Yay for the whole FairyChatFamily! Ok, I already made this joke elsewhere, but it’s worth repeating… “I now notarize you husband and wife.” 
To everyone else, yay, boo, woohoo, congrats, awww… I’ve read everything I just don’t have the energy to remember everything. I got up too early. I want to go back to sleep now. I don juan be here!
Thanks, I usually read the MMP but don’t have much to say.
Hubba hubba!
Yes. Bro’s wedding: 11-20-1999. Nephew’s birth: 10-18-2005. And in between, several years of two wanna-be-grandmas reminding themselves that, the way SIL’s brain works, asking about it was Not A Good Idea.
Bro would have been happy to make a kid on the wedding night - SIL didn’t feel ready. They got lucky: once they decided to try, bullseye in one!
My local parish offers premarital counseling to non-Catholics as well; there may be churches in your area that do. The priest who ran my bro’s made it very clear at every step when something was a Catholic thing, when it was a legal thing (they even mention things like having to choose whether any gainful income will be shared or separate, which is a legal requirement but not a religious one), when it was a psychology thing (having alone time; accepting vs understanding; what to do when your spouse’s behaviour is unacceptable to you).
Again ponders the amazing existence of people who are actually interested enough in all of us to read the MMP
Well, you should post more often. I’ve read your posts in lots of other threads, and you’re cool. You’d also up the mumber of MMPers in Exotic Locations.
I almost got up at six. Well, I did get up at six and had a bath, and then I contemplated the fun of doing laundry at six thirty, and went back to bed. I have no pressing reason to get up early today, so I didn’t.
Today is my Day Off, so it’s laundry and chores and I think I’ll experiment with taking the very excellent yogurt I made, and freezing it with lemon curd and cherries. Does anyone else remember a time when frozen yogurt tasted like actual yogurt, and not like fake ice cream? Slightly sweetened and tangy? I want to re-create that. Wish me luck.
Ya know, the thing about shooting skeet for twenty or thirty years is you end up with a couple of shotguns that you never use any more but can’t make yourself part with.
So if you want to borrow one…
We have a new baby amongst us here at swampwork. One of my staff called a little while ago. She’s a grandma again! How ironic I get to post about this today! Anywho, being as she was up most of the night she desired a day off to sleep, which was, of course, granted. Can’t have tired grannies runnin’ around, now can we? Oh, the baby… The baby is her youngest son’s and DIL’s first. Poor DIL had a difficult pregnancy, cut short last night when her doctor decided the baby did not want to wait any longer. Thus, a c-section and a baby boy born just shy of three months premature. He weighs 2 lb. 12 oz. :eek: I’m trying to picture this teeney tiny humanlet and having a real hard time. However, baby and mommy are doing fine, although, obviously baby is being watched real close right now. I think perhaps I shall see if I can see baby later on today. I really want to see just how tiny that is. I am super glad to know that he seems to be ok. Just so teeney tiny!
Thus endeth the latest news from swampworld.
Wow, what fabulous news this morning from FairyChatWorld! Congratulations to all!
Listen to this – they’re repairing the roof where I work. Part of this work consists, apparently, of removing the old roof. Which, apparently is COVERED IN ROCKS. So, apparently, these rocks must be removed with, get this, A GIANT VACUUM. Gianticusly enormous. And loud. LOUD!! It cannot be overstated how loud this piece of (large) equipment is. Sky-is-falling large. And loud. We get this treat for the next six months. I don’t know if the giant rock-sucking vacuum is going to be here for six months (probably not) but roof work is expected to take that long. Gah!
I’m glad you’re posting in the MMP too, Nava. I enjoy hearing from your corner of the world!
Kai … don’t say you didn’t expect this: your daughter is gorgeous!!! 
EC a <snerk> rock suckin’ vacuum, <snerk>, how jakely jake! Have you asked if you can use it to <snerk> suck up some rocks <snerk> yet? When trees were being cleared for our new church building, I so wanted to get on the <snerk> back hoe <snerk> and push a tree over but they wouldn’t let me, the meanies! If I knew there was a ginormous <snerk> rock suckin’ vacuum cleaner <snerk> at work I’d soooooo want to <snerk> suck up some rocks! <snerk> Oh man! A <snerk> rock suckin’ vacuum! <snerk>
-swampbear, the juvenile <snerk>
fcm, congrats on the promotion and the engagement. Don’t worry. You raised a great kid and she’ll do fine.
swampy, picture two pounds of butter end to end. That’ll be about baby size.
dottieg, try to eat some small bland meals as often as possible. That’s the only thing that kept the nausea at bay for me. Surprisingly, peanut butter toast was wonderful.
kai, did you hear that thump? I do believe that was rifty’s tongue falling on the ground when he saw the picture of the peach. She IS a beauty.
li-li, I’ll have somma that frozen yogurt iffen you’re doing a CD holder distribution.
Lots of work to do today. 
Would that be frozen or room temperature?
:eek: NO WAY I am going there.
I thought we were gonna lay off the dead baby jokes 
yay for swampy’s co-gramma-worker
**kai-peach ** is real purty - kinda looks like a friend of mine (and if I had a recent shot of her, I’d show you)
What dead baby joke? Puggy told me to imagine two pounds of butter laid end to end. I’m just thinkin’ that a two pound baby would feel more like squishy room temp butter than hard frozen butter. I mean they do feel different after all. I am incensed that anyone would think otherwise! Ok, I’m kinda amused, but I didn’t mean it like dead baby, honest! :o
Nor did I think you did. I was joshin myself. Shoulda put the winky at the end. FWIW, babies aren’t squishy. I should know better than to say this but…think Joe Dawg.
no, they’re not squishy, just squeezably soft, like Charmin[sup]TM[/sup]
If the experimental frozen stuff turns out, I will distribute some via cd drive.
kai, your daughter really is gorgeous. Wow.
Babies are good. Mr. Lissar and I were tossing around baby names a few days ago, and I keep thinking about it. The only ones we are definitely going to use (assuming we end up with kids of both sexes, and not, say, twenty girls) are Nathaniel Elijah and Mariko. I like Clare, Naomi, Miriam, Anne, and Judith for girls. Boy names I’m not so sure about. I like biblical names. You, know- like Peleg and Shadrach. There are way too many Michaels, although I like it. Davids, too. What are everyone’s favourite names?
I’m here today, but completely useless. Bad head cold, and I have to work through it. In fact, 12 hours of working through it. 
Internet was down for three hours. Wah.
:eek: That’s the skeeriest thing I have read in a looooooooong time.
MBG sorry about the head cold and the long work hours. Look at it this way, anybody gets on your nerves, just sneeze on 'em. That’ll show 'em!
kai your girlchild is indeed gorgeous. I’m bettin’ she’s now Spats wallpaper.