YEAH!!!!!!!!!! MYTIME MAIL! Saturday Sketch-better late than never!

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1. AmyR June 11th, 2007 at 10:35 am 1

   ACK!!! There’s new $1 stamps??????? I want them!!! They are freaking CUTE!! And OMG at the greeter!!! I totally would have gone postal on her too! What a bag (I would have had some serious words with her manager over that – what a nut job!).

   Don’t enter me in the contest – just had to yell over those stamps ROFLOL!!!

2. Tracey Cuccia June 11th, 2007 at 11:19 am 2

   I’m SO bummed that my M’s didn’t have those the other day…and I looked all through that $1 bin I tell you 🙂

   What a great card, whom ever is to receive it is awfully lucky!

   Let’s see….I’ve got a few to pick from…I guess my favorite story about being a mom is one I’ve already shared with you…Shannon (DD) is awaiting the arrival of her new brother or sister, though, even though we don’t know what it is, she claims it’s a boy, and we will name it Lightning McQueen. So, we are sitting on the couch one night, and she was in my lap, leaning back, and WHAM-O! Baby kicks her right in the back…she turns around looks at me, and says “Mommy, was that Lightning?” with her head cocked to the side…cutest thing I think I’ve ever seen!

   As far as going off on someone, I don’t know that I’ve done that (I may have blocked it out ;)) but I sure do know about “I was a better Mother before” because, I remember saying, I won’t let them keep a bottle that long, or the binky, and I will NOT bribe my kids…um, yeah…ok. Shan had her bottle until this past Christmas (one week before her 3rd B-day) her Binky until the Christmas before, or was is Easter?? and bribes??? well….I won’t even comment 😉

   Thanks for sharing your moments with us, as it’s always nice to get re-inforcement that we aren’t alone 🙂

3. Katie June 11th, 2007 at 12:13 pm 3

   Thanks so much for the stories…that quote is oh so true. I think the only time I’ve ever ‘gone off’ on someone to their face, I actually didn’t go all out like I really wanted to. It was the day before I was to be induced with my 3rd and I was at the park with my other two girls. Right after the park we went to the airport to pick up my Mom…yes, Baby #3 was on his way (well, almost). We were at the park with my SILs and their kids. We were watching our kids from a distance, so we could enjoy some shade (September). There was another group of Moms at the park that day, also enjoying some shade on the opposite side of the playground. However, they were all sitting with their backs to the playground, not watching their kids, who were older, AT ALL. One boy, probably 6 or so, starts pulling my DD’s (3) hair, following her around, standing over her…really picking on her, to be quite honest. So I eventually went over to the playground to tell him to lay off (I was REALLY nice…really). I go back to sit down with my SILs and a few minutes later, of course, his Mom comes over to find out what was going on. She was totally defending him…even though she had her back to the playground and hadn’t seen a thing. I was SO ready to tell her off…going to the park and seeing other Moms totally ignore their kids (backs to them) is one of my BIGGEST pet peeves in the world! Okay, sorry that was long, and not the least bit funny.

4. Peggy Parenteau June 11th, 2007 at 12:49 pm 4

   My girlfriend adopted two girls from Korea (2 separate adoptions), they were about 3yrs apart. She was giving the baby a bath, big sister thought she was helping, but mom lost her patience and asked big sister to just sit and watch “When you grow up you can give YOUR baby a bath” With that the big sister burst out crying, sobbing. “What’s the matter” mom said—-between sobs (I can do this great in person, you have to get that hiccup effect (-:–_the big sister said”I’ll never have any kids!” mom: “why would you say that?” big sis: “cuz I don’t know my way to the airport”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is still one of the funniest stories I’ve heard, and the big sister is now mom to 5.

   Thanks for the chance to enter, I really enjoy your ideas.

   Peggy

5. lacyquilter June 11th, 2007 at 12:58 pm 5

   Oh, darling card and fun stamps. Love some of the things kids come up with. One day in the produce aisle of the grocery store, my DD (maybe about 3) points at the big bin of watermelon and says, “Mom, look at those big pickles!”

   Oh, have to share one about DS as well. One year I planted potatoes and he was helping me harvest them. Of course, he was more interested in the earthworms and nightcrawlers. So as I was digging, he hollers, “Wait, Mom, another nightmare!”

   I could share many more, but I’ll quit now.

6. mnhyrkas June 11th, 2007 at 1:19 pm 6

   my DD (4) grabbed my backside with both hands, gave a little squeeze and said, “Mom, Your SQUISHY!”
   Guess I’d better hit the gym 😆
   Thanks for sharing your stories with us.

7. Melanie June 11th, 2007 at 1:50 pm 7

   ok when I was prego with DS #1 I got a jar of cocoa butter. I’m alergect to Chocolate! but I had a dork moment and didn’t think it would be bad as I wasn’t eating it. So I rubbed it all over my belly! the next morning I woke up and my belly was red and burning! I had an alergec reaction to it and my hands and belly had a bad rash! and I couldn’t take anything for it as I was prego. so I did lots of lotion and praying! ya I stay away from anything that says cocoa now! oh I was like 8 months prego!

8. Nicole Ireland June 11th, 2007 at 2:06 pm 8

   Lets see… As you know as a Mom with Special needs kids we have “many moments”
   Not so good memorable moment was Kayla getting a Cerebral Palsey diagnosis at 11 months old and knowing the loong road ahead of us.
   A funny memorable moment is when I was getting into the shower and she asked why my boobs were soo big!! 🙂 (maybe age 6) A touching moment is when she asked me “When is Kirsten getting AFO’s on her feet)(a.k.a. braces) and me explaining that she wont need them because she doesn’t have C.P.
   Kirstens moment was in the delivery room by c-section & my husband “passing out” and having to leave before she was born 😉 I had a happy & sad moment at the same event was seeing her take a few steps for the first time. Reason because I was soo excited for her but soo sad that her sister who is 5 yrs older may never be able to do that by herself. Just seeing her “strong” personality is such a joy and the things she comes up with. (3 yr olds humor)

   Things that I said I’d never do before children???
   Everything I am doing now!! LOL
   Not letting them in our bed at night. Kayla was in our room for 5 years (b/c of medical issues) (put a lil’ damper on some “quality husband time” 😉 we finally graduated to share a room with her sister & got a video monitor so we could still see & here her. If they are sick… “I” will go in there bed and comfort them, I refuse to go threw that again.

9. Tracy Nerat June 11th, 2007 at 2:17 pm 9

   My Godmothers friend was taking her 3 year old son to a nursing home to visit an elderly friend. As they drove in the car she was talking to her son (who was a very rambunctious little boy) and explaining that he would meet some very sweet people and that he needed to be very gentle. When they arrived they saw a very winkled elderly woman sitting in a wheel chair, he proceeded to walk over to her, took his hand and gently patted her face and said “You are so sweet and you look just like ET!”

   I laughed so hard!

10. Ashley Dean June 11th, 2007 at 3:23 pm 10

    Love your greeter story. Too cute!

    One of my most memorable moments was when my water broke. I was home alone and my sister (who was living with us) came in while I was sitting on the toilet trying to figure out what to do. I called the doctor at home who told me to go to the hospital. My husband was a street patrol officer so I had to call dispatch (this was before cell phones) and have her contact him on the radio that my water broke. So now the whole county knows it too. His partner that night is also a paramedic/RN. Ed tells my DH that with a first baby I’ll be in labor for a long time and he needs to eat now before getting to the hospital. So off they go to eat dinner. Meanwhile I’m still sitting at home waiting. An hour and a half later he walks in and I’m freaking out. He takes off his uniform and gets in the SHOWER! I was sooo PO’d. By the time we make it to the hospital – which is only 2 miles from the house – the doctor and both our families are there waiting including his sister who drove up from San Antonio (80 miles). Our son was born a couple of hours later.

    When I tell people this story and about how upset I was about it Roger always reminds me that he did have time to eat dinner and take a shower.

11. Diane June 11th, 2007 at 3:39 pm 11

    Gotta love those $1 stamps!!
    I’ve never had any children…but had the chance to be in the delivery room with my Godchild Shannon when she had her 1st son.
    Wow what an experience!!! It was wonderful,everything went great until Tyler came out…I had never seen the Cone Head Baby!! I thought OMG he’s disformed!!
    How is Shannon going to take this!
    …But then later found out it is commom.
    Now 11 years later Tyler is a handsome young gentleman without a cone head! lol!!

12. Julie June 11th, 2007 at 3:47 pm 12

    Hey Lauren! I’ve never seen one of your sketch challenges (I’m kind of new here)– so I’m not sure how this all works… but I made a card using your layout. For anyone who’s interested, you can find it here:

    http://stampedinhisimage.blogspot.com/2007/06/my-son-eli-just-finished-his-first.html

    Thanks!

13. Kacey (Starved4Creativity) June 11th, 2007 at 7:55 pm 13

    Love those $1 stamps – I can’t believe there are more! UGH! Love that prego card too, great combo!

    I have sooo many funny stories, I don’t know where to begin… one of my funniest happened actually when my son was about two and a half years old. My daughter, about 8 months at the time, was cutting her first tooth so we had a little bottle of Orajel on the dresser in her room. My son liked to greet her when she woke up from her naps and I would listen to them “talk” as he went in to her room to say hello. Well, he went in and they chatted for about 2 minutes, then it got really quiet – cause for panic 🙂 I went up to see what he was doing, and there he was, standing on top of the half dresser with the bottle of Orajel in hand – open! I asked him calmly what he was doing, and he replied “nothing mommy.” I said “does that taste good,” his response (picture this with his tongue wagging – hanging out of his mouth) – “uh-huh…but mommy, my tongue is numb!” I do a better impression of it, but trust me it was so funny, I think I nearly peed my pants 🙂 Thanks for letting me share!

14. jason June 11th, 2007 at 8:11 pm 14

    I love everything about this card, the images are tight and the colors are “mint”, your layout is farout, and you gave this card radical dimension! *grin* keep up the awesome work I, love seeing your work!

15. Cheryl Kelly-Van Domelen June 11th, 2007 at 8:53 pm 15

    Gosh, I have SO many stories…Ok, so a few hours after my daughter was born, my hubby fell asleep across the room on the pull out sofa. He was snoring so loud that it woke up the baby and she was crying hysterically. I was in too much pain to get out of bed to get her and I yelled and yelled for my husband to wake up and get her. He wouldn’t wake up. I got so frustrated that I took a bottle of pain pills and threw it at him! It hit him square in the face and he finally woke up!! 🙂
    Thanks!
    Cheryl KVD

16. lois lane June 11th, 2007 at 9:13 pm 16

    I always said that I would never let the TV be my babysitter! I wouldn’t have got a thing done at times if it weren’t for that thing!!!

17. Aimee30 June 11th, 2007 at 9:26 pm 17

    I have to say the best story for me was when I was in the or about to have a c-section for my DD. The doctor starts working on me then remembers that they have yet to bring in my DH. He had said how much he didn’t want to see the csection but the dear doc gave him no choice… once our DD was here he could not make up his mind whether he wanted to stay with me or walk over to our DD. I miss my baby she is 3 now and so independent.

18. Kenna June 11th, 2007 at 10:04 pm 18

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19. Kenna June 11th, 2007 at 10:06 pm 19

    Sorry for the double post, I have a 2 year old who will not go to bed. While I was in labor with my first daughter, my husband was a little nervous with whether or not he could handle it. When the doctor went to break my water, my husband (this big guy) almost passed out and had to sit down for a while.

20. Julie June 11th, 2007 at 10:49 pm 20

    I’m not a mom, but I teach 2nd graders. This is one of my favorite mom stories from a student. At the end of the year I had them all stand up and share a piece of writing in front of the class and their parents. I had recently taught them to use description in their writing, such as the 5 senses. One precious little girl stood up and read her story about how when she was a “little” girl she used to sit on her mom’s lap. Her mom’s lap was warm and comforting, she smelled like perfume, she heard the calming words of her mom, etc. Then she said….Until a couple of months ago when my mom said, “you’re too big to sit on my lap. sit on the toilet seat.” The toilet seat is hard and cold.

    All of the parents were cracking up and the mom’s face was bright red. I still laugh when I think about this!

21. Shannon June 11th, 2007 at 11:53 pm 21

    I am going to Michaels tomorrow to see if mine has that pregnant lady stamp. I just love it.

    So here is my little story. Okay, this one is sort of gross!! But it is a funny memory from my first pregnancy. So, like everyone, when I was pregnant I had to take the awful prenatal vitamins that made me so nauseous. My doctor always told me to take them on an empty stomach so they would be more effective, which always made me even more nauseous. One day I was about 7 months pregnant and I took my prenatal and my husband sat down to watch a movie (The Rock..I still remember this quite vividly!!) in our living room and I had to burp. So, I made sure he did not hear it and thought he would never know I burped.
    All of a sudden, Jason (my husband) said “Oh gross did you pass gas?”
    I had to laugh and I said (while laughing) “No, I did not. For your information, I burped.”
    He did not believe me and he said “There is no way a burp can smell like that.”
    I said “Oh yes it can and if it smells that bad, just imagine what it tastes like!!”
    We just laughed and he still can’t get over the fact that they taste so bad He called them Fart Pills after that, until I gave birth!!!
    Gee, I hope I am not the only person that has burped up those awful pills.

22. Bonnie aka raduse June 12th, 2007 at 12:10 am 22

    I have got to tell you about my DS’s most memorable moment. He’ll just die if he knows I’m sharing this. He was around 3 or 4 and we were at a birthday (I think his). He looked up from his cake and said “Mommy I really like cake, but why do they put so much bread with it?” Of course he’d eaten all of the frosting and left the cake! My I wouldn’t do this before being a mom: just like Nicole, let my DS sleep in the bed with us. Took us years to get him out of it too. My DD was never let into the bed unless she had a screaming nightmare on a work night.

23. Mary June 12th, 2007 at 5:03 am 23

    Never had labor or delivery- so no problems there. My husband and I, after being married 17 years, going through hysterctomy at 24, lupus, getting knocked off the state adoption list becausem of the lupus (“sorry, don’t know how long you’ll live” – talk about going off!), we adopted a beautiful baby girl, Rebekah. We went from no chance in hell to bringing home a baby two weeks later. We were in the delivery room, my husband cut the cord while I fed the birth mother ice. It was a private adoption. She was sixteen and interviewed 5 couples. She chose us. Not rich – far from it – but happier than we’ve ever been in our lives. She called the house and left the message, “I’m in labor and I’m holding it.” We FLEW to the hospital, ran up the stairs, her mother and grandmother were waiting, dragged us to her room, and the midwife said, “Okay, you can have that baby now.” Literally, five minutes later, she did.
    Things I said I’d never do: Everything I Now Do! She is seven and is sleeping on top of my husband right now! She gets in her bed, gets up to go to the bathroom and comes to our room on auto pilot.
    She is so funny and touching. Wild and rambunctious with the best heart in the world. She worries about everybody else first. She’ll start a conversation with me, “Mommy, I need to ask you something, but I don’t want to upset you…” LOL Scares me to death everytime!
    As I said, seven, she’s known she was adopted since day one. Usually hears mommy tell some stranger, “If you don’t beleive in God, let me tell you how I got my baby.” Still does not understand she was in someone’s tummy. She thinks we just went to the hospital and God put her there just for us.
    Really had to clean up the old gutter mouth though. I did great when she was little but I’ll sometimes let the S word slip.
    Almost done, I swear. When she was about 18 mos., we were still trying to get her off her bedtime bottle. She’s in the bed with us – big surprise- fussing for her bottle. My husband says, “I give up! Just get her the damn bottle!” Next night, same thing. She says, “Mommy, just get me the damn bottle.” My husband will never live this down.
    Sorry so long. I never get tired of telling about my miracle child!

24. Pat Hines June 12th, 2007 at 5:52 am 24

    Oh my goodness, you people crack me up!!!!These are so touching and hysterical!! Mine goes back 21 yrs. when we miscarried our second child. My daughter and I were shopping for groceries and Jocelyn( 3 1/2@ the time) looked at me and loudly asks ” Mom, I don’t understand, just how DO you lose a baby” just as if we had misplaced him/her at the local mall!!! It certainly helped ease a very difficult time and we went on to have a second child who turns 20 next week.

25. Jenny Bamford-Perkins June 12th, 2007 at 6:19 am 25

    LOve the stamps!! Wishing I had a M’s near me.

    As mom to three, 20, 17 and 15 I have TON’s of stories..the most recent just took place prior to Mother’s Day. My daughter (20) asked me exactly what I wanted for Mother’s Day as she had gone shopping and didn’t know exactly what to get me. I told her I would like the mother and daughter Willow Tree figurine, and told the boys I would like the mother and two sons Willow Tree Figurine. My daughter says, “Well you know mom, I’m thinking with the amount of grey hair you have maybe I could pay for a color.” NICE! I reminded her my greys are all a result of her and her brothers and I want the Willow Tree figurines…

    🙂

    -Jenny

26. Lisa Moore June 12th, 2007 at 7:04 am 26

    We dont have children (other than our dogs but that’s a debate for another time.. LOL) but when I was a child I was say a little rambunctious.. (did I spell that right).. Well, my brother had a bee-bee gun and had cans lined up on my swing set. Well, being a little wild spirirted I decided it was time to swing on my swing…. and PING right in the buttocks… And of course neither one of us could tell our mother. Me because I was aggitating him and my brother well for shooting me in the but. As luck would have it, our neighbor turned us in when she got home. We were both grounded and my brother never saw his bee-bee gun again.. !!! LOL… The good news is, I had jeans on so I only had a welt and a bruise on my toosh… 🙂

27. Andrea Hays June 12th, 2007 at 7:22 am 27

    I don’t have any kids, but I have a 9 year old brother who is just hilarious. I don’t get to see him very often since I haven’t lived at home since he was a baby, but he says the most amusing things. I was walking with him after his baseball game and out of the blue he says, “Mom’s going to be a grandma soon! Then she’ll be really old!” What?? I knew nothing of this. Since my husband and I are not planning on kids right now. I was 17 when my mom had my youngest brother and he finds it hilarious that our mom is older than his friends’ moms. So he calls her old. I was impressed that he could figure out that when I had kids, she would be a grandma. He also calls her “Vicki” instead of mom. I think he just likes to push buttons. Silly little kids. 🙂

28. Nancy June 12th, 2007 at 9:14 am 28

    I was pregnant with my first son back in 1995…. we did the prenatal classes (both birth and “baby basics”). I had my entire delivery planned out and knew what I wanted and what I didn’t. I was also pretty sure I was having a girl (I come a family of all girls… and my sisters have only girls). I guess I didn’t pay much attention in my classes as I don’t recall them giving us any information on C-sections (which I ended up with). I also found out about 8 days after my *son* (hunh, I thought I was going to have a girl!!) was delivered that I didn’t pay attention in Baby Basics either… for the first 8 days, every time that boy peed, he soaked himself. I totally didn’t pay attention when they talked about diapering a boy because I somehow missed the part where they told us that you have to train a certain part of a boys’ anatomy to point down.

    My advice to pregnant women who might be having a boy…. always point that baby down in the diaper!!

29. Elaine June 12th, 2007 at 9:24 am 29

    You are hilarious! I love the Wally world story! I guess my most memorable mommy time was when we moved to a new town (Santa Barbara) and I took my then 2 y/o out to shop with me. We were at a pretty little gift store and he breaks free from my hold, runs with his arms spread out like an airplane, crashes into a ceramic something on a pedestal and I am mortified. OMG! I am thinking I will owe this store for the rest of my life for that thing which just crashed!! Heart racing, needles prickly on my back, I take some of the broken pieces to the counter and explain what happened. The clerk gets the owner (still tense), and she comes out and my son smiles at her and says “HI!” She did not know who we were there or why until the clerk explained what happened. The owner said “oh, we’re human, and things like that happen – don’t worry about it!” Um, what???? Yeah….we ended up getting off easy with that one! Never again took my son to a gift shop like that – am terrified of taking little ones to stores with breakables now!

30. jodene June 12th, 2007 at 9:34 am 30

    I will tell you a story that remarkably happened just last night. My oldest daughter is turning 8 soon. She has been begging me to let her streak her hair PINK. After some thought I figured why not, your only young once. We found some pink washable dye that last about 2 weeks. So on Sunday I streaked my daughters hair PINK. Shockingly it looks good and she loves it. So last night she went to play baseball. While she was up batting there were some mothers talking and laughing about her hair. I am not one to start anything so I let it go and prayed my daughter didn’t hear them. After she hit and ran all the bases she took of her helmet and walked over to the mothers and said”Didn’t your mother ever tell you if you don’t have anything nice to say don’t say nothing at all” and walked away. I am so very proud of her. And today she still loves her new PINK hair.

31. Kacey June 12th, 2007 at 10:22 am 31

    Way to go Jodene! You are raising her right 🙂 – she’s only 8 and she took care of it all by herself! Gotta love it! And I agree, you are only young once – as my mother advised me when I got married, “pick your battles.” Pink streaks sure isn’t one of them 🙂

32. Sandy June 12th, 2007 at 10:36 am 32

    My son is 3 1/2 and quite the funny guy. Last week he was outside playing in his sandbox when I got home and he saw me and came running to me. I noticed he had only his T-shirt and underwear on. I asked him where his shorts were and he told me “They are over there-wind blew them off”!! You have to laugh at their imaginiation!

33. Amie June 12th, 2007 at 11:18 am 33

    The most anyone annoyed me when I was pregnant was when someone would see me out-to-here pregnant and towing my two boys along and give the ol’ “You certainly have your hands full” routine. I HATE that!!

    Once when I was 8 months pregnant at work around Easter time, I was wearing a lovely baby blue maternity shirt. One of my coworkers told me I looked like an Easter egg. Even if you think that, you don’t say it!

    The same gal (she was just clueless) did another thing that still makes me laugh. We were getting ready for Valentines that same year and were doing a v-day swap with a bunch of ladies’ kids at work. Some of the names are different–ethnic, or spelled differently or whatever…so I was making a list of all the kids names so moms would know how to spell them on the valentines. This gal came over and asked if these were names I was considering for my baby? I said No. She said, “Good, cuz I don’t like any of those names.” ROFL!

34. Diana June 12th, 2007 at 12:15 pm 34

    My mom and I had taken my then 1 year-old daughter to Walmart. I had her in the shopping cart and we were walking around looking at bras. Well, my mom walked away to look at something and Geny wanted to go with her, so I took her out of the cart and I saw her walk towards where my mom was. I turned around and kept looking at things and then I went to look for my mom and Geny. Well, I found my mom…no Geny! Of course I start freaking out and she starts yelling at me, which makes me freak out even more! The staff had to lock down the store and started a search for her. I stayed in the lingerie department since that had been the last place we had seen her. I was standing next to the dressing room area when I saw something out of the corner of my eye…I walked into the back to the dressing rooms and started looking under the stalls. In the very last stall, there was Geny, buck naked, running around! I put her clothes back on in a hurry (didn’t even bother putting the diaper back on, but I grabbed it so I could throw it away), picked her up and told the room attendant I had found her and they could cancel the search. I found my mom and neither of us knew whether to laugh, cry, or be pissed off! My question though: If the attendant was standing there the whole time, why didn’t she see Geny go in there ALONE?

35. Charlene June 12th, 2007 at 12:37 pm 35

    Wow, your stories cracked me up…. sitting here laughing all by myself! I have three daughters (19,17&14). There are many stories and I love them all, good and not so good… The one we talk about most is when my hubby was driving in the city and the three small girls in the back seat. It was hot, hot… so all the windows were down. When, my eldest (who always and still asks what ever is on her mind)… she asks ” Daddy, are those people ugly?” Shocked, my hubby looks over to the car next to us to see who our DD was talking about and quietly replied…. “yes, they are”…. good thing the light changed to ‘green’ just at that moment!!

36. Patty June 12th, 2007 at 3:25 pm 36

    I have had 4 babies so I have “lots” of stories, but the one that always comes to mind is this one. Now you have to picture this.

    I was pregnant, still in the early months with my third baby. I had just gotten my DH off to work, and went back to bed, it was still dark outside. My son ( then 3 yrs. old) shows up at the side of my bed.

    He whispers…”Mommy why is there a man under your bed”?

    Mind you…this question alone! woke me up and my started my heart pounding.

    I (afraid now) whispered back to him. that there WASN’T a man under the bed!
    Again He whispered…”Yes there is… I looked under the bed and saw him”!.

    I was sooo fighting tears and could barely speak, “no baby, there no man under the bed!

    What I wanted to do was grab him and run but I couldn’t move! I mean to tell you this was the “worst” fear! I had two small children, pregnant and my husband was gone. I was really scared!

    He stand up and says in a loud voice, “Mommy there is too a man under your bed” and he bends down to look again.

    The tears were rolling down my face now.

    He stand up and says, “See…I told you there was a man under your bed”. He shows me this little toy soldier.
    I cried, got up and started my day.

37. Jackie W. June 12th, 2007 at 7:36 pm 37

    When my daughter, Rianne was about 3 we were visiting my dad, who lives in another state so we didn’t get to visit very often. He got out a beer to drink and jokingly asked his granddaughter, “Hey Rianne, do you want a drink?”, to which she replied, “Does it have caffeine in it?”. He busted out laughing because she was very serious! She had been taught we don’t drink things with caffeine in them so wanted to be sure it didn’t! It’s a moment I’ll never forget!

38. Linda SS June 13th, 2007 at 7:56 am 38

    My youngest sister always comments how she refuses to go to Walmart as she despises the greeters. I never could understand why – perhaps she ran into the same nasty greeter that you did? lol I have so many stories, but one of the sweetest is when I had my 2nd child, a baby girl, was born. We named her Melissa which wasn’t all that common 28 yrs. ago & apparently wasn’t a name my 4 yr. old had heard of before. We had some visiters come to the hospital who said to my son, “What did you name your new baby sister?” He thought a second and said, “Mississippi”. After that, my baby girl was nicknamed Mississippi for many years to come.

39. Amber H. June 14th, 2007 at 8:44 am 39

    All of these stories are great. I can’t beleive I sat here and read all of them instead of fixing my kids breakfast! lol

    I guess the most memorable story I would have just happen two years ago with my last pregnancy. I thought for sure during my entire time I was having another boy, pregnancy was just like when I was pregnant with ds. Everyone else wanted a boy but dd#2. We only had boy names picked out too. (Couldn’t find any girl names we liked and hey, we were having a boy!!) Ultrasound couldn’t show us a thing, period.. should have been our first clue as my 2 girls were “shy”. But nope, it’s a boy.. mother’s intuition! Delivery day comes and baby finally comes out and Doctor’s words “Congrats, you have a new baby girl!” I’m sure the looks on our faces were priceless… I just felt like crying cause I was so sure I was right it was a boy! (I even asked the nurse the next day if anything had “grown”, just joking around of course) Well since it was a girl and not a boy, we now had to come up with a name! Long story short… took us 9 days to name her!! There was so much tension in the house over her name. She will always been known as “Baby” though. Even found a blanket that says “Baby’s first blanket” that I had to get her as that was her “first” name! lol I am going to scrap her pictures and the story as to how she finally got her name. Now she is 16 months and we wouldn’t trade her for the world. Even though her 4 yr old (only) brother keeps asking when he is going to get that boy.

    One more funny, after having her, big brother still wanted a boy. He was watching a movie where the family had a baby boy and he said “Mom, she had my baby boy!” poor kid wants a brother so much! lol

40. Patty June 14th, 2007 at 2:42 pm 40

    My nephews were staying with us one weekend. One was 8 and the other was 7. Patrick the 7 yrs old, told me he had gotten a “free” Bible for going to Sunday School 16 weeks in a row. I told him that was good and how nice to have his very own Bible. He then say (as serious as can be) I want to ask my Sunday School teacher, if I go another 16 weeks, if I can get a clock radio?!
    I still laugh when I think how he looked at me when he told me that.

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