Renai Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 After reading the thread of a sister eloping, I'm just realizing that is what dh and I did. I guess I never really thought about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 Good Morning! I missed the party here, but we were at a friends house for dinner. Fun! Ikslo, hope you're sleeping in right now and feeling better when you wake up. Ducklings, I like all your house-reno posts, but I'm in patient with how long it takes to "like" something. Jean, glad you guys had a great time, hope your hips don't remember a thing when you wake up. Zarabellesmom! Great to see you! Renai - I like your end of the world forecast. Were you hoping the end was coming before your homework was due? I used to hope that a lot many, many years ago. :D Ah, old computers memories. I used floppy discs for an internship I had in college. I don't remember if we had email at the internship. I remember a new computer lab around my jr or sr year of college and using it for a paper one time. Before that - I'm not sure if I typed everything or maybe used the computer at my internship for papers? I remember doing spreadsheets in Lotus for Dos at same job. My elementary school got it's first computer when I was in the 6th grade. 100 6th graders crowded into the Audio-Visual room (as it was then called) to see it while our principal read to us from something (the manual?) and one of the geekier kids had it hooked to a cassette player and he made his name go across the screen a gazillion times and I quite wondered what was the point. (It's possible I've told that story before to these young whipper-snappers.) Krissi, your ice cream sounds awesome! Openhearted, hope your back in bed, sleeping soundly! It's like high school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renai Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 Did I kill the unschooling thread? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 Did I kill the unschooling thread? Probably. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texasmama Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 I recently went all woo woo Christian and killed a thread. RIP thread...forget which one. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renai Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 Thanks. :P It's just annoying for it to be okay that kids have a range of ages for learning in some areas and not others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 Thanks. :p It's just annoying for it to be okay that kids have a range of ages for learning in some areas and not others. I actually have a bit of a rebuttal for you on that thread but I wasn't feeling up to posting it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renai Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 I actually have a bit of a rebuttal for you on that thread but I wasn't feeling up to posting it. Oh, post it, Jean. We can't be happily agreeing about everything all the time. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 Thanks. :P It's just annoying for it to be okay that kids have a range of ages for learning in some areas and not others. Comparing Mary and John is amazing. At Mary's age John was reading CVC and adding small digits. Mary is nowhere near that. Nowhere. She taught him how to strap his shoes on right though! :lol: 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texasmama Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 I actually have a bit of a rebuttal for you on that thread but I wasn't feeling up to posting it. #Jeansaidbutt Also, in that vein, I just texted Jean a picture of an item I found at Hobby Lobby yesterday. It is "square butt shingles". Whoa. I think there are some meds for that. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 #Jeansaidbutt Also, in that vein, I just texted Jean a picture of an item I found at Hobby Lobby yesterday. It is "square butt shingles". Whoa. I think there are some meds for that. Are there meds for "nice firm round butt"? I need those. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 Did I kill the unschooling thread? :cursing: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renai Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 Dancer's Spanish reading book came in today, as well as Gymnast's Spanish workbook from a series we haven't started, and a Spanish daily devotional for dh and I. I got them all from Milestone Books. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renai Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 :cursing: Don't worry, I don't think it's dead yet. Or, was it something else I did? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 There are two (at least) unschooling threads going on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texasmama Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 Just found out that my son put out with the trash an amazon boxed up item that I was going to return. Why? Who can say? It was not with the trash to be carried out. That was in the garage. This was inside. Now it is gone, with my $30. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 I could think up a chore worth $30. . . . (I understand mistakes but I also understand needing to learn to think things through and maybe asking a clarifying question or two. . . ) 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 Mary has 4 what look like mosquito bites. :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 This board is being overtaken by spammers. I think they are zombies in disguise. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texasmama Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 This board is being overtaken by spammers. I think they are zombies in disguise. A spammer used my words on a thread the other day. I felt really special. :D I read the unschooling thread. I don't think you (Renai) killed it. (At least not the one I read, which was the lady with a 7 year old counting to 75.) If this is the wrong thread, link me up so I can evaluate the status of it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Critterfixer Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 This board is being overtaken by spammers. I think they are zombies in disguise. :zombiechase: Because I need a reason to use zombicon. MIL is having a tough day today. Weak, not wanting to eat much. But they are giving her a few units of blood, so she should feel better soon. I bought some sleep-aid herbal potion for DH to take. The man woke me up this morning to tell me he couldn't sleep. :wacko: 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 I'm sorry, Critter, about your mom-in-law. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrissiK Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 So, if you were my neighbor, and my 11 year old son with the sparkly brown eyes and charming smile came by your house with a couple of bunches of home-grown-sweet-freshly-picked green grapes in a bag and offered them to you because our grape vine is going crazy and we're giving all our neighbors grapes, would you tell him you didn't want them and shut the door? Because this is what our freaky neighbor did this morning. This family is so odd, but now I'm just a little offended. They've lived there 6-7 years, they don't make eye contact, they completely avoid everyone on our block. And I would say all of the people on our block are nice, friendly people. But good grief, even if you hate grapes.... take them and say,"Thank you!". DH says there's something seriously wrong with these people. Not just because of the grape incident but because of how they've been ever since they've moved in. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 2:30 pm - I just got dressed and loaded the dishwasher and got it running. At least one of my mechanical minions is doing stuff around here. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Critterfixer Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 So, if you were my neighbor, and my 11 year old son with the sparkly brown eyes and charming smile came by your house with a couple of bunches of home-grown-sweet-freshly-picked green grapes in a bag and offered them to you because our grape vine is going crazy and we're giving all our neighbors grapes, would you tell him you didn't want them and shut the door? Because this is what our freaky neighbor did this morning. This family is so odd, but now I'm just a little offended. They've lived there 6-7 years, they don't make eye contact, they completely avoid everyone on our block. And I would say all of the people on our block are nice, friendly people. But good grief, even if you hate grapes.... take them and say,"Thank you!". DH says there's something seriously wrong with these people. Not just because of the grape incident but because of how they've been ever since they've moved in. Who turns down fresh-off-the-vine anything? Their loss, I say. Send them my way! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texasmama Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 :grouphug: to Critter's MIL. One always accepts gifts of grapes from children. One son is trying to help the other with Spanish, which is the benefit and drawback of them taking the same online course. However, help can go too far, as in having one son burst into the other son's room two nights in a row when the child was about asleep to ask questions about Spanish homework. :huh: Who does that? Oh, the same one who threw away my Amazon return. :confused1: I am making bbq meatloaf and mashed potatoes. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in TN Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 So, if you were my neighbor, and my 11 year old son with the sparkly brown eyes and charming smile came by your house with a couple of bunches of home-grown-sweet-freshly-picked green grapes in a bag and offered them to you because our grape vine is going crazy and we're giving all our neighbors grapes, would you tell him you didn't want them and shut the door? Because this is what our freaky neighbor did this morning. This family is so odd, but now I'm just a little offended. They've lived there 6-7 years, they don't make eye contact, they completely avoid everyone on our block. And I would say all of the people on our block are nice, friendly people. But good grief, even if you hate grapes.... take them and say,"Thank you!". DH says there's something seriously wrong with these people. Not just because of the grape incident but because of how they've been ever since they've moved in. Elephant Ninjas, at the ready! (Reminds me of one Christmas when we gave a friend of mine and her family some homemade hot chocolate and something else that I can't remember. They were nicely wrapped and included our Christmas card. She took them and then handed the jar of hot chocolate mix back, saying she just didn't think they wanted it. Uh, OK then. Merry Christmas to you, too. We don't have much to do wtih each other any more.) 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 So, if you were my neighbor, and my 11 year old son with the sparkly brown eyes and charming smile came by your house with a couple of bunches of home-grown-sweet-freshly-picked green grapes in a bag and offered them to you because our grape vine is going crazy and we're giving all our neighbors grapes, would you tell him you didn't want them and shut the door? Because this is what our freaky neighbor did this morning. This family is so odd, but now I'm just a little offended. They've lived there 6-7 years, they don't make eye contact, they completely avoid everyone on our block. And I would say all of the people on our block are nice, friendly people. But good grief, even if you hate grapes.... take them and say,"Thank you!". DH says there's something seriously wrong with these people. Not just because of the grape incident but because of how they've been ever since they've moved in. ITA with Mr. KrissiK. There's something seriously wrong with those people. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texasmama Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 Ds12 - "Mom, your daughter is in here sticking her fingers in the potatoes." Addressing little dd, "Little dd, what part of the potatoes did you put your fingers into so I can quarantine them?" Then little dd put on surgical gloves to stick her fingers into the potatoes. Me - "Little dd, do not stick your gloved fingers into the potatoes. If you want more, put more on your plate." #lifeatmyhouse 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texasmama Posted September 12, 2015 Share Posted September 12, 2015 Elephant Ninjas, at the ready! (Reminds me of one Christmas when we gave a friend of mine and her family some homemade hot chocolate and something else that I can't remember. They were nicely wrapped and included our Christmas card. She took them and then handed the jar of hot chocolate mix back, saying she just didn't think they wanted it. Uh, OK then. Merry Christmas to you, too. We don't have much to do wtih each other any more.) Who does this??? #exfriends 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renai Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 Ok, so I guess now I'm boring. :( 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renai Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 Surely, everyone doesn't have such lives that they are actually ignoring this thread? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in TN Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 Surely, everyone doesn't have such lives that they are actually ignoring this thread? My ultra exciting evening has consisted of doing the dishes, deboning and freezing turkey meat, putting the girls to bed, and watching 2 episodes of W1A on Netflix. I am now headed to take a shower. Then I may watch more W1A or Person of Interest. Boring is the new exciting. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wintermom Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 Surely, everyone doesn't have such lives that they are actually ignoring this thread? Just returned from our tennis club AGM. Dh and I won some SWAG! Tennis balls, grips, water bottle and t-shirt. Great! I also devoured almost a whole bag of Doritos - I didn't have dinner and got the muchies big time. :leaving: 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wintermom Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 Hey, check out the Canada goose thread for some fun and educational information on flight patterns of the crazy, attack birds. ;) Krissi, you could send a Canada goose over to the grape-hating neighbour. :laugh: 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renai Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 :lol: Hey, check out the Canada goose thread for some fun and educational information on flight patterns of the crazy, attack birds. ;) Krissi, you could send a Canada goose over to the grape-hating neighbour. :laugh: 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renai Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 I'm daydreaming instead of doing homework. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in TN Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 I'm daydreaming instead of doing homework. Oooo Dreeeeeeeaaaaaam Weaver, I believe you can get me through the night! 1976 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wintermom Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 Oooo Dreeeeeeeaaaaaam Weaver, I believe you can get me through the night! 1976 I missed the date the first time I read your post. Are you a soft rock historian or something? :lol: What year did Rex Smith sing, "You take my breath away." Same decade, I believe. I also LOVED "All by myself, don't wanna be, all by myself anymore." That is until I saw a video on youtube of the artist in a blue velvet suit with lace cuffs. :crying: 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wintermom Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 I also LOVED "All by myself, don't wanna be, all by myself anymore." That is until I saw a video on youtube of the artist in a blue velvet suit with lace cuffs. :crying: No, it was this video (same era); "Alone Again Naturally" by Gilbert O'Sullivan. I still love the song, but it's really hard to block out the image. :laugh: 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wintermom Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 Hey, when did the male falsetto stop being so popular? You know, the super-high male voices of the Beach Boys and Andy Gibb? In the 80s and 90s it was the female, breathy high voice a la Mariah Carey. Inquiring minds want to know. :laugh: 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 Sorry. I was playing with my short people. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renai Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 Sorry. I was playing with my short people. One of my short people is taller than me, and the other is quickly catching up. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renai Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 My shortest short person was taking a bath after having played in a lot mud/dirt. As she watched the black wash off her feet, she sadly told me that she wasn't going to be my color anymore. I let her know that what she had wasn't color, but dirt, and she's beautiful as she is - when clean. She was still sad, as she said she wanted to be my color. She was satisfied when I told her that maybe as she gets older she'll be closer to my color. I hate lying, but she gets obsessed over issues. Like the time she spent days on end crying and lamenting of how she wanted to be married and be a mom but didn't want to leave me. She finally settled down after I told her that she and her husband could live with me. I have a weird kid. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 One of my short people is taller than me, and the other is quickly catching up. I believe John might be taller than me by the time he's 10. Mary's rather normal. She might always be shorter than me. I'd like to see John next to you. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 My shortest short person was taking a bath after having played in a lot mud/dirt. As she watched the black wash off her feet, she sadly told me that she wasn't going to be my color anymore. I let her know that what she had wasn't color, but dirt, and she's beautiful as she is - when clean. She was still sad, as she said she wanted to be my color. She was satisfied when I told her that maybe as she gets older she'll be closer to my color. I hate lying, but she gets obsessed over issues. Like the time she spent days on end crying and lamenting of how she wanted to be married and be a mom but didn't want to leave me. She finally settled down after I told her that she and her husband could live with me. I have a weird kid. This is adorable. Mary becomes ecstatic when she gets to dress like me. I keep meaning to make us matching tutus. I need to before she gets too big. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Another Lynn Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 Good Morning! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Critterfixer Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 My shortest short person was taking a bath after having played in a lot mud/dirt. As she watched the black wash off her feet, she sadly told me that she wasn't going to be my color anymore. I let her know that what she had wasn't color, but dirt, and she's beautiful as she is - when clean. She was still sad, as she said she wanted to be my color. She was satisfied when I told her that maybe as she gets older she'll be closer to my color. I hate lying, but she gets obsessed over issues. Like the time she spent days on end crying and lamenting of how she wanted to be married and be a mom but didn't want to leave me. She finally settled down after I told her that she and her husband could live with me. I have a weird kid. Nah, just sweet. I have one a lot like that. How about that? Booya! 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wintermom Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 One of my short people is taller than me, and the other is quickly catching up. None of my short people are taller than me yet, but I'm very sure they will eventually. I need to be nice to them now for when that time comes. ;) 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Critterfixer Posted September 13, 2015 Share Posted September 13, 2015 MIL was able to get up and walk today!!!! Not very far or for long, but she got up and walked! :hurray: 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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