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From: Bama
Date: 07-16-2007, 02:40 PM (1 of 14)
and spent $65.  I couldn't help myself. They had a wall of clearance items. I bought two locker hook rug kits marked from $20 to $7 (I've been wanting to try that), two hooked rug kits marked from $29 to $8, two penny rug kits marked from $20 to $5, a $30 curtain rod set marked down to $7 (great for hanging a quilt!) and more clearance fabric. I just keep bringing stuff into the sewing room, with all these other projects I have going. It's an illness.  Hubby mentioned yesterday that maybe I should move my sewing room into our son's room when he moves out. It's twice the size of my sewing room. I'm sure dd will not like that idea.
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User: Bama
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From: plrlegal
Date: 07-16-2007, 02:56 PM (2 of 14)
Bama tell your daughter that living in a small room is conditioning her for dorm room life when she goes to college and take the larger room.  Patsy Patsy
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User: plrlegal
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From: Bama
Date: 07-16-2007, 04:01 PM (3 of 14)
Good idea Patsy, except I think she already knows the reason why she can't have the room.  It's in the basement, and we don't trust her not to sneak out. Too easy to go out through the garage without anyone hearing her. And I thought ds was hard to raise when he was 12 or 13. He's a good kid now and dd is giving us #*!!. I wish she and her boyfriend would break up again.  We did not have a good weekend. (long story)
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User: Bama
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From: lendube
Date: 07-16-2007, 04:10 PM (4 of 14)
Boy, you got a lot for $65.00! I did hooking (:shock for a while years ago. It's fun and not difficult at all. Absolutely take the larger room downstairs! You need it and you have adequate reason not to give it to her. We had a situation like that for a short while. The kids had the entire lowest floor to themselves (sliding glass door and all!) I only found out later how often they came and went and who knows how many of their friends did too! Your dd will turn out fine. They come back to the values they were raised with. Have confidence in that. I've seen it again and again. Were you an angel at that age? I know I wasn't. Not terrible but did my share of things I'd still never tell my mom about.  Lennie |
User: lendube
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From: plrlegal
Date: 07-16-2007, 04:44 PM (5 of 14)
I wasn't an angel at that age by any means, but neither did I have the mouth that some of these kids have today either. My mother would have knocked my teeth down the back of my throat for me if I, or any of my brothers and sisters, talked to her the way I hear teenagers, even in my own family, talking to their mothers.  Patsy Patsy
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User: plrlegal
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From: Patty22
Date: 07-16-2007, 06:37 PM (6 of 14)
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Bama tell your daughter that living in a small room is conditioning her for dorm room life when she goes to college and take the larger room Amen Patsy!!! Or even an apartment when they're on their own. My son's apartment is 450 sq feet and I won't even say how much that goes for in NYCity. Thank goodness we're not big individuals because if you sit on the toliet your legs go under the sink. The entire bathroom is the size of a closet. When we were visiting my son, all I could wonder was what would I do with all my fabric and sewing equipment if I lived in a studio apartment.  Lori, take your scissors in one hand and the ruler in the other and claim the bigger room as your own. YOU DESERVE IT! Just because we're mothers doesn't mean our needs always have to be last (I'm repeating this mantra in the bathroom mirror .....as I feel like I get the raw end a lot of the time because I have allowed it ) With all you do for your family and MIL I am voting for the bigger space.
Patty
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User: Patty22
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From: lendube
Date: 07-16-2007, 08:04 PM (7 of 14)
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Wasn't there a best seller recently about mothers and burnt toast??? We do it so automatically. But when the little chicks have flown the coop ~ ahhh ~ the empty nest is ours to feather as we wish. I have to say we are extremely lucky. Our house is three floors (tall and skinny, not real big). The main part of the house is the second level on which you enter. (Looks like two stories from the front and three stories from the back.) Upstairs is my sewing/computer room, a guest room and master bedroom/bath. The bottom floor is for dh alone (except for a very small pantry.) He's got all of his fishing stuff and all of his tools there, workshop, tool benches, everything to do with as he pleases. No one has to see it but him so I don't care what it looks like (or have to clean it). The rest of the house is for me to do what I want for both of us. It's a beautiful arrangement and I totally appreciate it!  After having two, three and sometimes four kids here (and friends) we both deserve it. Lennie |
User: lendube
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From: material_pakrat
Date: 07-17-2007, 07:19 PM (8 of 14)
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Hubby mentioned yesterday that maybe I should move my sewing room into our son's room when he moves out. It's twice the size of my sewing room. I'm sure dd will not like that idea. Why wait until he moves????? Do it now and enjoy your sewing space.
Cheers, Soph.
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User: material_pakrat
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From: Bama
Date: 07-17-2007, 08:17 PM (9 of 14)
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Actually DS is moving out to start college in about a month. He'll still be home to visit on some weekends so I don't want to take over his room right away. We're very lucky. My parents live just a few blocks from the college he'll be attending. They have a room built onto a separate garage that he can live in. They told him he could move into the house with them or into that extra room. Which would you pick if you were 18? That will save us a lot money since we don't have to pay for a dorm room.He's getting very excited. Me, not so much. Well, maybe just a little.  Mixed feelings here.
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User: Bama
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From: bridesmom
Date: 07-19-2007, 10:38 AM (10 of 14)
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When my daughter moved out, I cried, and then 2 years later when my son moved out, well, I wasn't home the weekend he did it, and when I came home I avoided his room for a day or two, when I finally got the guts up to go in there to tidy up, I lost it, I bawled like a baby for the longest time. He's the younger of the two. I never told him how hard it was for me to let him go, don't know why that is, if it's because he's the 'baby' or because mom's just have that 'thing' with their boys. It was really hard for a while.
Laura
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User: bridesmom
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From: plrlegal
Date: 07-19-2007, 12:07 PM (11 of 14)
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Bama I'm sure you'll feel a lot better that his grandparents are close by where he'll be going to school rather than have him in some distant city where there is nobody he knows close by. Patsy Patsy
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User: plrlegal
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From: MotherInLaw
Date: 07-20-2007, 01:51 AM (12 of 14)
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Bama you sound like me and I guess the rest of us. I buy things that are on sale or that I fall in love with and then come home to say, "What the $e!! am I going to do with this now!!!" My neighbor came over for Christmas and I was going to make a run for the fabric store to buy fabric for pillowcases and she fussed at me and starting pulling out the fabric in my stash and helped me get a lot of mine down.............just to make room for more fabric when I go to the fabric store. I'm terrible when it comes to fabric. Take the bigger room your kids will be out the house sooner than you think. They don't need that big of a room anyway.
I'm regressing back into my youth, I just have to figure out how I'm going to convience my body to come along with me.
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User: MotherInLaw
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From: plrlegal
Date: 07-20-2007, 12:49 PM (13 of 14)
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Bigger room for teenagers only means they have more floor space to make piles of clothes, etc. Patsy Patsy
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User: plrlegal
Member since: 05-19-2001 Total posts: 318 |
From: Mom of Six
Date: 07-20-2007, 05:02 PM (14 of 14)
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I went to WalMart today for charcoal & avoided the fabric dept. I can't believe I really did it!
Barb
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User: Mom of Six
Member since: 11-03-2001 Total posts: 1115 
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