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ca88-
:) thank you!!

posted by IsSanityNear on December 11, 2004 at 10:44 AM | link to this | reply

merry and suo-
as long as no one's talking crap about me, I'm happy! :) Glad you are both well.

posted by IsSanityNear on December 11, 2004 at 10:44 AM | link to this | reply

LOL - great visual!

posted by Ca88andra on December 11, 2004 at 6:05 AM | link to this | reply

LOL Suo! I'm sure ISN won't be too mad at us. LOL!

posted by MerryAnne on December 11, 2004 at 6:01 AM | link to this | reply

Merry
I am known to become slightly hysterical when sleep deprived....so if uncontrollable laughter is what you are aiming for...I'd do it now....otherwise, I may have to wait for the morning...my morning...to read about it. Hey....we should be chatting in your blog! I lost track of where I was!

posted by suomynona on December 11, 2004 at 5:59 AM | link to this | reply

Suo, Party is all done WHEW! I will post about it later - of course if I post now your sleep deprivation will make it sound really funny! Hmmmm tough call! LOL!

posted by MerryAnne on December 11, 2004 at 5:56 AM | link to this | reply

Merry
Oooh..I love those 7am sleep-ins...they're great aren't they?LOL! Have the girls had their party now....or is it today?

posted by suomynona on December 11, 2004 at 5:53 AM | link to this | reply

Suo! It's 7:00 am here. So I actually slept in this morning!LOL! The joys of Motherhood!

posted by MerryAnne on December 11, 2004 at 5:51 AM | link to this | reply

Good Morning Merry!
Are you up very early? I am about to go to bed...I am just staying up so that Taylor can go to sleep....everyone else has crashed....but he's still awake and doesn't like to be the only one in the house who is! It's good to have Blogit to pop into....but not many people are around at this time.

posted by suomynona on December 11, 2004 at 5:48 AM | link to this | reply

I am certain that my neighbours are moving because Rachel and I are either yelling or crying at the top of our lungs. LOL! And I avoid the woman across the street because her kid are perfect and well mannered and quiet and she has three and I can't even get my two to behave. I am the blight of our street! LOL!

posted by MerryAnne on December 11, 2004 at 5:43 AM | link to this | reply

suomynona-

When you say short I get a ladder. LOL I think we are just cooler than our neighbors... no, that can't be it. I don't know what keeps everyone in thie neighborhood from being ncie to each other - I too wait to take the trash out! neighbour looks better than neighbor.. I like the superfluous "u"... damn you Australians have all the cool words...

posted by IsSanityNear on December 10, 2004 at 2:49 PM | link to this | reply

ISN

I am going to try....really try, to keep this comment short....but I feel a long one coming on....ooooooh.......

R.O.F.L.M.A.O!! This is sooo our house!! Do you know, when we put our old house on the market,I was sure I could detect a note of relief on my neighbours averted faces! I am actually surprised the house took so long to sell...as I could imagine our neighbours waiting till we drove out of our driveways on inspection days...then ringing everyone they knew and standing on the street corners beckoning passers-by to come in and have a look at "this MAGNIFICENT buy!!' in the hopes of getting rid of us once and for all! I am still not convinced that the fireworks I heard the night we had a sold sign put up, were not from a secret neighbourhood party!

I vowed when we moved into our new house, that we would say hello to all our neighbours...and actually get to know them. I refused to live again like some leprosy-ridden maniacs with whom people were AFRAID to make contact!

However...if you remember...our introduction to the neighbourhood...with the dog and the mud and the drowning dogs and people and the yelling back and forth and the screaming and crying.....well....no need to say....we are once again the outcasts! Again I have to walk to my letterbox with downcast eyes and wait until I have heard the rumble of the neighbours taking out their bins before I step outside to put mine out for emptying. Thank goodness my neighbours can not see into my clothesline like they could at the other house....as I used to have to wait for my old neighbour to finish hanging out her washing, befor eI could safely hang out mine...and boy, could that woman wash....I had to make a quick dash before hers dried as she'd be back out taking that lot off and hanging up a new lot! Phew! Stress!!

posted by suomynona on December 10, 2004 at 2:46 PM | link to this | reply

haha kingmi, that's great! I don't even know my neighbor's name...

posted by IsSanityNear on December 10, 2004 at 1:54 PM | link to this | reply

ISN, my telephone has a specially threatening ring, when it's my neighbors!

posted by kingmi on December 10, 2004 at 1:53 PM | link to this | reply

kingmi-
I think my nrighbors either have no children or raised saints - they seem to avoid us like the plague! lol

posted by IsSanityNear on December 10, 2004 at 1:48 PM | link to this | reply

maybe-
hehehe, i don't think i even have an inside voice left! lol.

posted by IsSanityNear on December 10, 2004 at 1:47 PM | link to this | reply

ISN, hahahaha! I feel exactly like this!

posted by kingmi on December 10, 2004 at 1:02 PM | link to this | reply

I recognized that I had a problem with yelling when Lainey started telling me to use my inside voice.

posted by maybe on December 10, 2004 at 12:44 PM | link to this | reply

:)
I look forward to it them!

posted by IsSanityNear on December 10, 2004 at 12:09 PM | link to this | reply

Is...
...those ones are all deleted for me too! ;)

posted by ginnieb on December 10, 2004 at 12:06 PM | link to this | reply

ISN.....
Have you considered modifying one of those electric barking collars?   Just kidding...that's exactly how I was when I was a kid too.  Luckily the curse my Mom put on me that I would have kids like me did not come to pass.

posted by A_Norseman on December 10, 2004 at 12:01 PM | link to this | reply

ALfie- If I could figure out

how to make Taylor listen as well as the others, I'd be home free. Nothing works with him, he is exactly like my brother, just keeps marching on to the beat of his own hammer...

posted by IsSanityNear on December 10, 2004 at 11:58 AM | link to this | reply

ISN...
That is a good philosophy you have on yelling there.  I had a similar philosophy, I never yelled and I only gave instruction one time.  The few times I had to yell (I'm a pretty scary yeller) everybody just starts crying, which makes me feel bad, but I only had to yell like that a handful of times when the kids were little.  My children minded me beautifully, my ex-wife on the other hand yelled constantly and never ever backed up anything she yelled about and they didn't mind her at all...unless I told them to.

posted by A_Norseman on December 10, 2004 at 11:53 AM | link to this | reply

:) ginnieb
Thanks for reading! I plan to reminisce some day ... I think I'll delete most of the yelling in my memories though! :)

posted by IsSanityNear on December 10, 2004 at 11:52 AM | link to this | reply

LOL!
Could picture the scenes! I'm grinning away here....reminiscing too! ;)

posted by ginnieb on December 10, 2004 at 11:50 AM | link to this | reply

Roof-
I'd like to believe, nay, I do believe, that I am not a typical mom. I think I am much better than that. But, like you said, you're no mom.

posted by IsSanityNear on December 10, 2004 at 11:48 AM | link to this | reply

No problem.  Of course, I'm no mom.  Or typical for that matter.

posted by roofpig on December 10, 2004 at 11:46 AM | link to this | reply

typical...

hmmm, not sure what I think of that. Thanks for reading though, Roof.

posted by IsSanityNear on December 10, 2004 at 11:44 AM | link to this | reply

I was gonna say, you sound like a typical mom to me.

posted by roofpig on December 10, 2004 at 11:41 AM | link to this | reply

lol gyp-

I hope my kids get some form of humor from me, after all my attempt to shoosh them. ha! my husband always says I am ruining them, but if he had a better way I'd try it, if it's all too serious I think they get scared instead of smart. You have 6 children? holy.. wow. ... We want one more and then we're closing up shop!

posted by IsSanityNear on December 10, 2004 at 11:41 AM | link to this | reply

Naw.. they probably just think you'll yell at them LOL.
Seriously though. I doubt that they think you're nuts. Anyone with kids know's the drill. My kids would wait until I was about to seriously blow up and then they'd behave for an hour! Since there was 6 of them I used to say I could kill one and no one would even notice. They used to cast votes on who it should be! Little smart asses... wonder where they got that from?

posted by RedHeadedGypsy on December 10, 2004 at 11:36 AM | link to this | reply