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: 03-26-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 10:33am
I need some good boots.I have finally decided to "go native" to be more comfortable.I am wearing polartec now,I bought a quilt for our bed(kids already had one each),I bought long silk(that's what they called it,but it is not sexy!) underwear,and I'm going to buy a big parka( yuck-I hate being all bundled up,and usually wear layers and a trench coat),and I usually just wear rubber shoes from Lands End out ("duck shoes" is what I grew up calling them,but mine are beginning to crack)because I hate my boots,which were picked up during the first snowstorm here by my dh on his way home.So,what are some good boots that I can wear in snow and rain(it seems slushy here more than icy ).

Added:I was thinking those LL Bean boots would work,but are they really snow boots?TBH,they just seems so outdoorsey that I like them!
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 10:39am
Uh, I am part of *America* here and kids play outside at the schools here unless it is below zero F.

And if you come up here, you can go without boots if ya want, but expect tennis shoes filled with snow. And if you are driving and get in a wreck of any sort, expect the very real possibility of frostbite if you have to walk any distance in thin little tennis shoes.

Where the heck do you live anyway? I've never heard such ignorant drivel....

dj

Dj

"Now when I need help, I look in the mirror" ~Kanye West~

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 10:40am
ROFLOL....good one!

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Registered: 03-28-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 10:43am
I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this last night. It's truly amusing.
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 10:45am
I was thinking the sammeee thing.....

Dj

"Now when I need help, I look in the mirror" ~Kanye West~

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 10:50am
And most California school systems DO NOT allow shorts after October, because they WANT children to be DRESSED properly for inclement weather.

dj

Dj

"Now when I need help, I look in the mirror" ~Kanye West~

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Registered: 12-08-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 11:18am
Texigan again I will reiterate to you it does affect my daughter and myself we addressed this with the endocrinologist,ENT, and pulmonologist and it does affect us. It might not everyone else but in our family it does. And I think since these doctors that have way more education and practice in medicine then Hank there I am going to go with what they say and concur.

Then again Hank believes in boots for northern states. Guess what I live right next to Michigan and tons of us do not have boots. Michigan folks come over the border all the time into our state and don't wear boots. We have no snow. When we do alot of us go to work, or school but mostly things shut down. And that is okay where I live we are used to and like it that way.

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Registered: 12-08-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 11:21am


Well someone advised me to do that.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 11:39am
ROFLMAO!!!!!! I love it!
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Registered: 03-25-2003
Tue, 12-23-2003 - 11:47am
Jealous???? H&I jealous?! LOL! You clearly don't know H&I very well if you're going to accuse her of being *jealous*! That's about the funniest thing I've read here in a long time! Thanks for the laugh!

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