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[mamama]

I see all these threads for Aussie people and thought we should have our own thread too. Not sure why, I just felt the need to make us feel special too!

So, who's stateside and where are you?

I'll start:

Mamama - in Chicago

1. Mamama - Chicago, DS 2 next week
2. Twirl - MD - married, DD 3 and DS 1
3. Califrau - Milpitas, CA - married, ds1 (7), ds2 (4). sahm
4. Greatgooglymoogly - NY State - married, DS1 (3), DS2 (17 mths)
5. Alipiggie - Erie, CO - 2 DS's aged 5 and 4
6. Tinpot - North Carolina
7. dooneygirl - Oregon City, OR A married SAHM. DS 4 , DD 2
8. Earlybird - TN, DD (6)
9. SofiaAmes - LA
10. LATyke - Redondo Beach, CA
11. NannyK - Boston, MA
12. Marls001 - Bentonville, AR
13. Hellish - Ottawa, Canada
14. Sunchowder - Florida - DD Girlscout age poss 14ish, SDS um late teens.
15. SittingBull - near San Francisco, CA - married,two children, 1 DS 3 years, 1 DD 18 months
16. ChiTownLady - Chicago
17. MKG - New Jersey -ds1 22 months,ds2 3 weeks
18. Yesthereare4ofthem - NY State
19. Albert, Brazil - married to Brasilian, DS(7)
20. Texan Dallas, TX, married to a Scot, DD (7), DS (5)
21. Tiggyhop - Houston. DS (4) DS (3) and DD (20 months)
22. Bananapudding - Texas. married, DD 6
23. jabberwocky - TN married, ds1 3.10, ds2 6 months
24. Brooklynmom - NYC. DD, 14 months old...
25. Vixie78 - Houston Texas
26. TwinMommyToBe - Boston
27. Barefeete - British Virgin Islands
28. Dodgykeeper - Dayton, Ohio 29)Syd - Manhattan Beach, LA
29. Weewilliewinkie ? VA
30. Chocchipcooke - Ohio
31. Mummimamma - PA. Married, DS, soon to be 5, DD 1 (15 months)
32. Shouldalistenedtomymum - Canada - Hamilton, Toronto,

East Coast
NannyK - Boston
Twinmommytobe - Boston
Greatgooglymoogly - NY State
Yesthereare4ofthem - NY State
Brooklynmom - NYC
MKG - New Jersey
Mummimamma - PA
Twirl - MD

The South
Earlybird - Soon to be in TN
jabberwocky - TN
Sunchowder - Florida
Marls001 - Bentonville, AR
Tinpot ? NC

Midwest
Mamama ? Chicago
ChiTownLady - Chicago
Dodgykeeper - Dayton, OH
Chocchipcookie - Ohio

Rockies & Southwest
Alipiggie - Erie, CO

Northwest
dooneygirl - Oregon City, OR

California
SittingBull - nr San Francisco
Califrau ? Milpitas
Syd - Manhattan Beach, LA
SofiaAmes - LA
LATyke - Redondo Beach

Texas
Texan - Dallas
Tiggyhop ? Houston
Vixie78 - Houston
BananaPudding

Canada
Hellish ? Ottawa
Shouldlistenedtomymum - Hamilton

BVI Barefeete Brazil
Albert, Brazil

overrated u still about

I'm guessing someone had a name change while I was gone???? Someone who likes making lists maybe?

Shhhhhh!

He he he he he he. (Sorry, have been up since about 3 in the morning Boston time, and am a bit silly)

Have I missed anything good this week? Everyone seems really quiet.

Nope, it's been really quiet. Have you been to Boston already? How was it? Clam chowder?

Yeah, I don't do clam chowder. We did do Maine lobster, though, and that was great. Rhode Island was too hot, Maine was very pretty and Boston was really fun. The kids did great beyond belief, and apart from our luggage not making our flight from JFK to Boston everything went great. (and they had our luggage delivered to our hotel before we were awake the next morning).

Oh, traveling is such a pita. Glad your luggage arrived not long after you did though.

Where is everyone else?

Yoohoo. . . .everybody else, where are you?

Am here, but been busy trying to get to grips with multiple spreadsheets for work and wayward 4yr ds . The life of a working mum. Beautiful here in CO, although snow forecast for the weekend, great for the boss, not so great for the plans. Waves hello to all over US Mums.

I only know local places for breakfast unless you fancy somewhere like IHOP?

They do need to do something about the Stanford mall's website. I read crematorium & fountain too.

Hi ladies - sorry to have been away so long. Hope everyone is well.

Anyone know about spiders? I've just come home from a supper out, and the babysitter met me at the door with her story of the very large brown spider she and dd discovered crawling up dd's bedding. The babysitter killed it/flushed it, and then stripped the bed to make sure there weren't any others around. She also checked all around/under the bed and didn't see anything else. The entire house was just sprayed for bugs on Saturday, so I don't know how that thing was inside/alive.

Anyone know anything about spiders, and how to get rid/prevent? My skin is crawling wondering how it got in, and whether there are more around....haven't seen any, but still. Any advice?

DD is sleeping in my bed tonight. EEEEEKKKK!!

Sorry, can't help. You would look in the Audubon Guide to see if you can identify it. I only know that we don't have any poisonous spiders in Illinois but that doesn't help you. Or maybe I'm thinking about snakes. No idea actually [very confused emoticon]

Hope you get some sleep.

Thanks for the suggestions. I've been googling to see what I can find out.

I think the babysitter had (has?) some sort of spider phobia, so she spoke at length about spiders, and attempted to reassure me the one she killed wasn't poisonous. Still, I shudder at the thought of spiders in the house....and even worse to think of them climbing up onto/into dd's bed (or mine for that matter).

The babysitter kept making a circle with thumb and index finger to show me the size of the spider. Yuck, yuck, yuck.

Hi there, Stateside. Can you help ? I want to buy a buggy and have it delivered to my sister in Seattle for when I visit in a months time. Can you recommend an American 'Mothercare' or similarly reputable company with internet option ?

Many thanks, in advance.

Spiders, mountain lions, wow - what an exotic place we live in

Barefootand, have a look at the following sites:

amazon
babiesrus
target
walmart

Target is usually my preferred store.

There are other places that my friends have used, such as joggingstroller.com but I don't know much about them.

HTH

We had a cougar on the hill behind us running amok for a few weeks. We also had black widow spiders. Personally I was much more afraid of the possibility of contact with the spiders.

Exterminator coming back out to respray the house on Monday. The service chap thought I'd be reassured when he said the big ones are generally OK, but it's the little ones that can be dangerous.

Very reassuring, Earlybird!

Cougars, mountain lions, spiders, etc. - my goodness! Here's another to add to the collection: My cousin's housecat was probably eaten by a coyote a few weeks ago - at least, that's what they think happened based on evidence found in their yard.

All this is quite a change to the pigeons and rats that frequent big cities!

I've squished a Black Widow before . They scare me much more too, at least you know the Bears and Cougars are deadly. You forget "small and deadly" . Loads of Coyotes here, which is why our Kitten is an indoor not an outdoor one.