JE

you & my H are just heartless!!! lol <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

AW- I will cover your back when you do that.
Believer- So I guess fish are out too. They have a face, dont they? Does it matter if the face is cute or ugly? Personally fish face aint all that cute. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

JE

My H says Ratatouille has a whole new meaning in the field!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

You can have them as I won't name a single one !! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

I bet it does AW!!
Sounds tempting though.
JE

Hey JE

twin girls plus another girl & boy!!! wow now thats a challenge!!! lol

My DS has followed his dad & joined up <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> #$%#@#%$ naughty words - my DD 19 just got engaged to a commando who is in Iraq - he's a sweet boy , ok nearly 22 but thats a boy to me <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> - and my H is somewhere in Afghanistan and I have a 6 month old son too. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

Been there done that AW
When my DD twins were 6 months old, DD was 16 months old, and DS was 3 my FWH went off to Iraq for 6 months. Talk about not happy.
The girls all had tubes put in their ears while he was away.
I did the military life thing...would never do that again.
I feel for all Military spouses. FWH retired after 22 years in on my ultimatum, get out or I quit. I had never done something like that before and never since. But I had had enough.
My DS will be joining against my wishes next year. Will be a Navy man like his dad. Says its the only way to pay for college as he wants to be an interpreter.
@#%$ <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

Yea for the "#$@$^%#$%% <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />"

I am so against my DS doing this, so is my DD, but we had to suck it up in early December whne he was shipped off to East Timor. But luckily due to the UN withdrawal he was brought back 2 days before XMAS. woo hoo.

Now hes pushing for advanced training to go to Iraq <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

I know what you mean JE this is our 5th deployment in this war as Aussie is in SAS. Last time we heard from him was 16th December. Been doing this since I was 18 & pregnant.
Duty, honour, country wears a bit thin when you move every few years. Been stable now for some years so hoping it stays that way .. my famly are all over here - Mum & dad live around the corner. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

They dont get any easier JE...it gets so I dread the phone ringing or someone at the front door .. but you get through it by keeping busy <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

It's a blasted commune, not an internment camp. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> You can have all the meat you want, any time you want it. At your own houses. Hopefully downwind <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />, but while this would be desirable, it isn't exactly mandatory either. When you come to visit us, though, just don't expect to see old Bessie's smiling cheeks (from either end) laid out on a platter for your eating enjoyment. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

t&l

AW- I know the feeling. Mine was a flight engineer on the "Mighty P3 Orion" with top secret clearance and all.
He would get a call in the middle of the night and off he would go for up to 6 weeks at a time when we were on shore duty. Or the infamous hurricanes coming to our area and off the planes and hubbies went and left us with tiny infants to weather the storm. Military has the priorities straight there. When he went to Iraq-desert storm. I heard from him 3 times in 6 months. I had the same dread with the phone call or the front door visit in dress whites. I just couldnt handle that and moving every 2-3 years anymore. You just make friends, start getting to go out, and boom off you go again.

T&L- Great then count my meat lovin self in...lol

JE

I've just spent the last couple of hours visiting with Neaksis' kids biomom. I'd call and tell HER about it but can't reach anybody.<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> She brought a birthday present for the oldest kid, and talked and cried and talked and cried some more. Basically, she said she's glad her kids are with Neaksis, who has grown up to be an amazingly-strong woman. She now believes completely that her children were molested, and will do her best to convince her husband and his sister that we didn't lie about it. (It's really her fault they think we were lying, anyway, so as long as she was being so apologetic I decided to ask her if she'd try and make right what she had done wrong.) She said that our family contained the only people who really loved her during that time, and tried to help her and her kids out...and if it weren't for us, the kids would probably be dead by now. As it happens, I agree with her on that; I'm not so sure she's right when she said she'd probably be the one in prison for killing them (my money would be on the Molesting Marsupial), but who can know for sure what would've happened since it didn't happen! She said she misses the olden times when Tina was her friend, and wishes they could be friends again. She also said she wants to do everything she can to help her kids overcome the traumas of the past and have a good life in spite of it. She said more, but I'm doing laundry and it's time to tackle another load. At any rate, it doesn't appear right now that we have to do battle with both parents anyway. That's a relief.

t&l

Nice that God doesn't let EVERYTHING go.

I still would like to hear about it.

Your choice though.

SS

Beautiful countryside, AW. Wow!

You guys reminded me of something that happened while I was in college. As a vegetarian, I was very much of a curiosity among my classmates, who kept asking, "Do you eat this? Well what about this?" Finally I told them, "If it had a mother or a face, I don't eat it!"

My good friend went and told her sister, who became extremely puzzled. "Does she eat fish? They have a face, but they don't really have a mother - she just lays the eggs and leaves them..." (In case you're wondering, she was a brunette. Just goes to show you never can tell.)

<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

LOL - veggies w/ faces.....LOL

time for bed - or something like that....

15yo d cooked minestrone for dinner tonight. I chopped the veggies and told her to do the rest while I knitted on blanket for her stepsister's baby who is due next month.

I've been laughing about the veggies all day, too. I have no trouble picturing Aussie doing that, maybe even drawing Bob the Tomato and Larry the Cucumber.

"Barbara Manateeeeeeeeeeeee.............you are the one for meeeeeeeeee............"

the company that markets, whatever, VeggieTales just relocated to about 20 miles from my house. I am about 8 hrs from the beach and 4 hours from the Smokies.

All hail Cinderella!

I will do you a really big favor and not share that tidbit of information with my children.

Or Neaksis.

Come on to town....we can go find these "Big Idea" people. Or we can go to the mountains. They are the other direction.

Oh goody, goody, they are my heros, too, just don't tell anybody.

If I could sing for one of their characters, my life would be complete, sniff.

I got a happy email from a good friend, whom I had recommended to read this site.


I have been very worried about her & her little children, and not that I'm not now, at least they have tons of good info at their disposal. I want them to be happy, and preferably together.

Heroes?

Potatoes/tomatoes?