> On 20 Oct 2007 21:30:29 GMT, zeldabee
apollo.geese.com>
> blethered:
>>>> On 12 Oct 2007 02:11:45 GMT, zeldabee
apollo.geese.com>
>>> blethered:
>>>>>>>Mogget
spammersdropdead.scat.demon.co.uk> wrote:>>>>> I found some tuits and uploaded some pics of my brats here:
>>[...]
>>>>Dude, you guys have some serious tie dye. I myself am going to a tie
>>>>dye party at the weekend.
>>>
>>> A tie dye party? How does that work?
>>
>>Well, we showed up with white shirts and whatnot, and tied and dyed the
>>stuff (while we yacked away, and the kids ran around shrieking).
>
> As they do.
Sprogly embarrassed me somewhat by tattling on the other children
constantly. You know, the other women there were from my hippy mommies
group, and they're all into Gentle Discipline and Connected Parenting and
that sort of thing, and I'm sort of not into any *system*...anyway, Sprogly
picks this stuff up from the other kids in daycare, it's not like I'm this
authoritarian, punitive parent or anything, but in my paranoia I was afraid
they were thinking this.
Which reminds me, Sprogly remarked the other day about being in "time out"
at daycare, and so I spoke to the Daycare Lady about it, because I'd
thought we were on the same page with that, and here he's in time out? She
said that the other boy who's there a lot gets "time outs" at the specific
request of his mother. So he was in time out, and Sprogly felt left out, so
he asked to be in time out, too. And I'm all...oh, FFS!
>>Then put
>>them in plastic bags and took them home. The trouble was that the host
>>of the party didn't make the soda ash solution strong enough, so most of
>>the dye wasn't fixed. I've got a bunch of shirts with easter-egg pastel
>>colors.
>
> Oh... oh well.
>
>>Ho hum. I'm not really a pastel sort of person.
>
> Screen-print something inspirational and fluffy on them, sell 'em on
> ebay. ;-)
Heh. It would probably make me sick, though. I'm going to re-dye them.
Eventually.
>>[...]
>>>
>>> I know you keep saying, but that's one tall boy. He looks like he's
>>> about seven. Isn't he good at making faces, too? :-)
>>
>>Just weighed him last week (had to take the cat to the vet, they had one
>>of those big platform scales). Forty-seven pounds (47).
>
> Cor blimey. Reckon that's not far off both of mine put together.
Yeah, but they could probably beat him up, though.
>>Wow, they look so grown up! Fashionista indeed...makes me wistful I have
>>a boy. Not that I'd trade him in, mind you, I just like girl clothes.
>
> Meh, some of them are annoying - the skirts that never ever come out
> right after they get washed, so they're only really good for one wear.
> Then the horrible selection of pink and/or Barbie influenced stuff!
Oh, yeah well there's that. The relentless pink would bother me, as would
Barbie. OMG, did you know they have Barbie *movies* now? I bet you did know
that. My ghod-child was never into that stuff...my hippy mommy friends all
seem to dress their daughters in clothes that make me want to go back in
time and be a little girl so that I can dress like that. But then, my
parents weren't hippies, so I guess that wouldn't work.
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