Posted by Joseph_CA on 5/8/05 10:46am
Msg #36516

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO YOU ALL; SYLVIA,COLLEEN,BRENDA...

ERNA and all of you! My mother of 81 years and my wife!!

Reply by BrendaTX on 5/8/05 11:01am
Msg #36518

Thank you, Joseph...

Thus far...I have recieved a lovely card... a length of cable, a splitter and a son who is going to install it so my treadmill has a TV/DVD with cable piping in my favorite news channel right next to it.

(My son got the fancy little tv/dvd for beside my treadmill for Christmas...but he forgot the splitter and cable...when he asked me what I wanted for MD...I said, splitter/cable so I can use my tv while I walk on the treadmill + install it for me on Sunday! He was quite surprised that's all I wanted, but it truly was ALL I wanted. I also got a day of my son's company and a favorite movie/watching with son..."Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?" Stepsons will be calling later.)

Reply by BrendaTX on 5/8/05 11:02am
Msg #36519

PS - Happy Mother's Day to the rest! n/m

Reply by Nicole_NCali on 5/8/05 11:02am
Msg #36520

Thank you so much, this is my first official mother's day. I have a stepson, but just had my own little rugrat last June.

Reply by BrendaTX on 5/8/05 11:10am
Msg #36522

Nicole...

Stepson's can be a stepmom's best friend when you get older...

In fact, there are times I know the younger of my two stepsons...the little four-year old who spit at me when I made him take a nap is the one that I will be able to count on no matter what...and...there are times when my older stepson is so dear to me because of the help he gave me when taking care of the two younger boys.

And, of course, I also treasure my natural son (he is perfect, of course! ) but, when you come out with stepsons that love you, now, I call that a real parenting accomplishment.

Reply by DellaCa on 5/8/05 11:41am
Msg #36526

Re: Nicole...

Happy Mothers Day
My gift aside from my family is Breakfast , a manicure and pedicure,I got the pedicure yesterday my feet feel sooooo good.

Reply by Nicole_NCali on 5/9/05 5:21am
Msg #36606

Re: Nicole...my stepson. I love him to pieces

Hi Brenda,

My little boy is a real sweetheart. I love him to pieces. The love extended from my husband to him but now it is a standalone kind of love. As I type, he is sleepless and watching Lilo and stitch @ 3:21 am. I just made him some hot chocalate and this should push him right off to sleep.

Reply by BrendaTX on 5/9/05 6:51am
Msg #36609

Re: Nicole...my stepson. I love him to pieces

Yeah, Nicole...you know what I mean, then.

The other side of the coin is NO good deed goes unpunished!

But, I'll spare the board the trials and tribulations...all funny now...not so funny then...none having much to do with notary work...but all entertaining in Mom's rear view mirror.

Reply by Sylvia_FL on 5/8/05 12:00pm
Msg #36530

Thank you Joseph

Somebody said it takes about six weeks to get back to normal after
you've had a baby ............
Somebody doesn't know that once you're a mother, "Normal," is history.
Somebody said you learn how to be a mother by instinct .
Somebody never took a three-year-old shopping.
Somebody said being a mother is boring ...
Somebody never rode in a car driven by a teenager with a driver's
permit.
Somebody said if you're a "good" mother, your child will "turn out
good."
Somebody thinks a child comes with directions and a guarantee.
Somebody said "good" mothers never raise their voices .....
Somebody never came out the back door just in time to see her child
hit a golf ball through the neighbor's kitchen window.
Somebody said you don't need an education to be a mother.
Somebody never helped a fourth grader with her math.
Somebody said you can't love the fifth child as much as you love the
first.
Somebody doesn't have five children.
Somebody said a mother can find all the answers to her child-rearing
questions in the books ........
Somebody never had a child stuff beans up his nose or in his ears.
Somebody said the hardest part of being a mother is labor and delivery
Somebody never watched her "baby" get on the bus for the first day of
kindergarten.....
or on a plane headed for military "boot camp."
Somebody said a mother can do her job with her eyes closed and one hand
tied behind her back .......
Somebody never organized four giggling Brownies to sell cookies.
Somebody said a mother can stop worrying after her child gets married
Somebody doesn't know that marriage adds a new son or
daughter-in-law to a mother's heartstrings.
Somebody said a mother's job is done when her last child leaves home
Somebody never had grandchildren.
Somebody said your mother knows you love her, so you don't need to tell her............
........ Somebody isn't a mother.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!

Reply by BrendaTX on 5/8/05 12:21pm
Msg #36534

Beans up the nose...

I did that with peas. My babysitter always sorted good from bad when she was cooking peas or beans and let me play with a few in a bowl. I guess I was about three...and, I got a few stuck. I thought she was the smartest woman in the world for grabbing a tissue and telling me to blow.

Reply by Sylvia_FL on 5/8/05 6:25pm
Msg #36572

Re: Beans up the nose...

Boy - does that bring back memories.
In England there is a small round candy called an aniseed ball. My eldest daughter who was only about 18 months at the time, came to me and said "seed ball, up nose", she had got into my bag of aniseed balls and had stuck one up her nose. My mother was with me at the time, and we both tried to get it out. Tried to make her sneeze but she wouldn't co-operate. I finally called the doctor's office and he sent an ambulance, but just as the ambulance men were knocking on the door, she sneezed and dislodged it. But they insisted on taking her to the infirmary to make sure there was no damage. The little minx thought it was so neat that the following week she put a button up her nose! We threatened to put a screen on the end of her nose to stop her putting anything else up there.

( Now sometimes I will look at her and say "seed ball - up nose" and it sets her off laughing)

Reply by To Sylvia on 5/8/05 6:53pm
Msg #36576

Re: Beans up the nose...

What a sweet memory!

Reply by missymrtn_socal on 5/8/05 9:27pm
Msg #36582

with my daughter it was a peanut! n/m

Reply by MaggieMae_CA on 5/9/05 12:32am
Msg #36596

my son... a quarter in his throat

Kids... Ya gotta luv em!

Reply by Donna CA on 5/9/05 1:48am
Msg #36602

Re: my son... a quarter in his throat

My son put a bean up his nose one week, a watch battery 2 weeks later, and several daycare kids attempted store stuff in their noses- corn kernel, peas, foam rubber from a chair they toreup...

Reply by ColleenCA on 5/9/05 7:16am
Msg #36610

Thank you very much!