Childfree (by choice) Disney Lovers!

[roomthreeseventeen]

Yikes. Cody's real breakfast time is 7:45 AM, which we're trying to stick to. If we fed her at 5am, she'd just be back at 5:10 to play.

 

[maddhatir]

Hola!

He IS like that! haha! I am serious, he refuses to go to McDonalds bc "there are too many noisy kids there!"

Glad you had a good trip chicky!

OMG- I want to hang out with Wes I can take him on RRC!!! OMG when I read that story on FB I was PMSL!!!

I wish more people with children had this same attitude. I have had people get almost angry with me for being CF. And I mean people in real life not just on internet communities. I agree with HockeyKat saying it is almost never well received when you say you don't like children. The only thing that seems to make people more uppset is if when questioned about beliefs I say I'm an atheist.

When people ask me if I have kids, I always say "OH GOD NO!" I think they get the hint. I never had anyone say anything rude to me, but I AM waiting for the day to let someone have it.

Oh and Laura- we are in the same boat. I am more of an "earth based" religion girl. Don't believe in god, the devil or the bible.

Honestly- I feel more like a free spirit and consider myself very lucky to think the way I do- I don't drink the Kool-Aid. Just DH and I going along our merry way, making our own choices and not worrying what other people want us to do.

If anyone has anything to say about- ah, well, that is just funny-- if you know me, don't even try it. If you don't know me- all I have to say is, bring it on, AND let me add, good luck

 

[maddhatir]

Our 20 lbs cat has the same 5am feeding time; but he sits on your head to wake you up! A 20 lbs tushy in your face at anytime is bad news.

20 lbs!!! How cute!!! Got a pic???

Mom's cat is 13lbs and I think he is big!

 

[HockeyKat]

20 lbs, holy crap!!

Ours are 7.5 and 9 lbs. Although they still manage to focus every lb on each foot when walking on you.

Our youngest has the same problem with trying to get us up, but it's usually more around 7:30-8AM (we get up around 9).

 

[roomthreeseventeen]

This is my little devil.

 

[maddhatir]

Oh she's so cute- that little face is adorable!!! {{squoooosh}}

DH and I can't have animals- allergies AND asthma. I should tell people that is why we don't have kids.

I do love all animals though- so much so, that they are the reason I became a vegetarian....don't wear leather, fur, use products tested on animals, the whole 9 Animals make my heart melt.

 

[HockeyKat]

Oh my goodness!! So cute!!

Here are mine:

 

[maddhatir]

Kat- your babies are so cute!!!!

 

[HockeyKat]

Thanks!! They are such little sweeties, too. They have both been taught to "kiss" (bump their nose against yours), and both love to cuddle and sleep on you.

The little one (calico) has never hissed or bit in the almost 2 years since we got her, at 10 weeks old. The older one we call Bea Arthur... she murrrrs a lot and will hiss, but never ever bites. We say she complains a lot but doesn't really back it up! Neither have claws.

 

[roomthreeseventeen]

Bea Arthur is an excellent name for a kitten. My SO played Bea Arthur's son on Broadway

 

[SanFranciscan]

My husband just handed me an article about children on airplanes, which was printed last week in the USA Today. Allegedly some airlines want to treat unruly children the same way they treat drunks and divert airplanes at the parents' expense if necessary. What do you think of this?

I haven't read the article yet, but my husband said that one kid went down the aisle hitting passengers. The parents just thought that that was funny. If I saw a little brat doing that, I would tell him that if he hit me I was going to hit his mommy. Let's see how funny the parents thought that that was. Too young to behave on an airplane is too young to fly.

 

[Shyvioletisme]

This morning I was the very angry mother of a kitty!

Cody has decided that 5am is breakfast time, no matter what. So she'll kiss and jump and run around, and when we don't feed her, she'll kiss and jump and run around, etc. She even learned how to open the bedroom door to get back in after we shut her out.

lol. Our Kitty Lestat the past few days has not decided that nighttime is playtime and we should be awake to play with him all night. For newcomers, my DH's company laid off nearly everyone in December and we ended up having to move back to our hometown and in with my parents. So we are inhabiting my old childhood bedroom. My parents have 3 cats and Lestat has been an only cat for at least 6.5 years. So he is not taking well to the other cats and tends to want to spend all his time locked up in our room.
So at night lately, he tends to keep jumping up on the shelf above our bed and walking over to the door and scratching and scratching, which wakes us up and he wants to play...ALL night..ugh...we've been up most of the night the past few days...sometimes I think he is worse than having a baby...

 

[Shyvioletisme]

My husband just handed me an article about children on airplanes, which was printed last week in the USA Today. Allegedly some airlines want to treat unruly children the same way they treat drunks and divert airplanes at the parents' expense if necessary. What do you think of this?

I haven't read the article yet, but my husband said that one kid went down the aisle hitting passengers. The parents just thought that that was funny. If I saw a little brat doing that, I would tell him that if he hit me I was going to hit his mommy. Let's see how funny the parents thought that that was. Too young to behave on an airplane is too young to fly.

I think it's a decent idea. If a child is posing that much of a disturbance to the other passengers, then something needs to be done.
Problem is the kinds of parents this would encompass are the kind that think everything their snowflake does is "just precious" and probably still wouldn't get the message even after getting booted off a plane.

 

[HockeyKat]

Bea Arthur is an excellent name for a kitten. My SO played Bea Arthur's son on Broadway

Her name is actually Trinity, after Trinity from the Matrix, because when we first got her she bounced off the walls like that. Bea Arthur is just a nickname when she murrrs... she has a really deep cat voice, as well.

And, that's awesome!! I love Bea Arthur.

 

[zima-cheryl]

Kat -- is your white cat albino (sp?)? Or just all white?
If just all white, are the eyes the same color? And is she deaf?

 

[HockeyKat]

She is all white, with green eyes, and not deaf. She is 9 years old. The calico will be 2 this spring.

White cats with blue eyes tend to be deaf (some sort of genetic link, I think), but not the green-eyed ones, thankfully.

 

[roomthreeseventeen]

I think Cody is selectively deaf. She doesn't hear the word "no".

 

[HockeyKat]

I think Cody is selectively deaf. She doesn't hear the word "no".

Hmm, selectively deaf. Sounds like Mr. Kat.

The calico (Maya), doesn't hear the word no either. She sure hears the doorbell, though... it freaks her out every time, even on TV.

 

[maddhatir]

I think it depends on the circumstances. I know some kids have a lot of ear pain when flying. I do not want to hear the kid screaming and it is annoyng as h#!! but that is different than a child running up and down the aisles or just being a brat.

I went to Disney with just my SIL and my niece 2 years ago. My niece was 6 at the time. She was well behaved but a few times I had to tell SIL what child-free people really feel about her child doing things. She was shocked. She thought everyone loved that her child was singing loudly in the restaurant and on the bus- I said, no, actually it is frickin' ANNOYING! She is one of those parents who thinks everything her kids do is adorable. I had to take her down a few notches

 

[HockeyKat]

I agree. A baby crying on an airplane is completely different than a toddler or young child running up and down the aisles hitting people.

I actually usually just feel sorry for parents at WDW with the really young ones acting up. I don't even care if a little one runs in my path, as long as the parent is actively trying (if that makes sense) and apologizes... I don't expect that an under 5 is old enough to do everything that the parents wants them to do.

It's the ones that don't try and have the isn't my little one precious and aren't you a PITA for even being in my little one's path that tick me off.