Where the Deer and the Antelope Play - Living in the USA (visitors welcome)

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East Coast
MaNanny - Boston
Twinmommytobe - Boston
MuminCT - CT
Greatgooglymoogly - NY State
Yesthereare4ofthem - NY State
Brooklynmom - NYC
alarkaspree - NYC
MKG - New Jersey
Mummimamma - PA
Poetmum - PA
Twirl - MD

South
Earlybird - TN
jabberwocky - AR
Sunchowder - Florida
Marls001 - Bentonville, AR
Tinpot - NC
MadameDeathStare- AL

Midwest
SuperBunny- Chicago
Dodgykeeper - Dayton, OH
Chocchipcookie - Ohio
MonkeyLover
KickAssAngel - Ann Arbor, MI

Rockies
Alipiggie - Boulder, CO
Ribena

Northwest
AnnieLaurie - Seattle, WA
Dooneygirl - Oregon City, OR

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

Texas
Texan - Dallas
Tiggyhop - Houston
Vixie78 - Houston
BananaPudding - Austin
Cosmicdust - East Texas

Canada
Hellish - Ottawa
Shouldlistenedtomymum - Hamilton
Nooka - BC
Jacksmama - Langley

Exotic Islands
Anorak - Bermuda
cp - Trinidad
Barefeete - BVI

Brazil
Albert

yes, but what is a banner season ?
should i be making something & flying it from a flagpole? (exit kickass in search of a flagpole secreted somewhere on her huge midwestern grounds) (which is NOT a euphamism for her rear end)

I told my two that we weren't ever going to have any more babies and they just took in in their stride. I was all ready to explain about dh's snip, but they really weren't interested. Sometimes I miss the "why?" stage

I did have a chat with ds (9) about wet dreams tonight, and he was very surprised to hear that his willy getting hard had anything to do with sex (and not at all keen to talk about it). We moved on to less contentious subjects PDQ!

I've been doing it for years! Ever since they noticed my c-section scar, when they were about three and four. If anything it was easier when they were younger, because they were so matter of fact about things that now make them giggle and/or squirm. Although I suspect that the main driver for asking so many questions when they were small was just to avoid me saying it was time to go to sleep

Tonight ds and I had an interesting conversation about why gay men couldn't have babies (following on from why willies get hard). Given that 9 years olds start having the first signs of puberty (wet dreams, starting to like girls etc, and for earlier developing girls periods can start from 9) and 12 year olds are fathering babies, I think that it is better to talk about these things when the opportunity arises, and give them a small amount of information at a time over a few years.

In the UK they would get their first batch of sex ed by now too.

Oh nooka, I love that he was surprised! I agree, it's important to feed them little bits of info as and when, but I think it is hard to do when you still see them as little boys. And if they don't ask, I tend to think they are not ready. I have all this to come though so I know nothing.

just over a year ago we went to visit a friend with a newborn. dd was just 4. she had seen my friend a few weeks earlier with the baby in her tummy. when asked, i told her that there was a special hole in a lady's bottom, near the wee, which opened up specially to let babies out, then the mummy had to push very hard, and the baby came out, and the hole closed up again. thought i was being factual, but not too detailed & scientific.
dd responded 'is it a zip?'
i guess i didn't make it clear enough then!

lol @ zip. It did sound like quite a good description. My friend had a baby last year but DS didn't seem worried about how the baby got out. Only that "Baby James came out of Sarah's tummy and now he drinks milk from her NIPPLES"

Where's Dooney?

Dooney has had a sinus infection, which made her so tired she pretty much wasn't on the computer much of last week. Antibiotics helped, but I still had to take 3 naps today to make it through the day.

Dooney also isn't loving MN since the change, and rarely comes on except for this thread, since the words are so small on her computer and makes her feel like an old lady. Dooney is having a lot of fun referring to herself in the 3rd person today.

Thanks for asking about me.

Off to make a shopping list and meal plan, since I haven't been to the store in over a week.

We talked to dd and ds about proposition eight. They both agreed it was wrong to stop people who loved each other get married if they wanted to.

Today in the car ds told me that he thought that actually he might have had a wet dream (I don't think he had to be honest) and the dd had a fight with him about why she shouldn't have wet dreams too. A bit of confusion with getting sweaty I think, but hey isn't sibling rivalry fun!

Hey Dooney, isn't referring to yourself in the third person a sign of mental illness? Alternately too much Facebooking!

Bad luck on the sinus infection. I used to get those as a child and then had my sinuses drained (yuk)

Good call on the Facebooking. That whole (your name) is . . . cracks me up and makes me want to speak of myself in the 3rd person all the time. Poor DH gets the brunt of my 3rd person speak, because I'm not mentally ill enough to not know better than to do it in public.

hey, dooney, snap. i had 24 hrs of v high temps (dh actually lef the computer to check on me every half hour one eve! the firs titme in 16 years!!), then had dh take me to the docs of anti-b's. i love them. sadly, i get like that about 4 or 5 times a year (not always such a bad temp,) endless cold/cough resulting in infected sinuses etc. it sucks. poor dd, ther's been a lot of 'watch a dvd while mummy has a lie down'.
hope you get better soon, and remember how to use the first person.

Dooney says thank you.

kickass says you're welcome

lol Dooney. Hope you feel better soon. Kickass too.

lol @ wet dream confusion

dd does keep asking if things were before or after she was in my tummy, and has even asked how a baby gets into mummy's tummy - there is definite interst there! i'm being a chicken & skirting the issue. my dsis waited until her girls were 10 before giving them the full facts. the younger dniece burst into tears and said ' i had no idea it was so disgusting'.
maybe i should be like my mil, and just never,ever even discuss, mention, hint at facts of life at all, ever.

Never, ever? Goodness me.

if mil doesn't like something, it does not exist in her univers. like who dh's real dad was, or the step sister he grew up with. they have been wiped from the universe, as has any mention of sex, or going to pubs, or cold weather or ... we have limited conversations with her!

talking of weather it's meant to be -2F ('real feel') when dd gets the bus in the morning!!! help!! uggs at the ready

I just realized you had a profile, kickass, and I love the fact your pictures were about food.

it's from ages ago when mn had a mad cake competition. the pics are from my last house in the uk, with stone floor & genuine rayburn boiler/cooker. i fell in love at first sight, then realised what a b**r it was to live with, and installed a younger model that actually worked.

sb - which channel were the oscars on? i'm thinking ther'll be a roundup in the am i can watch. really need to go to sleep soon, tis 11.45 here & dd is waking up super early for some reason.
i have so many channels on the tv i don't know how to find anything, and desperate housewives seems to have disappeared.

It was on ABC (Channel 7 here), Kickass, instead of Desperate Housewives.

Excellent profile. Kitchen and cake

kickass start telling her now. It really is much much easier when they are small, and then you never get that OMG moment, because small children just accept what you tell them. If you leave it until they are ten they've picked up all sorts of misinformation and worries. Better to tell a little bit at a time, just as you would anything else, and judge what they are taking in in exactly the same way as you would questions like "why does it rain". It's not that tricky once you start, and it can lead to all sorts of interesting conversations.

Nooka, what if they don't ask? I tend to go with the tell them what they want to know way. But that relies on them asking. Or do most children ask?