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staceyj said:
My sil has no children and just got married last summer at age 48.
She has given her advice on everything having to do with marriage and child rearing for as long as I've known her.
After 4 grown kids I'm offering actual advice.

If "you suck!" is the worst thing your kid ever says to you, you can consider yourself to be blessed beyond measure.
I'm not kidding.
BLESSED.

LIKE ANGELS SINGING IN THE CLOUDS WITH SHIMMERING GOLDEN HARPS, BLESSED.

The hardest part of fighting with a teenager is not blowing up and saying things that YOU can never take back when they start hurling their angry words.

Those words they hurl at us,
Damn they hurt!
Gosh they are disobedient and disrespectful.
Yup.
But we are the grown ups. They'll never figure out how to solve problems that way. We have to model self control for them.

Put the belt away or by the time he grows up, he'll be so full of resentment that he'll move as far away as he can and you'll miss out on being a part of his life.

It's hormones.
He can't help it.
He's still in there.
It's just that the next several years might be on and off rough because he is going to flip flop like crazy.
He wants to be your boy, but he wants to be a big guy too. And there will be challenges to authority,
Just like the young cockerels you guys all talk about on these threads challenging the grown up Roos.
It's just nature.

Men always talk trash about women and their cycles.
Guess what?
Men cycle too.
Just differently.
Also nature.

Hormones are a normal part of kids development and Ooh! OUCH! JEEZAWIZ, it isn't pretty.

Unless he's torturing animals, hurting himself, setting fires, or stealing the car,
count to 1000 then talk it out.
Ten is definitely not enough.
Nor is 100.
Sometimes a thousand hardly begins to cover it.

Just lock yourself in your room and come here and tell us what a little butt he's being and we'll cheer you up.
Because that's what friends are for. :hugs


I'm sharing this from a place of experience and love.
Please don't be offended.
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Love this. Love everything about it. And, lets not forget, they don't have to be teenagers either, to say things that hurt. My PIC might only be 8 1/2, but there are some days I just KNOW he isn't gonna make it to 9!!! :he
 
Smuvers Farm said:
Definitely get some rest. I'm sure you had a terribly rough day.... and sleep whenever MD sleeps! :D
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MD. Maybe he'll grow up to be a doctor and you can say you predicted it right here.

Maybe he'll grow
Up to be a vet!
And can take care of all our chickens!!!
 
TexasSam said:
6 cups chicken broth
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 pound portobello mushrooms, thinly sliced
1 pound white mushrooms, thinly sliced
2 shallots, diced
1 1/2 cups Arborio rice
1/2 cup dry white wine
sea salt to taste
3 tablespoons finely chopped chives
Black pepper to taste
4 tablespoons butter
1/3 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
3 cloves of garlic


warm the broth over low heat with the three cloves of garlic

warm 2 tablespoons olive oil in a large saucepan over medium-high heat. Stir in the mushrooms, and cook until soft, about 3 minutes. Remove mushrooms and their liquid, and set aside

Add 1 tablespoon olive oil to skillet, and stir in the shallots. Cook 1 minute. Add rice, stirring to coat with oil, about 2 minutes. When the rice has taken on a pale, golden color, pour in wine, stirring constantly until the wine is fully absorbed. Add 1/2 cup broth to the rice, and stir until the broth is absorbed. Continue adding broth 1/2 cup at a time, stirring continuously, until the liquid is absorbed and the rice is al dente, somewhere around 15 to 20 minutes I go right at 22 minutes


Remove from heat, and stir in mushrooms with their liquid, butter, chives, and parmesan. Season with salt and pepper to taste.


I sometimes add spinach or broccoli

This was how my grandmother made it
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Wow!
I'm impressed Sammy!
 
Ok I'm going to bed.
Tomorrow is Saturday and you know what that means!

YARDSALES! :celebrate

Now that @Smuvers Farm
Has returned...
Thank you again smuvs, Maybe I'll sleep better tonight without having to worry about you having a broken heart and hating us...

Where is @Embalmergirl ?!?
Has anyone seen her? :confused:
 
PIC has 2 middle names, and the initials are... MD! No foolin!

@staceyj (But to ALL of my SWers).

I did have a brief breakdown... but BYC was the straw that broke this camels back. Fighting with my mom and how she has been lying to me the last couple of months; found out DH might get deployed before he can retire, and this deployment wouldn't be as *cushy* of one as the 2 trips to Qatar... minor homesteading setbacks, along with a broken ass ZombieMobile.... everything just kind of came to a head when that post was deleted. Although I KNOW it wasn't personal, it just struck the correct *last nerve* I was already on.

I really hope everyone has forgiven me for whatever crazy arsed thing I said or did. I take NONE of the responsibility, as you people drive me nuts! :gig
 
Smuvers Farm said:
Love this. Love everything about it. And, lets not forget, they don't have to be teenagers either, to say things that hurt. My PIC might only be 8 1/2, but there are some days I just KNOW he isn't gonna make it to 9!!! :he
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This is true.
Even the young ones can zing us.
One time I was drying off after a shower and getting the girls ready for a bath.

There is this thing called
GRAVITY.

and it affects parts of the human body.

Like when you are bent at the waist while drying your ankles with a towel.

And my 3 yr old hugged me and said in her precious little toddler voice,
"When I grow up, I want to have nice looooong *oobies
Just. Like. You. "
Still hurts. :gig
 

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