Office Work.......

[dacjohns]

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Why does nature do this to women? What is the benefit of hormones if the only effect they have is always negative??? I mean, why can't estrogen overload make us joyful and sweet? Why does everything have to hurt?

[sorry for the philosophical nonsense... I just feel badly for sweet Belle!]

It made me sweet. Wife and four daughters, I was poisoned.

 

[Southernbelle]

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I understand.

He had to have his procedure done at the clinic since the hospital here is a Catholic hospital.

Anyway, you make such cute AND intelligent kids, the world definitely needs more of those!

One of my friends tried to talk me into have six kids *faints* because she says the stupid people are breeding faster than the smart ones.

Yes, that is definitely a problem. Too many people having their own herds of children and living on welfare and food stamps. If you can care for them, the more the merrier. If you expect me to pay for you to continually reproduce while you sit on your hindend eating bon bons and watching Jerry Springer, go jump off a cliff.

My mom had 2 sisters and a brother. Her parents came here after WW2 and struggled. But I guarantee you they never needed assistance. My grandpa worked multiple jobs and my grandma cleaned houses. Nice big happy family. Not even that big.....but big enough.

My dad was an only child, the little monster.

That's kinda my thoughts, too. DH is an engineer, so while we're not rich by any means, he makes very good money and I get to stay home with the kids. We have everything we need and quite a bit of what we want. He's got money going to retirement for us and college funds for the kids. We could very easily support more kids, so having another one is not a hardship. All our kids are really bright and will go to college in due time. I figure someone has to balance out the people who abuse the system.

 

[dacjohns]

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Can you see the unhappy dolphin from the property for sale? If so then I want to buy.

 

[Southernbelle]

Poor Dacs has a lot to catch up on. We were pretty chatty today.

 

[wegotchickens]

Need help deciding what to do with a baby chick with skeletal issues

 

[dacjohns]

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That's true of most first-time moms, but not me. I'm the 2nd of 6 kids and as the oldest female child, I was often put in charge of my 4 younger siblings (which included a set of identical twin boys.) Not much I hadn't seen by the time I had my own.

Once when I was pregnant with #2 and in the middle of the "please let me die" sicker-than-I've-ever-been part of the pregnancy, friends of ours stopped by to drop off something. She was pregnant with her 1st baby and had never been around kids much. I was sitting at the kitchen table trying to eat something without dying and my oldest child (about 1 years old) was sucking water into her mouth, spitting it on the floor, then licking it. My friend was horrified and made sure to point out what my child was doing as if she expected me to be equally horrified and put an immediate stop to it. I said, "She's fine, she's had all her shots."

We started out sterilizing bottles and all that. Then I observed that everything the first could get her hands on went in her mouth. I figured, what's the using of sterilizing bottles then.

 

[AK Michelle]

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Um, you have a wedding to attend just as soon as we figure out where that is going to be it better be at the top of your to-do list.

Does that mean there's a chance your wedding will be somewhere in the lower 48?

Nicole is battling for a destination wedding, she's thinking Disney World or possibly Cabo.

Tom told her to show him the financial benefits of getting married away from home and he'd consider it.

Would you come to Florida?

 

[NellaBean]

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Angry cow says: who you calling witchy?

 

[Orchid]

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My friend with the theory about smart people needing to multiply more is also a germophobe. She had about a billion pacifiers for her oldest son; every time he'd spit one out on the floor he'd get a new sterilized one. Until the day he spit it on the floor in the dr's office and the Dr. calmly picked it up and popped it back in. She nearly died and the Dr. laughed until he practically split.

Incidentally, he's my kids' Dr. as well.

 

[dacjohns]

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DH knows better than to ask how many chickens I have or how many I hatched. My coop is 100 yards from the house - I never ask him for help, so he never goes down there and now that I've got a broody flock established, he will never know how many chickens I have. Mwahahahahahahaha

While visiting DH's family in IL we were asked how many chickens we had. I said 40. Nice round number....

60 is closer to the truth. And while also a round number, I liked 40 better

Where in IL were you? Not that we could have met, I was in Wisconsin. You probably drove fairly close to my house if you went through Paducah, KY.