<p>Sybbie, yep, we have occasional years when Thanksgiving and birthday or anniversary intersect…I live for those years!</p>
<p>My daughter was horrified when I told her recently that I asked her father to marry me six days after I met him (for some reason we had never mentioned that to her before). It was definitely a “do as I say, not as I do” sort of conversation, but after 25 years, I think I can feel confident that my instincts were good. Lord help me though if my daughter ever does the same thing!</p>
<p>In light of all the anniversary celebrations, this seemed apropo:</p>
<p>Ed was in trouble. He forgot his wedding anniversary. His wife was
really upset. She told him “Tomorrow morning, I expect to find a gift
in the driveway that goes from 0 to 200 in 6 seconds AND IT BETTER BE
THERE.”
The next morning Ed got up early and left for work. When his wife woke
up, she looked out the window and there was a small box gift-wrapped in
the middle of the driveway.</p>
<p>Confused, the wife put on her robe and ran out to the driveway, brought
the box back in the house. She opened it and found a brand new bathroom
scale.
Funeral services for Ed have been scheduled for Friday.</p>
<p>Every several years we get Mother’s Day & my H’s and TSFS’s birthday on the same day. Now that D is off at college, the next time it happens we’ll be looking to littlest S for our breakfast in bed!</p>
<p>DD in her first (real) accident before school this a.m.–ran into her friend down the street at the stop sign (they both thought the other was waiting…sun was in her eyes…oh well). No damage to her car, a little damage to his, but the police are giving her a citation for careless driving because she didn’t clear her windshield completely of frost.</p>
<p>This will be an expensive lesson, since she’ll have to pay a fine, pay for the damage to his car (probably less than $500) and she won’t be able to get her senior license next month as she expected she would. Now she’ll have to wait 6 more months until she turns 18.</p>
<p>Now we’re off to Penn State to an accepted student’s day tomorrow…somebody buy me a drink when I get to State College???</p>
<p>I never pull up a bar stool around here, but this morning I happened to drop in…Congratulations Weenie! We are going to be celebrating #22 this summer.</p>
<p>Could someone tell me what TSFS and TSFH means. After all these years on CC, I have no idea!</p>
<p>Springfieldmom,
I’m sorry for your daughter, but at least she learned a lesson without injuring herself or anyone else. Tragically, a boy driving in my neighborhood hit a little girl who was walking across the street on the way to school. The little girl died and the boy will never be the same. It happened on his 18th birthday. The sun was in his eyes, and he was prosecuted because his windshield was dirty. A horrible tragedy all around!</p>
<p>My BIL and SIL were married on Feb. 29th, about 15 years ago. Think they are celebrating their fourth wedding anniversary next year. Belated Happy Anniversary to Weenie.</p>
<p>Can I call my college junior TJFS? Put his cell phone through the wash. Was worried when I saw the bill come through with no calls from him in the last two weeks. Hadn’t gotten any e-mails or other communication. Just inquired re the replacement phone. Turns out he needs us to ok it. Wasn’t sure when he was planning to let us know.</p>
<p>massmom, I don’t <em>think</em> mootmom has a patent on TSFH. Nor does SBmom on TSFS? However, your CSFS looks promising and individually customized. That is, if I could figure out what it means ;). </p>
<p>SBmom, I don’t envy you. No, I don’t. As mentioned on earlier pp of my beloved SA, DH and I celebrated escaping such a moment as you just had until post-hs. Discovering the rearranged duvet cover on our bed after a trip went down so much easier when it came in the summer after freshman year. No drink necessary.</p>
<p>Springfieldmom - I agree that you probably feel like climbing right over the bar with SBmom. But I’m with curiousmother that it’s probably a blessing in disguise. our D learns the kind of thing that can happen with just the slightest oversight/presumption. With damage that you can count in $$ rather than tragedy.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, both of you have a drink on me. Parents who escape hs BF/GF belly chat owe a little something to those of you not so lucky :p.</p>
<p>I like the idea of customizeable personalized abbreviational names (CPANs). Reduces confusion. (Note that TJFH is available RIGHT NOW, someone can claim it for your very own! And in just 4 short months, TSFH will similarly be available for re-use!)</p>
<p>SBmom – any chance the belly conversation referred to her considering piercing her navel?</p>
<p>And Springfieldmom – everyone else has said it already, but $$$ rather than tragedy is an outcome we’re all grateful for.</p>
<p>Many happy returns to those celebrating anniversaries, birthdays, or long and happy sex lives.</p>
<p>I’m under more than a little stress these days and will happily climb inside that ultra-magnum of whatever that red wine-like substance is over there in the corner, if someone will sweep off the cobwebs. If I don’t resurface for air in a day or two, someone come looking for me.</p>
<p>Let me rephrase that jymmie…LOL…details of my sex life as a nearly 50 something. But now that you brought it up, my sex life is a veritable baby by comparison! That makes me feel younger.</p>
<p>mootie…stamp out stress! With more drinking!</p>
However, your CSFS looks promising and individually customized. That is, if I could figure out what it means ;). </p>