RMers with kids

[spike]

Haha autocorrected “news” but I’ll leave it.

[spike]

And now I’ve bottom paged myself. What a mess.

[Higgs]

This conversation reminds me how fortunate we were when our kids were little as we lived far, far away from our parents in a tropical climate and were pissheads. That means each evening after work until dinner was spent in our backyard pool drinking beer and listening to tunes. I don't know that our kids were ever exposed to the news before they were 9 and 12 respectively.

But the flipside is that whenever anything serious arose from a personal perspective we tended to be very honest and straighforward with them. Their Papa being diagnosed with cancer and then dying 3 years later when they were only little comes to mind.

I'm glad my son was only 15 months when we watched the planes hitting the World Trade Centre as those conversations would have been difficult. How y'all go these days though - I feel for you.

[spike]

i don't think my kid's had the same swim teacher two weeks in row all term. today's instructor clearly thought their little group was more advanced than they are; she had them doing legit laps up and down the pool most of the time. my kid's exhausted and couldn't even handle a quick five minute stop at the post office on the way home without a complete meltdown. first time i've had to forcibly put her into the car, which is no fun. miller time.

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[wease]

i don't think my kid's had the same swim teacher two weeks in row all term. today's instructor clearly thought their little group was more advanced than they are; she had them doing legit laps up and down the pool most of the time. my kid's exhausted and couldn't even handle a quick five minute stop at the post office on the way home without a complete meltdown. first time i've had to forcibly put her into the car, which is no fun. miller time.

Damn! Making 5-year-olds swim laps? That’s brutal.

[VinylGuy]

Ill be babysitting my two nieces tomorrow for a while, almost three years old and one year and a half...any suggestions?

im thinking ill put Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm if they get too loud.

[wease]

Ill be babysitting my two nieces tomorrow for a while, almost three years old and one year and a half...any suggestions?

im thinking ill put Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm if they get too loud.

Take them swimming

[dad]

Ill be babysitting my two nieces tomorrow for a while, almost three years old and one year and a half...any suggestions?

im thinking ill put Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm if they get too loud.

show them your favorite horror film.

never too early to get them started!

[VinylGuy]

Ill be babysitting my two nieces tomorrow for a while, almost three years old and one year and a half...any suggestions?

im thinking ill put Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm if they get too loud.

show them your favorite horror film.

never too early to get them started!

I think that one is animated, its batman and it could scary enough right? or at least it could get their attention

[washing machine]

Ill be babysitting my two nieces tomorrow for a while, almost three years old and one year and a half...any suggestions?

im thinking ill put Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm if they get too loud.

Corporate Ghost: Sonic Youth Videos: 1990-2002

[VinylGuy]

Ill be babysitting my two nieces tomorrow for a while, almost three years old and one year and a half...any suggestions?

im thinking ill put Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm if they get too loud.

Corporate Ghost: Sonic Youth Videos: 1990-2002

damn thats a great idea, i have the dvd

[Bammer]

We are about to embark upon Disneyworld 3 out of the next 4 days.

Pray for me.

[spike]

i don't think my kid's had the same swim teacher two weeks in row all term. today's instructor clearly thought their little group was more advanced than they are; she had them doing legit laps up and down the pool most of the time. my kid's exhausted and couldn't even handle a quick five minute stop at the post office on the way home without a complete meltdown. first time i've had to forcibly put her into the car, which is no fun. miller time.

My kid didn't like her most recent swim teacher so she opted to just move back down a level because she liked that one better.

That’s just it, she moved up a level but was meant to have the same teacher as last term, who she liked. But something’s going on where she’s been absent most lessons, so they’re filling it in with different instructors. No continuity.

[Simple Torture]

We are about to embark upon Disneyworld 3 out of the next 4 days.

Pray for me.

We’re arriving at Disney World on Monday. Twins set to meet???

[knee tunes]

Ill be babysitting my two nieces tomorrow for a while, almost three years old and one year and a half...any suggestions?

im thinking ill put Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm if they get too loud.

Sounds like there's going to be diapers

[knee tunes]

We are about to embark upon Disneyworld 3 out of the next 4 days.

Pray for me.

have "fun"

[VinylGuy]

Ill be babysitting my two nieces tomorrow for a while, almost three years old and one year and a half...any suggestions?

im thinking ill put Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm if they get too loud.

Sounds like there's going to be diapers

oh for sure. My brother will leave them clean and all but who knows whats going to happen

[Chris_H_2]

We are about to embark upon Disneyworld 3 out of the next 4 days.

Pray for me.

We’re arriving at Disney World on Monday. Twins set to meet???

[VinylGuy]

Ill be babysitting my two nieces tomorrow for a while, almost three years old and one year and a half...any suggestions?

im thinking ill put Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm if they get too loud.

this went great. I had to put out a little swimming pool they have at the end and both were very happy. We previously sang with a karaoke mic i bought them in Paris.

My choice? Dance Of Clairvoyants, which the little one loved. They also loved Stiff Upper Lip by ACDC.

The older one chose Let It Go from the frozen soundtrack.