<p>ROTFLAAPIMP over Woody’s edit post 866!</p>
<p>Saving the happy hour for tomorrow night. I have to coach soccer @ 8:30 which means getting up at 7. With so many early games (5 of the 8 games for my U15s are at 8:30), Friday nights have just been like another weeknight.</p>
<p>Tomorrow should be fun, the U15s play their archrival team, the U18s play a team with a similar record at 9:45 and then the U8s play at 1:30.</p>
<p>For Mothers Day, D12 has agreed to go to the grocery store this weekend.</p>
<p>Kid went to dinner with one of my co-workers at their favorite Japanese restaurant. Kid came home yelling something about “big news” which turned out to be that she somehow snagged a gig with the restaurant owners to babysit their preschooler on some evenings beginning next week. She hasn’t told them yet that she speaks Japanese which I thought was a goofy oversight.</p>
<p>Ohio has a basic test all graduates have to pass as well, but they start administering it in the soph year…so you have 3 years to attempt to pass. It’s ridiculously easy, but there are a lot of inner city schools that have more difficulty passing it.</p>
<p>I’ve enjoyed catching up to your virtual cocktail party. I’m truly LOL-ing. I don’t use text abbreviations lightly.</p>
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<p>I knew I liked you, jaylynn. Have I mentioned I write a beer blog? Cheers, y’all.</p>
<p>Well you people are on a roll, should do standup.
I worked with T Berry and his son, nice nice nice. I did Ferberize my D2 it worked. I have no regrets, it was getting rediculous.
I have to admit, I am not into the toddler breast feeding. I know it is for attachment, because it isnt nutrition. However, i have never been a rules for rules sake person. I found that if i didnt make a big deal of things and let my kid lead the way,(pacifier, bottle) etc… it worked out best without trauma. So I try to look at it that way. And while I dont mind seeing babies being nursed (in fact I help guide it in my job) I am uncomfortable seeing toddlers being nursed. My D1 did not BF long she was not interested , did it for 3 months. D2 did it for 8 months but I had to wean her due to an illness. So ya never know how that would have gone, and I might be singing a differnt tune.</p>
<p>Renee… beer blog. Mmmmmm. Like.</p>
<p>Performersmom, I hope it all works out. Only in this corner of the CC community is helicoptering considered a skill to be cultivated! A toast to our kids for being born in a year that put us all together!</p>
<p>OK, another Stone Sour Amaretto in hand and I am back. The play was great, DS is proud and his gf made the acclaimed singing group for the school, so I will be chauffering a lot next year!</p>
<p>Love this tone of drinking. Saintfan, better watch it, you will be branded as supporting hazing then you will have to play on my side of the sandbox in future threads that must be named.DS is actually considering not rushing a house because the freshman always shave their heads for Homecoming. I say he would look good this way, so I am encouraging this behavior. </p>
<p>So SteveC, you just had to bring balls into it, didn’t you? :)</p>
<p>I’m just back from unexpected trip to the emergency vet… those are always unexpected though, by definition. At 6 tonight my D noticed a plastic baggy chewed open on the carpet that contained a mixture of tylenol and ibuprophen pills she had had in her backpack or dance bag or somewhere. None of the spilled pills looked chewed… but who knows whether the dogs ate any – or how many had been there – or really any details. I called our vet who said we had to go to emergency one, so I drove the two through rush hour to emergency vet. We had a choice of fairly conservative treatment or more extreme… both extremely pricey of course. I chose the less extreme, because honestly I don’t think they ate many if any pills.</p>
<p>The doc induced vomiting - although really he said it was too late for that to do any good… then gave them under the skin fluids and sent me home with giant syringes of charcoal (think squid ink). I had to mix that with baby food and try to get them eat it. One of them did, and the other did after I substituted cat food and hand fed it. We’ll hope for the best.</p>
<p>The alternative was overnight at the vet for both on IV’s and repeated blood tests. I guess I can ask for prayers from all the pet lovers here… but if we need prayers, then I’ll be really worried. I’m still hoping they only chewed on the baggy - which is sort of their style. Apparently for their weight 1 1/2 Tylenol or 3-5 IB would be a bad thing.</p>
<p>Well gotta go as they are whining… and I hope it’s just because they are locked up and complaining.</p>
<p>(Two Havanese - mother and son - Lexi and Domino)</p>
<p>DD graduates in 11 hours . . . I am getting a little bit freaked :0</p>
<p>Hope the dogs are okay. Havanese are beautiful! I have an English Setter who likes paper & I have to keep it out of reach. For a while if S left his backpack unzipped he would forage for post-it notes. I guess they are snack size?</p>
<p>Glido, just received my email reminder for graduation tomorrow - except it’s rescheduled for a week from tomorrow. Hope you have a great day tomorrow!</p>
<p>Kathieh: Oh… you so have my prayers. One of my deputies lost her dog a few months ago when the dog sitter left out the other dog’s pills in an accessible place. It was awful. So I am praying for your puppy. Please let us know that it is okay. We have a cockapoo who knows how to undo zippers and have similar problems. Can’t leave anything anywhere.</p>
<p>Saw some “superlative” votings a few pages back. My D got “best hair.” She is the only girl in her class with curly hair. She found that really funny. They took her picture for the yearbook and everything…</p>
<p>D found out she is a finalist for the Cal Alumni Leadership Award. Fingers crossed. She has an interview coming up.</p>
<p>And UCLA is done taking people from the waitlist. D had turned the offer down, and several other kids from her class got accepted. She is very content with her choice of Cal. But I feel bad for some kids on CC I have been following who never made it off the wailtlist.</p>
<p>Glido: just breathe. Happy Graduation!</p>
<p>Glido–it looks like you are the first of the wackaloons to graduate! Really and truly, I am teared up over that. It is becoming so real.</p>
<p>Just spent the evening with my friends playing Bunco, where the most challenging thing to do is to make tally marks. Thank heavens as by Friday night that is more than enough for my brain to handle. Several of us have kids who went to the same K-8 since kindergarten, and are now graduating together. Our K-8 was a Co-op choice public school that had a weekly volunteer requirment. We all know these kids very well. It is just so marvelous to see what accomplished and just “darned good” people they have become. We mostly sit around, eat and yak about our kids (of course).</p>
<p>OMG - I was out for a day and never would have thought my amusement at editing comments would turn into this - lol </p>
<p>Welcome back mspearl - you were missed around here!</p>
<p>Anyone noticing an increased stress level with their kids? S is having migraines that he admits are coming from the anxiety of hs graduation. He’s having the time of his life now, so happy, great friends, really enjoying school, he’s really coming into his own as a late bloomer. I don’t think he wants it to end. We’ve been talking about it a bit lately and I do tell him it’s hard to imagine the next phase in life, but we’re confident he made a good choice. Especially when the close friends are staying close to home to go to school. </p>
<p>I think the only way through it is to live through it and see you’re fine.</p>
<p>I’m seeing a “letting go” in S - deciding to attend his cousin’s college graduation instead of competing at his last state forensics meet, for example, in part to allow a younger team member to compete. He is very relaxed and is still very involved in school activities, but seems to be focused on deciding to do what’s important to him instead of trying to fit it all in. It might depend on how far away from graduation you are? S only has 2 days of school left (Mon & Tue) but is at the state tennis meet as a team member to support/watch: has two choir concerts, a debate/forensics banquet, and one AP test to go.</p>
<p>Wow, yesterday was a busy day on this board! I missed the drinking party? A cosmo would have been my drink!</p>
<p>Disneygal - glad your DD is ok. Sigh of relief. DS had his first accident last fall. That wins for “most scary phone call”.</p>
<p>Mspearl - welcome back and prays sent to your family.</p>
<p>Kathie1 - hope your puppies are ok. </p>
<p>Glido - Happy graduation!!</p>
<p>DS12 was awarded “Most Artistic” (he was the only boy in AP Art) and “Most Opinionated”. He has worked on several congressional campaigns, has been president of Model UN for 2 years, and defines himself as agnostic with a true dislike of religious extremists. He has some strong feelings and is not afraid to voice them, on an entrie range of subjects! I figure it’s a good thing. :)</p>
<p>DS has finished all APs with school still continuing for another 7 weeks (2 of which are regents). He has checked out. He is done. Problem is that some of his teachers aren’t done. I’m hoping he doesn’t just kill his GPA (why worry mom, it really doesn’t matter anymore!).</p>
<p>Up early . . . loading the camera!</p>
<p>KatieH1, We also spent too much time at the Vet’s office yesterday. Sometime in the early morning hours, our dog (a 10 lb Papillon) raided S’s backpack and stole (and ate) an indeterminate number of dark chocolate kisses. She started vomiting on her own but by the time we go to the vet, she was shaking all over and panting hard. The vet kept her for the day, giving her activated charcoal, and I.V. fluids. She was well enough to come home last night, but we have to go back for blood tests to check for kidney function. She still has the shakes. But she is comfortable and happy (but starving, since we are feeding her only a tiny amount). We are hoping for the best. While we were at the vets, there was a dog in there for eating a wall (OK, just the wallboard). Dogs will eat anything!</p>
<p>H and D agreed last night that while I did not practice attachment parenting with D, I have gone off-the-deep-end attachment parenting our dog, who IS the center of the universe and who can do no wrong no matter how “bad” he may be.</p>