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Post by beccaelizabeth on Apr 11, 2014 1:55:46 GMT -5
#wavey# off to a convention today back monday 3 days of partying begin #grouphug#
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Post by Sue on Apr 11, 2014 20:13:41 GMT -5
#wavey# off to a convention today back monday 3 days of partying begin #grouphug# Enjoy! Report back! Allison tells me her best friend, who is a librarian at a girls' school in Chattanooga was assigned (as her extracurricular duty) to be sponsor of the Doctor Who fan club. Ha!
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Post by Anne, Old S'cubie Cat on Apr 12, 2014 16:47:49 GMT -5
3/4 of the family went to the Faire today - Kitty decided she'd rather stay home. There may be a picture later, if I'm feeling brave, of the purple and orange and silver human dirigible... Also one of Emily in my Afghani dress from the flea market, many years ago. She wanted to wear some sort of costume, and there it was in my closet, and she looks adorable in it.
Fun was had, a few trinkets were bought, and my feet hurt. I hope the rest of you are having a pleasant weekend. I must go lie down now, as tomorrow is Aged Mum Day, so I need to recruit my strength.
...And the photos are in the S'crapbook thread.
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Post by S'ewing S'cubie on Apr 12, 2014 19:41:01 GMT -5
I was taking an online class on Victorian sewing but had to drop out because of too many conflicts dragging me further and further behind. Between the cruise and then the death of my beloved mechanical sewing machine--and then the crisis of having to learn a whole new means of sewing, coupled with a bad case of what I now recognise as depression intensified by PTSD flashbacks, well, I just curled up inside and sort of died. I'm proud to say that some of it, at least, has been--or is in the process of being--overcome. I have NOT mastered the new machine yet, but I can sew on it and even do a simple embroidery. I can't brag about the workmanship, but ONE garment at least has been brought to wearability and another begun. Rather than start from scratch, which has been a little too much for me, I finished a pair of knickers that was started a few years ago and then laid aside. It lacks pintucks and is generally a poor thing, but mine own. I'd put a photo here but I haven't mastered that skill since the new format came into being. www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10202584549112715&set=pcb.309025125919389&type=1www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10202584552152791&set=pcb.309025125919389&type=1There's a chemise in that state as well that I shall attempt, but right now I started a petticoat yesterday. I have the top part completed. Doing the flounces now. Then I'll decide whether to make the ruffle or use eyelet. I don't have enough fabric to make the ruffle its full width, but could make it about two inches narrower. This may work out becaue I'm not sure how long this thing is going to hang on me. But flounces and tucks and eyelet, oh my! Did anybody notice the operative words? I STARTED something yesterday and I'm continuing it today. *goes off humming happily*
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Post by Anne, Old S'cubie Cat on Apr 12, 2014 20:30:11 GMT -5
I was taking an online class on Victorian sewing but had to drop out because of too many conflicts dragging me further and further behind. Between the cruise and then the death of my beloved mechanical sewing machine--and then the crisis of having to learn a whole new means of sewing, coupled with a bad case of what I now recognise as depression intensified by PTSD flashbacks, well, I just curled up inside and sort of died. I'm proud to say that some of it, at least, has been--or is in the process of being--overcome. I have NOT mastered the new machine yet, but I can sew on it and even do a simple embroidery. I can't brag about the workmanship, but ONE garment at least has been brought to wearability and another begun. Rather than start from scratch, which has been a little too much for me, I finished a pair of knickers that was started a few years ago and then laid aside. It lacks pintucks and is generally a poor thing, but mine own. I'd put a photo here but I haven't mastered that skill since the new format came into being. www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10202584549112715&set=pcb.309025125919389&type=1www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10202584552152791&set=pcb.309025125919389&type=1There's a chemise in that state as well that I shall attempt, but right now I started a petticoat yesterday. I have the top part completed. Doing the flounces now. Then I'll decide whether to make the ruffle or use eyelet. I don't have enough fabric to make the ruffle its full width, but could make it about two inches narrower. This may work out becaue I'm not sure how long this thing is going to hang on me. But flounces and tucks and eyelet, oh my! Did anybody notice the operative words? I STARTED something yesterday and I'm continuing it today. *goes off humming happily* I can't access your photos, but I will say, Good on you, keep up the good work!
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Post by S'ewing S'cubie on Apr 12, 2014 22:35:31 GMT -5
I was taking an online class on Victorian sewing but had to drop out because of too many conflicts dragging me further and further behind. Between the cruise and then the death of my beloved mechanical sewing machine--and then the crisis of having to learn a whole new means of sewing, coupled with a bad case of what I now recognise as depression intensified by PTSD flashbacks, well, I just curled up inside and sort of died. I'm proud to say that some of it, at least, has been--or is in the process of being--overcome. I have NOT mastered the new machine yet, but I can sew on it and even do a simple embroidery. I can't brag about the workmanship, but ONE garment at least has been brought to wearability and another begun. Rather than start from scratch, which has been a little too much for me, I finished a pair of knickers that was started a few years ago and then laid aside. It lacks pintucks and is generally a poor thing, but mine own. I'd put a photo here but I haven't mastered that skill since the new format came into being. www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10202584549112715&set=pcb.309025125919389&type=1www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10202584552152791&set=pcb.309025125919389&type=1There's a chemise in that state as well that I shall attempt, but right now I started a petticoat yesterday. I have the top part completed. Doing the flounces now. Then I'll decide whether to make the ruffle or use eyelet. I don't have enough fabric to make the ruffle its full width, but could make it about two inches narrower. This may work out becaue I'm not sure how long this thing is going to hang on me. But flounces and tucks and eyelet, oh my! Did anybody notice the operative words? I STARTED something yesterday and I'm continuing it today. *goes off humming happily* I can't access your photos, but I will say, Good on you, keep up the good work! I don't quite know how to get them over here. Or how to post a photo either for that matter.
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Post by Anne, Old S'cubie Cat on Apr 12, 2014 23:26:09 GMT -5
I can't access your photos, but I will say, Good on you, keep up the good work! I don't quite know how to get them over here. Or how to post a photo either for that matter. I'm still putting mine on Photobucket and linking to them here. I don't do Facebook at all. Maybe it's a matter of access - do you have to flag yours as public or something like that?
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Post by Julia, wrought iron-y on Apr 13, 2014 0:47:54 GMT -5
#wavey#
I am having a jolley good time working my brain to the bone every day and producing very little.
Julia, so, yeah: same old same old
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Post by SpringSummers on Apr 14, 2014 9:26:56 GMT -5
#wavey# off to a convention today back monday 3 days of partying begin #grouphug# Let us know how it goes! Hope you have fun.
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Post by SpringSummers on Apr 14, 2014 9:56:02 GMT -5
Taxes finally filed.
I thought the girls would never leave me a second to finish them.
After the winter of ENDLESS snow days (they were home as much as they were at school, as it turned out - nearly half the winter school days were off as snow days), the 14 yr old (code name: Roxanne) had a day's suspension for slapping a boy, hard, in the face. Then she quickly thereafter had a week's suspension for punching a boy in the groin so hard he threw up and had to be taken to the doc to be checked (he was OK, fortunately).
Are we sensing a theme, here?
Then they all three had spring break. Then Roxanne was suspended again for a week, for backtalking a teacher in a major, major way. At least there was no hitting.
Then the 17 yr old (code name: Nicole) had tooth problems and stayed home for 3 days after tooth extractions.
So just as I was thinking "YAY! Spring is here, they are going back to school!!" I had about 4 wks of constant "someone at home with me."
I told Roxanne that if she didn't get it together, I was going be in the hospital - diagnosis: INSANITY!!
So far, she has gone school 6 days without incident. Please God, let this be a trend!
However, I am still not going to get a full week to myself, as Nicole has a school day off tomorrow because of some event at the school . . . long story, but she doesn't have to be there, though others do.
The youngest . . . I need a code name for her, the 11 yr old . . . let's call her . . . Mandy (she came, and she gave, without taking . . .) is the only one that has been to school every school day and for whom I have yet to get the dreaded "call from the school."
Mandy is quite challenging though, at home. She is a PERPETUALLY ANGRY girl. Here is a typical exchange:
ME (mild, calm voice): Mandy, could you turn down the TV a little, please?
MANDY: LEAVE ME ALONE!!! I'm just trying to watch the TV, I don't even have it LOUD!!!!
ME: You're right, it's not that loud, but I'm trying to do something and I just need you to turn it down a little.
MANDY: OH MY GOD!! OK, OK, OK!!! Stop bugging me, I'll turn it down!!!
ME: Thanks.
MANDY: WHATEVER!!!!!
Just a small sampling. Mandy has done things like pour a bowl of cereal, then sit there playing with it, waiting for me to get angry. When I ignored her, she finally told me that she planned to just play with it and throw it away. When I ignored her again, she told me that after she threw it away, she was going to get two more bowls, and throw them away, too. I told her that if she deliberately wasted food, I would charge her (from her allowance) for the food. She said: "That's fine with me!!" I said: "Me, too." She played with the cereal a little more, then ate it.
Mandy is actually, slowly, getting better with this, as I often say things like, "You sound very angry, what's wrong?" This gets her all confused as she tries to sort out what she is so angry about. It usually goes like this:
MANDY: Because you keep bugging me and asking me a million times!!! ME: But that's not true. You got angry the first time I asked you.
MANDY: OMG, leave me alone!!!! You're the one who is making me angry!!
ME: I don't think so.
MANDY: WHATEVER!!!
This repeats all the time, though Mandy is a smart girl and it is all starting to make her think. She is starting to notice that her anger is over-the-top, and now says things like "I feel grouchy, so don't talk to me." i.e., accepting the idea that she's grouchy rather than everyone is doing horrible things to make her angry.
I have THREE angry girls on my hands, though they each have reacted differently to both parents basically completely abandoning them - well, they've reacted the same, with hurt and anger, but they express it differently.
NICOLE: Minor acting out at school, very, very easy to anger with her sisters, and crying on my shoulder.
ROXANNE: Major acting out at school, snappy with sisters, violence.
MANDY: Perfect kid at school, saves it all for home, where the tiniest upset causes her to blow sky high.
Again, they are all moving in a positive direction, so it's all good. But challenging.
I am on track for adopting all three, though it isn't a sure thing yet.
Whew. Thanks for listening, Scubes.
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Post by beccaelizabeth on Apr 14, 2014 11:25:04 GMT -5
#wavey#
am back met Torchwood people again much LOLs
also many typos
#wavey# #grouphug#
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Post by Queen E on Apr 14, 2014 16:40:40 GMT -5
Taxes finally filed.
I thought the girls would never leave me a second to finish them.
After the winter of ENDLESS snow days (they were home as much as they were at school, as it turned out - nearly half the winter school days were off as snow days), the 14 yr old (code name: Roxanne) had a day's suspension for slapping a boy, hard, in the face. Then she quickly thereafter had a week's suspension for punching a boy in the groin so hard he threw up and had to be taken to the doc to be checked (he was OK, fortunately).
Are we sensing a theme, here?
Then they all three had spring break. Then Roxanne was suspended again for a week, for backtalking a teacher in a major, major way. At least there was no hitting.
Then the 17 yr old (code name: Nicole) had tooth problems and stayed home for 3 days after tooth extractions.
So just as I was thinking "YAY! Spring is here, they are going back to school!!" I had about 4 wks of constant "someone at home with me."
I told Roxanne that if she didn't get it together, I was going be in the hospital - diagnosis: INSANITY!!
So far, she has gone school 6 days without incident. Please God, let this be a trend!
However, I am still not going to get a full week to myself, as Nicole has a school day off tomorrow because of some event at the school . . . long story, but she doesn't have to be there, though others do.
The youngest . . . I need a code name for her, the 11 yr old . . . let's call her . . . Mandy (she came, and she gave, without taking . . .) is the only one that has been to school every school day and for whom I have yet to get the dreaded "call from the school."
Mandy is quite challenging though, at home. She is a PERPETUALLY ANGRY girl. Here is a typical exchange:
ME (mild, calm voice): Mandy, could you turn down the TV a little, please?
MANDY: LEAVE ME ALONE!!! I'm just trying to watch the TV, I don't even have it LOUD!!!!
ME: You're right, it's not that loud, but I'm trying to do something and I just need you to turn it down a little.
MANDY: OH MY GOD!! OK, OK, OK!!! Stop bugging me, I'll turn it down!!!
ME: Thanks.
MANDY: WHATEVER!!!!!
Just a small sampling. Mandy has done things like pour a bowl of cereal, then sit there playing with it, waiting for me to get angry. When I ignored her, she finally told me that she planned to just play with it and throw it away. When I ignored her again, she told me that after she threw it away, she was going to get two more bowls, and throw them away, too. I told her that if she deliberately wasted food, I would charge her (from her allowance) for the food. She said: "That's fine with me!!" I said: "Me, too." She played with the cereal a little more, then ate it.
Mandy is actually, slowly, getting better with this, as I often say things like, "You sound very angry, what's wrong?" This gets her all confused as she tries to sort out what she is so angry about. It usually goes like this:
MANDY: Because you keep bugging me and asking me a million times!!! ME: But that's not true. You got angry the first time I asked you.
MANDY: OMG, leave me alone!!!! You're the one who is making me angry!!
ME: I don't think so.
MANDY: WHATEVER!!!
This repeats all the time, though Mandy is a smart girl and it is all starting to make her think. She is starting to notice that her anger is over-the-top, and now says things like "I feel grouchy, so don't talk to me." i.e., accepting the idea that she's grouchy rather than everyone is doing horrible things to make her angry.
I have THREE angry girls on my hands, though they each have reacted differently to both parents basically completely abandoning them - well, they've reacted the same, with hurt and anger, but they express it differently.
NICOLE: Minor acting out at school, very, very easy to anger with her sisters, and crying on my shoulder.
ROXANNE: Major acting out at school, snappy with sisters, violence.
MANDY: Perfect kid at school, saves it all for home, where the tiniest upset causes her to blow sky high.
Again, they are all moving in a positive direction, so it's all good. But challenging.
I am on track for adopting all three, though it isn't a sure thing yet.
Whew. Thanks for listening, Scubes. Thank you for sharing! You are a good mom, and a good person. It takes a lot to be patient and not to rise when being baited, for anyone, at any age. What impresses me is the fact that you handle it so well AND manage to help them develop coping skills. You're like the Mozart of parenting! (You make it look easy, but it's very complex and beautiful.)
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Post by Anne, Old S'cubie Cat on Apr 14, 2014 18:41:37 GMT -5
Taxes finally filed.
I thought the girls would never leave me a second to finish them.
After the winter of ENDLESS snow days (they were home as much as they were at school, as it turned out - nearly half the winter school days were off as snow days), the 14 yr old (code name: Roxanne) had a day's suspension for slapping a boy, hard, in the face. Then she quickly thereafter had a week's suspension for punching a boy in the groin so hard he threw up and had to be taken to the doc to be checked (he was OK, fortunately).
Are we sensing a theme, here?
Then they all three had spring break. Then Roxanne was suspended again for a week, for backtalking a teacher in a major, major way. At least there was no hitting.
Then the 17 yr old (code name: Nicole) had tooth problems and stayed home for 3 days after tooth extractions.
So just as I was thinking "YAY! Spring is here, they are going back to school!!" I had about 4 wks of constant "someone at home with me."
I told Roxanne that if she didn't get it together, I was going be in the hospital - diagnosis: INSANITY!!
So far, she has gone school 6 days without incident. Please God, let this be a trend!
However, I am still not going to get a full week to myself, as Nicole has a school day off tomorrow because of some event at the school . . . long story, but she doesn't have to be there, though others do.
The youngest . . . I need a code name for her, the 11 yr old . . . let's call her . . . Mandy (she came, and she gave, without taking . . .) is the only one that has been to school every school day and for whom I have yet to get the dreaded "call from the school."
Mandy is quite challenging though, at home. She is a PERPETUALLY ANGRY girl. Here is a typical exchange:
ME (mild, calm voice): Mandy, could you turn down the TV a little, please?
MANDY: LEAVE ME ALONE!!! I'm just trying to watch the TV, I don't even have it LOUD!!!!
ME: You're right, it's not that loud, but I'm trying to do something and I just need you to turn it down a little.
MANDY: OH MY GOD!! OK, OK, OK!!! Stop bugging me, I'll turn it down!!!
ME: Thanks.
MANDY: WHATEVER!!!!!
Just a small sampling. Mandy has done things like pour a bowl of cereal, then sit there playing with it, waiting for me to get angry. When I ignored her, she finally told me that she planned to just play with it and throw it away. When I ignored her again, she told me that after she threw it away, she was going to get two more bowls, and throw them away, too. I told her that if she deliberately wasted food, I would charge her (from her allowance) for the food. She said: "That's fine with me!!" I said: "Me, too." She played with the cereal a little more, then ate it.
Mandy is actually, slowly, getting better with this, as I often say things like, "You sound very angry, what's wrong?" This gets her all confused as she tries to sort out what she is so angry about. It usually goes like this:
MANDY: Because you keep bugging me and asking me a million times!!! ME: But that's not true. You got angry the first time I asked you.
MANDY: OMG, leave me alone!!!! You're the one who is making me angry!!
ME: I don't think so.
MANDY: WHATEVER!!!
This repeats all the time, though Mandy is a smart girl and it is all starting to make her think. She is starting to notice that her anger is over-the-top, and now says things like "I feel grouchy, so don't talk to me." i.e., accepting the idea that she's grouchy rather than everyone is doing horrible things to make her angry.
I have THREE angry girls on my hands, though they each have reacted differently to both parents basically completely abandoning them - well, they've reacted the same, with hurt and anger, but they express it differently.
NICOLE: Minor acting out at school, very, very easy to anger with her sisters, and crying on my shoulder.
ROXANNE: Major acting out at school, snappy with sisters, violence.
MANDY: Perfect kid at school, saves it all for home, where the tiniest upset causes her to blow sky high.
Again, they are all moving in a positive direction, so it's all good. But challenging.
I am on track for adopting all three, though it isn't a sure thing yet.
Whew. Thanks for listening, Scubes.
I don't remember which of my girls it was, but one told me that she was good at school and horrible at home because she couldn't be good all the time, and she had to let go somewhere. Kids. You're a good mom, Spring, and your girls are fortunate to have you in their corner.
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Post by Sue on Apr 15, 2014 10:55:16 GMT -5
Taxes finally filed.
I thought the girls would never leave me a second to finish them.
Again, they are all moving in a positive direction, so it's all good. But challenging.
I am on track for adopting all three, though it isn't a sure thing yet.
Whew. Thanks for listening, Scubes. Spring - You are amazing. TRIPLE amazing, make that. What a tremendous commitment. Keeping all 4 of you in my prayers. Sue
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Post by Sue on Apr 15, 2014 11:00:02 GMT -5
And, in news of my clan:
Allison has decided to accept the offer to attend Columbia. HUGE commitment of time and money.
Master of International Affairs, and if I go, I would intend to concentrate in Human Rights and specialize in International Media Advocacy and Communications (concentrations plus specializations are columbia's lingo distinguishing tiers of things).
I think she plans on spending her life at non-profits. Maybe even going back to International Justice Mission.
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