How do you do it?

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Registered: 12-07-2003
How do you do it?
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Fri, 12-12-2003 - 8:31pm
I hope I don't start a big controversy, but this is a debate board right?

I just have to ask those working moms....How do you do it?????

I am a Step-mom to two boys ages 6 and 9. I have a three year old that has been in minimal nursery school since he was one. He only goes three days a week for a couple of hours.

My step-sons BM (birth mother) just had a baby with her BF and this is her schedule:

She drops my step-sons at school to the morning-care program at 7:15AM (school starts at 8:45AM). She then drives her three month old baby to an in-home sitter that has five or six other kids at 7:45AM and then goes to work. She picks the baby up at 6:00PM and then she picks my SS up from after-care at 6:15PM (their school is over at 3:10PM). So my ss's are at school each day for 11 hours and the three month old baby is at a sitters for 10 hours each day!

Doesn't that seem like a lot! I just don't understand this. I offered to watch my SS's and she let me for two weeks and then got mad at my DH and put them back in the scholl child care program.

Why would you bother having children if someone else is going to raise them for you?

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Registered: 07-21-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 8:34pm
Right?

There's nothing that screams tourist louder than some hayseed in a pair of nice shoes trudging through the icy, slushy streets of Manhattan in January. Of course, if you travel by private car with a driver you might be able to get away with it, but you still have to get off the street and onto the sidewalk, try that in anything but boots and there's a very good chance you'll step into an icy puddle and have to hurdle the ubiqiutous snowdrifts, brrrr.

The city in winter is frigid. You'd have to be some kind of stupid not to attempt it without warm boots, gloves, hat and very warm coat. That's the real reason you see so many furs in Manhattan, they're the warmest coats out there...

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Registered: 12-08-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 8:36pm
Well considering my uncle's condo is there yes I have spent an inordinate amount of time there but he tells me just today in news from him it's declining so he is looking to move. On the card he has spelled it Anadale? Perhaps he is misspelling it also. And to think he works at the Pentagon. Thanks I will alert him

However; you are right no one really cared what I wore there. However; they did notice my accent.

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Registered: 12-08-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 8:38pm
Design:

You don't know where I live but I will alert you all the Michigan folks come here to our Amusement parks.
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Registered: 12-08-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 8:42pm
Islimshady don't fret too much. But then do we really car if people think we are tourist nah. We came we shopped we conquered.

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Registered: 07-21-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 8:48pm


Oookaaayyy...What kind of town only let's it's children play outside if it's over 70 degrees? Is it that town from "Children of the Corn"?

If your child gets sick from being outside in 60 degree temperatures you best take her to a hospital immediately, she has a very rare and serious medical condition and I'm sure the medical community will want to investigate.

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Registered: 07-21-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 8:55pm
We've had 30 inches of snow this fall already before winter even started, but by all means come to the city in your black PATENT leather slides. You'll fit right in.

My husband only worked in the city every day for years, so don't take my word for it.Yes, the sidewalks are shoveled, but you have to step OFF the sidewalk to cross the street every few minutes.

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Registered: 07-21-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 9:00pm
Gangerine! Thank you, I've been looking for a word that rhymes with tangerine for months now...at last, I can finish my haiku.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 9:05pm
Well, I work in NYC everyday and you are incorrect. I am always amazed how clear the streets are after a snowstorm.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 9:17pm
The definitive answer on NYC and boots:

You need them. Often.

Even though sidewalks shoveled, the shoveled snow has to go somewhere, so it's piled up near the curb. Snow plows clearing the streets plow up snow toward the curb from the other side. By the time this is done, you have to climb over small snow hills to cross the street. Once it starts to melt the sewers are blocked with unmelted snow so you have to walk through icy puddles up to your ankles.

It snowed on a Friday about 2.5 weeks ago. I didn't have boots on. I was wet to my ankles and my feet were so cold that they ached. The majority of the snow was gone by Monday. Almost everyone wore boots through the following week for reasons explained above. This was not a blizzard, just a regular storm.

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Registered: 12-08-2003
Mon, 12-22-2003 - 9:36pm
Jorvia tell ya what lets make reservations to the islands have a little sun, have a little drinks and forget about the snow and boots.

We don't have snow here but it's cold.

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