The DDA Trouble Free Zone Part 7

[my3princes]

We were planning to drive to Boston on the 27th and I'd get to meet Tia. I have just looked at our schedule and I don't think that I can pull it off The older boys both have major projects due at school on the 26th which means I won't have time to prepare like I know that I have too. We also have the Cub Scout picnic the following weekend and I have to organize all the awards for that. It is also a busy weekend at the Restaurant and they really want me there. Yesterday we did 496 meals and most of them where from 4 PM - 8 PM. They mentioned so many times how glad they were that I agreed to come in after being gone all weekend. Since I need to have 2 weekends off in June, 3 1/2 weekends off in July and 3 weekends off in August (and that's what I know of now) I think I'd better stay in there good graces for now. Hopefully my boss that tore his achilles tendon will be walking again soon so it will take a little pressure off me as I have been covering for him for a couple of months now. We have also had additional expenses this month like new tires for the truck $500 and the vet bill for Tiffany. Now she requires daily meds and our older dog has been on daily meds for several months now. I think we are spending over $100 a month on dog meds I'm not sure how much longer we will have our older dog. He is having such a difficult time getting around. I keep praying that he will die on his own as I simply cannot make the decision to have him put down, but he keeps hanging in there. I have to wonder how much the arthritis is making him suffer. I know that if he didn't have the meds he would not be able to get up at all. Chris keeps saying that we will have to have him put down soon, but I told him that he will need to make the decision and he will have to take him because I could not live with myself if I needed to make the decision. Sorry to be a downer, but life can be that way at times. We also had the expense of Easter, my parents 40th Anniversary and now dh wants to buy me a mother's ring which I would absolutely love to have so I think my weekend in Boston will have to be cancelled for now. Maybe I'll get there sometime soon though?

Wow, this post is long winded and such a drag.......I'm not really depressed, just wanted Tia to know why I'm cancelling on her. We have lots of summer plans and since we have officially started our summer camping trips I'm sure that we will have lots of fun. And next year I'm going to WDW for 3 weeks!!!!

Deb

 

[mommykds]

Hi, hope everyone had a wonderful Mother's Day!!!

 

[lmartin2711]

so she says - "it is from Uncle David - and he's COMING!!!"
it was so cute - once she said his name she just couldn't keep the secret another second - which was fine since it was so cute how she said it!!!

I remember one year for Fathers Day my dad was trying to get me to tell him what I picked out for him. He said he needed new socks. I was probably about Julia's age and I remember thinking that was such a great gift to give. He kept trying to get hints from me and I wouldn't budge. I was starting to get mad at him and finally told him...........I am not going to tell you I got you socks for Fathers Day!!!!! Everyone started dying laughing since I was doing so good. Everyone knows now if you want everyone to know something.........tell Lynn.

 

[ReAnSt]

Denise -

that is so sweet!! I imagine that flower pot will always hold an extremely special place in your heart now!!

My favorite piece of art in our house is a framed finger painting that Julia did at 3 - Nick keeps asking if he can do one for us - I guess it is time to go back to the art studio!!!

Did you see MI 1 & 2 - I am wondering if I have to see those before I see MI3

One of my close friends in college got a finger painting, but it didn't use finger paint, it was painted on canvas from her son when he was either 10 months or 13 months old, I can't remember if she got it for Mother's Day or her birthday, either case he was already mobile. I don't recall what type of paint was used.

Her sister set up a tarp in the grass put dishes of paint on the tarp and set the canvas down, stripped him down to only a diaper, set him on the tarp and showed him what to do. By the time he was done he was finished painting he was covered from head to toe. He was hosed down outside and cleaned up and later bathed in the tub.

Her sister took pictures of the process, some of these were framed and matted and hung on either side of the canvas on her wall, to show the process. However everyone always asks her where she got the unique abstract art, when she tells them her son when he was about a year old they don't believe her until she points to the pictures.

I thought it was an awesome gift idea and something that will be cherished forever.

 

[lmartin2711]

One of my close friends in college got a finger painting, but didn't use finger paint on canvas from her son when he was either 10 months or 13 months old, I can't remember if she got it for Mother's Day or her birthday, either case he was already mobile. I don't recall what type of paint was used.

Her sister set up a tarp in the grass put dishes of paint on the tarp and set the canvas down, stripped him down to only a diaper, set him on the tarp and showed him what to do. By the time he was done he was finished painting he was covered from head to toe. He was hosed down outside and cleaned up and later bathed in the tub.

Her sister took pictures of the process, some of these were framed and matted and hung on either side of the canvas on her wall, to show the process. However everyone always asks her where she got the unique abstract art, when she tells them her son when he was about a year old they don't believe her until she points to the pictures.

I thought it was an awesome gift idea and something that will be cherished forever.

What a cute idea.........thanks for sharing that.

Lynn

 

[ReAnSt]

Anyone want to help with a birthday poem for their invites? Party will be at one of those Pottery Painting places. Themes are My Little Pony, Jet Airplanes (Rees), and Power Rangers or the Cars movie or Trucks (Davis). Anything cute? It's a group party. They are turning 6.

Can you believe how fast we've grown? We're turning 6 already this year.
Brantley-Kate, Rees, and Davis from babies to toddlers and now on to Kindergarten. We're growing and learning new things everyday.

Our interests have grown and developed as we have too. We now love My Little Pony, Jet Planes, and Power Rangers, can't forget Cars the Movie. We hope you'll join us and paint pottery as we celebrate turning six.

How's this but it doesn't really rhyme, its all I can come up with on no sleep last night. Although I am sure someone else has already come up with something that's really great.

 

[UP Disney]

The only problem is Rees is having a hard time pressing the hands because of the CP. He's very frustrated that he can't play the games better.

This just breaks my heart!!! I had problems myself squeezing Pal's hand in the right place when playing the games. Chuck is very creative in problem solving. When he gets home tonight, I'll ask him if he has any ideas.

 

[ReAnSt]

They went camping with kids and only had two outfits each for three days??? what were they thinking??? Even if the sun had been blazing they were bound to get dirty and need fresh clothes...

Although often times kids don't end up changing at camp anyways unless forced to, not sure why but this seems to be an observation I have made. I have had to tell kids you want to change out of that you're not in the same thing your Mom dropped you off in. But getting soaking wet and just getting dirty are two different things. You can get hypothermia from being soaking wet even if it is not very cold. In that instance they definitely need to have something to change into.

Things get forgotten, misplaced, etc. People don't read the list, that is sent out, etc. I always encourage my Brownies to pack their own stuff that way they know where it is and what they have.

The worse happened to a girl who was in my Girl Scout troop when I was a brownie or a junior. We all met at the local church to go to camp. The camp was about 2 hours away. We arrive at camp and this girl doesn't have any stuff at all. No sleeping bag, no clothing, no flashlight, nothing just the clothing on her back. The leader called her parents, everything was still in the trunk of their car.

It turns, out that Mom thought Dad took the gear out, Dad thought that Mom took the gear out and the girl though one of them got the gear. Reason why I always make sure the girl is responsible for the gear they have to carry it, put it in car they are traveling in, etc. this way it shouldn't be forgotten. The parents refused to bring the girl her stuff, as they didn't want to drive 4 hours. We all gave this girl clothing to wear, luckily the leader had an extra sleeping bag and pillow and other extra things. I felt so bad for her.

Another time I went camping all the adults forgot a toothbrush, none of the kids just the adults. They all had toothpaste but no toothbrush. They ended up using make up applicator sponges as someone had a bag full of them. Why they had a bag of make sponges I don't know as they didn't have any make up.

 

[Glynis]

Since it's the girls birthday I wanna share the origins of their names!!

We literally played the alphabet game for Cassidy Cheyenne. We liked Cassidy and so went through the alphabet game 4 times before we both liked a name. Cassidy told us today she would choose her name for herself.

Now for Abi:

Cassidy told us that I had a baby in my tummy. I told her no I do not, I am just feeling icky. We get confirmation (original estimated due date was early April) and we didn't have to tell her she said "I have baby sister for my birthday." "No, sweetie the baby will be here for your birthday." No convincing her. At the ultrasound we figured out the baby was due in May. No convincing Cassidy that she could have a baby brother. Sister for her birthday!!! So we told her she got to pick the baby's first name. Abigail's middle name is KateLynn, Kate is what my mom wanted to be called as a kid(Kathleen) and Lynn is Jim's mom's middle name. We went through the baby name book and Cassidy would not listen to any names past Abigail . We had a friend from South America at the time who was an Abi.

That is actually the short story of Abi's name sorry!!

I love that! Thanks for sharing the stories!

 

[ReAnSt]

What other interesting things has Cassidy told you?
My goddaughter told her mother once that she needed to call uncle Mark (my DH) because he was very sad. She wouldn't let it go untill they called him.
It was the same day the DH and I got into it over the phone while he was on a trip. I found this very very interesting.

I am known to do this. Predict things or have a sense that something is going to happen. The morning of 9-11-01, I looked at my watch and was like how weird it is 911 something big is going to happen sure enough about 45 minutes later the first plane flew into the first tower of then World trade center.

The day one of my Great Aunts died I saw about 10 deer in my backyard, I told my parents that Shirley had died a few hours later we found out she had died right about the time I saw the deer. She always loved deer and I just knew it had a connection.

My friend whose son painted the picture, when she was pregnant with him I had this feeling that she was going to be in a car accident, sure enough no more than a week later she was in a car accident.

I could go on. I scare myself sometimes by these things. I just get these feelings, sometimes things happen other times they don't. I never know which might happen and which won't

 

[rosiejo]

We were planning to drive to Boston on the 27th and I'd get to meet Tia. I have just looked at our schedule and I don't think that I can pull it off The older boys both have major projects due at school on the 26th which means I won't have time to prepare like I know that I have too. We also have the Cub Scout picnic the following weekend and I have to organize all the awards for that. It is also a busy weekend at the Restaurant and they really want me there. Yesterday we did 496 meals and most of them where from 4 PM - 8 PM. They mentioned so many times how glad they were that I agreed to come in after being gone all weekend. Since I need to have 2 weekends off in June, 3 1/2 weekends off in July and 3 weekends off in August (and that's what I know of now) I think I'd better stay in there good graces for now. Hopefully my boss that tore his achilles tendon will be walking again soon so it will take a little pressure off me as I have been covering for him for a couple of months now. We have also had additional expenses this month like new tires for the truck $500 and the vet bill for Tiffany. Now she requires daily meds and our older dog has been on daily meds for several months now. I think we are spending over $100 a month on dog meds I'm not sure how much longer we will have our older dog. He is having such a difficult time getting around. I keep praying that he will die on his own as I simply cannot make the decision to have him put down, but he keeps hanging in there. I have to wonder how much the arthritis is making him suffer. I know that if he didn't have the meds he would not be able to get up at all. Chris keeps saying that we will have to have him put down soon, but I told him that he will need to make the decision and he will have to take him because I could not live with myself if I needed to make the decision. Sorry to be a downer, but life can be that way at times. We also had the expense of Easter, my parents 40th Anniversary and now dh wants to buy me a mother's ring which I would absolutely love to have so I think my weekend in Boston will have to be cancelled for now. Maybe I'll get there sometime soon though?

Wow, this post is long winded and such a drag.......I'm not really depressed, just wanted Tia to know why I'm cancelling on her. We have lots of summer plans and since we have officially started our summer camping trips I'm sure that we will have lots of fun. And next year I'm going to WDW for 3 weeks!!!!

Deb

 

[rosiejo]

One of my close friends in college got a finger painting, but it didn't use finger paint, it was painted on canvas from her son when he was either 10 months or 13 months old, I can't remember if she got it for Mother's Day or her birthday, either case he was already mobile. I don't recall what type of paint was used.

Her sister set up a tarp in the grass put dishes of paint on the tarp and set the canvas down, stripped him down to only a diaper, set him on the tarp and showed him what to do. By the time he was done he was finished painting he was covered from head to toe. He was hosed down outside and cleaned up and later bathed in the tub.

Her sister took pictures of the process, some of these were framed and matted and hung on either side of the canvas on her wall, to show the process. However everyone always asks her where she got the unique abstract art, when she tells them her son when he was about a year old they don't believe her until she points to the pictures.

I thought it was an awesome gift idea and something that will be cherished forever.

How cool is that! Love the idea

 

[yellowfish78]

Could you please spell it out for me? so when I say it I say it right. Thank you.

It's pronounced just like the city in Ireland, Shannon. Or Shannen Doherty from 90210. (But my personality is much better!)
Hope this helps! I always forget about that when on the internet...

 

[Pooh67_68]

Thank you

 

[Glynis]

Glynis -- Have you ever seen Mary spelled Merrie? That's the spelling of my boss's name. I've worked for her for 19 years , but had never seen that spelling before then.

I love that spelling! I've never seen it before!

 

[Glynis]

I'm not really sure who made extra, but there were definitely more dishes there than what had been signed up for. We had plenty of food although the dessert dishes (there was alot) seemed to go fast. It was really nice and we had plenty of hamburgers and hot dogs left over. We can use them at our end of year picnic on June 3rd

Deb

I'm so glad that the food all worked out! That was a really stressful thing for you! Thank heaven other people stepped up to the plate.

Speaking of camping food, at our annual family reunion, we are going to have a Dutch Oven cook-off. Do you ever cook in Dutch Ovens? We're looking for some new recipes. We always seem to do the same thing: chicken in one oven, potatoes in another and a chocolate cherry cobbler in a third. I've been looking at some web sites, but thought I'd ask here as you all seem to have answers to everything. So, anyone who's got a real killer Dutch oven dinner, let me know!

 

[Glynis]

Baby Names: I have a friend that was born on Christmas, there last name is Kane so she was named Holiday Kane. There dogs have Christmassy names too. One was Jingle and I can't remember the other off the top of my head.

Deb

At least they didn't name her Kandy.

I have a good friend named April Holliday. When she turned 16 her parents bought her a car with a personalized license plate with "EASTER" on it. It usually took people a while to figure out why.

 

[lmartin2711]

I'm so glad that the food all worked out! That was a really stressful thing for you! Thank heaven other people stepped up to the plate.

Speaking of camping food, at our annual family reunion, we are going to have a Dutch Oven cook-off. Do you ever cook in Dutch Ovens? We're looking for some new recipes. We always seem to do the same thing: chicken in one oven, potatoes in another and a chocolate cherry cobbler in a third. I've been looking at some web sites, but thought I'd ask here as you all seem to have answers to everything. So, anyone who's got a real killer Dutch oven dinner, let me know!

What is your choc/cherry cobbler reciple?? We also camp alot and I would love to have that recipe. I even have a dutch oven but never thought about using it for camping.

Lynn

 

[lmartin2711]

So, anyone who's got a real killer Dutch oven dinner, let me know!

I have tried this website for a few recipes.

http://papadutch.home.comcast.net/dutch-oven-recipes.htm

Lynn

 

[yellowfish78]

Denise - How did things go this afternoon?