while I get the treatment and run to Sprint cuz my battery died. Thanks all.

Also found out that our car needs brakes and air conditioning, major moula!! The brakes were done in March but the discount shop we went to messed them up and he is closed for remodeling for 6 weeks, I bet that is $600 we will kiss goodbye.

Best to you all, fun to read up on you and yours. I will hopefully be back to normal and responding etc. in a few weeks.

[mamarsupial]

kaje - i'm thinking openning thoughts for you! i hope things get moving soon. rent a funny movie, and sit on your birth ball and laugh as much as you are able.

:grouphug :baby COME ON BABY! WE'RE READY TO MEET YOU!!!! :baby :grouphug

[cattrane]

SNOW!!! i was thinking about your show yesterday, actually, and suddenly realized that ds will be very very very close to a REAL victoria. he has been trying to decide whether he is too embarassed to dress in his costume when he sees it for the first time :D admittedly, his costume is a bit thrown-together by a procrastinating mama that hasn't yet gotten around to fixing it! have i told you he answered the "are you a boy or a girl" query recently by saying "both-- when i am victoria then i am a girl."


oh moonie i would have loved to go to that museum!! i have always been awestruck by both micheangelo and davinci, actually since being in a play about davinci when i was a kid LOL

brown i am still trying to decipher what cake is a metaphor for LOL i have lots of tasty possibilities in mind - go forward go forward go forward (insert inappropriate crack about looking at yer butt here) - and hey you have no brakes, i have a dying transmission, let's hitchhike! how heavy can gear and kiddos be anyhow?

mamar best wishes to your fam - can i ask if your mom's dog is a boxer? just curious, i'm being a statistics nerd in my head. i will think thoughts of spontaneous remission and camping with the supis....that is incredibly selfish i just realized! +~+~+~+~

helen how scary! the one time ds fell down stairs was very much the same - he was doing just fine on his own until we went OH NO and he looked up, lost his balance and tumbled on down (concrete steps with huge spaces between them EEK) - luckily he has my family's huge thick skull and didn't even bruise LOL ~~ hopefully willow is dandy and not too eager to retry her newfound talent :D

hey kd i'll give you a shopping spree! what'll 0.42 buy you???? :p "scraping the floor" -- that is probably one thing i won't ever state i am doing. you are way more talented than i will ever be!! seriously our method of fixing the warp in our kitchen floor was to throw down a thrifted, frayed rug :D

[Snow]

eveing mamas

Well, our new fence is in and state farm deigned to pay a whole $18 towards it, so we declined to file. (huge deductible plus depreciation, despite us having "replacement costs" coverage) But it's pretty and smells good, mmm, fresh cedar. (& probably arsenic, no doubt it's treated & I'm snortin it in...)

Cattrane - cast list is out & I'm thrilled about our Victoria as she's one of my fav people, and a young mama of a very spirited 8 yr old girl - a perfect person to meet A and am sure she wouldn't mind at all. Prod mtg went great.

moon - wishing I could have tagged along at the getty - so cool. they had to pry me away from the Chicago Art Museum last fall, drooling at originals.

glad Willow is still among us! (& hugs to her awesome big sis who is no doubt suffering far worse)

brown - just try to stay calm when he erupts and ignore any stares - our spirited kids can be rather dramatic, must be startling to some(!) - keep cool babe and imagine the best in the minds of bystanders.

Q & I started a workout program at a gym today, it was fun!

love to all

[kdmw]

Hey mommas. I need to ask for prayers and support for my family right now. This night has me so shaken, I can't even tell you. My sister was driving down hwy 100 when someone came speeding up behind her; she went to make a lane change and lost control of the car. It flipped over and she was pinned inside-- with it still upside down. I am so freaked out right now. She was at Methodist, but is home now with cuts and bruises. The paramedics were surprised she even survived.

Please be safe all you mommas and babies.

[browneyedsol]

Oh my...getting my butt off to call you now!

[mamarsupial]

:grouphug :grouphug :grouphug :grouphug

KAJE - today is your due date...and i am thinking openning thoughts again for you today...playing with this pretty bead on my wrist and hoping it is soon around your neck.

KDMW - you are also in my thoughts and prayers today. someone must have been watching over your sister.

CATTRANE - he's an english setter. my mom's surrogate baby/husband/youth. he means the world to her. they met with the oncologist yesterday who said, if they do nothing, he has 1-2 weeks. if they do the most agressive chemo, it could buy him a year. a hard choice. thanks for your thoughts. we might come out for the potluck and then come home...just so we can see y'all.

:grouphug :grouphug :grouphug :grouphug

[mamarsupial]

snow - oh, and if its cedar, its prolly NOT treated :) sniff away? i love that smell too.

[mamarsupial]

i'm being really selfish this morning and posting a DAAM. KAJE and KDMW are going through so much right now. please skip over my venting and think about them today...i just need to vent...

S(elfish)DAAM - a bear of a morning here. i lost my temper with e for the third time this week (um, third time ever, really). she slept with us last night, which was fine, but between her squirms and the baby's, i didn't sleep. plus, the babe did this tremendous series of movements and then stopped...and didn't move again for a while. so i layed in bed worried. all i could think about was this story i heard at the childbirth collective about a woman who knew her child was in distress in utero, and went in and the cord was wrapped. i was freaking myself out big time. once s/he started moving again, i couldn't get back to sleep. i finally fell asleep again at 7am...then the dog woke me up at 8am. bill usually leaves at 8:15, so i had 15 minutes to do all the things i normally do in the morning...plus ella wanted pancakes, so i tried to do that and ended up burning my hand on the cast iron skillet (i was too tired to think "hot pad") and nearly chucked the thing across the room. once they were made (after switching pans) e was happy...for about 2 seconds...she wanted syrup on the pancakes, then didn't. she wanted them cut up, then didn't. i tried to calmly explain that i can't undo those kinds of things...and she chucked her plate at me. i lost my temper, but instead of yelling i just got up, walked away, and sat on the stairs and cried while i listened to her explain to her papa that the pancakes needed to be put back into 'big peices'. my saintly dh is taking the morning off. they are downstairs watching 'fantasia' on the lap top (was this really the best time to have gotten rid our tv?). i was supposed to help a friend from ecfe out today too and had to raincheck, so now i feel guilty on top of worried (dh taking time off we need for when the baby comes), grouchy, and tired. and hungry. and big and hot. and selfish.

maybe if we all collectively think wonderful happy thoughts today, all our woes will disolve? :love :love :love

[moongloe]

hey sisters~

kd...how horrible! sending love to you and yours.

supi...sorry about your crummy morning. just take a deep breath. your world will be in chaos for years and years. it is ok.

snow...mmmm cedar. what kind of exercise are you and q gonna do?

catt...seriously..."A & B's All Male Revue/Car Emporium"

gotta jam, no time even for a daam today.
~peace and love, moon :dust :rainbow

[mamarsupial]

moon - you deserve a daam too! hope your day calms down. thanks for your wise words. years of chaos, how true. thanks.

[Snow]

supi - give yourself a break you hot preggie mama! it's so easy to bite off more than we can chew and think we can put aside our own needs/personalities to be superwoman, superwife, supermama. but then when we achieve the promised goal, whether it be making toddler pancakes, touring the children's museum on a day of killer cramps, baking a cake from scratch while simultaneously supervising a child & her friends, or driving a carpool to and from preschool in between working from home and cleaning for a party ----- we aren't in any shape to enjoy whatever we just did, or deal with the kid who doesn't appreciate our sublime efforts. like Moon says, there's always something - life will have many many years of chaos, thank maude. who cares if you're ubermama if it makes you lousy company? (am speaking for myself, not you!) happens to me all the time. so, you've just gotta realize your own limitations and simplify. keep a box of Schwans frozen pancakes in the freezer, stay home the day AF arrives, buy the cake from the bakery (& frost it at home so it looks homemade - my way to cheat!), only allow one friend over at a time, and say no to the umpteenth carpool, blah blah blah anyway, that's what I do, helps but I still forget and bite off more than I can chew and make a kickass stirfry after working a matinee and having a head ache and while caring for 2 whining kids who are at each other's throats and then am such a u-know-what when it's time to eat that no one can stand being with me! {{{supi}}} you're a goddess, don't forget.

KDMW - am so relieved your sis was ok, relatively, and can see how it would still be so devastating to your family. hang in there, life is precious.

off to do Curves (stop snickering!) with Q

[mamarsupial]

snow - thanks for the kind, wise words, and the sage reminders. its hard saying 'no'...because most of the time i REALLY don't want to! seems like we've simplified so much...but then again, we JUST set up automatic bill pay and other time saving things. there is always room for improvement, right? we're going to the co-op today, and i'll buy out their frozen hemp waffles and what not :) oh, and i always make lousy company when i've bit off more than i can chew...and am too 'polite'/stubborn about accepting help. oh well, its my own fault. must remember always, to count my blessings, plentiful as they are! speaking of which...

1. :zzz E IS NAPPING :zzz thank heavens!
2. dh is a saint. :angel
3. the babe is moving like crazy today :baby
4. ordered king sized bed yesterday. :zzz
5. its csa day today. yum.
6. tonight we pick up donated pastries and other goodies from wuollet for API tmr. yum. will they last till tomorrow?
7. y'all. :grouphug

btw, mama gathering mamas - with api, we've made several contacts for donated yummies, including coffee. pm me if you're thinking about having goods (food) donated for mg and i can give you the names and contact info.

oh, and camping! we will try and come out for the potluck, but i think we're out for spending the night. kick me. i never got around to calling feist. sorrry. :(

[mamarsupial]

double post - sorry.

[Sara Mama]

Oh Supi, Snow is so right...chill mama. The boys and I can come over to play some am next week with E and you can chill your beautiful bod.

Katie - super yikes! Thank goodness she was so lucky

Helen - james did something similar once and and is now forever careful on said stairs. Glad everyone is okay!

Snow - glad you are taknig care of yourself and not over doing it this weekend. I'm sure your family will appreciate your company. We'll miss you though. I know lots of Curves affcianados! Good for you!


Mama's don't forget camping the END of September! I'll make a thread sometime soon.

DAAM - REI is having a great clearance sale...the money I just earned that I was going to buy a small freezer with went towards some awesome duds. I bought myself a totally funky snowboarder's jacket! something I could never have worn to my old job. I will be warm, plus satisfying my "need to be funky" urges! Plus, we bought john a snow suit for NEXT year....super deep discount! And I bought myself some pants...two sizes bigger than I usually wear!!!! It was so much easier to lose weight after james...too much stress and not enough exercise I guess. So I'm going to try and "schedule exercise in" -- plan errands that I can walk to...etc. Today james and I rollerbladed to the library while john hung with his papa! Oh and cool neon bright Nalgene bottles too!

Cool AP / Papa story....this ought to cheer you up Supi! while I was at the library, my dh had a great coversation with our soon to be new neighbors -- or the guy, the new born and an aunt. They were talking about breast feeding and the neighbor said they were doing bottles with BF and having problems, so my DH gives them the whole story about why they are having probs and why they should just BF!!!! The neighbors were amazed that he knew so much about it!

PS Supi - You've only lost your temper THREE times...oh my I can't even count for myself, but you know what? That's okay, so forgive yourself, mama.

[kaje62]

Alright ladies
not as good as labor
but my brother and his pregnant wife and his 2 year old son drove up 6 hours from Omaha and showed up on my steps to cheer me up so i guess we have company for Thai food. I have been crying. They are so sweet. Maybe this will make the baby come.
I am happy. I just love my brother Frank.

[mamarsupial]

sara mama - oooh, an rei shopping spree! i'm jealous. we have to avoid rei during sales or we buy the place out! i have no restraint. awesome about dh. i can totally see him being a wonderful lactivist! and i've only lost my temper a few times with e. only three times i've yelled at her...and that was within the last week. i've certainly felt very frustrated and/or angry with her...but never where i felt like i was about to or had lost control. i must get it from my dad - he's nearly stoic.

kaje - have fun with your brother. i'm thinking good thoughts for you tonight.

kdmw - thinking good thoughts for your family too tonight. :hug

snow - i bought freezer waffles tonight. buckwheat wildberry. i thought of you :) we also got some other convenience foods for e (yogurt things, annie's mac'n'cheese, etc.) so i don't need to be martha all the time (not that i have been. jessikate was just at our house and can vouch for the fact that i am NOT martha!).

picked up our treats from wuollet tonight. my goodness. they really loaded us up for the meeting tomorrow! lots of pastries and breads. plus, doulasarah is getting some freshly made coffee cakes from a bakery close to her place. now all we need is the coffee (also being generously donated to api!).

hope to see some of you at the api meeting tmr (11:15 - hamline/midway library - co-sleeping/family bed). for those going to sg, have a wonderful time! maybe we will get over there one of these days.