Monday Fluff

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Monday Fluff
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Mon, 11-22-2010 - 9:59am

1. Will you be shopping on Black Friday or Cyber Monday?

2. "5 months of bills...." as the song says. Do you have a budget for the holidays or do you have "5 months of bills..."?

3. What is one food that most people make for Thanksgiving that you do not like?

4. Do you dress up for Thanksgiving?

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Fri, 11-26-2010 - 11:26pm
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ABSOLUTELY!

"I don’t mind a banshee, that’s fine. 2 banshees? I HATE you. I actually wish bad things upon you." -- Day[9] Daily #459 P1

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Fri, 11-26-2010 - 11:31pm
I made it a condition of employment that I not travel without my kids until they were past babyhood/toddlerhood, and I always managed to take them with me when I travelled until they were about six. Nowadays though, I have five or six weekends a year, once in awhile a little longer, when I travel. The boys would usually prefer to stay hoome now. They actually kind of enjooy having the house to themselves and doing the male bonding thing. They are always glad when I come back, but they do not need me like they did when they were small, and that's pretty much a good thing.
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Fri, 11-26-2010 - 11:38pm

You've got that backwards. You and Cherubs have implied that children interested in news, politics, baking, taking on household chores, listening the the Beatles(!) were "forced to grow up too fast" and/or brainwashed by their parents and they were not allowed to be kids. They don't grow up too soon, they grow up differently than your experience. Viva la difference!

(My Irish mother did everything for her children and husband, e.g. laundry, making our beds, cleaning our rooms, making our lunches. I loved my mother dearly but I'm not raising my kids the same way. I wasn't less mature, I didn't get to be a child longer as I was just an entitled kid who had a mother that in retrospect, acted as a personal maid. My mother who catered to our every need and we took her service for granted. I wish I had helped her more around the house.)

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Fri, 11-26-2010 - 11:43pm

So she doesn't just help.

Just as I thought.

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Sat, 11-27-2010 - 12:57am

Over the years, mom bought a Christmas pattern but only bought the dinner plates and coffee cups and saucers.

The truth may be out there but lies are in your head. Terry Pratchett

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Sat, 11-27-2010 - 3:19am

ROFL

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Sat, 11-27-2010 - 3:26am

... or decipher it even, it appears.

I keep being reminded that the site is "powered by lithium."

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Sat, 11-27-2010 - 3:27am

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