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Say anything... again!
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Re: Say anything... again!
Is he the one getting married in Detroit?
Can we set up a "buy one, get one free" deal? Please? I wanted to tie mine to the roof of the car today. He's got one hell of a temper and I'm fairly certain that both of us aren't going to live through this. I'm just not sure who will come out alive. Right now, I'm thinking I'm not going to make it.
Maybe we could market them as twins and split the profit?
My mom just told me that she always figured that was why childhood mortality was so high in the past "OH god! just put him outside I can't take it anymore!!" "But there are wolves out there, and it's snowing" "Oh well, he'll scare off the wolves with all that screaming" LOL
I do not believe either of you for one stinking second. They are both perfect little boys.
Considering how often some of use vent in this thread about IF, this whole line of conversation comes across as incredibly insensitive. I'm sure being a mother is very difficult at times, but there are many of us here who just pray we can experience that frustration some day.
DS clenches his fists and turns red and his whole body shudders when he is really mad. I really try not to laugh!
That's a bummer they didn't think to call you. I woudl be upset, too. Maybe they were just getting back, and didn't want you to have to make the trip? Either way, they still should have given you the choice - especially since you asked about it.
I understand where you are coming from, but I'm reading this to say that I can't vent about my issues because they may offend someone on the opposite side. That applies to everything. I can't vent about DH, because it may offend someone who is single. I can't vent about my parents because it may offend someone who is without any.
Don't get me wrong, I am very lucky that I was able to have a child and I DO know how hard it is for those who suffer. But hearing my child scream at the top of his lungs for 30 minutes this morning for no reason before school really set the day off.
I'm sorry you're going through IF - it does truly suck and I hope you get results soon - but I don't think that's very fair.
I should clarify the only part I think is insensitive is the talk about giving the kids away or selling kids. Venting about your child is completely understandable. But talking about selling them or giving them away comes across as really insensitive.
I wasn't going to say anything, but I got so many e-mails/chat messages about how many people thought it was insensitive I decided to open my mouth.
from an outsider's (no kids/not trying to have kids) pov, i don't think they're being insensitive.
FKB - sorry if i offended you! i'm sure you *rock* those feathers; i just know *i* couldn't.
Not at all! I was trying to convey that I think anyone that really wants to do something out of the ordinary should go for it!
Hugs.. Can I join you there??
My in-laws have, for the past two summers, taken everyone, but me down to the coast for a few days. this was a trip that Corey and I were supposed to go on with them just before he died. They always said that I was part of the family, yet to see everyone at the beach, including my late brother in laws wife, really hurts like hell. I already feel abandoned by him, now them?
And then to top it all off, my favorite Aunt and two of my favorite cousins (and their kids) are down in Galveston. They know I live here in Houston. Knew that I lived on the Northside. I even told my cousin, ya'll let me know when you are coming through on Sunday and maybe we can meet for dinner. I would drive over to them; I don't live too far from 45. No response. Where did they stop for Dinner? Willies up in Conroe/Woodlands. I could have met them. I was already feeling down and lonely... that only made it even much more worse.
from a been there, done that (both struggling to have kids and threatening to give those kids I pined for away), I agree.
For further clarification - especially since some of you were with me as I struggled - as someone who has been on the sidelines watching everyone else have babies while I kept losing mine, I know it can strike a chord to see other people complaining about their kids or their pregnancy. However, as someone who jokes about giving mine away from time to time, I know such things are not said with malice or to be hurtful to those who are struggling.
I definitely don't think that's anyone's intention. I think it was just a kind of un-thinking thing to say. Which is why I wasn't going to say anything. But so many people said something to me off-line, that I decided to go ahead.
And now they're all silent. Thanks guys.
- Paula Deen to 104.1 KRBE's Producer Eric 9/17/2011
Eh. The thing is, I've gotten a bunch of emails about how ppl having to censor what they say in SA is kind of against the purpose.
We all say things and all perceive things depending on our own experiences. Telling someone not to say something doesn't help. It just gets ppl riled up. Also, I think everyone here is very sensitive to the issues of IF because so many of us are close to each other. It probably insults them greatly to be told otherwise.
Well...that part might be true...
I think everyone is blowing my comment out of proportion. I'm not an idiot, I understand it's a joke (btw, thanks to everyone who e-mailed me to clarify that part). I just think that joke is in poor taste. Right up there with wanting to bury your husband in the backyard. I don't expect people to stop making those jokes, but I do think they're in poor taste & I just commented on it b/c it was causing a buzz off-line.
Sorry to anyone I may have offended.
So the Pei Wei post is killing me. I really want caramel chicken, but dinner is already on in the crockpot and the kids will flip if I tell them we are not going home to eat red beans and rice. They helped make it and it is one of their favorite meals, so we kind of have to eat it tonight.
me toooooo!!!!!! and i had to go to their website to try to find a location (none near me) and they have the caramel chicken pictures plastered all over it!! torture!.....pagas does say it's good for tomorrow - go then!
that'll be the first place they look....you need to come up with an alibi and then drive him to the swamps in LA.
If it helps, last time they had a discount deal like this it was so busy that there was a 20 minute line to pick up the food. Then they had lost our order. I had printed out the confirmation so I showed it to them, but they couldn't find it anywhere. I had paid on-line, so it took them another 30 minutes to figure out how to refund our money because it would have been almost 2 hours for them to remake our food.