<p>Your son has many challenges for a young guy, but it looks as if he’s handling them beautifully! Many kudos to him for stepping up to the plate and realzing that he has to take this responsibility for his own health. The things that it requires, though, CANNOT be easy for someone so young and athletic!</p>
<p>It was a super big step for him to accept the invitation from his friends and to be with them while they were eating and he couldn’t. That’s not easy on someone of any age, but I’m sure it’s twice as hard for someone his age. Glad that milestone is down!</p>
<p>Continued best wishes for your son…it sounds like he’s following doctor’s orders beautifully and accepting that which must be so hard for him. What a great kiddo!</p>
<p>doubleplay - this sounds like a horrible movie! I was feeling like a big baby sending it back to blockbuster.com without watching it, but now not so much. I’m with the previous poster…give me a good well crafted suspense movie, but hold the perversion please… </p>
<p>I’m really look forward to the new ‘Bourne’ movie…that’s my sort of film. :)</p>
<p>We just watched a very intersting film from 1973 that likely was an influence on Pan’s Labyrinth, called The Spirit of the Beehive. Also set in post-Civil War Spain, with two young sisters as the protagonists. Not nearly as gruesome or fantastical as P.L. – rather dreamlike yet haunting.</p>
<p>Best wishes to MOWC and Galwayboy and everyone else who is coping with medical issues. May all go smoothly and be resolved quickly.</p>
<p>Thanks, berurah and doubleplay! Sort of a quiet day here – we had the “birthday dinner out” on Saturday, because that was the day when no one was working late, having a sleepover, or having a role-playing buddies in. I’ll play with dyeing yarn this afternoon, which will be fun.</p>
<p><em>ROFL</em> Moominmama! Can DEFINITELY relate to the busy schedule and having to find just the right time for the birthday dinner! My SIL is a weaver…she actually sells looms too, and she creates and dyes her own yarns. I am amazed at those with this talent. I hope you have fun coloring your yarn this afternoon! <em>VERY</em> cool hobby! :)</p>
<p>I so like need - I don’t know, maybe a hug, maybe more like a target to take out my aggression by proxy (see my note in the “you can say it here” thread or - whatever it’s called) - haven’t had anyone threaten to hit me since grade school - anyway, if anyone needs a hug, here’s one (I think) (hugs)</p>
<p>It doesn’t feel right to be requesting hugs when I’m spending two beautiful summer months in Geneva, Switzerland, and various parts of Sweden, but I haven’t had a legitimate conversation with anyone besides my mom (and briefly, on the phone, my dad and sister) in nearly three weeks, all my friends are overseas, and I’m feeling really ridiculously alone. I’ll take a hug if anyone’s got a spare?</p>
<p>I’m now soooooo confused. When I would email my daughter at school - or for that matter, even put little notes in her lunch box when she was little, I always, always, always included hugs AND kisses. </p>
<p>Kisses were always expressed as Xoxoxoxoxoxox or something like that - the point is, a smorgasbord of the letter x and o, always in alternating sequence. The longer the string, the more kisses. Or at least that was the intent. </p>
<p>Hugs were similar, in terms of, the greater the number of parens on either side, the bigger and longer in duration the hug. So in the little notes I put in her lunch box, and later in the email I would write to her at college, hugs always sort of looked like (hug) that. </p>
<p>Oh - Doubleplay - you mean a voodoo doll! LOL!</p>
<p>latetoschool – I guess you’ll have to ask the mods that one.</p>
<p>I read your vent. That was an awesome vent! And I wanted to comment, but you know, that is not allowed in the other thread? Anyways — Humongous HUGGGGGGGGS to you! and XO’s as well – Now that is not illegal, is it?</p>
<p>ldmom06–Wow, our son is facing quite an ordeal. {hugs] to you and I hope everything goes well. It sure doesn’t sound less drastic than wisdom teeth removal! And then to face orthopedic surgery! </p>
<p>So far, S’s favorite “food” for after surgery is root beer floats. He lets the ice cream get pretty melty and spoons the mixture up. He claims the cold helps his gums too. Last night I made homemade tomato sauce and cooked frozen mini-ravioli. I let it all get to slightly hotter than room temperature before serving him. I think he could just bite it a bit with his front teeth and swallow, or cut the min-ravioli in pieces with his fork first. I am half Italian, so any homemade sauce and pasta dish is like comfort food to my kids (the ultimate is homemade sauce with homemade pasta, but I didn’t have the energy for that). Also, I put fresh basil on it from the garden. I have been avoiding hot/spicy ingredients that might irritate the area around the sutures.</p>
<p>Thanks, berurah and everyone else for your good wishes and hugs. Isn’t it funny that sympathy and support from people we’ve never met can make us feel better?</p>
<p>I wouldn’t mind a couple of hugs right now.</p>
<p>It’s less than two months until my fiance and I get married (yay!) and our moms are passive-aggressively clashing on all of the details (boo!). My mom will suggest something to us, then we’ll tell my MIL, who will suggest the opposite – and often we want something totally different from both of them. I guess right now it feels like too many cooks spoiling the broth, and all the conflict makes me tired.</p>
<p>It’s one day! How can everybody get so worked up over silly things like the bridesmaids’ shoes?</p>