If you don't stop crying, I am just going to

• Positive sayings from your childhood - Tell Us
  • I am surprised - Linda F
  • parents - Linda F
  • mentoring - Linda F
  • a transcription teacher told me, - sm
  • Nothing is permanent but change. - nm
  • Use it up, Wear it out, Make it do, or Do without! - Drawing a blank here
  • I was my father's TV "remote" - LOL
    • lol - Linda F
  • If you did the best you can I am proud of you - Kaydie
  • every time you stretch, you grow an inch. NM - anon
  • If you don't stop crying, I am just going to - spank you again. (nm)
    • lol! my mom would say - exasperated
      • I think my mom and your mom were separated at birth. nm - trose
    • that doesn't sound very positive!! - good lord
  • We are all equal. You are no better than anyone else, and no one else is any better than you. - nm NCMT
  • If Cindy's parents let her jump off a bridge would you do it too. - Kaydie
  • Dad said: You can learn from your own mistakes, but it's easier to learn from - other people's mistakes.
  • Mothers! - ginny
    • and lets not forget - ginny
  • I kept my kids in line at restaurants for - kt
  • My ex-MIL told the ex that she would - "shake his liver out." (nm)
  • If you keep getting ... - sm
    • parents - Linda F
  • "Do that again and I'm taking you to the Baby Prison" - that one worked for years NM.
  • Anytime my mother would see graffiti she'd say,... - sm

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Keypunch machines. That's why my hearing is a bit off now. LOL

First personal computer and printer: An Epson and continuous paper printer with DOS operating system. Cost: $3500.

I still have my mood rings and my torquoise jewelry but lost my class ring in the grocery store.It was expensive, $50, black onxy stone and gold band.

Snowstorms that shut the towns down for days on end. Couldn't get out to go to work unless you worked close to home and could walk. Schools never shut down. Five of us walked a mile a day to school with snow up to our hips. Our lessons for the day? Study hall.

My first car was a ི Chevy coupe. Gas was $.27 a gallon and I chauffered 5 friends to and from school for $.25 a week. On Friday and Sat. nights there was a dance with a group that became 'almost famous.' They got as far as the Steel Pier in Atlantic City dance club. It was a big deal to be on TV in those days. On those nights, I would go to the next town and pick up anybody hitch hiking to the dance. (I wasn't allowed to go to the dances). I wired the car with an older portable record player that only played 45s and kept my records under the seat.Worked great except when I would hit a bump. LOL

Bandstand every day from 3:30 to 5:00 EST.

Sleigh riding in the winter on our Flexible Flyer. We did it on steep coal banks. Much better thrill. Then we found out cardboard worked even better. No getting stuck halfway down the bank because the sleigh rails would hit a larger piece of coal sticking up.

Hide-and-seek when it got dark. I missed the pole and hit face first. What a bloody mess, but you didn't run to the ER for it.

Throwing corn at the nasty neighbor's house at Halloween. He called the cops. We ran and hid. I was caught. Where was I hiding? In the neighbor's garbage pile. Today garbage piles are called compost piles.

This is just too fresh in my mind, having just lost my lab, Murphy less than 3 weeks ago.  I know what you are feeling and what you are going through.  I cried and cried over making the decision.  The vet sent me a wonderful card stating that sometimes the kindest thing we do for our pets is to say good bye.  Murphy just gave me a look when it was time.  I can't explain it, but I know he was trying to tell me that the suffering was too much. I read somewhere the dogs are very stoic.  They don't tend to show pain unless it is pretty severe, and his cries told me that it was pretty severe. 

As far as the buriel, the vet's office asked right up front on the phone.  I had the choice of cremation, a common buriel (here it is at a farm as we are a little on the rural side) or taking the body.  Talked to my sons, and my oldest said he would bury him, that he wanted him at home.  The vet wrapped him up very nicely for us, but did give us the option to do it ourselves.  Bless my son.  Murphy was a big dog, nearly 90 pounds, and my son had to work hard to dig his grave.  I am planning on planting a small flower bed there as well, as it is in the back corner of my yard, which is pretty barren right now. 

Anyhow, it should be your choice.  Just tell them up front what you want when the time comes.  I am so, so sorry you are going through this.  I wouldn't want to be in your shoes for anything right now.  Just keep telling little Fox how much you love him (though he knows that).  Please keep us posted on how things go for him. 

http://youtube.com/watch?v=PYBz2gjEfA

I sure couldn't.  It gets me so upset I actually felt ill, but at the same time I wish everyone thinking of getting a pet could watch it.  Hope I posted the link correctly.  It's on shelter animals.  The title is "In Hope, An Animal Shelter Story."

I have been married 15 years....this morning my husband came in and said, "Eric said your storage building is ready!"  You might think I would be happy.  He thought I would be.  The problem is that in 15 years of marriage I have been able to pick out nothing. I mentioned a few weeks ago that I would like an outside storage building.  I mentioned a couple I had seen.  My husband did not discuss it with me at all but went to the neighbor and had him build a storage building. I have no idea what it will look like, no idea what size, what color, anything.  It wouldn't be such a big deal but I honestly don't get to pick anything out. 

11 years ago I had just had a baby and my husband picked out our house while I was home recovering from a c-section.  He told me this was where we were going to live.  He had refused to even look at any of the houses I had liked during my pregnancy.  He told me we would remodel this house any way I wanted, get any furniture I wanted.  I was so anxious to get out of the rundown noisy apartment building we were in that I agreed to move here.  Then of course, no remodeling, no new furniture. 

Three years ago I really needed a new car. My husband said he would start looking for one.  HE would start looking for one for me.  A year later HE had still not found one.  I found a used, reasonably priced car and told him I wanted to buy it.  He said no.  I told him I really needed a vehicle. It was less than $10,000.  He finally agreed but was mad at me for a year over it and told his parents that I had gone out and bought myself "a new car".  It was actually 4 years old.  A year ago he bough a boat for $10,000 that I had never even seen and brought it home and announced we had a new boat.  Six months ago he bought a $30,000 truck and took me to see it at the dealership after he had already bought it. 

So now I am a b*tch for not being happy about the new storage building.  woohoo

Why such a division?  The bottom line is that we all just want to communicate with people in the same field of work.  This does not give anyone the right to slam the "other board" or certain people.  Sounds like some of you just need to get a life.

as I know it, vaccines don't stop you from getting a disease - vaccines help in that you get a milder case of it, and in this case, chickenpox......

Mare stare has a whole boatload of farms that offer live cams in easy to navigate list format.  Usually in the spring these cams are trained in on mares who are about to give birth--which is incredibly cool (and sometimes scary!) to watch. 

http://www.marestare.com/Cams.htm