LOL, Glenda, I was happy when my daughter arrived on New Years Day. I had the kids overnight, and then for breakfast and time after. When Lori got there, I could make my lunch casserole, that we took out to Mel and Judys.... I was tired, by the time it was time to ride our bikes. :) Moni

I know! I have a lot of health issues too, and love to walk. I have to get back into walking again, but have no desire to do it..I am so tired all the time with working so much......but know in my mind I would feel soooooooo much better if i started walking. I used to walk 5 miles in the morning and 5 miles at nite, every single day...... And I am not a self disciplined person anymore. Guess I'll have to find a walking buddy. I also have a nice treadmill, so I guess I better dust it off and get on it......have to have a "procedure" done on Tuesday and will definetly have to wait till the following week to start a walking routine, but I do need to get serious Oh, and must be your shower worked.....LOL

Is it really that they were making their visit conditional on whether or not Dad paid for the yearbooks or just that the need to have the yearbooks paid for happened to coincide with the phone call about the visit? I would think that this kind of timing coincidence would be a pretty common occurence, given that there are just lots of things to pay for, and on a very frequent basis, when you choose to have kids. Most kids get yearbooks, and in the grand scheme of things it's not an outrageous expense. Yearbooks are there to be mementos of school, and most of us keep ours forever, show kids, grandkids or just look at every once in a while ourselves through the years. Also don't see any problem with occasionally having a friend over, and conversely don't see it as anything to praise that a kid NEVER has a friend over. In this particular instance, I don't see anything coming from the kids in terms of requests as outrageous or anything to get upset over. I'm pretty sure the OP meant that SS's yearbook would be the additional one being paid for, not a friend's. (But if it WAS for a friend, that would be an unnecessary and presumptuous request for sure.) I do agree that, as with so many things, it's common courtesy to clue other members of the household in to things that will be going on in the house ---especially if they expect your help with any part of it--- with as much advance notice as possible.

Mine is odd, but not phrases--I'll think of something or someone I haven't thought of in ages, and I'll hear from them or about them. I got off on some tangent from the what would you eat for your last meal thread, and got to looking around to see what happened with the beltway (or DC) sniper because I couldn't remember. I read all the info on how he and his accomplice did what they did. There is a show called Monster in My Family, and do you know, they're airing his survivor and family member show next month? When's the last time you heard about him? Weird. _____________ Probably her Malvo and his mother, Una Sceon James, first met John Allen Muhammad in Antigua and Barbuda around 1999, where Una and Muhammad developed a strong friendship. Later, Una left Antigua for Fort Myers, Florida, using false documents. She left her son with Muhammad, reportedly planning to have him follow her later. Malvo arrived illegally in Miami in 2001 and, in December of that year, he and his mother were apprehended by the Border Patrol in Bellingham, Washington. (His mother was deported back to Jamaica from the U.S. on December 15, 2002 in the aftermath of the D.C. area sniper shootings.)