It was the motorcycle thing Kimmy!! D <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

Kid selling? Count me in!!! Don't even get me started on what I could buy, or next thing you know I'll be registering at Wal Mart.

For what you could get for the little darlings, especially on a bad day (and aren't they all, lately?), are you sure you'd be able to afford Wal-Mart?

Tell them Noah will be there soon, to "help" them with their schoolwork. I've got a bad headache and am feeling cranky already, so they'd better not be looking for a lot of slack from dear Granny today! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

t&l (my refund is in--thank you, Neak, for your help--and I am no longer in hiding.) <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Even a labor and delivery nurse doesn't want to use the words "gloves," "baby powder," and "Internal Revenue Service" in the same sentence. I'd be too worried about being on the receiving end... <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/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/eek.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> Bite your weevil tongue! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

t&l

I thought it was the Eternal Revenue Service.....even if you die, someone has to file your income tax return.

I never got that one, either. I mean, I filed for my grandma the year after she died, but if you didn't have anyone, who would file? More importantly, would the IRS keep the refund?

They stay on the case of whoever is in charge of the 'estate'.

And, what you ask, have I been putting in the children's KoolAid? Therapy. We've been talking about communication, supporting each other, meeting each other's needs, problem solving, teamwork. Family therapy is a good thing.

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

Family Therapy = <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

AW & Mum, we miss you.

Since you're being so chatty here, I'll allow you to say thank you to me for my sterling contribution to your day today, as well as the one I'm going to make Sunday, and Monday if you're lucky. But if you think I'm keeping them for good once you get a taste of freedom, you'd better be thinking again!! Grandma Noah's Boot Camp is a temporary thing, performed between visits to my psychiatrist for treatment of my post-traumatic stress disorder. Sunday will be an interesting day. 6 regular memebers of the family whose normal behavior runs the gamut of rowdy to quiet, depending how close they're standing to me and whether or not they think I can see them at the time, a new foster child who'll be around for a month, and whose estrogen is already battling the Estrogen Divas, Tina, me, and my dad---who will like the 3D Imax movie, but not necessarily the long ride with excited children en route to the theater. I just CAN'T wait.<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

t&l

Well, since you're here, THANK YOU!!!

And the solution to your dilemma is simple. You take Gramps in one car, and send Neaksis with the 7 children in the van. There are enough seats...

Hello everyone!!

AW and Aussie have left me with Mikey ( and the computer hehehehe) to go and see DGD in the musical she is doing at the University.
Its about the ANZAC soldiers writing home and wishing they were there with their loved ones. Quite relevant as ANZAC Day is on the 25th of this month.
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So how is everything you asked? Well lets see -

AW is a lot better this week and actually smiled a few times. Peters death is like a open bleeding wound that never seems to heal well.
Mothers are supposed to have answers aren’t they?
I don’t have many I’m afraid. No great comforting words or wisdom to impart to her, no ready made answers or insights.
Sometimes we just have to accept the unacceptable and keep living as well as we may.
But goodness it hurts. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/teary.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/teary.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/teary.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/teary.gif" alt="" />
However she is trying hard to move on from her past actions and throwing herself into life again. Can’t get much more livelier than MIKEY !!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Mikey is definitely saying NANA I don't care what anyone else says so there !! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

Aussie is - well Aussie.
I’d tell you more but he never says much on anything about anything and when he does its with wry humour so you never know what’s really going on behind those baby blue eyes. Maybe hes the one who should be smacked !!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />
Well anyway he is busy at the barracks doing men thingies with guns and other unfriendly items. Oh and he has been mentioned in an article written about the ‘ANZAC spirit‘- minus name of course - which of course he calls a load of [censored]. OH are you allowed to say that? Well too late now! <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="" />

Do I need to add that grumpy is working again tonight ? He just cant retire, he’d rather be grumpy heh heh heh must be a male thing you think? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

Travelling Soldier is thank God coming home soon. DGD is over the moon and I don’t think I can stand two love sick females in the same house at the same time. I don’t think I was ever that young as these two!
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Ok well I must have been very drunk when I agreed to marry I’m almost positive I wasn’t love sick. I’d ask my sister but she may actually answer so I won’t. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

What else? Oh yes grandson Number 1. He’s still up at the training grounds. Had a few days leave and got into some minor trouble with some young women and drinking as young men will do. Just you wait and see young mums. Your little boys are male and they can’t help themselves it seems. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" />
Aussie was amused. AW was a bit angry, I just thought YEP it was only a matter of time, sometimes they have to learn the hard way. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

So what about everyone else? Give <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

Thanks for the update, Mum. It's good to hear how things are down under.

When did Peter die? I am guessing pretty close to now, but however many years ago. Poor little tyke, and I'm sure you all miss him terribly. Give your son & daughter our love and sympathy.

I have to start supper, so must wait to tell you what the Dervish did to the Johnson family in church today. Any of you from this neck of the woods will have heard of the Elk Grove shooting spree, in which John Johnson was a victim. We met his family, and I will be back with the rest of the story as soon as I can.

Got sidetracked, hmmmmm.

Anyway, the Dervish and I were sitting in the pew directly behind the Johnsons. When it was time for prayer, everyone knelt except the Dervish, who stood leaning on the back of the pew, so he could see. (<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />) I asked him to go ahead and kneel, which he did pretty well for a dervish.

Now, he doesn't weigh very much; less than 40 pounds. He is just long and skinny, either 42 or 44", can't remember which.

ANYHOO! His weight, though slight, was just enough when combined with the weight of the entire Johnson family as they all leaned back against their pew, to scoot it back very abruptly. I saw them lurch backwards as one, wobbling as they tried to keep from tipping over like a row of ninepins. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

Thank you, Dervish.

But at least they will not forget Escalon any time soon. And, as Mom said, it was bound to have taken their minds off their troubles, even if only for a moment.

I like that image of the tilting pew.

Have the children seen 'Because of Winn Dixie'? There is a great scene of what happened in church one Sunday. It's delightfully funny.

Hey I remember shopping in this isle!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

I get my first aid kit stuff here <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Of course I DO get very strange looks from the other blokes but there you are!

Hows people here today? Hope you guys are all doing well and are spoiling the kiddies - I always gave mine red cordial and chocolate and then left for a few weeks training - always seemed to work! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

Well howdy, A2, come on in and look around. First aid kit is 75% off today in your honor.


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

So how are ya? What can we get for you today? It was kinda funny, but the day after AW said you were watching The Battle of Britain, AJ saw a copy of it at a reduced price and grabbed it. (Of course then he lost it before he got to watch it, but AW told me how it turns out, lol.)

Rella, I haven't seen that movie myself, but it sounds cute.

Thats a GREAT movie - lots of shooting and stiff upper lip stuff, not too real but close my old man said.

My dad fought in that war as a 16yr old. Precocious !

I also like Kelly's Hero's ..why can't I find a bank full of gold??? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />


I'm pretty good, but MO wont let me do much yet but direct and point ..grounded sucks but just have to live with it I guess.

Only good thing is I can walk about in mufti while the boys have to jog around in PT's , oh and I get to yell at them as well all those kind & caring encouragements like 'you slovenly soldier I haven't seen anything like it in all my born days, 10 laps round the oval'

Of course they ignore me as the Sarg maj is in charge. He has such a way with words 'You heard the nice gentlemen, now fook off and do it!!!'

AW is crook as a dog, Mikey is a bit sick too, and dd is not feeling well. But mums here to save us all and keep me in line she reckons. Which is one reason why I'm here its the only peaceful place in the house , cough, hack, whinge <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

and to say hello <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

Hi, Aussie--Taking a break from haranguing the troops, are we? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> I'm so glad you shop here--well-prepared soldiers know that, in case of injury, they're sure to need those super-duper, extra-absorbent, um, wound compresses and, hm-m, compressed packing we carry on this aisle, to say nothing of the <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> scented irrigants solutions <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> we can provide to the discriminating first aider in need of pre-packaged liquid cleansers. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /><img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

What a manly army you would have, to be sure, if everyone followed your brave example. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

t&l

LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!