One more thing: if buying a Grohe online from ebay or other resellers, it's worth asking if the faucet is the redesigned version that does not rotate back. I bet the old version is being sold at a mark-down. macybaby and doggonegrdener, moving the handle to the front will work well for your faucets, since the handles are fairly small. It wouldn't work for the Concetto because the handle is pretty big and really gets in the way, and it has the red and blue markings that zelmar mentioned, which makes the swapping lines solution unworkable. buehl, swapping the lines is simple, and of course my GC mentioned it, but the red/blue markings would be backwards and I wasn't willing to cover or blacken them out as would have been required. It's also too honkin' big a handle to be in the front unfortunately. abundantblessing, the Kalia faucets are totally dreamy and I considered the Elito earlier, which does not have the blue/red markings but does rotate back a full 45 degrees. I've always had great luck with Grohe, so I decided to stick with that, and save a few bucks over Kalia. sammieccanada, does your ladylux3 rotate back a full 45 degrees? iT looks beautiful in your kitchen and I'm sure I'll love it.

When I was a supervisor out back in the warehouse I was "The Dragon Lady". Not that I was a bad boss, but I didn't take any crap and had no problem punching your card and sending you home if necessary. As for what the neighbours call me? Bwa ha ha haaaaa! The naked dancing lady, the crazy lady, the witch, the devil worshipper, I am sure there are some worse and some better LOL. DD's friends call me "DD's Mom" mostly LOL. Some call me by my first name. I don't mind being called Mrs. and my hyphenated name, but I don't like being called DH's last name (that is my MIL) or my maiden name (that is my mom). When I am doing an organized thing with kids I prefer they call me "Miss Krysta". The schoold doesn't allow that, as they want the kids to refer to us formally. DH calls me "Dear", he calls me "My wonderful wife" at work - or so I have been told LOL. His union buddies call me "Wonderful Wife" too - tee hee. My dad calls me "Krysta Faloochi" (or Felooch - I have no idea what it means). Or Charles if I am REALLY in trouble. Collectively, us kids are Potlikkers or Onion Rings. My grandfather used to call me Krystalinski. My aunts and cousins call me Krysta-Belle-Darling. My oldest sister calls me George or Mouth. Or is that Face? Anyway, my other sister is Fred ROFLMAO. My brother is just about the only person in the world who calls me Krys. And gets away with it ;).

Gee, I'd hate to hear what all you actually tackle on days you feel real well. :-0 I'll fess up and admit that I can be a bit of a stinker when my DH thinks he gets to check out of 'daddy duty'. Sure my DH works all day outside and pretty hard and has a 70 mile around trip commute and I'm sure some days he's very tired, but I figure he can go to bed early AFTER stuff is done and daddy duty is finished. I've been known to knock the pots and pans out of the cupboard rather loudly, toss silverware from one side of sink to the other a bit louder than called for. Have ran sweeper a few inches from sleeping hubby in chair. I'm bad, but always 'ever so sorry I disturbed you honey, I just accidently drop this or that, did I wake you?'. The message sinks in pretty quick and it's not long before he's back up on his feet and seeing if there is anything he can help out with. Not saying you should try my method, just sharing what works for me and I don't do it often, just when I really need a helping hand and can't do or be two things at once.

It's 'oh my wow'now because it's real to me NOW. Before I had no idea how I would feel if she looked like him. He really does not believe and did not believe she was his. Yes she has the same color eyes and dimples but he still does not 'believe' (so he says) that she is his. I am not stalking her. I looked at her picture. If you put a pic on an open facebook page, it's not stalking for someone to look you up and look at your pictures. You put them out there so there has to be some degree of knowledge that anyone can look at your pictures. I DO have conflicting feelings towards DH for the entire situation but it was never my place to 'force' him at the time that we met to track this girl down. I believe I told him I could NOT believe that he did not pursue a test. I believe our laws changed in 2001 on paternity waivers and father's rights got very strong around that time. My brother's daughter was born in 1995 and at the time, his ex was allowed to put his name on the birth certificate without his consent. And he had to fight for 3 yrs for a DNA test which was very expensive. My DH at that time in his life had not a penny to his name not even a car so a court battle was not within his means. As far as his parents, I love them but I have no real comment on how they do things even now. They live too far away and lived far away at the time too so although they knew she was pregnant, they weren't much of a support system. Basically DH pissed away his college funds drinking and partying and by that point they were teaching him tough love. What happened 15 yrs ago has nothing to do with me. I can't punish DH for the mistakes he made back then, no way is he the same man he was then that he is now. I think the reason Dh stayed alone for 10 yrs was because of the guilt and anguish he felt but no real concept for what to do. He has friends that although they are his 'friends' they didn't really give good advice based on the fact that they were all young and 'dumb'. I think what got DH 'curious' this week is that we have talked about when we will have another baby. We talked about names and girl vs. Boy and I just think maybe his gears started turning. Although I don't agree with how he handled this mess 15 yrs ago, it doesn't change how much I love him today, yesterday or how much I will fall in love with him all over again tomorrow morning. Or that we are married and we have a family and he is a wonderful father NoW.. He made mistakes but it's not my place to judge, he has to live with his decisions ... Just as any human being will. I have to just support him. No I will not be parking across from her school and watching from a distance. Creepy!! Looking at a facebook photo and stalking from my car are two different things. DH does not want to make any contact with the mother at this time. He sees no point. It's too late and that's his decision to make I guess. I don't know how I feel at all. I haven't thought of much more since this came up. I think it's just the 'guilt' I feel for him. Like someone said-- she may have spent her entire life wondering WHY her father didn't want her. It's not really THAT simple. It's not that he didn't want her, he was told she was not his. NOW if you are a man and you believe a child belongs to you, you can file with the attorney general to have a DNA test. Back then, he would have had no rights to order such a thing. He went off what he was told regardless of if it were true. I think if it were NOW knowing the kind of person he is, he would fight. But now that all of these years have gone by, the struggle to know what the 'right' thing to do is... Is just that... A struggle. Is she happy? Does she know anything? Does she have a 'father'? I really cannot hold him accountable for 'walking' away given his age, the information he was given ... He asked for a test IN the hospital and it was refused. Because it would have been negative... According to BM. Why would she lie? Except to just hurt him. Did she NOT 'need' child support? Did she not want to share custody? He said he never asked for custody or anything. He offered money to help support her and she didn't want it. He worked 3 jobs while she was pregnant so she didn't have to work the entire time and then for a bomb like 'it's not yours' to be thrown on him. I don't know? What would any 'guy' have done? And I say she is beautiful because she is. I would never have said she was UGLY. I think she looks just like my dh and a bit like her mom, her mom is beautiful too. Maybe I shouldn't have commented on her looks but that's where my 'oh my wow' comes in... She looks like my dh and she is a very pretty girl. I think all I wanted was to vent my shock. My confusion. My disappointment that NOW Dh is curious and honestly, I think he has always been curious but has never had open access to a picture. He only got on FB this year and has been looking up lots of people. Just like anyone with an FB does. I dont know what to say to him. I don't know how to support his feelings when I am conflicted in my own. My own father walked away from me and my siblings and was in and out of my life. Sometimes I think my life may have been different If he were more involved then I think it would have been best if he would have just gone away and disappeared. I also have a brother with a child that has been alienated from all of us, so I know the things BMs will do to keep he BD from their kids just out of spite. So like I say, I am mixed. I don't know both sides of the story but I do know that if this were me... I would carry so much guilt if I intentionally told the father of my child that he was NOT the father AND I refused a test, but knew he was the father, the blame would have to be on me. I also know that there is NO way I could go 15 yrs without busting at the seams from keeping a giant secret. Dh says that she was very much about money and high maintenance, he has no doubt she would have gone after child support at least after a few years. But he also said she would have fought tooth and nail to keep from having to share visitation or anything like that... I probably will never know... I told DH just be prepared that one day the girl may show up and say 'hey, you're my dad'... And that's where we left it. He said well she will want to know one day if she doesn't know already and if her mom is honest then that is when we will know because he said he is not contacting his ex. And that is the end of the conversation.