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I am over puking people... I have done biblical amounts of laundry and created a mound of dirty diapers, pull ups and wipes... Ewwe the yuckyness of kids!!

You are certainly yucking me out just describing it. Children are gooey, germy demanding masses of flesh notable mostly for their irrational thought and action. Kittens are at least furry and clean.

I am glad you have recovered from swamp bug feveritus.

But they sure are cute! Hope everyone is having a good night.

Yes, they seem to be able to instill this reaction in some adults and thus the species continues.

SD you know they are cute! At this age they say the cutest things too!

Good evening... Feeling the ick of depression clouding over.

H and I are going to visit a new church tomorrow morning, we will see how it goes.

How is everyone tonight?

I am better with children before they can talk. The talking ones are (to me) so boring. There is nothing worse to me than listening to an 8 yr old try to tell a story.
I am very very happy there are people (parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts(not me), family friends, teachers etc) who are willing to endure the boredom in order to train the little things how to be more interesting. Just not me. I will take your babies, toddlers and your teen agers but not usually the 5-12 yr olds.

Well I have 1 baby, 1 toddler and 1 1st grader .. All are sweet and funny. We will plan a trip to visit and you will see!

Healed I hope the new church is good , sorry about the depression... Maybe you can head it off? Monday is the 1 yr anniversary of the couch!

I like them all but the older I get, the smaller doses I can take.
I think there is nothing more fascinating than listening to a 'talker' tell a story because they show how their mind works, the connections they make, the conclusions they draw.

I once was driving my son and his friend and the friend's younger brother home from sledding. The 2 older boys were talking about their day and trying to "wow" one another. The littler guy couldn't get a word in. Finally he got their attention when they were talking about how high they went while going off a ramp built in the snow. I had been trying to think of a way to get the 2 older boys to let the little guy in to share about his day too, when I heard him find his own way in. I heard "Hey, guys! Hey guys! You know what? You know what, guys? I jumped so high... Hey, you know what, guys? Guys? ...I jumped SO high, you know what?----I saw---God!"
This little guy knew how to persevere and get into the conversation, then pull the biggest "wow" of the day. It was hilarious!

[QUOTE=LolaCabanna;2952343]Well I have 1 baby, 1 toddler and 1 1st grader .. All are sweet and funny. We will plan a trip to visit and you will see!

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Like others haven't tried that before. It is good you see them that way. My sibling sees his children that way. My parents saw their grandchildren that way. I am a bad aunt. Basically to me, every visit to see my parents after grandchildren arrived involved gooey germ ridden short noisy self absorbed savages who made every meal a misery and most other encounters unnecessarily complicated. And their parents were worse. It is not by accident I live across the country from my family. Luckily for me, I am old enough that most of my friends were not having/adopting children as we were not legal during the age where most people have their children.

Sort of upset tonight.... I have a friend who moved away almost a year ago... we text and email occasionally but she is working and going to school so she's very busy... today we skyped for the first time...

she asked how therapy was going (she is going to school to be a therapist) and when we talked about xT she made a comment that he probably wouldn't take me back as a client... she said if she were in his shoes she wouldn't take me back...

I don't know why I"m upset because I don't even think I want to go back to him... but he said that I could "always" come back... that he knew the quitting and coming back things was just part of my "attachment" issues ... but maybe he wouldn't take me back... maybe he does think its a lost cause...

RTS - if he said it to you, I think you can believe him. Students say all sorts of things without having enough real world experience to know what they are saying. Plus all professionals develop over time, so someone in school or just out are often apt to be excessively rigid, adhering to a formula than after practicing for awhile.

One look from a stinky baby at 3 am , when she is smiling like your the best thing ever... Is amazing.

LC - I think it is nice both that you have that and that you think it is great. It is good to have things like that in one's life.

Children are amazing but they are also unpredictable, don't come with an instruction manual... bring up all of your own childhood issues... exhaust you...

so even though I think they are a blessing... I imagine someone with little experience with children (I babysat so much as a teenager) would find the whole thing anxiety inducing.... and overwhelming... and some would even say more work than it appears to be worth..

Its certainly not unimaginable that not everyone wants to go that route...

Thanks Stop. That is a good reminder. My friend just texted and said what she meant was that if a T knows its not a good fit that it doesn't seem right to continue to take a client's money...

Well its probably best to go to sleep so as to shut my mind off....

Pretty thoughtless of a therapist in training. Of course, maybe depends on what kind of therapy. I would have been upset to hear that.

Your xT has his own thoughts, and that's what matters

Hello everyone. Busy day. BBall and a wedding. Why do people pour so much money into weddings? I'd hate to see the bill for that thing. And I wish I had a designated driver so I could have taken advantage of the open bar. But I was able to get W out of the house and it was good to see some family I had not seen in ages.

Is basketball still going on? Haven't we moved into lacrosse season, or hurling or something? Shuffleboard?

March madness ... There is a sport ai don't get into.

I would rather play sports like basketball than watch them. And if watching them, I usually prefer watching women play than men. My friends are always telling me how the team at the university where I teach is doing.

Ok that is just sad... At your own college?

Not sad, surely. Just a little unaware. It does not really have anything to do with the law school.

RS , I agree .. Friend in training needs more training! That was rude and only friends. opinion , and you know what they say about those?

Still SD you teach there, you should know if they are winning or not.