I'd worry more about this if I didn't realize that they already know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

t&l

I read this first (embarrassing admission) when Kimmy posted it over on Idiotville, where I sometimes peek in with surreptitious caution, so as not to get my pariah self caught treading on hallowed, forbidden ground! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> I have found it enormously humorous that people are posting and yukking it up there who so-very-recently were anti's, and in a pretty public way, too. But I digress...

Really, AW mum and AW, I'm so sorry about this. My initial reaction was to offer to come over and break his legs, but then I read the 8-hr. thing, and realized that even on my broom, I couldn't make it to Australia that fast. Maybe we could all join together and do thought projection to produce a harmonic convergence on his femur(s), but we'll have to work fast. Is he a career soldier, or is he one whose enlistment will run out sometime and he can come home to stay? You all should know that there lots of people, even here on the other side of the world, who love your family and will keep him, and you all, in our prayers every day...for as long as you need us.

Give Aussie a big hug from all of us ladies (SS sends a firm and manly handshake), and then give AW two. God bless you all.


t&l

{{{{{{{{{{{AW/A2}}}}}}}}}}}} Hope you get this adub. I love you both!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Where was Mom????

She's okay, right?

She wasn't working there at the time. The incident occurred in post-partum, just down the hall from where Mom would have been, but they moved the patient to l&d after that so she would be more secure.

AW, AJ is at work, but when I told him about the deployment he said to tell both of you we would be praying for you, and to wish Aussie Godspeed.

It's so sad.

How do you cope if you are the mother or the wife/girlfriend?

Or if you are a nurse, or a doctor that wittnessed it?

Or a policeman?



I'm glad Aussie had time at home. Sorry it was so short. I hope AW is OK.

Sometimes things seem so senseless, but we can still give meaning to our lives and our loved ones lives. We can still live mostly happy lives if we keep our own priorities straight and do what we ought to be doing.

Hope tomorrow is better for everyone. No matter who, or where.

SS

(((((AW)))))

(((((A2)))))

(((((AMUM)))))

(((((T&L)))))

Life is not always fair. That's for sure.

I am glad Aussie got to spend a while at home. I wish it had been years and years, though. Maybe they won't keep him away too long. I guess we should pray for safety. I don't suppose it would be kind to pray for a career ending but non-serious injury.

AW - that seems far too soon for you all to be separated again. So sorry to hear this. Don't they have enough soldiers there to give him a longer break??

I know that you've been through before but I'm sure you'll never get used to it. ((AW/Aussie))

Hi guys <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

first of all I want to say a big thankyou to you all for your prayers and well wishes for Aussie.

I am, well, still a bit stunned by it all, but in a way realised it was possible this last week.

The good news is that he and his team may God willing never leave the troop ship if things go well. There is great hope that the matter will be resolved peacefully.

If so then we have been told they will be on their way home in a week or two if we are lucky. Bit like using a sledge hammer on a walnut I guess, but better than any fighting !!!!
the latest we have heard is that they have already landed most of the 3rd Brigade and 2 Commando 4th batt and the 1st Rifle group 3 batt with the remaining companies from the 2 battalions as follow on troops by Monday or Tuesday. I guess they want all to take a deep breath and step back.. bit like me!
<img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

I already miss him so much and Mikey was looking around for Daddy this morning and is very restless , mum is probably worse <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />, I'm just so tired, didn't get any sleep and feel drained right now. But ok.
DD is very quiet and not happy her dad is gone again, DS... I am so so thankful he did not get to go to Darwin or he would already be on the ground there. Hes moaning about it <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

but its not the end of the world, lots of families are worse off we'll be ok ... wish I could hug you all though <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="" />

And we wish we could hug you back. Of course, Aussie's hug might be located more specifically around his throat and involve some shaking...but it would be a loving sort of stranglehold, I'm sure!! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> As would be the efforts of the people busily attacking his lower limbs to put him back on medical leave again. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> Can't be loved too much, you know. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

t&l

Posted this in I'ville, but you guys will appreciate this.

Yesterday 3yro tells me after her bath, "mommy, hurry up and dress me or I'm gonna get the cramps."

????

She says, "HURRY UP MOMMY, I'M COLD AND I CAN FEEL A CRAMP!"

I'm like, "do you even know what a cramp is."

"Yeah." (insert proper 3 year old girl eye roll because mom's a dunce here...and the tone...OY VEY...she knows EVERYTHING) Reciting with said eyes rolled very far back, "a cramp is when you are all wet and go outside, and they get on you, and crawl up your legs like this...." (she waves her hands frantically around her legs)





Boy do I ever have some scary news for her.....

{{{{AW}}}}

Let's see, what we need for Aussie is something that won't hurt him too much but will keep him out of active duty. Anybody got any good ideas?

I don't know that a stranglehold is the right idea.

Well, I found something to divert your attention.....synchronized skating - kind of weird. Used to do it. Was on a team. At our last competition, we beat the team that took second place in the ISI national competition the previous year. Will confess, we were on and they had an off night.

This is not a great clip and the song is not so wonderful but this stuff is hard. One person falls and everyone is in trouble. I've been the one to fall while the team was skating in a circle/holding hands. Not good. At all.

http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=17616

Not meaning to do a monologue here - just rescuing us from near the bottom of page 2

Grandpa was a brat today.

He was in a bad mood from the time I told him to get into the car to go to church. Twice I answered his complaints, explaining to him that we were going to get to our nearby church (as opposed to the farther-away church I was hoping to go to, where Mom & Neaksis were, but better luck next time), and that he would make it for nearly all the church service, all of Sabbath School, and then the potluck.

After the second time, he started in again, quiet but bitterly cranky. "Next time let's just skip it !" And a minute later muttering, "This is so embarrassing!"

Sigh. "What is so embarrassing?"

Frowny face. "Going just in time for potluck!"

ARRRRRRRRRRGH!!!!!!!! So I explained it all to him again, in even more detail.

He was quiet until we got to the church, but as he was getting out said jovially, "Well, thanks for bringing me, heh heh..........even if I didn't want to come."

Is it ok to smack him, just a little bit? <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I was a dutiful granddaughter, and didn't laugh in front of him.

Oh, thanks Rella, it makes it so much faster to find. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

That's what I'm here for.....to spread sunshine....

Took son out to dinner tonight as daughter was with friend. He said, "One advantage the animals have is they don't have to worry about the stock market." Excuse me, I know he is 13 but I didn't know he paid any attention to the stock market.