Useless Facts/Chit Chat Thread

[RvUsa]

Hey, that's the story of my conception!

 

[PolynesianPixie]

it helps if you get some positive affirmation ya know.

you're a stud. just look how you slid to 1300 like a sly james bond with one eye on the prize and one eye on Roz's clenching fist. I don't know how you did it, baby



woo......hoo

 

[BigDaddyRog]

Are you a good grandpa BDR ?? My MIL became a grandma at 36. She was only 15 when she had my DH. DH and I got married when we were 18 and had DD1 when we were 21. My MIL resented BIG TIME being a grandma and was not happy. She was not involved in their lives...and still is very limited with them now. It's pretty much holidays only. They don't come out for baseball games or band concerts. Don't call or e-mail just to catch up with them. It's a very distant relationship

I definately like to think so...I babysit almost everyday(well, me & the wife) while the daughter finishes high school, the father is JUST starting to come around......He hadn't spent a dime or ever even seen the kid after he was born..hes 8 months now. But, it looks like maybe he's done a little growing in the last 8 months, but I doubt it. But if he decides not to be part of the baby's life it wont be because I threatened him or anything, because I havent..this time, ....yet.

I love this baby to death.....Its the first boy in our house, so...I got his back, because Im counting on him having mine....when he figures out what a back is!!! He helped me install the flooring in my den....chewed on that hammer but good. He loves to reach up and hit the enter button on the computer when Im in the middle of a post!!!! And he will definately be in the garage with me while we do all the work to the cart.....dat's mah boy!!!!

 

[ntsammy5]

.Its the first boy in our house, so...I got his back, because Im counting on him having mine....when he figures out what a back is!!!

NEAT!

 

[Shannone1]

That's so sad. I do think that when a person looses their youth and becomes a parent at such a young age, they feel like they have been imprisoned almost. Sometimes they feel like they need to make up for it. She probably is feeling the need for "me" time. I bet she'll find the error in her ways and come around!

I don't think she is going to change. For YEARS I have hoped she would change and have been let down too many times to count. From the time she invited us on a "family" vacation and booked an adult only hotel, to the time she told my kids she was going to buy a house in the next town so she could spend more time with them only to change her mind two months later and decide to move to FL !! She has told my parents that she was never good at "the kid thing". She just isnt "into" it being a grandma. I remember when my DD1 was just about 2 years old. I was in my MIL's area and called her to see if we could drop by for a visit. She told me her DH was napping and he didn't want us to wake him up I never forgot that and never again tried to drop in on her so she could spend time with my kids. ONE TIME my DD1 stayed the night at her house, and that was when I was giving birth to DD2. My MIL said that it was too much for her to handle. Apparently my poor 2 yr old DD was scared to sleep on the couch downstairs alone and my MIL had to let her sleep with her @@ How inconvienant !!

So at this point we are just hoping she does move to FL soon and we will see her once a year and be done with it. Mostly though I am hoping she moves to central FL so I will have an annual excuse to stop by FW

 

[PolynesianPixie]

I don't think she is going to change. For YEARS I have hoped she would change and have been let down too many times to count. From the time she invited us on a "family" vacation and booked an adult only hotel, to the time she told my kids she was going to buy a house in the next town so she could spend more time with them only to change her mind two months later and decide to move to FL !! She has told my parents that she was never good at "the kid thing". She just isnt "into" it being a grandma. I remember when my DD1 was just about 2 years old. I was in my MIL's area and called her to see if we could drop by for a visit. She told me her DH was napping and he didn't want us to wake him up I never forgot that and never again tried to drop in on her so she could spend time with my kids. ONE TIME my DD1 stayed the night at her house, and that was when I was giving birth to DD2. My MIL said that it was too much for her to handle. Apparently my poor 2 yr old DD was scared to sleep on the couch downstairs alone and my MIL had to let her sleep with her @@ How inconvienant !!

So at this point we are just hoping she does move to FL soon and we will see her once a year and be done with it. Mostly though I am hoping she moves to central FL so I will have an annual excuse to stop by FW

I am so sorry. well, we can hope that she will change, but in the present time you should just try to accept it in order to keep you & DH & the kids from continuing disappointment.

Well, if she does move to FL at least she'll be good for something! No room at her house for the kids? Oh well, guess you'll just have to stay at the fort!

 

[PolynesianPixie]

Lunchtime! DD wants Mac n Cheese. Can I get some for any body else?

 

[Shannone1]

Lunchtime! DD wants Mac n Cheese. Can I get some for any body else?

Well, what I would LIKE is some Taco Bell But what I am HAVING is a Lean Pocket. Joy.

 

[ftwildernessguy]

I need another snow day so I can tune into one of those B movies and give a play by play again.

I had a Panini for lunch with some pasta salad.

It was a girlie girl lunch, but that was it.

 

[PolynesianPixie]

Well, what I would LIKE is some Taco Bell But what I am HAVING is a Lean Pocket. Joy.

Well you must save room for that chocolate tonight!

Have you tried Taco Bell's new Fresco menu? They take out the cheese and add pico del gallo or something. It's really good and so much healthier! I have become addicted to the fresco bean burrito supreme!

Annalise had her mac n cheese. She could eat her weight in that stuff! The baby had carrots, apple sauce, rice cereal. I had butternut squash soup with cracked pepper and a sprinkling of goat cheese; baby carrots and artichike, spinach hummus. Yum.

 

[PolynesianPixie]

I need another snow day so I can tune into one of those B movies and give a play by play again.

I had a Panini for lunch with some pasta salad.

It was a girlie girl lunch, but that was it.

Sounds good. Yeah, we need you to have a snow day. The posts were kickin' yesterday!

Pretty soon Shannone and I have to go to Valentines parties and then it's up to Rog, John, Al & Pete to get it to 2000!

 

[ntsammy5]

I had a Panini for lunch with some pasta salad.

It was a girlie girl lunch, but that was it.

I had a man's meal. Chile!

 

[Shannone1]

Sounds good. Yeah, we need you to have a snow day. The posts were kickin' yesterday!

Pretty soon Shannone and I have to go to Valentines parties and then it's up to Rog, John, Al & Pete to get it to 2000!

I was an an RV show yesterday so not much help. I was going ok this afternoon...then my puppy and I took a little nap on the couch. She is a snuggler.

It is a little scary to think about how many pages of guy posts I will have to get through tonight.

 

[auntie]

Are you a good grandpa BDR ?? My MIL became a grandma at 36. She was only 15 when she had my DH. DH and I got married when we were 18 and had DD1 when we were 21. My MIL resented BIG TIME being a grandma and was not happy. She was not involved in their lives...and still is very limited with them now. It's pretty much holidays only. They don't come out for baseball games or band concerts. Don't call or e-mail just to catch up with them. It's a very distant relationship

My mom was a grandma at 39...as she and my dad eloped when they were kids. She was 16 when she had me(and no..she wasn't pregnant at the time they married..I even checked their marriage license in the hall of records when we visited Virginia once! Not that it would have mattered. I brought a copy home to them as a gift, since they had lost it yeas ago.) Mom is Italian and Dad is Irish..and their families didn't like that they dated. So what did they do?..They got MARRIED!

My husband and I met in high school(he was an "older man" by five years. I married him a year after graduation. We had our first child 4 years later. I was 22. My mom had just turned 39 when he was born. Often when we would be out together people didn't know if he was mine or hers.(She liked that ) My dad was 40. They were the proudest grandparents you would ever meet. It didn't bother them a bit. My dad often said that being a granparent was the reward you got for being a parent. You don't have to parent them..just enjoy them. I was very lucky that my older son(now 27) was the first grandchild, and spent a HUGE amount of time with my dad. Dad taught him to swim, and took him to hockey games. My parents were young enough to really enjoy their grandchildren. My siblings didn't have kids until some 10 years later, so he was an only grandchild for quite a while. Until his sister's came along. some 5 and 7 years after he did. The sad part of this is that 11 years ago, my dad had a stroke at age 56. He is partially paralyzed and lost his speech. One of my last memories of him actually walking is droping him and my then 16 year old son(who towered over him)at the train station. They were going to watch a Ranger hockey game at Madison Square Garden. A teenager who loved being with his grandfather. Imagine that. Two days later dad had a stroke, and while he is still with us..as you can imagine life is very different.
Five years ago, that grandchild graduated from the NYPD academy at a ceromony held in Madison Square Garden. Talk about emotional. Imagine barely 2 years after 9-11, some 1700 men(and women) in blue entering every aisle of the Garden to sounds of Frank Sinatra singing "New York, New York." (I get chills..but you may have to be a "New Yawka" to appreciate that). In any case, his grandfather was there to see that. In a crowd of people larger than you can imagine, my son spotted his "grandpa". He was the first one he greeted, and crouched to his knees to hug and kiss him in his wheel chair. There they were together again in the very place they shared so many memories from his boyhood. A boy no more..a man with his grandfather. Tears rolled down my dad's face and he gave his boy a thumbs up and stroked his head. "Yes..yes" is all he could manage to say.

I feel sorry for your mother-inlaw, because she will never know that kind of joy. The idea that she had children so young that she isn't able to share that kind of bond with her granchildren is sad. While my parents started out young, they have often said that they were proud and thrilled to be called grandma/grandpa. I think they were able to give and spend more time with my son and actually enjoy it, than they were with us kids. My dad had more time when it came to his grandchildren, and maybe even wanted to make up for some of the time he wasn't able to spend with his own kids..while he was busy providing for them. Considering what ultimately happened..I thank God that they did start so young, and that I did too. My son is really the only grandchild that remembers Grandpa when he walked and spoke and flew planes,sky dived, and water skied. He was able to share those things with him. I'm grateful for that. I know my dad is. I can see it in his eyes everytime he looks at his grandson.
Oh..well..sorry for the rambling story and the family history...but seeing your post, well it just got me to thinking. I've got to go call my dad now.

 

[Shannone1]

Five years ago, that grandchild graduated from the NYPD academy at a ceromony held in Madison Square Garden. Talk about emotional. Imagine barely 2 years after 9-11, some 1700 men(and women) in blue entering every aisle of the Garden to sounds of Frank Sinatra singing "New York, New York." (I get chills..but you may have to be a "New Yawka" to appreciate that). In any case, his grandfather was there to see that. In a crowd of people larger than you can imagine, my son spotted his "grandpa". He was the first one he greeted, and crouched to his knees to hug and kiss him in his wheel chair. There they were together again in the very place they shared so many memories from his boyhood. A boy no more..a man with his grandfather. Tears rolled down my dad's face and he gave his boy a thumbs up and stroked his head. "Yes..yes" is all he could manage to say.

Awwww.....What a wonderful moment for both of them.

 

[2goofycampers]

back to light useless stuff, is Kungaloosh any adult beverage or strictly beer?

 

[BigDaddyRog]

Auntie...I think you just pumped my Grampaw pride up about 10 notches. What a great story.

 

[ntsammy5]

back to light useless stuff, is Kungaloosh any adult beverage or strictly beer?

It is a specific adult beverage:

http://www.allearsnet.com/din/rec_kung.htm

This is not the official FW recipe but it's close. I stick to beer because I don't like sweet drinks.

 

[Gatordad]

While your story is touching, it definately is not useless..... but carry on

 

[ntsammy5]

Let's at least get to 1960 today.