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Reni
Good girl.....look at how many women you see on here who never hear anything good from their moms. My own mother never had the sense that her mother felt like she was a good enough mother and it was a great pain to her. It's very important to me that Michele know without a doubt how proud I am of her....your mother knows how you use humor as a shield so that's a great gift you give her, to not throw it up, and to let her behind it, or at least to let her feel like you are. Just today, Michele needed me to reassure her about something, help her work through something she wasn't feeling so good about, and it felt so good that she let me....she'll always be my baby.
posted by
Krisles
on September 9, 2005 at 9:32 PM
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Kris--You sound like my mom. She just talked to me earlier, and
kept going on about what a wonderful mom she thinks I am, how neat it is to watch me as a parent, how much she loves the kids, how she thinks each of them has this unique soul, yada yada yada. Do you know how hard it is for someone like me to take all of that without cracking even ONE (not ONE) sarcastic joke? But I took it like the good daughter that I am...lol
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Renigade
on September 9, 2005 at 9:15 PM
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Quirky
Thanks.....I love seafood of all kinds...there's just not anything you can do to shrimp as long as it's not too spiced up that I won't eat them until I'm almost sick!
posted by
Krisles
on September 9, 2005 at 9:06 PM
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Medusa
Thank you so much....what a wonderful compliment....I love your way with words, too. I know you like olives a lot...I like all varieties; in fact, just typing the word then made me start to want some....
posted by
Krisles
on September 9, 2005 at 9:05 PM
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And, I can imagine getting creative with cobs or creamed.....but still,
it just seems like a strange thing to have come up with in the first place....of course, strange in the civilian world....here? Nahhhhhhhhh! Thanks!
posted by
Krisles
on September 9, 2005 at 8:52 PM
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Reni
Thanks about the post....this will be my daughter's third. The first one....I've always said that was the most incredible gift she could have given us. I'm an only, she's an only, married to an only....in that birthing room were both sets of grandparents, two great-grandmothers and her best friend. The other grandmother and I each had hold of her legs...there was so much love in that room even the doctor had tears in her eyes when Olivia was born. I've always said that watching Michele start to parent is the single greatest sense of accomplishment I've ever felt in my life. And, yeah...you won't believe what it's like....there's just nothing like the way grandchildren send you into the future and give you a sense of mortality.
posted by
Krisles
on September 9, 2005 at 8:50 PM
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Oh, and about the corn...It started a long time ago...Kiddo and I
were involved. Now it's evolved into some sick ongoing joke that (if we have our way) will never end. Kiddo likes cobs. I like creamed. Nuff said.
posted by
Renigade
on September 9, 2005 at 8:40 PM
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Wow, what a sweet post. Now I guess I'll cut my mom some slack
for wanting to be at every birth (I have three). Guess I'll learn what it feels like when my daughters have children, huh? lol
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Renigade
on September 9, 2005 at 8:39 PM
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Passion
Thanks, sweet pea - now will someone please explain to me about the corn?!! And, you'd just have to see the dress...plus be a Nana.....and, I admit to an extravagant streak a mile wide...especially when it comes to special occasions! Hell, who am I kiddin'.....I go crazy when it comes to the babies...
posted by
Krisles
on September 9, 2005 at 8:39 PM
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What a great post! But your daughter was right...that was too much
To pay for a dress.. I mean, how much fabric could there possibly be in it??? Did nuns in Austria weave the fabric by hand or what? Wish I'd been there to have lunch with you...sounded yummy, plus we would have had great fun...no corn, okay? Step away from the corn, and no one will get hurt!
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Passionflower
on September 9, 2005 at 8:34 PM
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Nice post Krisles...you're so right about appreciating the everyday miracles...and boy that coconut shrimp sounds yummy!!!!
posted by
Julia.
on September 9, 2005 at 6:33 PM
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Krisles...I enjoyed your happiness at life.....
all the way from the asparagus and shrimp to the olives and the pink velveteen dress and to a healthy baby's birth. You have a way with words...
posted by
MedusaNextDoor
on September 9, 2005 at 9:32 AM
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