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6:11 pm
January 9, 2010
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Wow, that's stunning! And the blue and the gold are so pretty together!
I hope it brings you all the good luck in the world 
6:31 am
August 12, 2009
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bump
"Don't knock at death's door.
Ring the bell and run. He hates that."
10:06 pm
August 12, 2009
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Bump for MoonAndStars
"Don't knock at death's door.
Ring the bell and run. He hates that."
5:34 pm
November 18, 2010
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Claire said:
By the way, perhaps Catherine's pomegranate was also referring to Granada, the city which her mother and father successfully took from the Moors. “Granada” means “pomegranate” so the fruit may have been a reminder of her parents' strength, determination and success – or am I reading too much into it??
Intereasting…here in Quebec, pomegranates are called pomme de Granade Granada's apples.
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6:09 pm
October 31, 2010
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The phrase that keeps popping up in our family recently seems to be “Just keep swimming….just keep swimming…” (if you don't know, that's the little song that Dorie the fish sings in the movie Finding Nemo. Seems appropriate for the past year…we just keep swimming to get to the light at the end of the tunnel because we know it will get better.
My daughter was born in July with congenital cataracts, and since then it's been doctor's visit after doctor's visit and hospital stays and contact lenses and craziness in general…combined with a three year old and I'm ready for this year to be over! Gotta keep swimming cause it'll just get better eventually–right!?
"We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams…"
6:31 pm
November 18, 2010
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Definately…Sorry to hear about your daughter.{{{HUGS}}} I know how hard doing hospital visits is when you have another child.
Our DD2 had “clicky-hips” when she was born and I was up at the hospital every 3 days for 4 months….week-ends included..but 9 yrs later she's doing gymnastics and all the stuff she's supposed too.I hope you can get as good a result.
various household stuff we've had in March is adding up to a $20+ K bill if we can't get the insurance company to pay out . Some of it is age related for the electrical stuff and the car but the rest just sprung outta nowhere…
been a frustrating month.
My motto is either The B!tch is Back..or You Won't Break Me…
It's always bunnies.
11:48 am
February 24, 2010
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MegC said:
The phrase that keeps popping up in our family recently seems to be “Just keep swimming….just keep swimming…” (if you don't know, that's the little song that Dorie the fish sings in the movie Finding Nemo. Seems appropriate for the past year…we just keep swimming to get to the light at the end of the tunnel because we know it will get better.
My daughter was born in July with congenital cataracts, and since then it's been doctor's visit after doctor's visit and hospital stays and contact lenses and craziness in general…combined with a three year old and I'm ready for this year to be over! Gotta keep swimming cause it'll just get better eventually–right!?
Sorry to hear about your little girl's troubles. 
It has to get better.
Anyanka, if Meg's motto is just keep swimming, yours should be, keep your head above water. Money worries are such a pain.
5:43 pm
October 31, 2010
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Thanks, ladies! Since we moved, we've had to find Charlotte a new pediatric opthalmologist. At our old po, if she lost/rubbed out a contact lense, we just took her to see them and they put it back in. But our new po has said…Um, you have to learn to put these back in yourself–you can't come to us everytime she rubs one out to put it back in. Come to find out that it's just a fundamental difference in how they approach rehab in these kids. Our new doctor prescribes hard contact lenses for these kids which fall out all the time and are taken out every night at bedtime. Charlotte's contacts are silicon so they NEVER come out unless we're correcting a lazy eye (which sometimes happens) or she has an infection. She even sleeps in them.
Fortunately, most of the time, they stay in no problem, but sometimes one of them will fall out and then I'm faced with trying to figure out how to get it back in the eye of a squirmy 8-month-old. It's so tramatic! I'm just hoping that, eventually, I'll just be able to tell her, “Don't move” and just put it in. Both my husband and I have worn contacts for years so touching the eye doesn't freak us out or anything, but she squeezes her eyes shut sooooo tightly, you literally have to pry them open. Fortunately, she's finally starting to improve and interact the way you would expect an 8-month-old should. Before she had the cataracts removed, she was, literally, blind.
@Anyanka Boo! I hate dealing with money issues!
{{HUGS}} All around. Sometimes we all need it!
"We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams…"
8:03 pm
January 9, 2010
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Wow Meg, trying to put contacts in an 8 month-old; I don't know if I could do that, it'd freak me out too much! I could get contacts but for some reason they just ick me out – so I'll stick with my glasses! Glad to hear your daughter's starting to improve – Charlotte's one of my favourite names too
9:01 pm
November 18, 2010
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Charlotte is DD1's middle name…after my father.
Kathryn is DD2's middle name after the Howard Queen.
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10:24 am
October 31, 2010
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You all have no idea the angst that went in to picking Charlotte's name! DS's name is Andrew Flynn, and I don't do matchy-matchy. So all names that started with “A” were out. Plus, I'm a teacher so there's a whole subset of names that will forever be untouchable because they remind me of students I'd rather not be reminded of…or they're used so frequently I'd never saddle my child with them (case in point…”Brandon”. I had 5 Brandons in one class last year. And I taught high school…so it was only 1 of 3 classes that I taught!). But, Andrew is a very traditional, old name (he's sort of named after my dad, whose middle name is Andrew) and I wanted to keep in that same vein with a more unusual (but not super-unusual) middle name.
So…Victoria and Elizabeth were both out because I've had students with those names. I like Catherine, but our last name starts with a hard C sound and I couldn't bring myself to do that. DH's sister's name is Anne so to prevent confusion and because I didn't want to give her the idea that we named Charlotte after her, that name was off the list. My mom's middle name is Jane and she lobbied hard for us to go with that, but, I'm sorry, I just thought it was too boring. Seriously–are you seeing a pattern? Unintentionally, I literally sat down with a family tree of British monarchs to find her a name. Lots of Catherines/Katherines/Katheryns, Annes, Elizabeths…if you go too far back you get some seriously strange names. But, lo and behold, buried somewhere in British royal history, was a Charlotte.
It just seemed to make sense 😀
"We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams…"
11:21 am
February 24, 2010
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I have to hand it to you Meg. Putting contacts in for an 8 month old freaks me out too. Bless your heart!
In my family names always followed the pattern. Father, grandfather, mother, grandmother. There are tons of Louis' and Julias'. My dad was Dominic and he made me promise I would not name my son Dominic. He had a nickname given to him as a kid and he hated it. They called him Minnie.
He gave us names that he figured would be hard to make into nicknames. Whenever someone called me Sherry, he would correct them. It's Sharon. As a babe, my brother could not say Sharon. He called me ShaSha. Well that name stuck with family members, although my Dad was never happy about it. I don't mind it.
When it came to naming my son, I remembered my Dad's warning, but I loved the name Dominic. I wanted to name him Lucien, but you can see where that could have had a nickname. (Lucy) We named him Lucas Dominic. Everyone calls him Luke, and that ok. It was figured in to the deliberations.
3:28 pm
October 31, 2010
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I LOVE the name Lucien!! That was on my short list for Andrew, but Daniel never could get on board with it. I think it was the whole “Lucy” thing.
"We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams…"
4:17 pm
November 18, 2010
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Sharon said:
I have to hand it to you Meg. Putting contacts in for an 8 month old freaks me out too. Bless your heart!
In my family names always followed the pattern. Father, grandfather, mother, grandmother. There are tons of Louis' and Julias'. My dad was Dominic and he made me promise I would not name my son Dominic. He had a nickname given to him as a kid and he hated it. They called him Minnie.
He gave us names that he figured would be hard to make into nicknames. Whenever someone called me Sherry, he would correct them. It's Sharon. As a babe, my brother could not say Sharon. He called me ShaSha. Well that name stuck with family members, although my Dad was never happy about it. I don't mind it.
When it came to naming my son, I remembered my Dad's warning, but I loved the name Dominic. I wanted to name him Lucien, but you can see where that could have had a nickname. (Lucy) We named him Lucas Dominic. Everyone calls him Luke, and that ok. It was figured in to the deliberations.
There's one old friend allowed to call me ” Shar” and another can call me ” Shaz”…otherwise it's Sharon all the way…I refuse to answer to any nickname…
Dh's family went for 1 syllable names in order to stop nicknames.
DS is named for my GF and my FiL pleased both sides of the family….
It's always bunnies.
4:21 pm
November 18, 2010
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MegC said:
You all have no idea the angst that went in to picking Charlotte's name! DS's name is Andrew Flynn, and I don't do matchy-matchy. So all names that started with “A” were out. Plus, I'm a teacher so there's a whole subset of names that will forever be untouchable because they remind me of students I'd rather not be reminded of…or they're used so frequently I'd never saddle my child with them (case in point…”Brandon”. I had 5 Brandons in one class last year. And I taught high school…so it was only 1 of 3 classes that I taught!). But, Andrew is a very traditional, old name (he's sort of named after my dad, whose middle name is Andrew) and I wanted to keep in that same vein with a more unusual (but not super-unusual) middle name.
So…Victoria and Elizabeth were both out because I've had students with those names. I like Catherine, but our last name starts with a hard C sound and I couldn't bring myself to do that. DH's sister's name is Anne so to prevent confusion and because I didn't want to give her the idea that we named Charlotte after her, that name was off the list. My mom's middle name is Jane and she lobbied hard for us to go with that, but, I'm sorry, I just thought it was too boring. Seriously–are you seeing a pattern? Unintentionally, I literally sat down with a family tree of British monarchs to find her a name. Lots of Catherines/Katherines/Katheryns, Annes, Elizabeths…if you go too far back you get some seriously strange names. But, lo and behold, buried somewhere in British royal history, was a Charlotte.
It just seemed to make sense 😀
I feel your pain. I have a SIL with the same initials as me and when they bought our house I'd get her mail and she'd get mine…
When I see people like the Duggars who've given thier children names starting with the same letter(J I think), I wonder if it's just another way to control them.
It's always bunnies.
4:35 pm
October 31, 2010
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The Duggars just take the whole baby naming thing too far. Although, when you have 19 kids and all their names start with J, you're sort of committed. I wonder what would happen if they named kid number 20 something like “Sally”? “These are our kids <<rattles off all 19 baby names that start with J>> and baby #20, Sally.”
"We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams…"
11:09 am
February 24, 2010
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The Duggars?
11:52 am
November 18, 2010
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17/18/19 kids and counting…on TLC….It's about a quiverful family.
Quiverfuls are following a verse in the OT about children being blessing and a happy father has as many as arrows.
It's always bunnies.
