Speaking of Baby Picspam... sometimes Joy and abject fear are close on the spectrum. though I do think this is joy.
Crappy video of pool-based Pop Goes the Weasel.
Noah is so skinny.
But? There's always a but. When this is over, can we have a big 'but' moratorium?
Fred ,'Smile Time'
Natter 59: Dominate Your Face!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kat - Jul 13, 2008 4:56:30 pm PDT #7718 of 10003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
megan walker - Jul 13, 2008 4:59:46 pm PDT #7719 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I just realized if my oldest uncle were still alive he would be 105.
sarameg - Jul 13, 2008 5:06:33 pm PDT #7720 of 10003
It's like the reverse of when I say my grandparents died in the 20s and 30s.
A friend of mind in college's mother grew up orphaned and living on the streets of Paris during the Holocaust (she was jewish.) She shared it rather obliquely, but it left an impression, partly because it had always seemed like it was one more generation away. And it's funny to be reminded of it today, as in today's paper there was an obit on a local woman who'd survived the Holocaust with her infant son in Czechoslovakia at the time. They were all of her family to survive. She was 97, and I've seen her interviewed on her experience on various local specials.
P.M. Marc - Jul 13, 2008 5:12:09 pm PDT #7721 of 10003
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Age range of grandparents by YOB: 1901-1916
Age range of great-grandparents, as known, by YOB: 1866 (per census data, family information claims 1868)-1890.
Amy - Jul 13, 2008 5:12:12 pm PDT #7722 of 10003
Because books.
My grandmothers are both 93 (my grandfathers are both dead). But then Stephen's *father* is 83, which is weird for me.
brenda m - Jul 13, 2008 5:15:02 pm PDT #7723 of 10003
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
My last grandparent died in 1986. I think they were all born 1900-1910, though I'm not positive about my dad's mother.
msbelle - Jul 13, 2008 5:19:00 pm PDT #7724 of 10003
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Miss USA just fell in the evening gown comp. for Miss Universe.
Hil R. - Jul 13, 2008 5:19:55 pm PDT #7725 of 10003
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
My grandparents were born 1909-1919. Great-grandparents were 1879-1892.
Laura - Jul 13, 2008 5:21:01 pm PDT #7726 of 10003
Our wings are not tired.
3 of my grandparents were gone before I was born. The last one died when I was maybe 6. It is great that my kids have been able to have grandparents. My sister was a grandmother at 39 with her grandkids being older than my kids. Wide ranges of ages. My mom will be 87 next month.
DH had grandparents. His paternal grandparents lived with us for about a year. It was like having grandparents for the first time in my life. And an extra set of hands for helping with my new baby, which rocked.
Jesse - Jul 13, 2008 5:21:13 pm PDT #7727 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Crap, I meant to watch Miss U!