Marrieds choosing not to have kids

[LoveStitch626]

I am bumping this thread b/c it is almost Mother's day!! Our favorite holiday.

And I am sure someone here will be told on this oh so special day- "Now don't you just wish YOU can have a day where they celebrate you?" I will say -"yeah- it's called MY BIRTHDAY!" besides that, I celebrate my freedom everyday!

Not sure if any of you hear this from some of the "guys" you know-- every year they have to tell me I can celebrate mother's day b/c I am a ....well, you know.....ha ha guys are so funny! dorks!

LOL I do celebrate Mother's Day! Every year dh gets me a card and present from our furry babies and I do the same for Father's Day! This year I suspect it's Sephora! lol

 

[Poppinsme]

Ha Ha!! Yes all my hairy children and my DH give me a nice card. And then all the horses want carrots! Yes mom lets celebrate. Carrots yum.

 

[LoveStitch626]

Ha Ha!! Yes all my hairy children and my DH give me a nice card. And then all the horses want carrots! Yes mom lets celebrate. Carrots yum.

That's so funny! I get to celebrate by giving my 200 pound baby a bath and finishing up his summer shave. Lots of celebrating going on around here too. But you know what? I wouldn't trade it in for the world! Our furry babies are more grateful and well mannered than normal kids. I love being their mama!

 

[Chris Rex]

Ok, just jumping on board with all the Doggie pics.
Forgive the indulgence...

They wouldn't stop bothering me until I put their pictures up; You know how they can be.

We used the 'green screen' behind them to extract the background so we could use 'the boys' in our wedding invitation.

To this day, I think we're the only people in history to use the word 'B**tard' in our wedding invitations.

It's especially fun when you couple in the fact that it's Mickey Mouse who is using the word.

True story.

 

[maddhatir]

Ok, just jumping on board with all the Doggie pics.
Forgive the indulgence...

They wouldn't stop bothering me until I put their pictures up; You know how they can be.

We used the 'green screen' behind them to extract the background so we could use 'the boys' in our wedding invitation.

To this day, I think we're the only people in history to use the word 'B**tard' in our wedding invitations.

It's especially fun when you couple in the fact that it's Mickey Mouse who is using the word.

True story.

OMG- they are so stinking cute!!!!!!!!

OK- I need to know- why was Mickey cussing on your wedding invite

 

[maddhatir]

This year I suspect it's Sephora! lol

oooo- your babies have nice taste

 

[Hixski]

oooo- your babies have nice taste

I am hoping my furbaby gets me a gift card to Spa Winghaven.

 

[shantay1008]

I hope it's okay if I jump in here.... I just wanted to say "more power to you" to all of you--what's the word?--child-free couples. I am actually happy when people are honest and say they don't want to have kids, because children are so utterly all-consuming (I mean that in a nice way ). In this day and age when we have way more than enough people on the planet, why have kids just to fulfill some ideal or expectation? I just don't get it.

What some may not realize is that quite often people who don't have children are deeply involved with others who do. We have four kids (three birth and one adopted), and we are blessed to have two actual uncles and several honorary aunts and uncles (college roommates, etc.) who for one reason or another haven't had kids. They provide so much support for us, and they love spending time with our kids. And then they happily give them back to us!

It's maddening when people make judgements, but some folks seem compelled to do so. Shoot, we've even had people criticize us for adopting internationally rather than domestically (we had good reasons for doing so, thank you very much). So you see, no one is immune!

Thanks for letting me put my 2 cents in!

 

[Chris Rex]

OMG- they are so stinking cute!!!!!!!!

OK- I need to know- why was Mickey cussing on your wedding invite

Thank you

If anyone wishes to see the invite, just drop me a PM and I'll either email it to you or pm you a link... I don't think it would be suitable material for potential kid viewing ;-) . Suprisingly, everyone in my family accepted it in good humor (which means they've accepted how demented we are )

-Rex

 

[Liisa]

Chris... too cute!

What are their names?

 

[Chris Rex]

Chris... too cute!

What are their names?

The little butterball is Biscuit. His older brother is Speck. We named him 'Speck' because we ASSUMED he would be... oh.. you know.. NOT a 12lb chihuahua. Yeesh, were we wrong!

-Chris

 

[Liisa]

Chris,

very funny wedding invite! I love that you guys had fun with it. My dear mother would have fainted, but she is particular about weddings and wanted a formal affair. I will admit it was beautiful, so I can't fault her. But yours sounds like it would have been so much FUN!!!!

Liisa

 

[maddhatir]

I just had an idea after looking at some pics of Chris Rex's home (really cool!) I was saying we should post some pics on this thread of things in our home that we can have just sitting around etc b/c we do not have to worry about kiddies getting into them or worse maybe getting hurt.

I will go first--

Everytime the kids come over- I have to move this little chess set b/c I KNOW they will try and eat the pieces

And my niece has (on several occasions) ran into the house and slid on this area rug right on her tush

.....the scary thing is...the rug is in at the kitchen door from the porch and as you can see the opening on the other side leads down the basement We are bad adults not to have a door to our basement- that is b/c we have our living area down there and it would be a hassel to put a door there- when the little ones come- we put something in front of it.

And before I put this "table" in front of the setee- she slip on the rug and went under the sofa I am laughing b/c she didn't get hurt- but to see her slide under it made me laugh

PS- Chris that "table" in the last pic is the toilet I was telling you about here it is open.....

AND while I am at it-- here are the strangers above my mantle! For all the other CF peeps- I picked these pics up at a yard sale and I have no idea who they are- I just like the pics- people that come to my home ask me if they are family!

 

[plgrn]

AND while I am at it-- here are the strangers above my mantle! For all the other CF peeps- I picked these pics up at a yard sale and I have no idea who they are- I just like the pics- people that come to my home ask me if they are family!

That's funny. Our family background is less than reputable and when you add extreme poverty onto that,you wind up with hardly any photographs of the ancestors. My aunt found an old picture she like at an auction, gave the guy a name, and put it up in her house. She has this whole story made up about "Uncle so and so" that she tells people who ask.

 

[maddhatir]

That's funny. Our family background is less than reputable and when you add extreme poverty onto that,you wind up with hardly any photographs of the ancestors. My aunt found an old picture she like at an auction, gave the guy a name, and put it up in her house. She has this whole story made up about "Uncle so and so" that she tells people who ask.

I just can't imagine family members letting these pics go-- I just love old pics- so that is why I can't understand it......

but-- if you look at the other pics on my mantle-- now THEY ARE family! DH's grandmother loves to give me old pics of the family b/c she knows I will display them, sh tries to put the names of the people and who they are ie- aunts, so and so's grandparents etc. I have a bunch more that I need frames for and I can put them out.

 

[Hixski]

Love the toilet!!!! Our house would be fairly kid friendly. Or in our case dog friendly. Duncan is an 80lb dog with a dust mop of a tail. We can't do too much clutter on things or it gets swept off with the waggy tail. We do have an open stairwell in our ranch house to the basement. I will post a picture tomorrow. That open stairwell is not for small children.

 

[Hixski]

Thank you

If anyone wishes to see the invite, just drop me a PM and I'll either email it to you or pm you a link... I don't think it would be suitable material for potential kid viewing ;-) . Suprisingly, everyone in my family accepted it in good humor (which means they've accepted how demented we are )

-Rex

DH and I are a few years older than you. Ok, a lot. 47 and 48. Our families just think we are free spirits. My mother does not "get" me even to this day. She doesn't understand the concept of marching to the beat of your own drummer.

 

[plgrn]

Just a little vent...well...not really a vent, but more of an "eye-roller." We are leaving Friday for a long weekend at WDW so I was checking out some dining reviews over on the dining boards. A mom could only post pictures of about half the places they ate because she was "settling down" her three year old "dealing with" her three year old or her three year old was "wound up" so she was unable to physically take pictures. She kept reiterating "three year old" like that's something normal and to be expected as his age. Ummmm #1 what is Dad doing this whole time #2 if your child is so ill-behaved what were you thinking taking him to WDW in the first place!!

She took a picture of him asleep in his stoller and said "Yay, he fell asleep so we can enjoy a child-free meal!!" Then no pics of dessert b/c the kid woke up.

To boot, she is pregnant again.

I just know someone is going to creep over here and flame me for this, but that whole scenairo just takes the cake for me. WTH??

 

[Hixski]

Just a little vent...well...not really a vent, but more of an "eye-roller." We are leaving Friday for a long weekend at WDW so I was checking out some dining reviews over on the dining boards. A mom could only post pictures of about half the places they ate because she was "settling down" her three year old "dealing with" her three year old or her three year old was "wound up" so she was unable to physically take pictures. She kept reiterating "three year old" like that's something normal and to be expected as his age. Ummmm #1 what is Dad doing this whole time #2 if your child is so ill-behaved what were you thinking taking him to WDW in the first place!!

She took a picture of him asleep in his stoller and said "Yay, he fell asleep so we can enjoy a child-free meal!!" Then no pics of dessert b/c the kid woke up.

To boot, she is pregnant again.

I just know someone is going to creep over here and flame me for this, but that whole scenairo just takes the cake for me. WTH??

We have good friends that have a 2yr old and a 5yr old boys. They are typical boys to say the least. The funny thing is lately they have been getting a babysitter quite a bit more than they used to. We were with them for Cinco last week. They were telling us they were glad we could be there with them. They were really needing to ditch the kids. We just laughed. I know they say things like that to us because we won't make them feel like bad parents for wanting to get away from the kids sometimes.

 

[dolcezena]

Hey all!

Just wanted to pop in really quick & say hi! My last 2 weeks have been nuts (in a good way). Have I mentioned before how much I love my job?

2 weeks ago I was in Calgary to be a judge in a wine show, where conviniently my mom & oh-so-great stepdad live & the last week was our city's wine festival. 29 hours of wine tastings, luncheons & "function." AND I get paid for it!

Anywho, I'll have to take time later to read back & see what's been going on - right now I have laundry to do, dogs to take out & overdue taxes to complete! See ya on the flip side.