(Near) Houston, Texas Mom to Twins and a Bonus Baby!

Hey there!

Glad to find this site! Not many good forums out there. Hope to contribute much and learn tons as well!

Jen

 

Welcome, Jen! I'm Jackie. I'm finishing up Year Seven with three (dd11, dd9, and ds6) in Ohio. We've got several Texans here: Marilyn's from the Houston area, too! And we also have twins here, too! Identical 5YO boys...I bet they keep you busy!!! There's a thread right now about a humorous look at raising boys...you may check it out for a laugh. You just might be able to identify with it!!!

 

welcome to the site. I am from Texas too. I have been homeschooling for 5 years. Glad you found us. It is a wonderful site and alot of neat ladies.

 

I have 8 year old twins, boy/girl 6y.o. boy 5 yo. dd ----- our bonus baby.

 

Hi,
Welcome. I am a new homeschooling mom and I love this site. I really love your quote!! I have always been an awful speller. I don't even have an excuse I just don't spell well. (Although sometimes I blame it on my fingernails being too long.)

 

Welcome to the board! Nice to have you along. I checked out your website...love your ideas on discipline. I totally agree with you. Personally, it always shocks me when kids don't listen to thier parents and throw tantrums in malls or stores. No kid is perfect, however, overall you should expect your kid to listen. Every kid will have his or her moments, but c'mon, you should be able to get a kid to listen. I love how you say that with discipline you don't need punishment. My dh and I are pretty harsh disciplinarins and my kids have not been punished in a very long time. I never put it the way you put, that is perfect wording. I think you can enjoy your kids more if they know boundaries and are too afraid or respectful for cross them. Anyway, are the blond on the website?

 

Maureen,

you have long fingernails! I wish I did! I used to have nails people would swear were fake. Now, they are short and hardly ever painted. Motherhood is taking it's toll on my hands! I can't wait to have long nails again. I just can't seem to keep them looking good anymore.

 

I play Mountain Dulcimer. You can't play with nails (not that I EVER had them, lol!) I would even keep fingernail clippers in this little pouch with my picks, because I wouldn't notice they were getting longer until I'd sit to play!

 

Hi, Jen! Welcome to the site. I'm in Houston, so we're practically neighbors!

~ Marylyn

 

Wow!
Thaks for all the "hellos"!
I will ned to take a moment to reply to each of you!

 

I barely found this place!
No kidding, I have a HUGE, BIG, did I mention: LARGE homeschool bookmark folder in my browser and it is from years of collecting links to websites.

Now, as par for the course, many are DUDS (Read: The byte) No one really there, lots of dust in those forums.

I came here, last night (Early mornin' actually) but I forgot how I found you guys... sigh....

This is a great forum. Thanks for the wonderfull welcome!
I hope to be a good contributer to this group.

jen

P.S. Yes, I am a dork. I began to turn my computer off last night, with full intentions of going to bed at a decent hour, only to stumble upon a gret link for schooliong, whilc, of course, led to "Just one more Great site".. and so on. Ended up staying up to make DH and the three monsters some breakfast, took a two hour nap while the monsters played games, now up again. I mention all of this because I am a little goofy, so if you see me posting at 3 am, you will know why. :shock:

 

Howdy, Ma'am!
I really hope to make some new friends, for sure!

 

Bwaa haa haa!
You "Got" it!

The term 'Bonus Baby", in this house, began wuth the twins. I was 30 before I even conceived ANY children. it was the twins. We were VERY shocked and gratefull to have the ONE baby, then to find out they were twins, meant that we had a Bonus Baby.

That was until the twins were a year and a half and I learned the REAL definition of Bonus Baby, :shock: with my baby girl, Sasha.

hahahahahaha!

 

Hi there, Maureen!

I know how ya' feel, honey. At my core, is the need to excell at whatever I do, because aiming for anything less that excellence means "THAT" is as far as you will go.

I know this, I teach this, I believe this...
But when it comes to my small freetime on the computer with my friends.. Kiss My Grits on being perfect! hahahaha!

 

Hey there Ava!

Oh! Thanks for checking it out. I was watching Dr. Phil one day (Can only stand his show half the time) and something clicked in my head about how all the "Parenting" web sites were just regurgitating the same "Safe" boring information. Bleh!

It is a labor of love and a work in progress. I am VERY open to suggestions, by the way. and most of the links are empty. I am hoping the get more time in a couple of weeks to devote to bringing the site back up to working order. If you have anything good or bad about it to say, please do. We all learn from the good and bad, and even the bad will help me make a better site.

Oh! And Sorry, I am NOT the blonde on the site. Funny, though! hahaha! I did do everything on the site, the design the writing and the graphics. So look for misspellings! haahahaha!

 

Howdy, Pard'ner!

I am on the SW side. You?
We just moved here from the Pearland area. Closer to DH work. He used to be gone for 18 hours a day. Now, he leaves only 5 minutes before needed to be there, comes home for lunch and is home within 5 minutes of leaving work!

Not used to him being here... all the time.... uugghh! Maybe it was a ad idea to have him home too much.... Yesterday, he messed with my washing machine settings... "Do not touch the woman's tools and machinery"! BWAAA HAAA HAAA!

 

LOLOL!! :lol: I'm on the NW side in the Spring Branch area. My husband did the opposite, commuting-wise - he was working about 10 minutes from home at Northwest Mall and now he is at the Galleria. It's still not too far away, but the traffic can be frightful!

~ Marylyn

 

Welcome, Jen! I am a little late responding, but am glad to meet you!

I have 2 kids...dds11 and dd9. This is our first year hs....and we love it! My dh and I also lived in Kingwood, TX for about a year and a half just after we were first married! We liked it down there, but it was toooo far away from our families, so we moved back!

 

hehe Jennifer I tend to be on the computer Doing that at 3 am fairly often.. so when you do, you can know you aren't all alone.

 

Welcome! Just wrapping up my 4th hsing. I've got 8 children ages 7 months to 14 yrs old. This is a really great site, wish I could get here more often.