I'M A MOTHER!!!!
11 years ago
To a 80 lb baby boy!!!! This little guy's momma is really, really sick with emphasima, and there is nothing we could really treat her with. Yesterday, she gave her all with the birth of this healthy bull calf. So sick, she couldn't even clean him off. When I got home from work last night, DH and I went to pick him up. This was the poor little guy when we brought him in the garage. Gave him a bottle of colostrum, tucked him in a blanket bed, and put Kobi the WonderDog in with him to watch him for the night. This morning, I gave him another bottle and DBL gave him another while I was at work.
This was the little guy, after I gave him another bottle when I got home today, and took him outside to enjoy the sunshine. He is bright eyed, and doing a little kicking and bucking. We call him Ferdinand the Bull, and he follows me around like I was his real momma. Kobi has taken the task of babysitting very seriously. Khan the Cat, however, has his nose out of joint and would gladly take a round out of him if it wasn't for Kobi and I. I have really fallen for this little one. He is my pet project for the spring.
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Comments (6)Averil, congratulations! You're going to love growing them from seed! I found they're pretty easy once they've sprouted. You could just put them in a sunny window now. My only precaution with my seedlings in the first few weeks was to water with some hydrogen peroxide splashed into the water, or just to spritz them. I lost a few to damping off otherwise. Once they reach about two- to three-months-old they're pretty tough....See MoreLove lust or just infatuation
Comments (21)> You're telling someone you have never met, not knowing the whole truth, to get divorced. You got that right. > Marriage is a commitment, and people throw it away far too easily. They need to work harder to try to work it out. This guy may totally change if he realizes how close he came to losing her. Please. Why should he change? He knows, like millions of other abusive husbands everywhere, that he doesn't need to change. Rather, he needs only to follow his vile actions with crocodile tears and sworn apologies that he didn't really mean it, that he's really a nice guy if you give him another chance, whatever he needs to say and do to keep his wife in line until his next flame-up. Violent men rarely act like monsters 100% of the time. They would never keep a woman under their thumb if they did. Rather, they'll act like your husband does, following their violent episodes with sweet-talking their way into you forgiving him, repeat ad nauseum as long as you continue to allow it. naari (and everyone who is encouraging her to work it out and not to give up), please go back and read your own words: > when he couldn't control me he would beat me like mad. > I used to become numb, quivered because of trauma. The next day he was all normal as if nothing happened, sometimes he was apologetic. (just like I said....) > This continued for 6 yrs. (yeah, but give him even more time and "he might change". Right.) > Although this beating thing happened at least 15 times Garek007, I'm not telling her to immediately throw in the towel. I'm telling her to throw in the towel after 6 years of being a chronic wife-beater. I wouldn't abandon my spouse if she had cancer. I would abandon my spouse if she beat the daylights out of me for the 15th time. > my child used to get scared. Hey, why not stay with your hubby and scare the kid even more? > He claims to love me like mad & says that he would never let go of me. Nothing says love like beating you to a pulp 15 times. But he's serious about the "will never let go of you" part... > We went to Psychiatrist (who is also a marriage counsellor). He took some medication also to relax his tensed nerves & also for leaving alcohol but all in vain as he stopped all the medication after a few weeks. He said that he loves to drink. As you can see, he's willing to mend his ways > This morning also he came at around 4:30am, all drunk. He forced me for sex but i didn't allow him. This would have constituted rape had he succeeded. But he was drunk. I guess that excuses it. > People says that we look awesome together. Sure. I bet he doesn't throw punches and attempt sexual assault in their presence. > No one knows the bitter realities of my life. My daughter, she also likes her father but doesn't allow him to touch me or sleep next to me. She would sleep between us whenever he's at home. Well at least one person knows the bitter realities of your life - your daughter. She seems to have a much better grasp of your circumstance than you do. One word: LEAVE....See MoreAnother Mother's Day thread-not going for it
Comments (31)FD, They are only including me in their plans to the extent that includes babysitting the grandkids. The real deal I now know is that the mothers day that this is being engineered for is their grandmother, BMs mother and BM. There is yet another gathering of "the family" this time at their grandmothers vs aunt. I can truthfully say that not only do I not have a problem with this but that is the right thing to do as BMs mother, Skids grandmother, is well in to her 90's and every day is a gift. They should rally around her and celebrate her and even I can step back for that to happen. Just don't push me down to do it. I am going to the social club brunch for Mother's Day. DS7 may come with me or may have some other plans. I think them wanting to celebrate their elderly grandmother is right, I think them riding roughshod over me is wrong. I won't bore you with how I was to be used to facilitate the gathering at grandma's for Mother's Day. To make those plans happen, they need babysitting and a chauffer service to drive the stepgrandkids home. Here's the usual kicker, SS30 won't even be there! This is his elderly grandmother too! He is taking this as a personal weekend, no wife (working), no kids shipped to SD36 and me, everyone wrapped in Mother's Day so he going to the casino with his buddies. Meanwhile, SD text messaged me to heat the swimming pool "for the kids." The noive!...See Morejust a mom, or????
Comments (3)I borrowed my occupational description from a friend (another home economist). When we took time off to raise our families, we simply stated we were doing 'field research'. Considering home ec covers: family living, child care, cooking, sewing, household management, budgeting, use and care of household equipment.... well, you can see what I mean....See More- 11 years ago
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