[Schatzi]

sounds yummalish! a 2 point muffin for breakfast sounds wonderful... I am counting calories, WW , with a slap a South Beach thrown in... and if I want wine, I guess it could count under the Sonoma diet too... and right now I am eating a slimfast chocolate nougat snack bar. An equal opportunity dieter.


These kind of places appeal to folks who grew up and lived on top of each other Kiwi... All that high density housing and sky high prices is what we got away from ..

Don't know if you get or watch Weeds on cable... but the opening song describes what we want to avoid

It’s an old 60's antiestablishment ditty, called ‘Little Boxes,.’ written/sung by Malvina Reynolds to describe the typical Suburbian development... Same Same Sameness... It goes like this :

’Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of tickytacky
Little boxes on the hillside, little boxes all the same
There's a green one and a pink one and a blue one and a yellow one
And they're all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same.’


I hate restrictions or restrictive covenants so we only looked at places that had the least, or those that made sense... So this place you can have your cats and dogs and birds and up to 4 horses (they are advertising it as an Equestrian Village... Mini Horse farm. ) No Pigs, Chickens or cows... (There are cowsies all around them parts...) You can have a small home business . I can have my pool, I can have a basement or a work shed if I want that.. And the house has to be at least 2000 square feet. We will have a monthly maintenance fee for the paved road and lights... .

I'm just not into the real rural living... being a Suburbia /City gal all my life .. it would be toooooo much culture shock.. looking at some of the plots .. No DSL? No Cell service???? WHAT??? The store is how FAR???? No body around for 5 miles??? And gravel roads are beginning to get on my nerves.

[Cowpernia]

They cry. They kick each other. They touch my wrinkles and then hold my hand. They drop their food on the floor and then eat it. They know very little about the alphabet. I had to eat lunch WITH them and was delish. Brown rice pilaf, chicken tenders, broccoli and milk.

DS is telling me how hard his life is with all that testing and homework and saying "Don't make it harder on me than it is." ..... like I don't belive he spends 3 hours a night on the phone with lcp.

That Shotsy has a politician-peacemaker quality about her doesn't she?

[Kiwonk]

How homey. Seems like you could lose your appetite eating with them, though.

Originally Posted by Cowpernia

DS is ..... saying "Don't make it harder on me than it is." .

Can't tell you how many times I've heard those exact same words. Aren't we an awful burden?

Kiwi

[Wabby]

The thing about 4 year olds is that they tend to adore their teacher. Not so with 14 year olds, so I think you chose the right age group.

The thing about young adults is that they do still need you, but they don't want you hanging around when they don't. They think they're all grown up, but they're scared that they aren't really. -------Peach, if you'd like someone to be dependant on you, I could send Grandpa Jim to you. He could live in a mobile home next door and never grow up and move out. When you bring him a meal, he'll say "Thanks a million!" (always). He'll call you when you're running late (always when you're running late) and ask if he has any mail (because he will never go check the mailbox himself), or if you have a plunger b/c he flushed crab shells down the toilet and now it's not working very well. He'll tell you his version of the news every day - since he can't hear, it's pretty interesting.

I didn't make the pumpkin spice muffin thingies b/c DD borrowed my muffin tins (kiss those good-bye), so instead I made a ww's crustless pumpkin pie. It was only ok, which didn't stop me from eating plenty, but it's made w/ pumpkin, egg beaters, skim milk, spices & splenda, so I'm allowed.

You can call Schatzi a peacemaker, but being called a politician isn't very flattering these days.

[Kiwonk]

Originally Posted by Wabby

I didn't make the pumpkin spice muffin thingies b/c DD borrowed my muffin tins (kiss those good-bye),

The perfect excuse for new bakeware.

[Kiwonk]

I'm thinking it's Fall, it's October; we need a new thread. See you thaya

[Cowpernia]

They scream and scream and scream ear-piercing noises when they don't get their way. I have such a headache. They need tissues. They wet their pants. They do not adore their teachers. Some of the say "NO" and mean it.

My head is pounding. Should I get earplugs?

DS has asked to bring lcp here for Thanskgiving. He means the whole weekend. I said yes.

[Kiwonk]

Wow, sounds like fun...Now I remember why I stopped volunteering in the nursery in church back when I was a teenager. I wonder if earplugs would work. Probably all it would do is make you miss important things like that little voice behind you going "Mrs. Peachie, I'm going to throw up"

Come on over here and tell me how many light bulbs it takes.