Hello, Anyone Over 70????
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Im alive.very alive.i got the best birthday present in the world.my new great grandson made the newspapers.it seems that he was the 7 billionth baby born on oct31.what a racket they made in this small town of honesdale PA.As soon as they walked thro the door the news called and they wanted to take a family pic.of course i answered the phone.hell no.she was breastfeeding the baby,the other one was jumping and screaming like a maniac,the 3 dogs and 2 cats were wild and I was still in my bathrobe without even my hair combed.So they are gonna call back.he already made the papers and my daughter in Broooklyn heard it on the news.when she heard Grayson Daniels she screamed.yeah once in a while good things happen.even with the beast in the back of our minds.Last year on my birthday my GS was goin to work and had a very bad motorcycle accident.I spent it in the hoospital.what a difference a yr.makes.
huggggggs everyone.I fell like im on a mental high.Ducky I dont need the vodka yet!!!betta get some sleep as i have no idea if ill get any tonite.hugggggs everyon Kantalope
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Sounds like you're having a great time! Look forward to seeing that photo!
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Hi everyone. I'm getting closer to 70 every day (April 13, 2012). I'm still trying to figure out how that happened. I was only heading for 50 a short time ago and now both my daughter and my son are heading there. I'm 33 years into a second marriage. I have 2 kids (daughter and son), 5 grandkids (from age 12 to age 24), and 1 great-granddaughter born Sept 14 this year. We'll be meeting her at Thanksgiving and can't wait.
My hubby and I are both retired and live in South Florida, not far from Kaara. I've been a volunteer with the Inflammatory Breast Cancer Foundation since 2009 and was just elected Vice President starting Nov 1, 2011.
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Welcome Claudia! Good to have you on this thread!
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I dont know how to put pics but my GD is gonna do it for me.....soon i hope.
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Hi Ladies.................Sunday, and the weather is great.............going to my daughters for dinner.................joined weight watchers, so I have to figure my points..........she is having spaghetti, and she makes a mean pot of gravy................1 cup...I don't think so, so I am taking it easy for breakfast and lunch, so I can enjoy dinner.
Lost 7 lbs so far, and it is just 1 month......need to lose a small toddler..............so this is a challange...............everyone says........................"well its 7 lbs off instead of 7 lbs gained, and I say.................."do you come from the "you got the good cancer"......."your lucky it was breast cancer".............."breast cancer is no big deal anymore".............CLUB.................you must cause that is a stupid comment.........I guess that is more of the "positive thinking" idea........................well I'm giving it a shot.................like I said "a small toddler".................wish me luck ladies.
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Ducky: Good luck to you! The results will be well worth it, you will really feel like you've accomplished something, and you body will be healthier.
We are eliminating all white from our diet...no white bread, rice, pasta, potatoes, sugar, etc. It really isn't as bad as it sounds and is fairly easy to do. You can substitute with whole wheat or multi grain breads, you just have to make sure they don't contain enriched flour. All white products convert easily to sugar and set you up for failure due to the sugar cravings. You can substitute brown for white rice, and whole wheat or artichoke for white pasta. I really can't taste that much difference.
I've never been able to lose much more than 5 lbs until I started this program, and now I've lost almost 8 lbs and my boyfriend has lost 10. Mine is mostly belly fat which was a big problem for me. I don't feel as bloated after I eat.
Once a week we allow ourselves to cheat and eat what we want in moderation. We don't call it a diet, it's a new way of eating.
All the best to you!
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I was sooo good with changing my diet but lately im goin backwards....when my great grandson was born I ate everything in sight.....that was halloween and finally today it caught up to me with my stomach issues....so slowly im tryin to get back on track especially with the sugar...a while ago a friend of mine told me a big dr.told her cancer loves 2 things sugar and fat....
i finally was able to put an avatar....thats the new great grandson....in the hospital...
huggggggs everyone.FIND A DAMN CURE/VACINE...ENUF
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He's just precious..you must be so proud!
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OOOOOhhhhhhhhhh, Granny................he's a keeper..................what a sweetheart.....I'm a sucker for babies......................hug him for me......................
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yeah he is a keeper.the older one is red/blonde this one is dark like ME!!!!!!shhhhhh dont tell his dad.....male ego....teases the shit out of me when i say he looks like my family.ha.
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Prayers are with you ducky.
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Sheila..................thanks so much............hugs to you
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What happened to the over 70?????where are you?
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I'm here Granny Girl....................Had a littl busy weekend......so not on as much......Football game on Saturday up in Lancaster at Franklin and Marshall for my 2 grandsons...............then yesterday over to my grandaughter's house to have dinner with my her, and her, sister, Dad, Mom, and my Son...........of course the little ladies where here too ............Grayson looks good, but you can clearly see that something is not right.................it is more the way she holds herself, other then that, you would think nothing was wrong...............but next to her sister, a huge difference...................Isabella is a bit ahead of Grayson, but then again she was the one who was born first, without problems..........hopefully like my Mom always said "it will all come out in the wash".........God willing.........
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By the way............your baby is adorable..........love the hair.
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And my baby Greyson is a brat!!!!now my GD has this papoose(sp) that she ties around her and carries that brat around all day..and she tells me thats the way he was in her belly and thats the way he is comfortable....damn she keeps doin that is gonna be for a long time.....and to think she used to listen to me!!!!!!!!
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grannydukes: Times have changed since we raised babies. All kind of new contraptions that I don't even know how to use! My DS and DIL have one of those too...the baby went everywhere with them. My DIL's mother is from Equador and one day she came out of her room with a bedsheet and the baby wrapped and tied to her back. I thought my DS was going to die.
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Thanks Kaara for clearing that up.....in my days if they were clean,fed,burped then they were just bein fussy and should be left to do a lill crying....im glad im not a new mother today.i feel holding them too much spoils them....maybe thats just me...
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Ladies, could not agree with you more...................I think its wonderful to hold your babies.......but there is a limit..........I had 6, and this is how they were in order.....2, 1, and newborn......................Imagine that................The 2 year old, and the 1 years old in diapers..........and I'm not talking about the ones you pull off, toss in the trash, and grab a new one.................I'm talking about the cloth ones, that you had to wash, hang, fold 6 times (to fit the baby), and when they took a crap you dumped the turd down the toilet, flushed the toilet, and then rinsed the diaper up and down in the toilet water, to get most of the crap off, that was after dumping the "big bomb" first.
I never propped a bottle.........that was my time to cuddle, talk, coo, and do all the fun baby things I enjoyed so much........................every baby should have "hold" time, but this never putting them down, from bottle to bottle..............meal to meal.............nap to nap.........is bullshit.......I saw that on Sunday at my GD house..................the babies were never let have some "me" time.................
Oh well, my job of raising kids is done.........I did a decent job.............never won Mother of the Year awards, but did the best I could..................I call the present generation the "entitled" generation..............they think they have eveyrthing coming to them, as a birth rite.............but I must say out of the 18 grandchildren I have..........all but 1 are great............and one day he too will find out that it is not "all about him"...............Just glad I'm on the "way out", and not on the "way in"................I did my job................................
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Just a footnote.................after the first 3 I became better at keeping track of the calendar.......................then they were 2 years apart, and then 4 years apart.........................by the way................the rhythm system doesn't work................hahahahahhahah
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Oh Ducky---you bring back such fond and ugly memories...my first 2 were 13 mos apart.then 2 yrs later #3 and 2 yrs later #4....sure i held them,cuddled them and gave as much love to each and every one of them that was possible.....i also did the same thing with the diapers...with a diaper pail in the bathroom soaking smelly diapers.there was always 2 in diapers.2 with bottles and yet i still cooked,baked,took care of a house and yes I WORKED TOO....but i did not pick them up every time they cried.I didnt do it with my grandkids and im not starting now with great grandkids either.....no matter how much i love them and how much i feel blessed.
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ducky, I think the way your family has been there for you now is a good indication that you did a good job raising them!
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Chabba...........I hope so, I know I sure as hell tried.............A lot of giving up, and sacrificing back in the 50's...............When I think of the "take home" salaries of some of my children, and grandchildren it blows my mind....................In the 70's my husband grossed $10,000 a year........yet somehow there was always food on the a roof over our heads, food on the table, and we were happy.......................So my girls Barbie's came from the $1.00 store, but they didn't know the difference till some "little bitch" down the block told them "you don't have a real Barbie".............My little one said "its real to me".
Lots of gifts a xmas cause my Mother brought all her presents (and there were many) over to my house, and put them under the tree, so it looked like so much more........they never knew................Easter, everyone had a new outfit, even if it didn't come from Lord and Taylor, Macy's or Bloomingdales.................they were new, from the underwear out................we struggled, and many a Friday (catholic), I had to root down the "sofa" to find enough change to buy a pound of cheese, loaf of bread, and a couple cans of tomato soup...............thanks God my company never knew how I spent the change they dropped without knowing it .........hahahha...................
Granny, I hear ya girlfriend..................your right, and to add to it, I had a wringer washer, and no dryer............but always a meal on the table every night, and baked my own goodies........could not afford what the bakery wanted................in my house , Tastykakes, and ice cream were a treat, not an expectation.............................We can call them the "tough days", but they were also the "good old days"........................no cell phones, never locked your doors, no processed foods, we had a breadman, a milkman, and if we had a car.........there was only 1 for all of us.................That is back when the $1.50 candy bar today, was called the .25 cent candy bar..............you could buy a house for $8,000, and a luxary car for $5,000.........................................I'm glad I lived through those years.............it made me learn to appreciate finally having the "good life"..............even better.................hugs to all the ladies who remember what I'm talking about...................
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Oh, and we didn't have food on the "roof".................guess I should preview before I submit.......................hahahahahahhahhhahaha................but if I had to go up on the roof for the food, I would have done that too.......................
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Jo........your right.........I was just saying Sunday at my grandaughters house.............we had a "car seat".........................hahahaha.................it was some kind of a seat that had these hook like bars on the back that went over the middle of the front seat.................it had a steering wheel on the front of it, that was hooked into the seat with this "screw" that sat right in the middle where the kids face was.............then to boot they put a medal bar that stuck out the side like a little lever.......that was suppose to be their "make believe gear shift"........................it was between my husband and I in the middle seat.......(no consoles back then)..........and my son would jumpt in..........jump out.........jump in,........jump out, front to back, back to front, all the time going 50 miles an hour on the highway......................how the hell did they survive.
How about the bikes.............no helmet............no pads..............just get your ass on it , and ride................the first time my son got a bike with "hand brakes", he stopped one and not both, and did a "header" over the handle bars, and ended up in the ER.............
I guess all that was "punishment" for them putting us through the "friggin labor", with little medication, and a "NUN" standing at the foot of the labor saying to you ."oh my dear, every pain helps, offer it up"...................I know where I wanted to put my pain "UP", and it wasn't a Holy Place"...............
Well somehow we all did get through it, and like I said before. we're a lot tougher for having gone through it.........................love you gals................
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I didnt even have a washing machine till my 4th child was over a yr old.And a car...my FIL gave us a car someone gave him...We also were dirt poor but Christmas time both families bought my kids everything...and i mean everything...my X husband and I had to wait till the nite before Christmas to finish the shopping cause everything went on sale for a buck...and if my mom called and one of the kids would answer the phone i would yell if she asks what we are havin for dinner tell her steak.we were eating french toast...Life was so simple and easy back then...these kids today dont have a clue.When i tell them stories about my momm waiting on line with a token at the A&P for sugar they cannot believe it...and we are here to talk about it....priceless memories!!!!!!!
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Hey Granny, what about the books of stamps that we got during the war.............butter, coffee, sugar, and you would have to go to the grocery store, and my grandmother would say.........and don't go in the same line more then once...............we would get the stuff, run home, and then go back...................if you didn't drink coffee, you would trade your coffee stamps for butter, or sugar...............and how about the "margarine"..............it was white shit with a yellow button in the middle, that you broke, and then squeeze the frigging bag for hours, until the whole bag was yellow, and looked like butter..................never ate the shit................and till today can't even look at margarine.................., and your right about xmas...........................wait till a couple days before, and grab what was on sale.
For the things the kids really asked for, you would get up at the crack of dawn, go to the store before it opened, and pray you were first in lne, and knew right where the thing you wanted would be................nothing was bought if it wasn't on sale................Granny, my kids say today.......................funny thing is MOm, we never felt poor...............cause you never let us believe we were..................it was tough.
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