Army Thread 8th September

[JackieClaire]

Army Thread 8th September

Zenstyle;954364 wrote: :H:H:H

That is one way of looking at it JC! )

How are you today?

Very good today, although me brain's just gone walkabout. I've just texted Mr JC Happy Birthday instead of the daughter.

[one2many]

Army Thread 8th September

Yo guys!

Cindi, great to see ya darlin.

My mother is one of six and Wob's mother is one of 14! (with 3 who died..so 17 really)

[Cinders]

Army Thread 8th September

And you have how many, One2? (children minus Wob)

It is just a few and a dog in the mixture, as I recall.



Love,
Cindi

[one2many]

Army Thread 8th September

I have 3 Cinders and I mind 2 little girls aswell.

Oh and a dog and a cat and a parrot and tropical fish and a Wob.

Wob is the hardest to look after...

[stirly-girly]

Army Thread 8th September

Cinders;954363 wrote:
Seriously. It seems easy today. Back "in the day" it was not easy.

Cindi

My mother-in-law raised her three kids in the centre of Athens. Her first child was born in 1943, a daughter. My MIL never had an electric stove. She cooked on a two-burner hotplate later on but never had an oven. She would take anything that needed to be baked to the bakery and they would cook it. It was common practice back then. She only got an electric fridge after her daughter started working about 19 years old and daughter bought the fridge from her salary. They never had a telephone til then either and that was 1962!!!. It wasnt' that they didn't have the money to buy those things. They just never considered them necessities. Likewise, MIL never had a washing machine. Used a big plastic washpan that had a thing like a scrub-board on the one side. Still did up until the time she went to a nursing home in 2001. It boggles my mind to think what it would have been like to raise a family without the modern appliances we have now. It always amazed me that I grew up in a small town in Canada and we had all those things from as early as I can remember and yet, in the capital city in another country, people didn't have those things that we took for granted.

[JackieClaire]

Army Thread 8th September

Rightio I'm defo going to get dressed and take the dog for a drag round the block.
Laters my lovelies:l

[Cinders]

Army Thread 8th September

Yeppers, One2, you do your share.

My hubby is the hardest to look after, too.

He is amazingly hard to look after. The others just want hugs, love, food and cleanliness, (well I want the cleanliness thing,) but hubby wants me to "know" what he is thinking.

I simply can't do that. I try. After 35 years, you would think I know but I don't.

[Cinders]

Army Thread 8th September

At least I know how much sugar to put in his coffee.

Isn't that enough??

Come on!!

[one2many]

Army Thread 8th September

Wow Stirly...I think I am bad because i don't have a dishwasher!!

It MUST be the SJW Zenners...

[one2many]

Army Thread 8th September

Cinders;954383 wrote: Yeppers, One2, you do your share.

My hubby is the hardest to look after, too.

He is amazingly hard to look after. The others just want hugs, love, food and cleanliness, (well I want the cleanliness thing,) but hubby wants me to "know" what he is thinking.

I simply can't do that. I try. After 35 years, you would think I know but I don't.

I enjoy it most of the time Cindy

God I get you on the hubby thing.......He says to me "but you should KNOW blah blah....and I am like "How the FUCK am I meant to know if ya don't tell me?"

Then I go to bed on my own in my WORST pajamas and granny knickers, press me knees together, curl up and pretend I am asleep...

Ha ha you should have KNOWN I had a headache....

[stirly-girly]

Army Thread 8th September

Zenstyle;954377 wrote: Hiya hon!

I take a 5mg time release melatonin tablet... the time release is supposed to be much better. I also combine it with Theanine Serine or GABA or Calmes Forte, depending on my mood du jour! Supplement Queen here... Gawd!

And when all else fails (like just now) I take 20mg of Bac as I have a load left over. I have Diazapam too (from my mum - it's the same as Valium). And also prescription sleeping pills, Ambien, that a friend gives me... but I don't like them as they make me woozy the next day. A sleeping feckin arsenal!

That Ambien is like the Stilnox that my doctor prescribed a couple of years ago. It can be dangerous. I had a couple of incidents where I was stupid enough to have a few drinks after I'd taken a pill and I found out the next day that I was up in the night doing things and had absolutely no recollection of it the next day. A friend of a friend took Ambien a few years ago, without AL or anything and she got up the next morning to find a pack of cigs on her kitchen table and the receipt next to it. Showed that she had driven to a 24-hour place about 3am to get cigs and she remembered absolutely nothing about going out to get them. So, they freak me out. I had some left and I chucked them.
I'll have to look into something like Calme Forte or maybe some kind of herbal tea. They have different things in the pharmacy but I never know what will help or if they will help ME and they're all damn expensive to try experimenting. Mr. Stirly had Lexotanil to help calm him down and I tried them a couple of times but they didn't do anything either...

[stirly-girly]

Army Thread 8th September

one2many;954387 wrote: Wow Stirly...I think I am bad because i don't have a dishwasher!!

Oney, I always say I have two dishwashers, a left one and a right one...:H:H

[one2many]

Army Thread 8th September

stirly-girly;954392 wrote: Oney, I always say I have two dishwashers, a left one and a right one...:H:H

Me too and feckin rough hands lol..

[stirly-girly]

Army Thread 8th September

Cinders;954383 wrote: Yeppers, One2, you do your share.

My hubby is the hardest to look after, too.

He is amazingly hard to look after. The others just want hugs, love, food and cleanliness, (well I want the cleanliness thing,) but hubby wants me to "know" what he is thinking.

I simply can't do that. I try. After 35 years, you would think I know but I don't.

Um, Mr. Stirly does that too. When we used to work together (big mistake - I still go into the office but only a couple of times a month) he would come back from doing his rounds to the customers and as soon as he stepped foot in the door he'd say - "What happened with that guy that called this mornin?." He had the customer on his mind and knew exactly who he was talking about but I was expected to figure out in a split second which of the ten people we'd talked to on the phone 5 hours earlier was the one he meant now. And he'd get mad at me for not having an answer within 2 seconds. I told him that I always know who I'm talking about but I can't be expected to know who he's talking about without some little hint like which product the customer was interested in or where he was calling from or even, if possible, what the guys name was. He never did get it though that I really can't read his bloody mind. So it's nice that I only go to the office once in a while. Lots less tension and stress...

[Cinders]

Army Thread 8th September

Oney,

But he would just "love" to have another to take care of. Huh? Yes? Yada Yada.

Luckily, at my age, I don't worry about that.

My girl, however, is trying to get her tubes tied. (Sorry for all those guys out there who think this is TMI.) She just wants to know there is an end to this madness, and love.

She sits there with the 15th month old and the newborn and tries to give both of them the love they should have. She is doing well, btw.

I think being home with children is the hardest "job" there is. it is a commitment. It means "I will do whatever it takes." Because, all children are worth whatever it takes.

Oney, the parrot is a tough one. They live for years and years.

It seems to me you understand the responsibility of all of this.

You are "one" incredible person.

Cindi