-M- 3,760 Posted June 3, 2011 Report Share Posted June 3, 2011 I'm not even sure I see any familiar faces. Might you wave me over to your couch if you "know" me? [*Padding gingerly across the room.*] Excuse me. Hello. Hi. 'scuse me. May I sit here? So. How have you been? What are you reading? Am I in the right place? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mrs Mungo 25,170 Posted June 3, 2011 Report Share Posted June 3, 2011 (edited) Welcome back! How have you been? :grouphug: eta: I changed my name in the switch from the old board, I was one of many Jens. Edited June 4, 2011 by Mrs Mungo Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jean in Newcastle 176,536 Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 Hello, good to see you! (You might not recognize me though because I was really shy back then.) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Julie in Austin 105 Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 Welcome back! Give us a life update, please. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
elegantlion 21,627 Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 Welcome back! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Audrey 18,803 Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 Welcome back! Pull up a chair. You're in the right place. Coffee or tea? :001_smile: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JudoMom 5,096 Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 (edited) Welcome back :grouphug::grouphug::grouphug:! (I was threelops on the old board and changed to JudoMom shortly before the switch)\ ETA: I'm reading Half Broke Horses. Edited June 4, 2011 by JudoMom Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JudoMom 5,096 Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 Hello, good to see you! (You might not recognize me though because I was really shy back then.) As you can see, she's gotten over that :lol:. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
*anj* 1,251 Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 Welcome back. It's nice to see you again. A lot of the old timers only pop in from time to time, but this is one of those times! :001_smile: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Halftime Hope 4,276 Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 (edited) grayer, with a softer heart, and more outspoken than ever, but still here! How is the boy who once had starfish fingers, and the little misses? ETA: my typing is getting worse, too. LOL ETA2: if someone can tell me how to correct a subject line, I'd be very grateful! ETA3: two down, one nearing the finish line (2 more years). Reading: gardening books; Known and Unknown. Edited June 4, 2011 by Valerie(TX) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JumpedIntoTheDeepEndFirst 1,694 Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 Welcome! Glad to see you! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
-M- 3,760 Posted June 4, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 Hello, everyone! I was worried.... Anyway, coffee, please, Audrey. And Julie... a life update, eh? Where to begin? How 'bout this? The Misses are both in high school now. Do you read M-mv? If not, here's a photo of them. I know: They're growing up *so* quickly. Mr. M-mv and I celebrated our twenty-fifth wedding anniversary last month, so I guess *we're* growing up, too. (*wry grin*) And without casting a pall on this merry reunion, I'll just say that we continue to miss our son fiercely every single day, but his laughter still rings in our ears. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mrs Mungo 25,170 Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 And without casting a pall on this merry reunion, I'll just say that we continue to miss our son fiercely every single day, but his laughter still rings in our ears. I'm terribly sorry for your loss. I truly cannot imagine. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Quiver0f10 610 Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 Welcome back! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
myfunnybunch 5,056 Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 I recognize you. I was mostly a lurker on the old board, and read your blog often. I'm re-reading David Copperfield and wishing my youngest was a little older, as it's just begging to be read out loud. Also reading Girls on Growing Up on the Autism Spectrum and Saving Seeds. Cat Quote Link to post Share on other sites
-M- 3,760 Posted June 4, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 (edited) Six months ago, our son, LCpl M-mv, died in an off-duty motor vehicle accident. You can't know the joy it brings me to realize that even virtual acquaintances remember him. Thank you for remembering starfish hands, Valerie. Edited June 4, 2011 by Mental multivitamin Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brenda in FL 141 Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 Welcome back - I saw a nightstand post on the board earlier today - and thought of you first! I have the same name, but I no longer live in FL - and I still don't post too often. But always enjoyed reading your posts. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FriedClams 5,479 Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 **cough** Excuse me, but that's my seat on the couch you're in. [sneer] Just wanted to make sure it felt like family here. That was may attempt at being the socially inept aunt/uncle/sibling/inlaw/cousin or whatever that we all have. Welcome home!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hen 779 Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 (edited) Welcome back! I remember you! I can't remember if I switched my name when the board changed. forgot to add, I am reading "Darcy and Fitzwilliam" and finishing "The Omnivore's Dilemma" and with my kids I am reading "Emily's run away imagination" and "The Mysterious Benedict Society" :) Edited June 4, 2011 by Hen Jen add books Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Imprimis 10 Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 (edited) Welcome back! I remember you from the old board; I always enjoyed your "On the Nightstand." Right now, I'm reading Ken Follett's Fall of Giants, and making my way through some London/England guide books. ETA: So very, very sorry to hear about your son. Edited June 4, 2011 by Imprimis Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lucy in Australia 470 Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 Hi! :seeya: Ok, now it feels more like the WTM boards - we missed you :) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JudoMom 5,096 Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 Six months ago, our son, LCpl M-mv, died in an off-duty motor vehicle accident. You can't know the joy it brings me to realize that even virtual acquaintances remember him. Thank you for remembering starfish hands, Valerie. I'll forever remember him as the Baywatch boy :001_smile:. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Amira 31,028 Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 Hi MFS! It's good to see you here again. I think we lived in Kyrgyzstan when you were here before, and now we're back again. (I point that out because it's the most identifying thing about me.) And I too am sorry for your loss. Even though I only ever read about your son here and on your blog, I wished my own boys could have known him. I'm always hoping for them to meet young men like him. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Halftime Hope 4,276 Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 (edited) Six months ago, our son, LCpl M-mv, died in an off-duty motor vehicle accident. You can't know the joy it brings me to realize that even virtual acquaintances remember him. Thank you for remembering starfish hands, Valerie. I was just looking at your blog, seeing the pictures of your sweet young women, and then looking for something that told about him, the dear *man* he must be growing up to be. And then I came to Apr 27, and now I'm sitting here crying for the the loss of the one who thought he was all that after several years lifeguarding, and who really *was* all that, after all you poured into him, and all the ways you chose to parent differently, and all the ways he chose to be a good (and funny!) man. Oh MFS, how can it be that someone I hardly know (well, really don't know...) can have such a grip on my heart, through your words that reflected who he was/is. What a loss. And what courage you have, knowing that coming here would bring this up. Sending you a gentle hug and my best wishes. Did he ever tell his second semester college class that he was homeschooled? Of to go find a box of kleenex, darn it.... Edited June 4, 2011 by Valerie(TX) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
patchfire 20 Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 I remember you! I was pretty much a lurker. Heck, sometimes I still am. But it's good to 'see' you here again. I, too, am so sorry for your loss. reading The Story of Stuff & 1434 actively. A whole lot more in the wings or sporadically. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jenny in Atl 1,432 Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 :hurray: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mcconnellboys 322 Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 You are most welcome! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
unsinkable 24,078 Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 I'm not even sure I see any familiar faces. Might you wave me over to your couch if you "know" me? [*Padding gingerly across the room.*] Excuse me. Hello. Hi. 'scuse me. May I sit here? So. How have you been? What are you reading? Am I in the right place? :grouphug: Welcome back! I am so sorry about your dear son. :grouphug: I loved the lifeguarding inspiration from Baywatch story! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Peela 406 Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 (edited) I remember you very well, MFS. Welcome :) And now I remember your loss, and I have tears. Thanks for being yourself. Edited June 4, 2011 by Peela Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sparrow 1,451 Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 I lurked completely on the old boards, and still mostly lurk here, but I have always read your blog. Welcome back! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Melora in NC 38 Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 So glad to have you back!! I do read your blog from time to time, and when I read about your loss I was so terribly sorry for you and your family & wished I could send my sympathy. From what you shared on the old board and on Mmv, he was a wonderful young man. I'm reading How to Live or A Life of Montaigne (by Sarah Bakewell), listening to A Distant Mirror (Barbara Tuchman), and reading aloud The Penderwicks at Point Mouette (by Jeanne Birdsall). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mommyfaithe 1,788 Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 Wow!! how are you??? I loved reading your posts and missed you greatly. Welcome home! Faithe Quote Link to post Share on other sites
C_l_e_0..Q_c 935 Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 I remember your name too! Welcome back. Deeply sorry about your son. :grouphug: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WTMCassandra 666 Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 Welcome back, MMV! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Parrothead 6,958 Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 Hi! Lovely to meet you. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LG Gone Wild 230 Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 Hey there! I don't remember what I called myself from the old boards but I am not actually black. Nice to see you again. :grouphug: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Perry 391 Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 :seeya: I know you. I had a different name on the old board, though. Great to see you back. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JFSinIL 5,945 Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 (edited) Well, hi there, long time no see! Now that I have read the above posts and caught up - so sorry for your tragic loss! :-( Edited June 4, 2011 by JFSinIL Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Margo out of lurking 101 Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 (edited) Seriously? I can't believe it's been that long since you've been on the boards (since you are new posting here)! I remember, well, your name, but not so much your face . . . :seeya: (I came out of lurking years ago on the old boards.) ETA: Reading through the threads here. I am so sorry about your ds. (((hug)))(((hug))) Edited June 4, 2011 by Kristine out of lurking Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hillary in KS 72 Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 Hi MFS!! :seeya: I'm hardly ever on WTM anymore, and most of the names you'd remember from 1999 to the present can probably be found more easily on Facebook nowadays. It's good to see you on WTM again. You've been missed. :) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jennifer 103 Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 Welcome back! I still have this post (the original, maybe from 05 or 06?) up on the fridge. Jennifer Quote Link to post Share on other sites
thescrappyhomeschooler 663 Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 I wasn't on the old boards, but just read a bit of your blog. So sorry about your wonderful boy. :grouphug: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Crissy 1,152 Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 :) I am reading To Kill a Mockingbird with Hunter (now 12). Nothing with Jeffrey, since he's in the middle of an H.P. Lovecraft collection (:eek:). My solitary reading consists of Geraldine Brooks' Caleb's Crossing and Kyung-Sook Shin’s Please Look After Mom. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Vida Winter 2,362 Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 Welcome back! Thanks for being an inspiration to many of us. I still have some of your old posts saved in a notebook. :grouphug: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
battlemaiden 202 Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 (edited) :D :hurray: I've missed you and I've thought of your family often. - Jo Oops. I forgot the reading question in my excitement. Reading: The History of the Ancient World with a chaser of Agatha Christie's Black Coffee. Edited June 4, 2011 by battlemaiden Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Anne in CA 8,658 Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 I remember you, and have missed you. I am sorry about your son, one of your blog posts about him not putting his cereal bowl in the sink and how much you enjoyed him is still a reminder to take pleasure in my own son. I will take it even closer to heart now. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Heather in WI 590 Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 :seeya: Hi MFS! I finished Catching Fire and am waiting on my turn for Mockingjay. I started Brideshead Revisited, am 1/3 of the way through Absolutely American, and am 3/4 of the way through The Shaping of a Christian Family. I'm glad to see you here. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
laughing lioness 1,564 Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 (edited) So glad to see you back! I am so deeply sorry to hear of your loss. Truly, truly. Reading: Godless by Coulter. Edited June 4, 2011 by laughing lioness Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beth in OH 330 Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 (edited) I've never been one of the more frequent posters, but I've been here daily since 1999! Welcome back!!!!I love reading your posts and your book recs! I'm currently reading: Bleak House, Dickens. Just finished: Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf and Pretty in Plaid, Jen Lancaster. I'm sorry about the loss of your son. I remember him through your posts. He was a special kid--he lifeguarded, didn't he? Beth Edited June 4, 2011 by Beth in OH Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Harriet Vane 9,547 Posted June 4, 2011 Report Share Posted June 4, 2011 (edited) Charmed to see you here again, Melissa. Love your blog. Loved it when you mused here as well. :cheers2: Edited to add what I'm reading: GK Chesterton's History of England Meandering my way through various of the #1 Ladies' Detective Agency books Evaluating various ancient lit pieces for dd's freshman year of high school. I'm having the time of my life and she is scared to death. And just for fun, and to see what all the hype is about . . . the Twilight series. I actually enjoyed the first couple books of the series (not so much the fourth), though I had to restrain myself from wanting to coach and edit as I went along. Edited June 4, 2011 by strider Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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