Parenting Chat Thread #4 (teenager, baby, support, girl)

[Hopes]

Originally Posted by TheOriginalMrsX

I am due in February Hopes! I told my doctor it feels too early to start but he said in my condition it is quite possible. I am in my second trimester. UUGH!

Oh, goodness! Hopefully he/she will settle down!

Originally Posted by Zimbochick

Hopes - I totally forgot this, but after Halloween Target has their special World Market, and they have really lovely home furnishings from around the world. We have bought a number of things there over the years, and the quality has always been fabulous.

Thanks for the tip! Love the sound of a world market. I'll definitely check it out!

This weekend, I'm taking a picture of my brick wall and figuring out how to post it here.

[calgirlinnc]

Originally Posted by eastwesteastagain

Sure, anytime! Did you have any luck with your invites?

Awww, you are so sweet to ask!

It was quite the ordeal, actually. I even resorted to looking for regular fill in invitations but they were all awful!

I found clearance card stock at Staples...but Staples couldn't print them and get my PDF to work....ran over to the UPS store....dude there sent me to the Speedy Printing Shop....who did a rush order for me!

Special shout out to MATTIE, though....I went to Hallmark per your advice. And while they didn't have invitations, they have a 40% off sale going on, and I got DD some really cute things for her stocking!

Also, shout out to DEW for having my back today, and to Aconite...can't rep you again.

EWEA, good luck with the baby! Praying for healthy!

[psr13]

Originally Posted by Mattie

No kids here to discuss it with, and my very conservative friends agree with the outcome. I was pretty horrified.

No kids to discuss it with here. I'm a very conservative person, though who opposes capital punishment. It's pretty much my only liberal political position, albeit for different reasons than liberals usually give.

[Hopes]

Originally Posted by Zimbochick

Anyone else have to have the capital punishment discussion with their younger kids? That was interesting. It was/is all over the news here, so it had to be done, but that's a really tricky one to explain.

I'm lost. Haven't been watching the news lately. What's happening?

[DewDropInn]

Originally Posted by calgirlinnc

Also, shout out to DEW for having my back today,

No problem! I have a real soft spot in my heart for Little Mr. Ghandi.

[calgirlinnc]

Originally Posted by DewDropInn

No problem! I have a real soft spot in my heart for Little Mr. Ghandi.

Oh too funny.

Sometimes it is so difficult to get my thoughts across clearly on this board. I am amazed sometimes by the way things can be read into.

[Zimbochick]

Originally Posted by Hopes

I'm lost. Haven't been watching the news lately. What's happening?

Ga. Executes Davis; Supporters Claim Injustice : NPR (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=140683960 - broken link)

[eastwesteastagain]

Originally Posted by calgirlinnc

Awww, you are so sweet to ask!

It was quite the ordeal, actually. I even resorted to looking for regular fill in invitations but they were all awful!

I found clearance card stock at Staples...but Staples couldn't print them and get my PDF to work....ran over to the UPS store....dude there sent me to the Speedy Printing Shop....who did a rush order for me!

Special shout out to MATTIE, though....I went to Hallmark per your advice. And while they didn't have invitations, they have a 40% off sale going on, and I got DD some really cute things for her stocking!

Also, shout out to DEW for having my back today, and to Aconite...can't rep you again.

EWEA, good luck with the baby! Praying for healthy!

Ugh - nothing like something being 800x harder than it needs to be, right?? Well, glad it all worked out in the end!

Thanks so much for the healthy baby wishes! That's so nice of you!

[Zimbochick]

Originally Posted by Mattie

No kids here to discuss it with, and my very conservative friends agree with the outcome. I was pretty horrified.

I know what you mean.

Originally Posted by Aconite

I was shocked-- and I don't use that term lightly-- by Scalia's comment that there is nothing in the Constitution forbidding the execution of innocent people. Good lord, what have we become? As for the man executed, I don't know enough to say. In general, I'm not a fan of capital punishment; I also know perfectly reasonable people who support it. I guess I'm just old, and troubled by the whole thing.

I was apalled by that too. Since I would have a hard time making that call myelf, or if I was on the jury, I would like to say I am steadfastly against it....that is until the Gary Ridgeway type crimes are prosecuted. So I guess I'm fickle!

Originally Posted by Aconite

My kids just sort of listen and keep their mouths shut when Mom is going on a soapbox, and generally lean the same way I do, though occasionally I suspect YMA would happily hand out the death penalty for dress code violations at school.

That's too funny.

Originally Posted by psr13

No kids to discuss it with here. I'm a very conservative person, though who opposes capital punishment. It's pretty much my only liberal political position, albeit for different reasons than liberals usually give.

I'm honestly on the fence about the death penalty. I'm against it until some heinous crime is committed, then I think they deserve it. The problem is with trials that are iffy, which would seem to be the case with Davis.

[maciesmom]

Man it's crazy competitive around here lately...
I just want to toss out there the super philosophical question DS posed recently....."Chocolate Tootsie Pops...why? Isn't the point of a Tootsie Pop to not only have diversity of texture but also of flavor?"

We're so proud.