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From: dave
Date: 05-03-2005, 08:34 PM (1 of 31)
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or is it her housekeeping clicky linky (http://www.snopes.com/photos/natural/sandstorm.asp)  next week I'll post some pics of some new creations 
I'm lucky I survived moms cooking :p
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User: dave
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From: MaryW
Date: 05-04-2005, 05:32 AM (2 of 31)
You need to get back to work dear. 
MaryW
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From: Magot
Date: 05-04-2005, 12:10 PM (3 of 31)
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ooo grumpy face Mary!
love and kisses, Jan
Guts-R-Us Cells a Speciality DNA to order. |
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From: MaryW
Date: 05-04-2005, 12:54 PM (4 of 31)
I haven't heard a thing from that boy in weeks and now he decides its time to insult my housework. He's just a big brat! 
MaryW
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From: dave
Date: 05-04-2005, 04:09 PM (5 of 31)
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I haven't heard a thing from that boy in weeks and now he decides its time to insult my housework. He's just a big brat! I was there last week. When is the last time you stopped in at my place? If you did show up more often you'd get the sneak peeks dad gets when he is here. I'm lucky I survived moms cooking :p
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User: dave
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From: Magot
Date: 05-04-2005, 04:45 PM (6 of 31)
I'm stepping back here - you two have a domestic if you want - but remember the forum rules and be nice! 
love and kisses, Jan
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User: Magot
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From: Julia's Nana
Date: 05-04-2005, 06:19 PM (7 of 31)
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Ok now why do I get a sand storm in Iraq when I click on the link??? Know what sandstorms are, although the ones here in AZ aren't quite that bad thank goodness. Norma |
User: Julia's Nana
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From: MaryW
Date: 05-04-2005, 07:01 PM (8 of 31)
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That is Dave's way of saying my house is dusty. I told ya, he's a brat!
MaryW
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From: BRG
Date: 05-04-2005, 08:07 PM (9 of 31)
Ah ha I see ... well, Dave, if that house is that messy to you ... why don't you help Mary clean it up ... the more the merrier, smile! If you don't want to help ... then hush 
- Brenda -
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User: BRG
Member since: 01-12-2005 Total posts: 388 
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From: Mother in Law
Date: 05-04-2005, 09:43 PM (10 of 31)
I have an idea!!!!!  We all could start a new swap. Let's all send Dave an envelope of dirt and dust so his house will be more like Mom's. Then he'll think he is at home again. How about it ladies. Mary we need his address. Just post it here so EVERYONE will be able to be included in this swap. I think this is the best swap of all times.  
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From: SummersEchos
Date: 05-04-2005, 09:45 PM (11 of 31)
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I finally got it. Summer Summer
FREE FALLIN |
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From: Julia's Nana
Date: 05-05-2005, 12:20 AM (12 of 31)
Ok Dave, it is like this............many of us on this board are old enough to be YOUR mother...........and you need to to draw us a picture as well as post us one. I get it now but it was way over my senior citizen head before!  Mary...........there is one in every family.........I have one too. He just got married and is sooooo lucky that I didn't tell his poor bride what she was really in for! Norma |
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From: MaryW
Date: 05-05-2005, 05:20 AM (13 of 31)
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My house is nothing like that, he's just bored. I hope I see him this weekend, he can put on his apron and do a little something. 
MaryW
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From: DorothyL
Date: 05-05-2005, 07:47 AM (14 of 31)
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I've said it before, Mary, you did not beat that boy enough as a child! Dorothy |
User: DorothyL
Member since: 12-09-2002 Total posts: 3883 |
From: Mother in Law
Date: 05-05-2005, 02:34 PM (15 of 31)
| I hate house work and all my kids know it. I clean my house and it's not spotless but when you come in your feel comfortable. I tried being the spotless housekeeper at one time and didn't have time to do anything else so somethings just get done when it comes to being a must, like laundry. My motto is "Although you find my house a mess, come in sit down converse, it doesn't always look like this some days it's even worse." My mother was a spotless house keeper and she had that plaque hung in her kitchen. That is the one thing I did get off her walls when she died. I can remember reading it when I was a teen and thinking why did she hang that, this place is discustingly clean. ROFL |
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From: plrlegal
Date: 05-05-2005, 04:55 PM (16 of 31)
I don't hate housework it's just that there are other more fun things that I would rather do these days and I'm doing them, e.g., quilting, sewing, knitting, crocheting, etc. One of my younger girlfriends cross-stitched me a picture that says "My kitchen is a mess, but you should see my garden!" I can now paraphrase it to say "my sewing room is a mess but you should see the quilt I'm making!"  Patsy Patsy
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User: plrlegal
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From: sewingrandma
Date: 05-05-2005, 05:16 PM (17 of 31)
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MIL I have a trivet with that saying on it and it hangs proudly in my kitchen. When you come to my house you never know what shape it will be in. It is clean enough to be healthy and messy enough for us to be comfortable. I once had a SIL that had a spotless house. Her kids rarely speak to her and my brother divorced her years ago. She was always too busy to spend time with the family. You could have eaten off her floors.
Brockie
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User: sewingrandma
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From: Julia's Nana
Date: 05-05-2005, 06:11 PM (18 of 31)
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Well, it was never spotless but my house was pretty clean for a long time. My son in law used to say that I had the only house he knew that when you came in the front door you smelled cleaning solution of some kind. I like things shiny so I was always polishing something........... Enter the grandchildren, husband being out of work for over a year and underfoot..............and I discovered computer and quilting. Now my house does NOT smell like cleaning solution...........somedays it just SMELLS! I keep it clean enough so that it doesn't drive me crazy..............and the rest of my time I enjoy these little ones who aren't going to be little very long, my husband who would rather be with us than anywhere else and life in general. If someone told my mother to excuse their messy house she used to say, "If I can crawl out of mine, I can crawl into yours. " On a added note, my next door neigbhor is being buried tomorrow. The man was in his mid forties, had the flu and woke up coughing up blood. His family took him to the emergency room and he had died before they even got his paperwork complete. So..............in the plan of things, we never know so we need to all make the most of everyday and if that means having dusty furniture but living each day to its fullest.............I say go for it NOW! The dust will be here tomorrow but we don't know if we will be or not. |
User: Julia's Nana
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From: MaryW
Date: 05-05-2005, 07:44 PM (19 of 31)
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Well said. I feel the same way. I have a neighbor who stresses over absolutely everything. She is retired and sick. You can see the stress in her face if hubby mows the lawn in the wrong direction or if he doesn't sweep the street good enough in front of their house. She has 6-7 kids. They all come for dinner , spouses and kids every single Sunday without fail. Somehow, that just doesn't seem quite natural. I know I would be the same way if it weren't for my family. I have lost too many to stress over very much. I am just so grateful for who and what I have.
MaryW
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Member since: 06-23-2005 Total posts: 2542
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From: carman
Date: 05-05-2005, 09:12 PM (20 of 31)
i have a MIL that it spic and span, so much so that she only lives about 20 minutes from us and yet we can go 6 months before we get there. we have her over to our house, it has taken alot of years for me not to care what she thinks of my house (she is very critical) even though my house is clean. i have a friend who is the complete opposite though, i won't even have a drink at her house, yuck, it is sooooooo dirty, but she is a dear friend for the past 5 or so years, i just make sure that we are busy if they want us over for dinner  what is amazing is she has a husband and 4 kids and they all ignore it. so there are both extremes i guess, i am definately in the middle
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From: DorothyL
Date: 05-06-2005, 06:40 AM (21 of 31)
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I'm in the middle too. I used to be in the middle leaning toward the tidy side. Now I'm in the middle leaning toward the messy. My husband brags "we finally broke her." Well I've got better things to do now. Dorothy |
User: DorothyL
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From: plrlegal
Date: 05-06-2005, 12:53 PM (22 of 31)
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My dh is a very happy man these days since I forego vacuuming around him and making his life miserable about keeping everything immaculate in our house. It's people, not things that mean the most to me these days. My husband sings a song that has a line in it that says "it's not what you take with you that counts, it's what you leave behind you when you go." In other words, it will be what people remember and feel about you that counts, not whether you had an immaculate house or not. Patsy Patsy
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User: plrlegal
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From: BRG
Date: 05-06-2005, 01:27 PM (23 of 31)
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Words to live by!
- Brenda -
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User: BRG
Member since: 01-12-2005 Total posts: 388
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From: Mother in Law
Date: 05-06-2005, 01:38 PM (24 of 31)
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I found out a long time ago that there is more to life then housework. I wouldn't be able to do half the things I do if I kept an immaculate house. But like I said, it's comfortable, no critters, just some dust bunnies. My house is no so much dirty as it's clutter. No one knows where to put things up and when my Grandkids come I have all their things left here with no place for them. I'm not an organized person that's for sure but I sure love sewing and living Life.
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From: Julia's Nana
Date: 05-06-2005, 05:54 PM (25 of 31)
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Sadly it took a fire at my house for me to realize that most of what was in the house were just things. We were lucky and didn't lose anything that was not replaceable..............just furniture, carpet, drapes, light fixtures and so on. While I was waiting for the fire dept to get here all I could think of was 32 years of hard work was going up in flames. But in the end, no one was hurt (my two birds even survived the smoke), I still had my kids pictures and family things. So it dawned on me that the things I had spent a lot of time cleaning and polishing and stressing over, could be and were gone in a flash regardless of all that effort. So now those things are just what they are.......THINGS. We focus on the important parts of life. The house is cleaned as it needs it and we enjoy life in between. If the house is a wreck and my husband says "Lets go", I go and close the door behind me..........the mess will wait for me, life might not. Like Patsy's hubby he is much happier and doesn't complain about the mess. So much of our lives are taken up with things.............we need to focus on life itself. |
User: Julia's Nana
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From: Mother in Law
Date: 05-06-2005, 11:46 PM (26 of 31)
| I had a fire back in June of 1980. We lost everything. The only thing that was left was some pics in a box in the bottom of my closet that was so packed tightly on top of one another that just the outer edges were cenged. The other pics of my kids school pics were lost and the baby pics were gone they were on the walls. My husband was home sleeping he worked shift work at that time and got out with just his jeans on nothing else, and he put them on going out the door. A lamp caused that fire, caught the curtains on fire and the rest is history. It was a mobile home and they go up like tinder. My father had given me things when he was living that I couldn't replace and my mother had been all around the world and brought me bells from all the countries she visited they were gone. But we had our lives and I also learned a lesson that they were just things. Had it not been for a smoke alarm I wouldn't have my husband today. |
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From: Julia's Nana
Date: 05-06-2005, 11:57 PM (27 of 31)
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The smoke alarm is what alerted me to the fire also...........so please everyone, check and make sure you have one and that it WORKS. I know we were incredibly lucky in not losing things that we treasured and too that we had good insurance that did redo and replace everything. Life was uncomfortable for a few months but we had a brand new kitchen and new carpet and drapes. (and that insurance company then would not renew our policy........ :mad . Our fire was human error..............mine so it would have been really hard to live with it had someone gotten hurt.
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User: Julia's Nana
Member since: 08-28-2001 Total posts: 361 |
From: Mother in Law
Date: 05-07-2005, 12:52 AM (28 of 31)
We didn't have much of an insurance policy so I didn't get much out of it, we had to start from scratch so I guess I can say I know what it is to have nothing, but we survived and got back on our feet. I still don't take too much stock in my things, as you said they are just things and can be replaced but had it been I lost my husband and kids that would have been something totally different. 
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From: Julia's Nana
Date: 05-07-2005, 01:20 AM (29 of 31)
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I believe that saying, "What doesn't kill you makes you strong." I guess if you are really lucky, it makes you a little smarter too. Happy Mother's Day! |
User: Julia's Nana
Member since: 08-28-2001 Total posts: 361 |
From: Sewhappie
Date: 05-08-2005, 06:56 AM (30 of 31)
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I found this poem when my DD was just a baby......... "Scrubbing and cleaning can wait 'til tomorrow, for babies grow up, we learn to our sorrow. So quite down cob-webs, dust go to sleep. I'm rocking my babies, and babies don't keep." Author, Unknown When it comes to cleaning house, or doing something with the kids, the kids win everytime!!!! I don't have a messy house, it has to stay picked up and the sweeper run, but it is by no means so clean that you could eat off the floor. My mom and sister where like that and I just could not see where it got them!!! THey would have Heart Attacks if they found a spot of dirt on the floor!!!! There will always be dust, a mess here or there. That will never stop. I have just decided that other things are more important in life. |
User: Sewhappie
Member since: 10-27-2001 Total posts: 1427 |
From: Mother in Law
Date: 05-08-2005, 06:00 PM (31 of 31)
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What hasn't killed me did make me stronger I don't know about smarter.
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