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blue65packer @blue65packer (11826) • United States 22 Sep 09

We have a new mare at the stable I work at. She arrived Saturday. She is a warmblood and is beautiful! Her name is Reed's Rising Star! She is a light chestnut and is 16.1 hands high! To top it off she is pregant! I hear she is due...

mare

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Buttercup11 Congrats! The last time I saw a foal up close was when I was a kid, but a friend of mine's horse delivered about a month ago, and I can't wait to see her. I would LOVE to raise a foal sometime a few years from now, when I have a little more experience with...

28 Sep 09

carolscash @carolscash (9492) • United States 17 Aug 09

I am so excited. My husband got me a horse last Friday. He is a beautiful Arabian horse that needs some TLC because he was in with some other horses that picked on him and didn't let him eat much. However, I am thrilled with him....

horse

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Buttercup11 Hi! I was curious how things are going with your horse after a month. Well, I hope! Having a horse is so exciting. You may consider getting a second one, soon, as horses not only get lonley on their own, but they get stressed, too. That's because in a herd,...

28 Sep 09

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Katak @submerryn (1304) • Malaysia 27 Sep 09

I have a great family. My husband's great. My son's even greater. I have the life that I have always dreamt of getting. My husband being the sole breadwinner. I stay home to care for my son and hubs. Greeting my husband lovingly...

going crazy

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Buttercup11 Adjusting to life at home can be hard sometimes, especially if you don't have a lot of friends. Maybe there is a Mom's group in your area that you could join to meet other people at the same stage of life as you. If you can't find one, start one! Even a...

28 Sep 09

charblaize @charblaize (1026) • United States 27 Mar 09

I had an issue a couple years ago. Here's the scenerio: It was getting dusk, I was in the kitchen of a trailer doing my schooling and Instant Messaging my brother. My son at the time was about 3 1/2 years old, was in the bedroom...

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Buttercup11 I agree with everybody else that you are not a terrible person. What really is making you feel bad right now is the possibilty that you MAY be a bad mother. You need to forgive yourself for what happened. That would be so freeing for you. After you have...

28 Mar 09

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barefoot48066 @barefoot48066 (58) 23 Mar 09

Just curious what responses would be from people on this forum. I'm not looking for an anti-spanking lecture, as I've heard it all before. I am just curious whether I'm the only one left in the world who thinks a bare-butt...

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Buttercup11 Actually, I want to say, too, to anybody reading this who was not just spanked but physically abused, that you have my sincerest sympathy. Spanking is NOT an excuse to damage your children. The way you were treated wasn't right, and none of us who spank our...

24 Mar 09

barefoot48066 @barefoot48066 (58) 23 Mar 09

Just curious what responses would be from people on this forum. I'm not looking for an anti-spanking lecture, as I've heard it all before. I am just curious whether I'm the only one left in the world who thinks a bare-butt...

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Buttercup11 Firstly, I was spanked as a child, and on occasion on my bare butt, but not often. I think that spanking is a very individualized thing between parents, and that a united front from both parents (even in split situations) is really key. So much depends on the...

24 Mar 09

Humbug25 @Humbug25 (12540) 12 Feb 09

When I am nearing the bottom of a ketchup bottle I turn it upside down and do the same with the mayonnaise jar so that the dregs will run down to the neck of the bottle/jar and a can scrape out the remnants! I also add water to...

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Buttercup11 I always get as much product as I can! I used to use a moisturizer from a brand that used a pump and one day I forced the cap off to get the rest out - to my surprise I DOUBLED what I could get out of that container! I felt so ripped off for all the bottles...

13 Feb 09

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wrongway @wrongway (277) • United States 11 Feb 09

I am a mother and I love my daughter very much, however I am having a problem understanding why a single mother of six kids who lives with her parents and is not working would want to become pregnant again, especially the way the...

adoption

babies

octuplets

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Buttercup11 I've never understood why women would want to have more children when they already couldn't care for the ones they had properly. I mean, what kind of childhood do kids have when they're 1 of even 6 in a single mom's home? How can one mother give all those...

12 Feb 09

dorisday1971 @dorisday1971 (5657) • Philippines 11 Feb 09

This scares me to death. My three year old daughter (only child) is more interested in playing cars. I may be over-reacting, but I’m afraid she has inclinations to become tomboy. Oh my, I hate to think of it. Just this morning, we...

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Buttercup11 There is a very big difference between being a tomboy and being a lesbian. When I was a kid, I was a bit of a tomboy, too. I hated dresses, pink, and anything my mother thought was "cute." It certainly didn't reflect my s*xuality - just my personality. And why...

12 Feb 09

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katsmeow1213 @katsmeow1213 (28716) • United States 9 Feb 09

My 2 and half year old is potty training, and doing very well at it. He hasn't had an accident in 3 days now, and even does #2 on the potty, which I'm very impressed by because that was the biggest obstacle for my older...

diapers

night time

potty training

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Buttercup11 Hi Kat! I think that you already have more experience diaper training than I do, but i would still reccomend keeping a diaper on your toddler overnight until you're sure that he's consistently not wetting at night. He's still pretty little, after all!...

10 Feb 09

Bytemi @Bytemi (1553) • United States 2 Feb 09

My five year old daughter got her ears pierced this weekend. She is so excited and can't wait to change her earings (yes I know she has to wait 6 weeks). So I went on E-Bay last night and started looking for earings for her so...

ear piercing

earings

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Buttercup11 For that price, you didn't go overboard at all. How could your husband even object? Less than $15 for 84 pairs of earrings for 2 girls? That's fantastic! I seriously don't think that that amount of cash could ever be considered overboard for setting a girl up...

3 Feb 09

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katsmeow1213 @katsmeow1213 (28716) • United States 2 Feb 09

For those of you who actually do get snow.. When was the last time you went outside and played in the snow like a child? I did yesterday. It was rather warm, at least above freezing. The sun was shining, and the snow was...

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Buttercup11 The last time we played in the snow was a week after Christmas. We tied the GT to the truck and took turns pulling each other around our property and riding with the kids. We had a blast despite the cold weather - it's usually -30C here. So, you can imagine...

3 Feb 09

LaurenInLA @LaurenInLA (2270) • United States 17 Jan 09

I'm very new to living frugally. Since the economic upheaval, I've become more and more concerned with how we spend our money. So much waste. One of the first things that I took a look at were our phone bills. We have a land line,...

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Buttercup11 My family and I just moved to the country, so out of necessisty, we've cut down on our trips to town to get groceries. We go to a store close by for fresh food about once a week, and only go to town once or twice a month. The less you go shopping, the less...

18 Jan 09

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gemini_rose @gemini_rose (16264) 20 Sep 08

I have just washed my hair for the first time in a week!! Yeah true, and you know what it felt absolutely fantastic and my hair is really in good condition! Why, you might wonder have I left it so long, well it was like this....

once

wash hair

week

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Buttercup11 You know, I wash my hair WAY to often - pretty much every day because it feels so oily after a day and a half. Plus, my hair is really fine and completely loses all semblance of style after only one day, and then I need to wet it to style it again. But I ran...

21 Sep 08

starjmom @starjmom (88) • United States 7 Sep 08

I grew up in a home where my mother would make a pot of coffee in the AM, in the afternoon and another in the evening. She drank the stuff black and would let it get cold before drinking it. YUCK! The only time I ever drank black...

coffee

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Buttercup11 I just want to say that I LOVE drinking coffee. I dunno why, but I love that taste. I love the ritual of drinking 2 cups every morning while I check my email, post here on mylot or read the newspaper. It's my time to myself (as much as possible). If I had to...

8 Sep 08

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