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• She took the kids across the country to see DH's parents who have never given a flip before.
• She did too much because the parents are lazy a-holes and now has pains in her abdomen.
• They did a trial run which the parents failed miserably and they brought the kids home where they promptly got the flu.

Welcome back. Please be careful and take care of yourself. Will pray that the pains stop.
Sorry about the kids grandparents. I hope you have good substitute ones near you. I also hope Danny feels better soon and no one else gets it.

I can't wait for you to get the mail too!

On the other crap....my father is 20 years older than my mother but is 600 times more active. Are they by any chance larger sized people? That seems to be the major problem with my mother and her husband. They act like they are too old to play with grandkids but really, she is 55 and he is younger than her. She did just take DS to the park though but that's mostly b/c my brother's kid was there and wanted to go. Oh well - she's trying and they got to do something with grandma so I'm grateful for that! Especially since her actions led to us not speaking for almost a year prior......

• She took the kids across the country to see DH's parents who have never given a flip before.
• She did too much because the parents are lazy a-holes and now has pains in her abdomen.
• They did a trial run which the parents failed miserably and they brought the kids home where they promptly got the flu.

We do have Baci Kootz, who is the best grandma!

Too many letters... any chance someone can remove all the vowels?

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Awesome! I love you Rach! And the funny thing is, they are fit- actually, they eat really healthy. Which we saw when they made sure to wait until we left to make themselves meals, and told us basically that we were on our own for food. Digiorno was our friend.

Danny is feeling a bit better- I'm snuggling him in bed while we watch the Amazing Race on the laptop.

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But not accounts that already ordered right? And only in existing accts?

gals that are doing diapers still.. codes are stacking again as of right now in existing accts. time to order in accounts with trapped codes

Leah...Someone posted some neat PINK stuff in the Kohl's forum cheap.

We lost.

we got second
and even in DEs Moines I post last and first.

Happy Saturday! Wind is blowing strong here today. We are off to a "Boat and Outdoor Show" today. Campers and Kayaks...a little heaven for DH! Not much else happening around here. Kids are on spring break for the next week, so DS is doing a day camp all week, so that should be fun for him. DD will just be a lump of do nothing all week. Do others get spring break? I wish the kids wouldn't have spring break and just get out a week earlier!

Hello all, I just received an envelope from Rach that was composed of gifts from all of you. I was so overwhelmed by everything that I began to cry. You all are amazing and so generous and I am certain I am not this deserving. The amount of friendship, love and support that I have received from you all over the years has been so fulfilling and rewarding. I want to let you all know that my family has all been touched by the generosity you have all shown and the out pouring of love. I wish I were able to see you all in person and give you the hug and show the gratefulness I am feeling. You all are closer to me than most ppl in my life and I am very thankful to be a part of such a wonderful group. Again, from the bottom of my heart, thank you all!!

Get home safe!! kids are in bed and I'm starting wash...then calling my bestest friend who emailed me while on vacation telling me she has breast cancer

Oh, and I met Coachie!! She is a REAL person!! WooHoo!! And so sweet and nice and very gracious! Thanks for giving us a rest stop and a super yummy lunch!! The kids are still talking about my friend in Macon Georgia!!

DF did one on his own too! LOL Wonder what the cashiers think? O wait... they dont... DF is really good at finding Jedis of all ages.

Baseball season has started and I am crazy busy, but I just saw this and want you to know that I am praying hard for you and your little miracle! Positive thoughts!

We're back! I've missed you guys! I was trying to stay updated on the phone, but it was crappy service and my fingers kept punching the wrong letters, so it took me forever to type out a sentence. So many times I started a reply but was interrupted by a kid needing something, so I just scrapped the whole reply. I am really getting old.

Got the boys in bed last night, and around 2am I heard Danny crying and vomiting. He threw up all over his bed and himself. I got him calmed and in the tub while dh stripped the bed and washed the sheets. It was so bad we just threw his pillow away. :vomit : I remade his bed and stayed there with him as he threw up all night long. He was so worried about missing school today, and how excited he was about telling his teachers about his vacation. I finally got him to sleep a little from 10am-11am, but he wanted me to hold him and stroke his back. Butters was jealous and kept trying to get into bed with us, so he pretty much kept waking his brother up every 5 minutes. One time he bonked him in the head with his (clean) emesis basin. Poor Danny boy is passed out on the couch right now looking really pathetic. I am not a big tv person, but when a kid is sick, the rules go out the window, so he is allowed to stay on the couch and watch tv all day.

While this was going on all night, I started having some pretty bad stomach pains, and they progressively got worse over the night. I was having them earlier in the day in the car, but not nearly as bad as last night. Dh listened to the baby's hb with the doppler, and she was kicking and moving, so Maddie was ok. It hurts when I bend over, so we think that maybe I pulled a muscle in my expanding fat tummy from bending down and picking things and the baby up during the trip. Dh is coming home early from work to help me (he had a 9:30am class this morning, and is cancelling afternoon classes and will be home as soon as he picks Oscar up from the vet to help me with the boys)

Dh is worried and wants me to go the the ob this afternoon, but dr offices are crazy busy on Mondays, so we are probably looking at me sitting in a waiting room for 3 hours, and I am worried about being away from Danny while he is sick. Plus, this is my 5th pregnancy, so I know a bit about which are normal pains (like round ligamint and pulled muscles) and scary pains (like labor pains) These pains only happen when I bend over, and are at the way bottom of my belly, and do not radiate around to my back. It just kills me to see a trashed house, mounds of laundry to be done, and kids to be taken care of, and I can only sit on my arse and wait for dh to come home.

These pains also make dh upset, since they are happening because I did a little too much, and we received absolutely no help from his father and step-mom at all. In a nutshell, this trip was like a final "test" to see if they wanted to be part of our lives, and it was a horrible failure. They haven't seen us for a year, and basically treated us like an imposition. They hardly looked at the boys, let alone talked or played with them, and never once offered to help us with anything. It started with watching us unload the car when we arrived. Two healthy adults stood on the front porch and watched a nearly 6 month pregnant woman drag suitcases up the steps- dh had chased the baby in the back yard where there was a dangerous pond. When he saw me with the suitcases he got really upset and told me to sit down and he unloaded the whole car by himself.

They just sat in their living room all day, watching CNN and ignoring us. We tried to make the most of it and took the boys out all day long, so we wouldn't have to be around them. In the times that we were there, dh's father would crank the tv up so loudly that it would drive us from the room, where we would all have to cram into one small bedroom.

To make a very long story short, dh confronted them, they made a lame excuse about not being able to so anything because they were too old (they are 56 and 59) and we packed up the kids and left and never looked back. His dad has never been a part of his life- he thought that being a good father was sending a small child support check every month, so this was kind of a last-ditch effort to see if they wanted to be a part of our kids' lives and they have decided that they don't. But we made sure that none of this affected the boys, and they had an incredible time and felt loved and wanted by mommy and daddy, so that's all that matters! I got alot of great pics-will post them soon!

We are waiting for our neighbor to get home for the mail- I am so excited to get it!! :bounce ::bounce :

Told you it wasn't over yet! You are so very welcome, you are always such a sweetheart to me and I'm so happy I was able to help do something for you in return. Love ya!

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