Another Unofficial Chatterbox Thread- Everyone is Welcome!

[staley7580]

Your just lucky I dont mind pawning my babies off on my older kids.. Otherwise I would be stuck on the couch feeding Jasmine. Actually Alex got home and BEGGED to hold his baby sister. He is so in love with her, it cracks me up. He said to me... momma.. Jasmine is the most BEAUTIFUL baby in the whole world!! So I asked what he thought of Vinny.. Apparently.. he is just kinda funny looking. I thinks its the big head.

 

[staley7580]

I just had a silly thought..

look at this again ----------------->

Am I the only one who thougt of some overly happy chesticles?

I am the only one? okay.. that's cool. I blame it on Alison's Tubby Toast.

I think you are the only one.

yeah and ?

Are you guys getting a visitor?? Maybe?? You know... someone you havent seen in a while??

But I could be totally off base. If I am, just ignore me.

 

[funnygarcia]

It's a little crazy and not quite worked out.. but it involves one person who has been gone since the fall.. and technically doesn't have leave until two more weeks.

SUPRISE!

How's that for a 70th birthday present..and a Mother's Day gift all in one very short weekend!

He was joking with me yesterday ..

gosh I hope I don't give him another heart attack

 

[staley7580]

It's a little crazy and not quite worked out.. but it involves one person who has been gone since the fall.. and technically doesn't have leave until two more weeks.

SUPRISE!

How's that for a 70th birthday present..and a Mother's Day gift all in one very short weekend!

He was joking with me yesterday ..

gosh I hope I don't give him another heart attack

I KNEW IT!! Im so smart it hurts sometimes.. How exciting!!

 

[funnygarcia]

So I asked what he thought of Vinny.. Apparently.. he is just kinda funny looking. I thinks its the big head.

That's one to write in the baby book!
Kids are so funny!

 

[staley7580]

That's one to write in the baby book!
Kids are so funny!

I know!

 

[funnygarcia]

But we ran into a snag..
Silly boy decided to fly in here to metro area, but back to CA out of our hometown. He wants to rent a car, we agreed to rent one for him but it would be a one way rental.. $450!
Two day rental for economy car with same pick up/drop would have been only $40

I told him-- no can do on rental car. We are now scratching our heads trying to decide, I had already offered a ride up to my parents' for my oldest DN (his dad is out of town) .. RAV only seats 5

 

[staley7580]

BERNICE???? Did I scare you off with the size of my brain?? Or the size of Vinny's head? Or the massive black cloud over my head? Ugh.. I started my first after baby period yesterday. I thought I had one a few weeks ago, but it was just spotting.. Right now however.. I feel like I am freaking hemorrhaging. Its GROSS. Just in case anyone was wondering.

 

[staley7580]

But we ran into a snag..
Silly boy decided to fly in here to metro area, but back to CA out of our hometown. He wants to rent a car, we agreed to rent one for him but it would be a one way rental.. $450!
Two day rental for economy car with same pick up/drop would have been only $40

I told him-- no can do on rental car. We are now scratching our heads trying to decide, I had already offered a ride up to my parents' for my oldest DN (his dad is out of town) .. RAV only seats 5

Fold him up and stick him in the back.

 

[funnygarcia]

I'm thinking of renting a minvan, drive the whole crew and from there he could beg/ borrow a car. He's got lots of friends.. I'm sure he could find a car for one day.

I know it totally would cramp his style to do the family drive though.

 

[funnygarcia]

Fold him up and stick him in the back.

sure, fold a 6 ft Marine and wedge him in behind the seats for a 2 hour drive.. yeah that would be fun.
He would never want to see me again!

 

[staley7580]

I'm thinking of renting a minvan, drive the whole crew and from there he could beg/ borrow a car. He's got lots of friends.. I'm sure he could find a car for one day.

I know it totally would cramp his style to do the family drive though.

Sounds like a plan, Stan. Wont he be with the family the whole time?

 

[funnygarcia]

Ugh.. I started my first after baby period yesterday. I thought I had one a few weeks ago, but it was just spotting.. Right now however.. I feel like I am freaking hemorrhaging. Its GROSS. Just in case anyone was wondering.

Lovely.. must we share everything?
(me too, open the flood gates here it comes. Bodyfluids are so nasty sometimes)

 

[staley7580]

Lovely.. must we share everything?
(me too, open the flood gates here it comes. Bodyfluids are so nasty sometimes)

Indeed we must! Its confounding me a tad... I dont remember this happening with my other two kids. But then I have never given birth to twins before, so I guess everything is bound to be different, eh? On a happier note.. I have decided my husband will have a vasectomy. Isnt that nice of me?

 

[funnygarcia]

Sounds like a plan, Stan. Wont he be with the family the whole time?

He said something about his girlfriend.
And he would want to visit his mom - parents are divorced.

I think it's too much to plan and he should just do the family thing. but ya know.. he would't listen to that advice.. stubborn and young.

 

[staley7580]

He said something about his girlfriend.
And he would want to visit his mom - parents are divorced.

I think it's too much to plan and he should just do the family thing. but ya know.. he would't listen to that advice.. stubborn and young.

OOOHHH.. Okay. I get it! Kids... what can you do?

 

[funnygarcia]

Indeed we must! Its confounding me a tad... I dont remember this happening with my other two kids. But then I have never given birth to twins before, so I guess everything is bound to be different, eh? On a happier note.. I have decided my husband will have a vasectomy. Isnt that nice of me?

Mine was different after Noah and it's gradually changing as I get older. My sister is starting to have late/missed/spotting - about the same age as when our mom started the process.

How very nice of you !
Ice packs, tylenol and a supporter.. he will be just fine.
E had his done at a planned parenthood. Kinda funny walking thru abortion protestors at the time. LOL

 

[staley7580]

Mine was different after Noah and it's gradually changing as I get older. My sister is starting to have late/missed/spotting - about the same age as when our mom started the process.

How very nice of you !
Ice packs, tylenol and a supporter.. he will be just fine.
E had his done at a planned parenthood. Kinda funny walking thru abortion protestors at the time. LOL

I wish I could just have my innards removed. I got a little sad after having the twins with the thought that my child bearing days were over.. I even thought that we would probably have more kids. Now.. Im sure we are DONE. Frelan is not so sure. He keeps hinting around that in a few years we might want to revisit the baby having issue. But we have FOUR KIDS. Thats a lot! The next person who looks at me with pity in their eyes and saying that I am either... really busy, superwoman, crazy, or.. I dont know, WHATEVER.. is going to get one of my babies shoved in their butt.

Okay.. I was totally on a rant about something, and comcast called and totally threw me off. I have lost my steam, so what were we talking about? Oh yeah! Your super exciting news!

 

[AZMickeyfans]

Cheer up punky pie! We are ALL FLAT BROKE!! As a matter of fact our entire nation is FLAT BROKE!! And yet I laugh about it.

I think I've been having a midlife crisis since age 27, so you're in good company. Of course that was also the age that I had my first child. Life just has it's ups and downs doesn't it. Whenever I get to feeling a bit overwhelmed I try to just look at the little pieces and not the whole big picture. That and try to focus on the future. Set some little goals and before you know it, you'll be accomplishing bigger things.

For instance there was a time I thought I could NEVER finish college, work full time and have a child. But I put my mind to it and took 1 class every quarter on my lunch break. Granted it took me 6 more years to graduate, but I did it. You can to...the hardest part is just thinking about it and taking that first step.

So here's my Megan plan:

1. Get online and find website of nearby community college. Peruse the classes, see what might interest you, check out what degrees are offered. This can be done when you are broke! Cost $0.

2. Call the financial aid people and see what is available.

3 Schedule a day that Frelan will be home and go take the test to see what classes you must start with. Make it a goal to do this before September 1st. Cost $0 or perhaps cost of a babysitter for a few hours.

4. Decide when you want to start classes! Set a date and put it on the calendar. Say, the first quarter after the baby's 1st birthday. WRITE IT ON A CALENDAR.

4. The day after twins first birthday, find out next date to sign up for classes and sign up for 1 class. Sign up for 1 class only. It can even be an online class. But sign up.

The rest after that is gravy!

Now the job thing...let's be realistic. Having 4 small children and trying to work full time will be, what shall I call it?? Oh yeah...NUTS! How about finding a local business, even fast food or something where you can work for just a few hours a week. Just enough to get you out of the house, feel good about yourself, be able to communicate with people that don't drink from sippy cups and let you know that you are valued.

I like her plan!

alison, I'll be praying your dh finds out about jobs soon! Dh got a surprise phone interview from.......................................where is Alex............................................................................Starbucks! He was up in the attic of my moms house cleaning and they just called him asking if they could do an interview. The look on his face was priceless as he tried to get down the hole, onto the ladder and not fall or drop the phone! who knows!

We found out no severance today also. Jerks! I'm really hating them right now but no more time spent on them. Hopefully we will find something soon and be on with our lives. Paradise stinks! ON top of everything my brother from somewhere overseas or in the seas who knows emailed a nasty letter to us about how we were not very good with our money always putting the kids in things and going to Disney etc. We should have had at least a savings of a year. OK come on, now that would be idea but how many restaurant managers with stay at home moms of little kids have a years worth of savings??? we are not in danger of losing our house just yet MR. I was so mad. He gets judgemental sometimes and its easy for him to do when he's halfway across the world. UGH.

OK then we went to my moms house and put all of her stuff from the garage in the attic. We had to go to storage and get the rest of her stuff that has been stored there for about 5 years. Its paperwork from my dads old business. We are not sure if we have to hang on to it or not. Anyway, after taking about half of the legal boxes (there are about 30) over to my moms we discovered termites in some of them. OMG!TERMITES!!!! We dont want this in my moms rafter filled attic!!!!! Shoot! We ran home and grabbed the boxes and brought BACK to storage hoping they were not contaminated or none had gotten out yet. They were only there about a half an hour.

SO, we are trying to figure out what to do. Some of the stuff needs to be gone through but its personal information of his old clients so we cannot just throw it in the garbage. That would be easy. We are thinking they need to be burned. Mom says they are old enough to get rid of. Now we dont know how to do this because we dont want to bring them back to our fire pit and burn them here in case they get out and scatter everywhere. I mean there were THOUSANDS So we were laughing at what to do. Maybe take them to a campground and carefully throw them on a campfire a few papers at a time? Maybe get a metal trash can and burn them that way but where to do it? Douse them with bleach and try to kill them first? But how can we be sure? We were cracking up at ideas. Believe me they got creative and I wont say on here because we've gotten in trouble for joke ideas before that people took too seriously but we were laughing our butts off.

So to recap, not such a good day but I'm still in a great mood anyway and thats all that matters. Like Alison, we are all flat broke but I'm laughing. Insanely laughing possibly but laughing still!!! Oh, except the STarbucks interview was good!

 

[sameyeyam]

I just had a silly thought..

look at this again ----------------->

Am I the only one who thougt of some overly happy chesticles?

I am the only one? okay.. that's cool. I blame it on Alison's Tubby Toast.

I didn't say drink a margarita with the tubby toast!

But we ran into a snag..
Silly boy decided to fly in here to metro area, but back to CA out of our hometown. He wants to rent a car, we agreed to rent one for him but it would be a one way rental.. $450!
Two day rental for economy car with same pick up/drop would have been only $40

I told him-- no can do on rental car. We are now scratching our heads trying to decide, I had already offered a ride up to my parents' for my oldest DN (his dad is out of town) .. RAV only seats 5

Luggage rack still work??

Lovely.. must we share everything?
(me too, open the flood gates here it comes. Bodyfluids are so nasty sometimes)

You otter try hot flashes...you'll come to appreciate body fluids.

Indeed we must! Its confounding me a tad... I dont remember this happening with my other two kids. But then I have never given birth to twins before, so I guess everything is bound to be different, eh? On a happier note.. I have decided my husband will have a vasectomy. Isnt that nice of me?

DH highly recommends a couple bags of frozen peas for afterwards.