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  • Elisimo
    Elisimo Member Posts: 1,601
    edited May 2011

    chabba - Thanks we are all really relieved this series of storms are over at least for tonight.

  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited May 2011

    Angry weather scares me! There's nothing you can do to change it....

    My tests were all okay simply by the fact they couldn't find any ovaries!! So, I have to consider that no news is good news! I just saw the doc yesterday for results and he gave me a bladder relaxer in case it is my bladder in spasms. I go back in 6 weeks.

  • BarbaraA
    BarbaraA Member Posts: 7,378
    edited May 2011

    Oh Barbe, so sorry they still haven't got to the bottom of the pain! Hugs, pal.

    Prayes going up for all the people in Oklahoma City, Kansas and Arkansas.

  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited May 2011

    I havent had a chance to read the posts from the last few days.  I think that will take awhile.

    My beautiful grandbaby is finally here!  Her name is Olivia Anne, 9lb 2oz, 21 1/2" long.  She as born Monday the 23rd.  I had a hard time leaving her today and am thinking of going back and sneaking her to my home when they're not looking. 

    Olivia AnneI'm having a devil of a time trying to insert her picture but she is beautiful and perfect.

    Marianne

  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited May 2011

    congrats mazie..that is a big girl...

  • dragonflymary
    dragonflymary Member Posts: 356
    edited May 2011

    Barbe, so glad tests are negative so far.  BarbaraA, it's true!  None of us are zombies yet!  I'm still afraid of zombies from a movie I saw as a kid called "I walked with a Zombie."  It scared me to death!  I think those old black and white movies were somehow scarier than the newer scary movies. 

    Lord God does this rain ever stop?  Another week of it in the forecast.  No wonder they have so many coffee shops in Oregon and Washington.  Dragon

  • BarbaraA
    BarbaraA Member Posts: 7,378
    edited May 2011

    Oh Marianne! So happy for you! She is a big girl!!

  • dragonflymary
    dragonflymary Member Posts: 356
    edited May 2011

    Mazie, congrats on the new granddaughter!

  • 3jaysmom
    3jaysmom Member Posts: 4,266
    edited May 2011

    Barbe..sorry they haven't gotten to the bottom of it yet..maybe the bladder IS the problem (fingers crossed)

    Marianne! congrats your baby grandaughter is finally here YEAH!!! and, hello to all yoo lovely ladies..still in bed, but wanted to read earlier today... missya all! 3jays

  • 3jaysmom
    3jaysmom Member Posts: 4,266
    edited May 2011
    congrats Marianne... ENJOY!!!     3jays
  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited May 2011

    Marianne congrats!!! Details please!! Were you there for the birth????

  • Elisimo
    Elisimo Member Posts: 1,601
    edited May 2011

    Barbe - so sorry they still have not found the source of the pain.

    Marianne - CONGRATULATIONS on the new granddaughter.  Olivia Anne is a beautiful name and she certainly is a big girl.  My second daughter was just about 13oz bigger and everyone thoght she was a toddler! Or at least that is what they teased me about.  I know you are so delighted she is finally here.  We are still waiting for you to figure out how to post pictures.  I use Photobucket and it is pretty easy from there. 

  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited May 2011

    Or you can post off Facebook pictures!! They are easy too...

    Olivia will never fit into 'newborn' clothes..I hope she didn't get a lot of them! My DD was 8-13 so I skipped that whole range, even on the diapers! They were made differently in those days, 28 years ago,  just boxy hard disposables. I'm amazed the kids even learned to walk with them on!

  • Teklya
    Teklya Member Posts: 435
    edited May 2011

    Great news!  Just got off the phone with surgeon's nurse and she said results of mammogram, " no evidence of malignancy"

    YAY!!!!!!!!!!!  thanks for all your prayers and support - look at the outcome!

    still breathing. . . 

    Teklya

  • Leah_S
    Leah_S Member Posts: 8,458
    edited May 2011

    Marianne, mazel tov on the new granddaughter! My goodness, she's a big girl. None of my kids weighed that much until they were a few months old!

    Teklya - doin' the Happy Dance!

    Leah

  • Alyson
    Alyson Member Posts: 4,308
    edited May 2011

    Teklya what a relief, great news.

    And welcome news about Olivia. DS was that size born but didn't put on weight for ages.  DD's friend had an 11lb 11oz baby!!!!!

    Barbe, when my children were babies we didn't have disposables here - well they were just coming in so we used cloth nappies ( that's what we call them here not diapers)

    Leah, how is you DH's face? What an adventure you had.

    Must go and get dressed.

    I often wonder why our wifi doesn't work. If you could see Gus, one ginger cat, its not hard to understand - he is sleeping on the router!!!! 

  • Isabella4
    Isabella4 Member Posts: 2,166
    edited May 2011

    Marianne, big congratulations on your granddaughters birth...what a weight. Hope you get to spend lots of time with her...

    My 2 children weighed in at 7lbs 8oz...and 8 lbs 4 ozs. I had to have forceps first time around, NOT to be recommended !!! And, like Alyson, I used nappies !! I used to have the washable ones to deal with. Disposables, if you could call them that, were just coming in. I used to buy a roll of 'nappy roll' and cut off required length, and put inside plastic pants. They just fell to the bottom of the pants in a soggy mess, so I usually kept to the cotton squares. The little disposables the young ones use today are a miracle to me ! I'm sure it would have saved me 1 new washer , at least, if I'd not had so much baby washing.

    I just wish now I'd had another 2 children. At the time money was tight, so didn't bother. I did foster children, for about 10 years, newborns to 5 year olds. I gave up tho' as I wanted to be outside working, not ferrying children about. As soon as my two were up and running I was feeling trapped, always unable to leave children and do what I liked best. Now, as I get older, and my son has moved away, it would be nice to have more children around.

    Tomorrow my long lost bedroom window is being delivered. I dropped on the firm 2 weeks ago, got fed-up of their excuses. I got the old story ' staff off sick' which I didn't believe. But I had a moan at them, and after another 2 weeks wait the window should appear tomorrow. Just got to get it fitted and I can move into my bedroom at long last. I have been having a bit of a buying spree this last few weeks. Electrical fittings, new TV, bed, and today a pair of table lamps, and 2 sheepskin rugs. I don't think there is anything else I want now. All the 'stuff' is piled up in the hallway, waiting for the first G/child I can collar to help me shift everything in. I have a delivery of my new bedroom furniture next week....was thrilled today when I could, at last, tell them to deliver. They have been pressing me to give them a delivery date, but, not having a window in the place, I was stalling them. Its like moving house. Don't think I shall ever leave this place now. Last week, out of the blue, DD asked if I had considered moving house, she said the house was 'a big house for one'  Don't quite know what's behind her thinking at the moment, but something will be. Something will casually drop into the conversation before long, that's for sure !! 

    Time to feed my puppies now and get to bed. I sold 2 yesterday, well, at least got deposits on 2. A family came to choose 1 puppy. They had 2 girls 10/11/12 ish, and they could NOT agree on which to order. They both wanted the 1 that the other DEFINITELY did not...so Father jumped in , and solved it, he bought them both !! Suits me ! They have had puppies before from me over the years. I have managed to sell 3 now, and am keeping 2, so only have 3 left for sale. I think things could be slowly on the upturn again....apart from petrol prices, that is. I have talked to one or two people over the last couple of weeks and they are saying they are slowly seeing movement. A few houses that have been on the market for months have suddenly got 'sold' signs up. 

    Isabella.

  • QCA
    QCA Member Posts: 1,539
    edited May 2011

    Tekyla!!! GREAT NEWS!!  I'm doing the happy dance too!

    Congratulations, Marianne, on your new GD!  Beautiful name, too.

    Amyjo, so glad to hear that DD#2 and her family are safe.  Know that's a relief for you.

    Barbe, I so hope the bladder relaxer helps.  Do you think your ovaries have just disappeared??

    Dragon, I loved horror movies as a teenager, especially anything with Vincent Price.  I was an avid reader of Poe, and a lot of the movies were "loosely" based on Poe's stories.  There was one, not a Poe one, that terrified me and I just cannot think of the name of it.  Anyhow, Vincent Price broke into a house by cutting a circle from a glass door and removed the glass with a suction cup, reached in, and unlocked the door.  Of course, our back door was half glass at the time.  

    My word, Isabella, is there anything you haven't done?  I didn't know you'd been a foster mother in addition to all the other things.  You continue to amaze me!  Glad you're finally getting your window in and can at last move into your new bedroom!

    Kathy

  • Elisimo
    Elisimo Member Posts: 1,601
    edited May 2011

    Tekyla - Great News!  I am joining in the Happy Dance for you.

    Alyson - Gus probably likes the soft noise and the warmth that comes from the router!  However, fur wrappers are not recommended for routers! hehehehehe

    Isabella - so glad you are finally getting your window in so you can enjoy the new bedroom.  Hope DD does not want to move into your house and push you out. Boy have I got a good image of that ever happening!  NOT!!!

    Dragon - I never went or wanted to see scary movies!  I was so shy and scare of everything all the time as it was.  No, really I was!  I did see a movie with Don Knotts called "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken" and it even it scared me!  And it was supposed to be a comedy.  Fortunately, I out grew some of the shyness and not afraid of things so much now.

    When my girls were little the disposable diapers were all make from a wood product paper and my girls would break out everywhere the diaper touched so I use the cloth diapers for both of them.  It was funny when DD#2 ran out of disposable diaper with her first one and did not know what to do so I grabbed a clean flour sack and used it for a diaper.  She was so amazed that I could do that.  I had to show her how to do it, the fun part came when it was time to change DGD#1! DD#2 had no clue how to clean the diaper! I had to laugh and show her how to do that too!

    Well I am off to finish reading the other threads I follow then off to bed.  Hope everyone has a restful night. 

  • 3jaysmom
    3jaysmom Member Posts: 4,266
    edited May 2011

          tekyla!! doin the happy dance for you... marianne, can't wait to see pics.put them in photobucket, you can just cooy and paste them from there to here! a trick chrissy b taught me.. really easy. don't have to use that tree thing, at all..

       Isabella!! i'm so glad you're getting your window, and can get in your new bedroom.. the father of those girls was a saint, to buy one for each of them... and, they get to stay with their litter mates!(the dogs)

       the discussion about "nappies" had me chuckling. for my 1st Jay, i was "gonna be natural" and wash the dirty things! the 2nd and 3rd i wised up, and used pampers... and yes, Isabella, it saved so much washing...    3jays 

  • 3jaysmom
    3jaysmom Member Posts: 4,266
    edited May 2011
    thats; my "kids" doin the happy dance for you. enjoy dancing with "ned" the stable boy...    3jays
  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited May 2011

    3jays,, aren't they just the sweetest little things!!!!

    My first mother-in-law was really mad that I used disposables. SHE used nappies, but of course my husband was allergic to the laundry soap so she had to BOIL each nappie!! That'll teach you for trying to go natural!! And then those rubber pants where all the pee sits at the elastic and burns the poor baby's skin!! It's child abuse I tell you!!!!  I had a hard-time with the big pins (yes, I tried cloth first) and looking back it's weird that my arthritis/FM would have started that long ago....Undecided I pride myself on being physically very strong, but when I'm in a flare, I'm like a toddler in strength.

  • BarbaraA
    BarbaraA Member Posts: 7,378
    edited May 2011

    Tek, happy dancing along with everyone else!!!

  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited May 2011

    Just so everyone doesn't think I'm ignoring Tek, I did congratulate her on another thread...awkward moment!

  • GramE
    GramE Member Posts: 5,056
    edited May 2011

    Congrats on the birth of Olivia Anne.   "My" Olivia Ann (first grand babe) was only 3 pounds, 3 ounces, 2 months early.   However, she is thriving at 15 months of age, walking, trying to talk real words, and best of all, I got to babysit Tuesday night.  Hugs for all, Nancy

  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited May 2011

    Marianne



    Congrats on the new addition. Such a lovely name. Wishing all the best to the family



    Tek. What wonderful news!

  • dragonflymary
    dragonflymary Member Posts: 356
    edited May 2011

    Tekyla, wonderful news!!  Love the picture of the doggies dancing!  It's raining again, what else is new?  I wanna go to Florida or Aruba or someplace just to dry out.  Just bought some black linen and am determined to start sewing again.  First will make my daughter a table runner then a black linen dress.  Just met a lady who's stage IV and doing really well.  After listening to her I feel guilty complaining about anything so, rain, bring it on!  Love to all, Dragon

  • BarbaraA
    BarbaraA Member Posts: 7,378
    edited May 2011

    Dragon, come on down!! I live on the west coast of FL and it is lovely here. Never goes above 95 in dead of summer (way better than when I lived in DC). Always a breeze. Jeez Lousie, I sound like the tourist bureau. Come on!!

  • Alyson
    Alyson Member Posts: 4,308
    edited May 2011

    Hi there,

    Hope you all have a good few days will try to get on but unsure if there will be internet at the retreat place I am going to for a meeting.( I know we can have wine with our dinner though.)

    Had a lovely time with both littlies yesterday. It was the first time DD had left the baby for anytime, he was so good and after a play went to sleep so I had time to spend with Bea.

    I have just finished knitting a jacket for Bea and now will start on one for Sam.

    Have a restful weekend. Big hugs.

  • Isabella4
    Isabella4 Member Posts: 2,166
    edited May 2011

    Alyson, you show me up ! I started knitting a pig, a cartoon character that all the little ones watch, called Peppa Pig. I was HOPING to finish it for Christmas, guess what? I didn't ! Its only a 10" high pink pig, with a red knitted dress, pretty straightforward....BUT...I just never managed to complete. In fact I only got about 6" of the pigs body done. Just lucky I kept my mouth tight shut, and no-one knew I was knitting. G/daughter has just had her bedroom all 'Peppa Pigged'...the whole shebang, bed, chest of drawers, table chair...even pictures on the wall...she loves it, and drags me off up there whenever I pop in.

    3jays...those 2 dogs are lovely...are they dancing or scrapping !! I had my friend Elvis the gypsy call on me last night. He brought the most tiny chihuahua you ever did see. He had bought it for his wife for £1,500 ($ 2,600)  It was cream, longhaired, a year old, and weighed about 2 pounds I would have guessed. Never ever seen one so tiny. I THOUGHT he had brought it to see if I wanted to buy it, I would have loved her ( but not at that price ) but he was just babysitting it while his wife was in the supermarket. I have said if they ever want to part I would be interested....but I don't think they will.

    Will you girls please stop going on about the weather ??? I am so sick of ours at the moment. We are having cold miserable weather, no sun, lots of howling winds and sideways rain. I have loads of small branches down , all to be collected by G/son when things calm down. I have had the central heating back on the past 2 nights. It is a holiday w/end coming up here, and everyone is complaining that they want to get to somewhere warmer for a few days. All the schools are shut next week, and there is a distinct possibility of all flights out of UK all being cancelled, because of a  ^&&*£*$  cloud of volcanic ash, en route from Iceland, where there has been a major eruption of one of their volcanoes. All the ash is been blown right across our airspace by the Gulf Stream, that has 'slipped' so we are being told ! We got 'shut down' about this time last year, and no-one could fly in or out of UK. Lots were stranded at destinations all over the world, and could not get back home for about a week!

    Isabella.

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