WBRepo-Ship of Thieves-Remember the Magic Pt3

[JLSE50]

I also need somebody sent over to mow my yard and clean my house. Actually, I need a big dumpster to be delivered and just start tossing stuff! I figure, if we have nowhere to put it, we don't need it. Just trying to get that through to Tyler's head is tough. He gets too sentimental about things given to him as gifts. And since he has so much stuff, I never buy him anything, so just about everything he has was given as a gift! He can point to every item he has and tell you who gave it to him and when. Drives me NUTS! Because then he feels that he'll be hurting that person's feelings if he gets rid of a gift. I keep telling him what's important is that somebody cared enough about him to give him a gift, not the actual item, but it's not working. And I've tried boxing up lots of stuff and just putting it in the attic for a while and rotating items now and then, but he immediately knows exactly what's missing and starts playing with EVERYTHING. I've tried having him feel good about giving things away to kids who might not have as much as he does. He loves doing that, but then he starts to panic about giving too much away. Good grief. Maybe that's a bit of the OCD part of him, I don't know, but we have to try harder! No kid needs to have 15 firetrucks, 5 ambulances, 10 police cars, and 5 pirate ship playsets!

My goal is to majorly reduce by the end of summer so we have room to play inside during the winter.

You are talking about the OLD Tyler. We are beginning to see the NEW Tyler. A benefit of the medicine just might be less of the OCD so that he CAN give stuff away.

I like the idea that it is going to some specific children not a dumpster. Could you find out if there is a family who had a loss due to natural disaster who needs toys so it is sharing with someone in particular not just a donation to Good Will?

Good luck with this. I wish we had done this when our boys were little!

Jan

 

[Tink rules]

My 9,000th post!


......Lets Party! ......






Loved spending all the time with you guys, my


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CONGRATS!!!!!!
(I'd put a smilie... but you used them all up!!!)​

 

[JLSE50]

That's a really cute idea! Ours doesn't do that, it only has lights. Decorations would probably get stolen downtown Lansing!

Decorations made of paper and crayons would get stolen??

Jan

 

[JLSE50]

I think I packed too much stuff for Tyler to have lots to do at my mom's, but I always get nervous about leaving him with her. She's only been with him (without me) twice I think, and she doesn't handle it very well when he gets frustrated or bored or loud. She's convinced he needs boot camp. Hopefully she'll see a different Tyler today, even if only slightly. He loves being with her, so I have no worries in that regard, I just hate her comments afterwards about how terrible he is. Hopefully today and tonight will be different.

Prayers and pixiedust ixiedust: that Gramma sees the NEW AND IMPROVED TYLER!

Jan

 

[iankh]

AH.....is this a clue? Should we turn the clock back 100 years? Hmmmm, what shall I pack?

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Very warm. So warm, you're toasty.

 

[JLSE50]

Decided I'd better not mow right now. Too many bees or wasps out there. I did get rid of most of them a while back, so there are only actually 2 or 3 that I can see (when I used to be able to see swarms of them), but that's more than I want to piss off with my mower coming after them. So I'll do it when we get home tomorrow evening when it's supposed to be much cooler and they probably won't be moving very fast.

Give the girl the RATIONALIZATION AWARD of the day!!


I love the way you think!

Jan

 

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Like a Marshmallow!!!

(now I'm hungry...)

 

[JLSE50]

In fact, I was almost ready to take off and get married some crazy place like that a while back, until I found out the guy was ALREADY MARRIED! Not sure if anybody remembers, but that was my hot little Mexican guy, Alejandro (or Alex). The one who was 10 years younger than me. Hot, hot, hot! BUT........what a jerk, jerk, jerk!

That must have been before we got our cabin or one of the thread segments I had to skip because you all talked so fast!

Glad you figured it out in time!

Jan

 

[ibouncetoo]

Very warm. So warm, you're toasty.

Ah,,,,,,perhaps a tad more than 100....say back to

THE GAY 90'S!!!! ??????

Ah....where is my Gibson girl wig??????


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[Tink rules]

Freudian slip...

 

[JLSE50]

Kelly... Nan...

This is what Ian is really expecting for the cake...

Do they make Mickey's that size?

Ohhh == remember the plastic ones we used to get at Disney World when the souveinr budget was small?

Jan

 

[JLSE50]

2 Mickeys are the salt and pepper shakers - buy two sets because I think the wedding topper for Disney has hands together already

If it looks like Gumby, we'll go with a green Gumby and Pokey theme.

That would solve the dilemma of the color scheme..........

Jan

 

[JLSE50]

Ok... I am home from the lake and after having only 1 really nice day up there (I know... Adirondack weather and all...)

IT'S FREAKING GORGEOUS TODAY!!!!

A day in the mountains at a lake is a GOOD DAY even in rainy weather.
A day at home sometimes needs some extra GORGEOUS!

Jan

 

[JLSE50]

Back in the 'olden days' in Indiana we did have a three month vacation...Memorial day to Labor day....lovely! Though I do remember getting a tad bored in August, but there were lots of kids in my neighborhood to play with. And when we were a little older we could walk downtown and meet schoolmates who lived on the other side of town. I remember in Jr High, walking downtown to the bike shop and renting a tandem bike with my girlfriend (who had walked from HER side of town to meet me there), then we would bike all over the place. I do remember being pretty exhausted on the walk home when the day was over though!

.ahhhhh....the olden days......

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I bet you had a great time though!

Our school district was so huge that friends lived miles and miles apart. We had summer friends at the lake where we went daily to swim and school friends for the rest of the year.

Jan

 

[Tink rules]

A day in the mountains at a lake is a GOOD DAY even in rainy weather.
A day at home sometimes needs some extra GORGEOUS!

Jan

I agree...

I have that bumper sticker somewhere...

"A BAD DAY AT THE LAKE IS BETTER THAN A GOOD DAY AT WORK"

 

[ibouncetoo]

Ah, the 1890's....I remember them well:

Though fashion improved a bit over the following 20 years (bustle disappeared in daywear and the 'mutton' sleves on dresses were toned down). However, foundation garments were still torture!

 

[ibouncetoo]

OK...2:30...I've not ingested any food today.....must go remedy that.

later kids!

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[cquick]

Ah, the 1890's....I remember them well:

Though fashion improved a bit over the following 20 years (bustle disappeared in daywear and the 'mutton' sleves on dresses were toned down). However, foundation garments were still torture!

very nice picture.....both my grandmothers were married in "flapper" dresses! I'll try to get them scanned into the computer and post them. They are beautiful.....no long, flowing, gauzy white dresses with veils for them! They were both married in the 1920's, right in the middle of the flapper era!

 

[iankh]

Ah,,,,,,perhaps a tad more than 100....say back to

THE GAY 90'S!!!! ??????

Ah....where is my Gibson girl wig??????


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I am speechless. (Gob smacked for our UK friends)

 

[iankh]

Ah, the 1890's....I remember them well:

Though fashion improved a bit over the following 20 years (bustle disappeared in daywear and the 'mutton' sleves on dresses were toned down). However, foundation garments were still torture!

You mean like the Arrow Collar man? Always a classic.

(By the way, the illustrator, J.C. Leyendecker's model was his partner Charles Beach. They were together for over 50 years. Leyendecker passed away in 1951, and Charles Beach passed away a few months later in 1952.)