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marjen

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Same here!!

It's the effort vs energy thing. I also live very rurally. When I want to do neat things, I have to do it myself. I'd love to have dh with me, both for companionship and help - but he just is not interested. I could "tell" him he is going and, in fact, he has at times asked me to "make" him go. I am just not that kind of person. I hate forcing other people to do stuff and I am also not his conscience.

One of my best friends and I used to do TONS together. We called each other co-parents. She moved away and I sure do miss her.

On the plus side, winter is almost over, the days are getting longer, the snow will melt soon, and I will feel SO much better when I get some sun onto my face!!!!

I think if I could enrich the kids with one "different" event per week, it would make a difference.


(ALL us parents have to look at the good things we do, instead of all the things we wish we could do)

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MotherMoon

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Jeni,

Me, too on the friend thing. My best friend and I did everything together. We took the kids places, got together several times a week. Had slumber parties and went camping. Then she moved across the country. We talk 2 to 3 times a week but it is so different. I had to return to work two weeks after she left.

You are right. We need to look at the positives we do. Sometimes that is hard. I bake a lot with my children. They enjoy it. I do some. Sometimes it is hard to remember the enjoyment of being together is more important than the speed and end result.

I could not hack it up north. We have had a gloomy winter here in Alabama. I have had a terrible time dealing with it. Each sunny day, I want to go running around naked to soak up the warm sun.

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Michelle
-- Mom to Beth, 11 and Sam, 8

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mikifrogspapa

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HAHA! Me too. And even though I live in "sunny California" I don't think it'd go over well. I just am not used to this much cloud and rain.

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Ian
a.k.a. miki frog's papa.



"Mikaela Joan, celair tinu od ada thin, a glawar o tin arad"

Translation:
Mikaela Joan, Brilliant little star of Daddy's evening, and the sunlight of his morning.