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[apryl29]

Not many this year. Two, maybe.
It snows more when it's warm, i.e. near 30F.

Oh yeah.. we just experienced that. It was hovering around 30's when we got the bunch of snow over the past couple of days. Now it's switching so south of here is supposed to get the brunt this time.

Thing 1 just gets more adorable all the time. I just walked out of the room to look at something and he started fussing. I walked back in and he said "I'm fine. How are you?"

Grandma has been working on pronouns with him.

It's so nice when they learn to talk in functional sentences. My older one could speak really well early on b/c she was the only child for a while and was only around adults. The little one, not so much, but she also had a binky for way too long.

Apparently, according to my husband and SIL, ever since they were old enough to do the work, she's made them do most of the housework while not participating except to criticize. I think it has a lot to do with how she grew up. Her parents were missionaries in Pakistan before she was born and they didn't retire until the early 90's. So, when she was with her parents, they had native nannies, cooks, and house and yard staff. When she was school age, she was in boarding school. However, this reminds me of a saying I'm fond of quoting. Reasons are not excuses. Meaning the reasons for why a person is they way they are and behave the way they do aren't excuses to continue acting and behaving the way they do.

I like my MIL, but there are some things about her that can drive me crazy. Fortunately, I'm not as sensitive to it as my husband or SIL are because I don't have the baggage of being raised by her.

Sounds like my mom. There's 4 of us and we all resent her for it (and other things). She has no excuses or reason for it. She didn't work much of our lives, hasn't worked in 20 years and still doesn't so *time* was not an excuse, and neither is ability or know-how. We'd go to school & come home and she'd decide to move all the rooms around while we were gone. There was 3 bedrooms. She'd tear everything out of all of the rooms and put the stuff in the living room, kitchen and hall. So we'd come home to the house completely torn apart, then she'd yell at us to clean everything and put it all away before our dad got home. This happened often. Sitting around while we cleaned, and would emerge long enough to tell us we weren't doing it well enough. My mom's bipolar and has always had a knack for starting big projects, making it 1/2 way through and not finishing them.. so we often got stuck picking up the slack for her issues. We spend all night cleaning and getting yelled at while other kids were doing normal things, like doing homework and enjoying their lives. She's still this way. Their home is a myriad of unfinished attempted projects. I feel your husband & his sisters' pain. Fun story... when my oldest was 4 my mom asked her to move a wheelbarrow full of weeds to her (my mom was sitting on the ground). My kid tried, but being that the wheelbarrow weighed several times what she did, it tipped over. My mom yelled at her for spilling it & I yelled at my mom. No excuses, just pure laziness.

I guess....but hopefully it doesn't spread further than S Cali. Scary

Don't we have someone else in CA, besides Ron?

 

[Chickassan]

Caught Winston practicing his crow. Isnt he a cutie?View attachment 1639262 View attachment 1639263 View attachment 1639264

Aww! He's so itty bitty! The look on the hen behind him is priceless.

ER MY GERD!!!
It is raining here so I am keeping the dogs inside.


So SASSY! Tilly is getting into naughty mode. When I tell her to leave it today her response is to bay at me.

I tell her not to sass me and she kicks it up a notch......
Hilarious right?

I seem to remember somebody laughing their butt off at the amount of baying that would be happening at your place...that person seems to have been pyschic!

 

[apryl29]

Good morning! It was cold so I fed everybody and got my butt back under the covers.
Another night where I didn't get to bed until way after midnight because Hubs wanted to go to wal-mart.
Wal-mart was a necessity, he needed oil, an oil filter and marvel mystery oil for that blazer that pulls his yard man junk. He's clearing a yard and grinding a stump out in the cold.
Not a total crap trip though, got a 2019 calendar "museum of bad art" themed 2018 is finally over!
Might have more pullet eggs, Dutch and Ethel are acting wonky. Sallie is still peachy in the face though.

I got the animal meme calendar 2 weeks ago. I wanted the 'mom' calendar, but I refuse to pay $10 for a calendar. Last year our calendar was the free one from the chinese restaurant when we got our NYE food. On my calendar January is a bear referring to pooping in the woods. The rest are better at least. No chicken calendars, but they did have one of birds. I used to get them from Shutterfly w/ my own photos, but their shipping is not worth it now & I haven't taken any decent photos in years.

ER MY GERD!!!
It is raining here so I am keeping the dogs inside.


So SASSY! Tilly is getting into naughty mode. When I tell her to leave it today her response is to bay at me.

I tell her not to sass me and she kicks it up a notch......
Hilarious right?

You gotta teenager!

 

[Redhead Rae]

Sounds like my mom. There's 4 of us and we all resent her for it (and other things). She has no excuses or reason for it. She didn't work much of our lives, hasn't worked in 20 years and still doesn't so *time* was not an excuse, and neither is ability or know-how. We'd go to school & come home and she'd decide to move all the rooms around while we were gone. There was 3 bedrooms. She'd tear everything out of all of the rooms and put the stuff in the living room, kitchen and hall. So we'd come home to the house completely torn apart, then she'd yell at us to clean everything and put it all away before our dad got home. This happened often. Sitting around while we cleaned, and would emerge long enough to tell us we weren't doing it well enough. My mom's bipolar and has always had a knack for starting big projects, making it 1/2 way through and not finishing them.. so we often got stuck picking up the slack for her issues. We spend all night cleaning and getting yelled at while other kids were doing normal things, like doing homework and enjoying their lives. She's still this way. Their home is a myriad of unfinished attempted projects. I feel your husband & his sisters' pain. Fun story... when my oldest was 4 my mom asked her to move a wheelbarrow full of weeds to her (my mom was sitting on the ground). My kid tried, but being that the wheelbarrow weighed several times what she did, it tipped over. My mom yelled at her for spilling it & I yelled at my mom. No excuses, just pure laziness.

From everything my DH and SIL said, she wasn't as bad as your mother (no rearraging and stopping half way) just lazy. My mom didn't keep our house neat as a pin, but she did most of the work and tried to make us help out and handle our own crap (occasionally yelling when we were defiant). I'm hoping to involve my kids in chores (cooking, cleaning, laundry) from an early age, but I plan on working along side them.

 

[21hens-incharge]

Aww! He's so itty bitty! The look on the hen behind him is priceless.
I seem to remember somebody laughing their butt off at the amount of baying that would be happening at your place...that person seems to have been pyschic!

I actually AM laughing about it myself. It's ridiculous! I think it's super funny that when I say leave it she sasses ( which also gets her mouth off of what she is supposed to be leaving).

It's even funnier that her baying sets the malamute to howling.

 

[apryl29]

From everything my DH and SIL said, she wasn't as bad as your mother (no rearraging and stopping half way) just lazy. My mom didn't keep our house neat as a pin, but she did most of the work and tried to make us help out and handle our own crap (occasionally yelling when we were defiant). I'm hoping to involve my kids in chores (cooking, cleaning, laundry) from an early age, but I plan on working along side them.

I would have loved having a mom who was just super lazy and didn't intentionally make a mess for us to clean. My kids will help if asked, but usually it's more clutter than anything else. Too much stuff for the space we live in. My nephew's mom is like my mom. The 2 older kids are her cleaners and baby sitter for the younger 2. They mostly live w/ my brother now, but at one point my nephew told me that his mom yelled for him to come sit the baby up b/c she was falling over, while she was sitting right next to the baby. IDK where people like this come from. It makes no sense to me.
Maybe your MIL will catch on too, but more than likely as your kids get older she'll just expect them to do stuff for her.. that's how my mom is. Children are there to serve, hopefully not, but don't be surprised if it does happen.

 

[Chickassan]

Girl the tiny calendars were 6 bucks! I did spend almost 10 because I can't see the little ones.
Selection was bad there too, no chickens, lots of cats and dogs, TWD, and John Wayne. I got the last bad art one, January is "chicken in the kitchen".

I got the animal meme calendar 2 weeks ago. I wanted the 'mom' calendar, but I refuse to pay $10 for a calendar. Last year our calendar was the free one from the chinese restaurant when we got our NYE food. On my calendar January is a bear referring to pooping in the woods. The rest are better at least. No chicken calendars, but they did have one of birds. I used to get them from Shutterfly w/ my own photos, but their shipping is not worth it now & I haven't taken any decent photos in years.


You gotta teenager!

 

[Suzi18]

Aww! He's so itty bitty! The look on the hen behind him is priceless. //

Haha I didn't even notice that. That is Mabel and Nunny has her sister

 

[Redhead Rae]

Maybe your MIL will catch on too, but more than likely as your kids get older she'll just expect them to do stuff for her.. that's how my mom is. Children are there to serve, hopefully not, but don't be surprised if it does happen.

They only way my kids will be cleaning my in-laws space is if they work out a deal to get paid X amount for Y jobs or if they are visiting and make a mess of their own.

My kids won't be "there to serve" but they are a part of the family and will have to take part in the duties that come along with being part of the family.

 

[Chickassan]

Oh lord! Good way to keep her puppy lips off stuff for sure Henny but between her and the other girl I bet it sounds like you're raising werewolves in your house. And i'm guessing you have to say "leave it" quite a bit right now.

I actually AM laughing about it myself. It's ridiculous! I think it's super funny that when I say leave it she sasses ( which also gets her mouth off of what she is supposed to be leaving).

It's even funnier that her baying sets the malamute to howling.