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amorfati601070 wrote: »So I have an opportunity to move to the States (Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi or Tennessee) next year for work. The Wanderlust in me is saying "dooo itttt!" but I have reservations that I'd miss Australia. But it would only be for 2 years or so and would be a hell of an experience. Just something to mull over.
I live in MS. There's a lot of good food here and really friendly people. Also, you can charter trips to go watch dolphins, ride an air boat for a swamp tour (or kayak/canoe it) and there's loads of stuff to do in New Orleans (about two hours from where I live).
I know it might be scary, but as a person who travels the world due to someone else's job, do it. I haven't regretted it yet.
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Why does beef jerky gotta be so chewy? It's really hard on my jaw (I have a clicking jaw on one side). Good flavor, but the chewing.. yeesh.1
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An excerpt from my 21-year-old daughter's rambling reply after I genuinely probed why the values she was raised with aren't - shall we say - always very apparent:
"I'm so surprised you didn't end up cooler after leaving dad. No drinking? No drugs? But then you got the tattoo and we thought, 'Ok, this is it!' Then it wasn't. You didn't do the heels or 'red bottoms.' You just went straight to being normal. Wow. You really lived your life like an actual mother. So weird."
She was really only half joking 🤨 In unrelated news, she also goes back home from her extended Mother's Day visit this evening 😝6 -
An excerpt from my 21-year-old daughter's rambling reply after I genuinely probed why the values she was raised with aren't - shall we say - always very apparent:
"I'm so surprised you didn't end up cooler after leaving dad. No drinking? No drugs? But then you got the tattoo and we thought, 'Ok, this is it!' Then it wasn't. You didn't do the heels or 'red bottoms.' You just went straight to being normal. Wow. You really lived your life like an actual mother. So weird."
She was really only half joking 🤨 In unrelated news, she also goes back home from her extended Mother's Day visit this evening 😝
First off, wow you do not look like you have a a 21 yr old...and 2nd...I can relate, my 23 yr old says I sheltered them too much😬...I was not a helicopter mom...so ...what does that mean???? Its my job to protect.5 -
PlentyofProtein00 wrote: »First off, wow you do not look like you have a a 21 yr old...and 2nd...I can relate, my 23 yr old says I sheltered them too much😬...I was not a helicopter mom...so ...what does that mean???? Its my job to protect.
Nor do you look like someone with a 23-year-old! As to their reactions; we moms can't ever get it right. But we can be smug should the time come and they ever have their own kids 😂
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PlentyofProtein00 wrote: »First off, wow you do not look like you have a a 21 yr old...and 2nd...I can relate, my 23 yr old says I sheltered them too much😬...I was not a helicopter mom...so ...what does that mean???? Its my job to protect.
Nor do you look like someone with a 23-year-old! As to their reactions; we moms can't ever get it right. But we can be smug should the time come and they ever have their own kids 😂
This is exactly what you'll find. As an "older" mother(66) with 3 sons--28, 35, and 36, I heard all these comments on my way of raising them. It was a downer after trying to be the best mother you could. Now, sometimes, they're talking among themselves and judging people they know and say things like "What do you expect, they were raised with no discipline, etc...." I just about spit out my coffee after years of hearing about my "mistakes". My older son now has 2 little boys and the shoe is on the other foot, so to speak. So, as they grow and mature, and especially have their own, you'll be appreciated. Try not to let it bother you. This has been going on since the dawn of time.6 -
snowflake954 wrote: »PlentyofProtein00 wrote: »First off, wow you do not look like you have a a 21 yr old...and 2nd...I can relate, my 23 yr old says I sheltered them too much😬...I was not a helicopter mom...so ...what does that mean???? Its my job to protect.
Nor do you look like someone with a 23-year-old! As to their reactions; we moms can't ever get it right. But we can be smug should the time come and they ever have their own kids 😂
This is exactly what you'll find. As an "older" mother(66) with 3 sons--28, 35, and 36, I heard all these comments on my way of raising them. It was a downer after trying to be the best mother you could. Now, sometimes, they're talking among themselves and judging people they know and say things like "What do you expect, they were raised with no discipline, etc...." I just about spit out my coffee after years of hearing about my "mistakes". My older son now has 2 little boys and the shoe is on the other foot, so to speak. So, as they grow and mature, and especially have their own, you'll be appreciated. Try not to let it bother you. This has been going on since the dawn of time.
So true, especially about how much you'll be appreciated as they grow, mature and have their own. You and I are similar ages with closely aged children, I'm 67 with a ds who's turning 40, and 2 dds who are 30 and 28. Except my kids don't have any little ones in their foreseeable futures. Perhaps growing up in a family who ran an in-home child care forever, was a great birth control plan.
Not that I'm happy about that but it isn't up to me. 
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I rewatched a bunch of old movies last night until 3am and I had a dream that I was trying to weird science someone and Michael Keaton was my dad. When I opened my laptop this morning to do some homework I still felt like I was in my dream 😅4
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My old high school. I drive by every day now between some of my kids school drop off. It finally happened today.
From a few hours ago. Kinda sad to see.7 -
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Being empathetic can be f#@king exhausting sometimes8
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Haha so did you two come here for excitement? To be entertained? Educated?
Love the girl with the window. And I think we all need one of those pink jeeps. What fun that'd be. It's like those dudes with the small sized clown cars that used to be in parades. I want to do that, then throw out candy to all the little kids. 4 -
Haha so did you two come here for excitement? To be entertained? Educated?
Love the girl with the window. And I think we all need one of those pink jeeps. What fun that'd be. It's like those dudes with the small sized clown cars that used to be in parades. I want to do that, then throw out candy to all the little kids.
You are so generous, I would be keeping the candy for myself.1 -
Miss_Chiev0us_ wrote: »Haha so did you two come here for excitement? To be entertained? Educated?
Love the girl with the window. And I think we all need one of those pink jeeps. What fun that'd be. It's like those dudes with the small sized clown cars that used to be in parades. I want to do that, then throw out candy to all the little kids.
You are so generous, I would be keeping the candy for myself.
Oh I'm not that nice. I've seen the candy thrown at parades. 3 -
Miss_Chiev0us_ wrote: »Haha so did you two come here for excitement? To be entertained? Educated?
Love the girl with the window. And I think we all need one of those pink jeeps. What fun that'd be. It's like those dudes with the small sized clown cars that used to be in parades. I want to do that, then throw out candy to all the little kids.
You are so generous, I would be keeping the candy for myself.
Oh I'm not that nice. I've seen the candy thrown at parades.
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Smarties and dumdums.0 -
Diet has gone to hell again..
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Power shift evident.
Go ahead and flare up, won’t get a rise outta me.
I can tell it really irks him, hahaha! 😂3 -
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This mind splitting migraine3
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Why are there so many meetings in day? When do you get work done....1
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Bread1
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Well, peaches and cream now!0
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How good a shower feels after you've gotten all sweaty mowing the yard while getting bitten by a zillion tiny black flies and having the grass blow all over you, even under your clothes and all through your hair.4
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How good it feels to give the neighborhood kid twenty-five bucks to mow the lawn, so I don't get bitten by a zillion tiny black flies and having cut grass blown all over me.9
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MadMaxMFP01 wrote: »How good it feels to pay @Motorsheen $25 to clean my gutters so he can then give the neighborhood kid twenty-five bucks to mow the lawn, so he doesn't get bitten by a zillion tiny black flies and having cut grass blown all over him.
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