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[Tasha]

It's nice a powdery snow too so shoveling will be easy. I'm about to go out and get to work while my daughter plays. :)

[Travis]

Other than a -10°f windchill its a beautiful day here. When anything above 0 feels warmyou know you've been properly winterized

[Sandra, Moderator]

So true, Travis! lol

[Stephanie]

How are our east coast friends doing? We didn't get much snow, unless you count the flurries which didn't add up to anything thankfully. I don't know what our little city would do if we actually got a real snowfall! It is sunny out today :) the last few days had been gloomy with a patch of sun here and there. I love the sunshine :) it brightens my mood for the day:)

[Tejas Janet]

My nephew triplets made their world debut today. I'm kind of speechless. Wow!!!

Mother and sons doing reasonably well. One of the little guys is in ICU - because of his being lower weight.

My sis-in-law carried them to 8 months so they got pretty far along : )

[Stephanie]

Congrats on your families new additions TejasJanet! How exciting! Hope the one in ICU gets stronger each day :-)

[Sarah]

Congratulations TJ on the new arrivals. Three new babies all at once. That must take some getting used to! Glad to hear they are doing well.

[Tejas Janet]

Thanks Stephanie and Sarah! It is exciting and a very BIG addition to the family. What's a little rough, for me, is that they're still living in Kuala Lumpur. I long to go visit the babies, especially the tiniest one in ICU. But they're getting wonderful care, and my sis-in-law's mother is there. She is so awesome in helping with everything. Even so, I think they're hiring someone to help out around the home. They're scheduled to come home to U.S. this summer. Wouldn't you love to be on that plane - LOL!

[Sandra, Moderator]

Wow! Congrats!

[Peggy]

Congrats Janet!

After a week of sun, beautiful nature and lovely walks on Madeira, we fly back home again tomorrow. And straight into the weather that I tried to escape: snow, cold, wind, and gray skies. We have to drive 2 hours back home during evening rush hour, which has been predicted to be worse than usual because of the weather. So not looking forward. I deeply hate traffic jams and I expect we'll get stuck in several.

[Stephanie]

Safe travels, Peggy :-)

[Cherie]

Super news about the three new additions, Janet! Your sister-in-law did pretty well getting to 8 months with three. I am sure she will be happy to get off of bed rest afer she has recovered. Yes, three will keep them hopping. I had a friend with triplets and she never sat still, for sure.

I hope the traffic will not be too bad, Peggy. I am glad to hear you had a nice week in the sun. I am starting to not remember what it looks like anymore.

[Tasha]

Congrats, TJ, to your family!

Good luck on your travel home, Peggy. I hope it ends up being better than you thought.

[Janice, Moderator]

Triplets! How exciting.

[Stephanie]

My favorite hockey player, Martin Brodeur, has officially retired :( he was my first and only favorite in the world of hockey :( sad day :( ugh, why can't favorite sports figures play forever? I think they should :)

[Lilisa]

Oh boy - triplets - that's going to be one busy household. Enjoy them TJ!

[Sandra, Moderator]

Good luck, Peggy!

[Tejas Janet]

Thank you all - Sandra, Peggy, Tasha, Janice, Lilisa!

It's been something, with the worrying and waiting. Of course, that doesn't stop - ever really - but it does feel amazing that their gestation and birth has been a smooth journey.

Hope the traffic treats you kindly, Peggy. Stay safe to you and anyone out there traveling or dealing with bad weather conditions.

[Peggy]

Pfew. The 1 hour 45 minute trip took us over 3 hours... Wish I was still in the sun!

[Stephanie]

Eek! Glad you made it back safely :-)

[Sarah]

Glad you made it back ok Peggy even if it did take a lot longer than it would usually. Did you have a good holiday?

[Sandra, Moderator]

Thankfully is done, Peggy!

[Peggy]

Yes, the holiday was great! Madeira is a beautiful island :)

[Lisa]

Glad you had a good holiday Peggy!

[Camilla]

Peggy wrote: "Yes, the holiday was great! Madeira is a beautiful island :)"

Glad you enjoyed your holiday! Did you do much walking? I understand there are good conditions to do long walks.

[Peggy]

It is indeed a great island for walking. You can walk along irrigation canals called levadas, which can be quite adventurous (60 cm paths right next to a ravine) but there are also easier walks (which we mostly did). They lead you through some stunning scenery!

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Welcome home Peggy! Pity about the traffic, but sounds like you had a wonderful time.

Grats on the triplet nephews TJ!! Before you know it they'll be back home and projectile vomiting over the dinner table. That was my wonderful experience at dinner last night with just one nephew.

[Janice, Moderator]

Nice image there, Rusalka... but funny!

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Oh I only gave you the half of it. While that was being cleaned up, Josh decided to top it all off with a poonami. I suggested that we took him out to the glass table on the deck and wash him off both ends with the hose. His Mum wasn't overly impressed with that suggestion. The rest of the table thought it was a brilliant idea.

[Janice, Moderator]

Is he the first child? Because Moms have no sense of humour with their first children. Second and subsequent babes would get the hose. I can say that cause I only have the one child, and you should have heard me when I went outside to see my ex-husband and his friend killing themselves laughing while my baby was sitting in the mud, picking dog food out of the mud and eating it. It's a good thing Alan was too young to understand the things coming out of my mouth.

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Oh yes.

Lexx has 10 nephews and nieces already, so we're pretty desensitised as aunt and uncle too. Which is fine with the parents of 3 or 4. But may be a bit shocking to a mum of 1 who's just hitting 8weeks.

Oh that's too funny. Think of his immune system! It would have been epic!

[Mariab]

Oh. I think parents are overly sensitive these days. Back in the old days you were allowed to laugh about the little troubles of a kid.
And I think they are extremely overprotective too. Makes the kids dependant and not so much capable in the survivor's skill department

[Sandra, Moderator]

My oldest daughter loved to eat dog food. And yesterday my two year old ate half of his birthday candle...

[Janice, Moderator]

Rusalka wrote: "Oh that's too funny. Think of his immune system! It would have been epic! ..."

He's rarely sick. My neighbor used to say to me, "A dirty kid is a healthy kid. And your's is the healthiest kid on the block!"

[Travis]

Most parents make me look bad. I just handle my kids the way I remember bwing treated. Causes some fighting actually since my wife is kind of a safety fanatic where I'm more of a suck it up Sally. Or let em eat dirt its good for immune system. You're gonna hurt yourself
Waaahhhh. See told you so. Wife:what are you doing you're supposed to be watching them. I did I watches him not listen and pinch his fingers in doorway or fall off couch. Never messed with the door again.

[Janice, Moderator]

Yes, I think the first words out of my mouth to my ex when I found my baby eating mud soaked dog food were, "What are you doing?"

[Tasha]

I was definitely that horribly over-protective mom with my first and even by my second pregnancy it was all so different. I gotta say, I wish I could have a do-over with my first. oh well, he is still an amazing kid...who didn't learn to ride a bike until he was 9 or 10 bc of the first "big hill" that scared his mom when he was little and learning to ride. We laugh about it now but it hurts. ;)

[Janice, Moderator]

I remember sitting in the dentist's chair when my son was a toddler thinking, "How can I ever bring my child to the dentist to experience this?" But, I had a phobia of going to the dentist. I still do, but I get knocked out now so it's bearable (and amusing to those around me when I come out of it).

[Cherie]

Janice wrote: "I remember sitting in the dentist's chair when my son was a toddler thinking, "How can I ever bring my child to the dentist to experience this?" But, I had a phobia of going to the dentist. I sti..."

Don't let it bother you, Janice. Many people have the same dentist phobia. Most do not even know why. Amy used to be the same way - she used to get panic attacks and had to get a perscription before she went. I never could figure it out because I took her and her two sisters to a child dentist that was the sweetest person you ever wanted to meet. My dentist likes to start seeing the toddlers when they are about two so that they can get used to sitting in the chair and having their teeth looked at. He does not charge for it and it lets the kids get used to him and the office.

[Janice, Moderator]

I know why I have a phobia of dentists. My parents tell me that my first dentist was a breeze. I don't remember him. But then we moved. The new dentist couldn't freeze my jaw properly. You feel a drill in a live tooth, then be told not to be a martyr by the dentist when you cried out, and you'd have a phobia too. There were other nightmares I had in that chair that I will spare telling you about. We lived in a small town and options weren't available.

[Anne (Booklady)]

Janice, I have a dentist phobia too. My 1st dentist filled 26 cavities all at once. The Novacain wore off and I bit him. Dr. Wolff put his big mitt over my mouth and nose and yelled at me until I turned blue. I was 5 years old.

I have to have gas and a Valium before I even see a dentist now.

[Janice, Moderator]

I was about the same age, maybe a bit older because we moved there when I was 5. I had lost my front tooth and the replacement wouldn't grow in. There were 5 teeth buds vying for the spot. I had to have oral surgery to remove 4 of the buds. So I must have been about 6 or 7.

Were your parents in the room when that happened? I was in such a state whenever I had to go, that my father insisted on being in the room with me even though the dentist didn't want him there.

[Anne (Booklady)]

Janice wrote: "I was about the same age, maybe a bit older because we moved there when I was 5. I had lost my front tooth and the replacement wouldn't grow in. There were 5 teeth buds vying for the spot. I had..."

No, they weren't there. Dr. Wolff was a pediodontist and had all of his patient chairs in a large circle - our backs were all you could see. He did not allow parents in until he was finished with us and only to walk us out.

Heck he still gets to me; I can't spell what he was and I'm sleepy - night.

[Cherie]

Holey smoke you two! I can understand having a phobia after having someone like that work on you! My ex-room mate was taken to the dentist on the Indian Reservation near where she grew up in Hollbrook, Arizona. She was not Indian, but her father worked there and she went to school there. (You want to talk about bullying, you should hear what the Indian kids put her through.) Anyway, the dentist drilled on her teeth with NO novicane. He did it to the Indian kids too! He told them that they didn't need it.

Parents can hear everything going on at my dentist's office and can walk back and watch if they want. There is no door between the waiting area and the three chairs in working area. My dentist took over the practice from his father, and my dentist's daughter will take it over from him. I feel very grateful to have been associated with him for the last 30 years. I think my insurance/and co-payments and out of pocket payments (when the kids had no insurance) have paid have the mortgage on his house over the years!

[Peggy]

Yikes! Horror stories...

I don't have an actual phobia but don't like it either. I don't go as often as I should.

[Sandra, Moderator]

Those terrible stories are some common! My father in law had a severe allergic reaction to novicane during a procedure, so his dentist (same dentist of the rest of the family) refused to use novicane with any of his children just in case... They all hate the dentist. My husband would rather be toothless before go seeing one... The funny part is that all of them proved in adulthood not being allergic to novicane...

I don't like to go to the dentist, and even avoid going too often. :) I bring all my kids twice a year though, and I'm very happy with our dentist team.

[Peggy]

When I moved to the city I live in now I had to find a new dentist. Didn't like it, you never know who you'll end up with! I've been there once in the almost 4 years we live here (2 years ago) but it wasn't so bad. We had to fill in a questionnaire that also asked about fear for dentists, and I gave it a quite high rating, and I think they took that into account. Especially the lady who did this cleaning thing after the dentist did the check-up was very friendly and patient. She said she noticed I was very tense ;-)

I had cavities filled twice, both without any sedatives, and it didn't hurt. Also one of my wisdom teeth removed (with sedatives) and that was not as bad as I thought either. What I do hate and what keeps me from going is removal of plaque (??? sorry, I'm not fluent in dentist related English), because my gums have pulled away a little in some places which exposes the nerves, and it hurts like hell when you have an insensitive person removing plaque and not caring about moving the cleaning thing right over those sensitive places. She's the reason I avoid dentists now, even though I used to go twice a year before and they are very careful at my new dentist.

[Tasha]

I hear horror stories al the time. We found an amazing dentist that my kids (and I) actually don't mind going to at all. He is really wonderful and his staff is so nice. I'm always back in with the kids and they never give me agg about it. I love them. The only catch is I have to drive 40 minutes to get there. Well worth it though, esp compared to all the horror stories I'm always hearing.

Peggy, I had a similar problem and my dentist covered the exposed areas with something (can't think of what it is right now) but it blends in with my teeth and I have no sensitivities in those areas now. It's been wonderful. I can try to find out what it is if you are interested and maybe you can find someone there to do the same.

[Janice, Moderator]

The best time I had in a dentist's chair was when I was given laughing gas to try and alleviate my anxieties. This was a dentist in Calgary, when I first moved away from home. They put the mask on me, left me alone in the chair and didn't come back for a bit. Pretty soon, I was giggling, then laughing. If only they could have all been like that. When I moved to Grande Prairie, I asked for it and was told I didn't need it. Ah... yes I do.

[Sandra, Moderator]

lol Janice! I'd like to try it!