A good night's sleep, chocolate, the happiness and satisfaction of sharing on AgingCare forum. Does anyone have some favorite things to think about? Yes, this phrase is from the song in the movie "The sound of Music". My husband and I often resort to using movie lines and song to improve communication. We were the only two in a gathering of people who heard the background music playing. We both had the same (cassette tape/CD). A connection bringing two people together. To this day, we crack up when one uses a simple movie line to make a serious point.
SO, What is one of your favorite movie line, some of your favorite things?
nacy - my father fought on WW! He told some amazing stories.
cd - what a great idea. She'll love it. I haven't crocheted in years.
After having been benched over 4 years due to caregiving responsibilities and injury, I have returned to my team.
Why yes, I am Canadian.
So yeah I'm a little weird too. I also like bugs, always have they amaze me. Getting into birds now, seems to be what you do when you get older.
Butter pecan
Queen, Meatloaf, and Cindy Lauper! Oh can't forget Fleetwood Mac
I also love vanilla and cherry scents. I love the sound of rain and a crackling fire but also find grasshoppers chirping and cicadias (as long as it's not a swarm, lol) soothing. I do love BBQ as well and the beautiful sunsets in New Mexico. I love the mountains and I guess I would say 80s music would be my main thing. I do love theater as well.
Nothing is "hopeless"
maybe the "shots fired" could be from Cupids quiver.
(he's single, like me)
(i'm definitely not going to tell him.)
someone shoot me please.
thanks,
bundle of joy
My girls were almost 7 lbs when they were born.
My neighbor was terrified when she was pregnant. She told me that her husband weighed 12 lbs at birth! He’s an average sized man. He started out in life well above average.
The premies are so tiny. Their clothes look like doll clothes.
Parade was fun last night! My daughter’s boyfriend who grew up on the east coast (Massachusetts) and then Denver (after his parents divorced) is falling in love with New Orleans! He visits here quite a bit.
So, far their long distance relationship is surviving. I know that my daughter really wants to move back to Denver as soon as it’s possible for her to do so.
Congratulations on the birth of your Godchild's son!
A happy event for you and the family.
That is a good birth weight!
8 lbs. 8 oz. Boy 21"
2023
7 lbs. 10 oz. Girl 22"
Both were from a tall parent.
According to the WHO, the average birth weight of a full-term male baby is 7 pounds (lb) 6 ounces (oz)
or 3.3 kilograms (kg). The average birth weight of a full-term
female is 7 lb 2 oz
or 3.2 kg.
The average weight of a baby born at 37–40 weeks ranges from 5 lb 8 oz to 8 lb 13 oz. This is 2.5 to 4 kg.
I don’t know what the average birth weight is these days. I wonder if the higher birth weight is due to different prenatal care than our mom’s had.
I have four godchildren. They all have children now. Nowadays, we see their pictures instantly due to iPhones.
Oh my gosh!! I spent a fortune on film for our camera and developing when our kids were young. Nowadays, new parents just click the camera on their phones.
I never did the video recording of my kids. I remember laughing at parents who lugged those huge cameras around on their vacations! I was perfectly happy with my 35mm camera.
I was thinking that exact thing while reading your happy news LOL. I used to have newspaper clippings of birth announcements that my mom had saved and it was rare to see babies more than an ounce or two over 7 lbs, 6 lbs something ounces seemed to be the norm.
We have a new baby in the family! My godchild and his wife had their first child. He sent photos to my phone. He is the cutest little boy. I can’t wait to meet him. 8 lbs 7 ounces 21”.
Babies are so much bigger now, than when we were born. Mom said that we weighed about the same as a five pound bag of sugar 😁
Like yours, mine is big in his tech field, but modest, quiet, with tremendous focus, plodding along in the background. A stark contrast to my scatterbrained chaos. I think I’ve helped him unleash his creative inner hippie and nurture his not-so-inner child. We are always curious, learning and giggling. I hit the husband jackpot.
I was a size 3 in junior clothes or a size 2 in misses clothing. I didn’t have a uniform to wear. This was in a fine dining Italian restaurant. We wore black pants or skirts with a white blouse.
A size 8 must have been falling off of you, very baggy for sure! He saw something that he liked though. He asked about you!
I was a waitress in a restaurant . The smallest uniform dress they had was an 8. I was a size 2 back then . It just hung from my shoulders . DH said he saw me walking through the mall and when I stopped walking my ( polyester ) dress kept going , swinging like a bell . He thought it was cute . We knew some of the same people in school but that was it . Never really talked to him. Anyway that stupid dress made him notice me and he asked my friend if I was going with anyone .
That’s a wonderful story! Malls were a big thing back in the day! They were places to work, shop and socialize!
I love hearing how people met their spouses.
Aww! So cute how you guys met .
My DH left me a note on my car and a single rose asking me to go to the high school prom . We both worked at the mall then. Lol. I said OK but just the prom . Hahaha. It’s been the longest prom ever!!!
He would be embarrassed if I pointed out his qualities to others. I feel incredibly lucky to have met him so many years ago.
When we were in school, he was a bartender and I was a waitress.
I’m so glad that I ordered a drink from him. Our friends teased us about the ‘love at first sight’ thing. He asked me out about five minutes after I ordered a drink from him.
Neither of us were even looking to get involved with anyone at that point in time. I suppose that some things are just meant to be,
Not only do retailers not carry everything that we are seeking to purchase, so many brick and mortar shops have shut down. They were in financial trouble long before covid started.
Covid may have been the last nail in the coffin for them but eventually they would have had to close their doors to the public.
He doesn’t toot his own horn. He was never the ‘life of the party’ type. He’s actually very quiet. He’s always been a ‘behind the scenes’ kind of guy.
Somehow, this young ‘free spirit’ kind of gal, (Me!) became captivated by this serious minded engineer. He grounded me in so many ways. We have been together for over 40 years!
He is a leader in his field and treats everyone who works on his engineering team with great respect.
His company is having their end of year gratitude event for their employees. My sweet hubby is going to receive three awards for inventing tech products and receiving patents.
We are all very used to living with our modern conveniences. A lot of hard work goes into designing and developing these products.
I agree . It depends on what I’m buying too. I also don’t go to stores Black Friday weekend .