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
Wed, 12-24-2003 - 8:08am
Ah, ignorance. First off, Miami is not the sum total of Florida. There are parts of FL that actually get snow occasionally. I wear boots because it gets cold and rainy here sometimes. Last week it was 28 degrees Saturday night. I wear a coat and sweaters and all those other type clothng that you northerners wear. You need to learn a bit before you make idiodic statements like "people in the south don't wear boots". I even wear a wool coat and gloves if it gets cold enough. Florida is more than beach pictures in a travel ad. Geez.

Susan

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 12-24-2003 - 8:13am
I never really thought about it. My grandparents lived in southern Ohio and no I don't consider them "southerners". Southern to me is below the Mason Dixon line. You seriously cannot put Ohio and Mississippi in the same catagorgy of southern. Although I must admit that people from southern Ohio tend to be a bit red in the neck, if you know what I mean.

Susan

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Wed, 12-24-2003 - 8:18am
Is there a support board for the geographically discombobulated? After reading through the "Guess what state I live in. you're getting warmer, nope, colder" posts I'm wondering if she lives in a state that zips around the U.S. like a UFO. How else could somebody live near so many states and be both a southerner and in the north and in the midwest? I think she doesn't get much snow because her state is flying above the altitude of the snow clouds.
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Registered: 03-23-2003
Wed, 12-24-2003 - 8:19am

Whoo Hoo! Congratulations and best wishes to your son and future DIL/DGS!


You realize we want pictures, right?

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Wed, 12-24-2003 - 8:26am
You live right next to me. Howdy neighbor. I have decided that "right next to" will now mean "in the same country". If you get to decide on new meanings for terms then so do I.
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Wed, 12-24-2003 - 8:29am
I hope you never actually gave directions to anybody who was lost. The poor slob would drive for hours before realizing that by "right next to" you meant "reachable by airplane" and by "turn right" you meant "turn left".
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Wed, 12-24-2003 - 8:35am
I think "hop, skip and jump" means 3 states away. So I guess you can live in Tennessee and be right next to Michigan if you hop across Kentucky, skip over Ohio and jump into Michigan. It's like 6 degrees of separation. We have a new game: 3 states of separation.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 12-24-2003 - 8:46am
But why omit Canada and Mexico. Most people are closer to one of them then many of the states.
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Registered: 03-29-2003
Wed, 12-24-2003 - 8:57am
I live in New Haven County in Connecticut. Everyone here knows that by now. I'm not sure what the big deal is either.
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Registered: 03-25-2003
Wed, 12-24-2003 - 9:00am
Congratulations! I hope they have a long, happy, healthy life together!

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