Recent Birth Announcement

Boys:
Grant Nathaniel
Christian Michael
Locke
Benjamin Tucker
Paul Wesley
Dawson Joseph
Owen Carter
John Roderick
William Riley Scott
Brady Ryan

Girls:
Anastazia Mae
Madisyn Grace
Isabella Grace
Callisto Phoenix
Olive Lucy
Abigail Haelee

I like/love:
Christian Michael
Benjamin Tucker
Paul Wesley
Dawson Joseph
Owen Carter
William Riley Scott
Brady Ryan

Madisyn Grace
Abigail Haelee

Madisyn and Haelee are pretty messed up spellings though. I'd stick with Madison and Hailey/Hailee :)

Ironic fact: I want to name my son Dawson Scott Riley. There is a Dawson and William's middle names and Riley and Scott.

2009-12-11 20:39:28 by Sunshine5399

copy of his original birth announcement provided to me by the Whitley family with his birth date, place of birth, and birth weight. If you need a ...

I'm planning a family time capsule that we will open in five or 10 years, and I'm looking for suggestions on what to put in it.

Everyone will fill out a fun questionnaire - questions that we'll enjoy and maybe even laugh about as we complete the form and again when we open it in the future. For instance, what was the most important event in your life this year? What did you pay for something recently? Who is the tallest grandchild today, and who will be tallest in ten years? How many children under the age of 5 will we have in the family 10 years from now?

Please help me come up with other entertaining questions.

I'm also looking for ideas of other things to put in my time capsule. Family photos of course. Programs from family weddings, graduations, etc. Recent birth and wedding announcements. Other ideas?

Thanks.

You've got a great list of things already! There isn't much I can add to it but I'd say things like if one gets their hair cut, a lock of hair. If there are children then milk teeth that's fallen out. If you go on a picnic or a walk in the forest then a few wild, dry pressed flowers are always nice mementos.
This is a silly game that we used to play when we were students but its fun. The idea is to make a story by writing one line each and telling the next person the last word you wrote and then folding the paper over so they can't see what was written before. After the page is full you can choose to read it aloud in front of everyone or to put it in the time capsule to read when you open it. You can also do the same but drawing a person instead. Folding over at the head, chest, stomach, bottom and legs... etc..
It's quite funny to see every ones perception.
If you go on days out like to the zoo or to see a film or the theatre you can keep the tickets as a nice reminder.
Or if the kids are young it's always nice to see paintings or drawings with their names and age on it.
Birthday cards or love letters are always nice.

Have you seen the film 'Amelie' by the way? The main character find a box belonging to a boy 50 years ago and it contains mementos of his childhood... it's sweet. (that's not what the film is about though)

I can't think of anything else but I hope that helps!
Think I'll make my own! It's a really nice idea :)

2009-10-04 10:22:24 by MyThought

A stroke of genius perhaps?

When the McCain campaign announced that Bristol Palin was pregnant, the media began a two-day stampede investigating the suggested hypocrisy of Palin's stance on pre-marital sex, followed by commentary on her lack of control of too many kids reflecting her ymanaging skills and a flaw in the "power-frau" image she projects.

No one seemed to ask why the campaign released the non-story of a teen pregnancy in the first place? Cuz they were reading the media like a book, perhaps?

Supposedly it was to quiet the rumors that Trig wasn't her baby.
Yeah, right, sure it was...


Well, there were several rumors and stories about Sarah Palin as folks tried to flesh out this unknown candidate for world leader. What choice did we have? McCain dropped her on us out of the "Last Frontier"! We were all his patsy and this maestro was playing us like a fiddle. Rather than ask the right questions, we played along.

Then quicker than a McCain VP decision... one non-story... indirectly about Sarah Palin ruled them all- the valid and the not. It roared louder than Hurricane Gustav (I know, I know) and quieted any other discussion of Palin for two days.

The stories building up since Friday's announcement ranged from very political to very personal.

1) There was Troopergate--the Alaskan Legislature investigation of Palin's possibly improper dismissal of the Public Safety Commissioner
[very political]

2) There was Trig(ger)gate--That baby Trig might be teenie Bristol's uh, like, who cares?
[very personal]

3) There was BabyWatergate--That Palin flew to Texas in her 8th month of an already diagnosed high-risk pregnancy to speak at a high-profile Republican conference. Hours before her speech, her water broke! What did Mrs. Right-to-life do? She waited around and delivered her speech as planned. She chose not to get examined by any of the top-ranked neo-natal specialists in the Dallas area but instead called her personal physician who okayed her travel by phone. Palin then, while in inactive labor flew to Anchorage and drove 50 miles to her "personal" physician who delivered baby Trig.
The discussion of pro-life Sarah Palin risking her unborn baby and the impact of her strenous 9k round trip travel likely causing Trig's premature birth was getting started by Sunday.
[very queasy]
But just as the "woman's right to lose" for her career discussion was taking off, Monday's announcement came Campaign provided Juneaugate.

The misdirection also kept the next step in the getting to know you phase from getting heard altogether. That was the fact that Sarah Palin called for the troops to be pulled out of Iraq months ago. [very on point]

Some ticket.

Just imagine, if the media hadn't taken the bait, they could be well on their way to credibly discussing the dissonance on the ticket.

Am I giving the McCain campaign too much credit?

We've learned from the Bush Presidency that there is perhaps more at play than coincidence here (like the recent drop in gas prices displaying our "healthy" economy)--an invisible hand pulling the strings that we the public never see until the truth gets aired years afterwards. If the announcement was strategic, it was absolutely Rove-ian and I mean it with the highest of praise. Who best knows the media than that puppetmaster?

In hindsight it seems too obvious a step, after all the overcoverage of Britney, Lindsey, Miley, Jamie...all one needs to do to stop all serious scrutiny is throw some raw meat [as in a juicy teen story] to the press and watch them devour it like a pack of ...uh journalists. Too easy.
Desirable outcome--- Palin looks unfairly attacked and the media loses all credibility. Bristol's pregnancy was never a story and the campaign had no real reason to release it.

Well...
Here we go again...and,
Haven't we learned anything?

OMG, thanks for the link Curiosity/Satisfaction. I hope the press gets Palin to explain her secessionism.

Palin's involvement with secessionists could be because she wants to be ruler of all. Maybe McCain putting her on the ticket keeps her from taking Alaska out of the Union as well as helps to lower our oil prices!

Here is another story to add to all those

http://www.samefacts.com/archives/palin_ /2008/09/sarah_palin_and_alaskan_secessi onism.php

2008-09-04 21:26:31 by Dess L

Her and my BIL got married a year ago in December and I didn't have a problem with her...1st I was offended cause they went off to Mexico to get married and we couldn't afford to go and because of that she didn't want to "waste" an invitation on us..it would be polite to still send is one especially since my husband is the grooms brother...I mean for a keepsake...then she is a Veternarian and I am a SAHM and full time college student and it feels like she is always talking down to me or just plain rude! They got pregnant right away and my BIL would ask me questions about babies and stuff since I have been married for 9yrs this year and have 2 kids...and when I am talking to him, she will straight up but in and take his attention away or change the subject...this would make me mad cause I am not forcing any advice on them...he is coming to me and asking me! Then on Thanksgiving all the women were in the kitchen getting dinner ready and she was micromanaging me and tell me step by step how to steam green beans...I was just standing there "like are you serious?" I wanted to slap her but she was pregnant...I just bit my tounge and left the room and let them finish cooking...then for Christmas we do a secret Santa and she had me, she bought me a really cute sweater but in a size LARGE...I was not even a Large when pregnant...so of course I was offended, then she didn't want to take it and exchange it, she wanted to send me the reciept in the mail and have me drive all the way to Chicago to exchange it when she lived right there! I just left it and my MIL's house and let them do whatever..and I still have not gotten my Christmas gift...so I will no longer participate in their secret santas....and the most recent thing she did that just made me want to avoid her at all cost cause i am not sure if i could fight the temptation to beat her was that she sent out the baby's birth announcement...it had the babies name, middle name, moms last name and then my BIL's last name...which I thought was weird cause if you are hyphenating last names...it should be the dad's first, so i sent her a message on FB saying thanks for the announcement, the baby is gorgeous and that I was not aware that they were giving the baby her last name and not my BIL's...i put it like that so they could clarify if it was another middle name, a misprint or if she was taking the mom's name before the dad's? Everyone was curious...and she deleted my question and didn't even bother to respond...so now I am like what the hell is her problem?
I don't hate...I just don't want to be bothered with her...unfortunately i have to see her when i go to my MIL's
well i asked about the last name cause no one would and everyone was confused...we were not sure if it was a misprint, another middle name or her last name????? I don't really care, its not my kid..it's theirs and they are free to do what they will...just everyone was like what does that mean and no one would ask but me...
Well I appreciate everyone's imput. I never saw it the way you describe cause to me, I put forth effort to be nice and ask about the baby and buy her gifts and then BAM, I get shitty comments or treated shady...and its not that I am being petty...I just think that people can only take so much and they will either blow-up or just need to remove themselves from those people..thats just my point of view...
and I am definatly not jealous...I am not a jealous person and she has nothing i desire..
sounds like dana j has an agenda...
Yeah, I agree. I asked the one time about the name but once she deleted my question I never brought it back up...I think my husband asked his brother and maybe my MIL finally asked them something cause my husband told me that its another middle name...but I didn't even want to ask anymore...it was clarified, and that all I want to know..

I have similar problems with my SIL. She also gives inappropriate gifts, and makes rude comments to me. She critizes me in front of my husband, friends and children. I just turn to her and say pointedly, "That was unkind" or something similar. If she interrupts you, treat her like on of you children. "Susie, you realize I was talking to Tom, didn't you? I'm sure you did. Please wait your turn." (This is a bit extreme, and if done right, very embarrassing for the person receiving the scolding. You will probably only need to do it once.) Other then that, smile pleasantly and bring something to do while you're there.
also, the baby name thing is weird and seems disrespectful to her husband's name, but I think she knows that. Its a lapse of manners on her part, don't harp or you'll look like a nag.

2009-03-21 08:18:30 by Too Pretty To Work A.K.A Jen

We recently found out we were expecting our second child some time in September. My husband and mother-in-law are not speaking to one another following a recent fall-out. The reason for their silence is, in my opinion, trivial. It's not like she tried to do anything severe to him, but she did fire him. She and I do not get along either, but I believe she has a right to know about this upcoming baby with the rest of the close family. He, on the other hand, thinks we should announce it to her when we announce it to the family mass... when the baby is born... with a birth announcement.

If you were in the situation (or if you have been) would you tell his mother despite him or respect his wishes to leave his mother out of his life and/or let him tell her if and when he wants to?

I think you should support your husbands wishes regardless if not it may cause trouble with you and him chances are him mom will find out before he tells her anyway so i wouldnt bother let work itself out.

2008-12-26 13:11:33 by nakat8