suzannaz

@suzannaz (73)

Canada • Age 53

Joined myLot 18 years ago

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Insensitive people...

mystic2mom @mystic2mom (346) • United States 15 Feb 07

I am a mom of 3. I have been married for a while. While I was pregnant with my third and last child 2 years ago almost, a family friend hurt my feelings very bad as we talked about my husband getting a vasectomy. She looked me in...

pregnant

rudeness

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suzannaz What a stupid, pathetic, horrible and insensitive comment to make. Please tell me that you have nothing to do with this person anymore. How many marriages has she been through anyway?

15 Feb 07

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Kids throwing fits in restaurants, what's your take?

blog4life @blog4life (30) • United States 14 Feb 07

When I was younger my family and I were at a restaurant eating dinner, it was nothing fancy..just a family restaurant. There was a child, maybe 2 years old, throwing a fit and screaming and throwing food. I looked at my mom and I...

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suzannaz I was thinking about this the other day because I have a 17 mth old son and really I hate to try to eat out. My MIL is always trying to insist we take him to a resturant and I find it so stressful. The thing is with my little guy, he is very active and has...

14 Feb 07

My parents won't stop smoking around son with respitory problems!

KodiakMom @KodiakMom (5) • United States 7 Feb 07

My son is a little over a year old, since he was born he has struggled with RSV, Pneumonia (6 times), 8 ear infections, a 12 week oral thrush battle and various viral infections. My parents are both smokers and I have requested...

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suzannaz I know that you don't want to disrupt family events but it soulds like they just take advantage of that to feed their addiction while your son is around. Don't be afraid to leave a dinner if they light up and make it clear that you are leaving to protect...

13 Feb 07

Do you smoke or have to breathe second-hand smoke?

ShadyGrove @ShadyGrove (996) • United States 12 Feb 07

I saw a study on the news tonight that tested 80,000 non-smokers -- 18% of them had damage from second-hand smoke. I smoked for a long time, but my hubby and I both quit when we decided to have a child. We have not smoked now...

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suzannaz My mother smoked the entire time I was growing up. She still smokes now, and it means that I severaly limit her time with my son (17mths). We used to fight with her about it, as kids, but funny enough, kids never seem to be as important to smokers as their...

13 Feb 07

Should we teach little boys to cook, clean and other things like that?

vokey9472 @vokey9472 (1486) • United States 11 Feb 07

I have a little boy and he loves to help me. As a stay at home mommy, I cook a lot of foods from scratch, like bake my own bread and stuff. Well, he always wants to help me and I have been teaching him how to do all the things...

clean

cook

little boys

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suzannaz Absolutely! When my brother went to university and moved into residence (townhouses) I remember that one of the mothers kept asking the other guys (6 to a house) "can you cook for my son?" She had never taught this 18 yr old how to cook and now he was going to...

11 Feb 07

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Do you like people?

Tesa @xphile777 (427) • United States 11 Feb 07

Are you a people person? Do you like being around people a lot? When you see a group a people, do you see a lot of potential friends or do you just see a bunch of strangers? Does being around people invigorate you or make you feel...

friends

people

social

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suzannaz I'm really not a people person. I mean I can deal with them and if necessary, at work, really put on a show but honestly I'm an at home, with a book person. I find a lot of people exhausting

11 Feb 07

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What are you doing today. . . ?

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (162244) • United States 11 Feb 07

I have prepared snacks for a Sunday School Class, I am on my way to set up coffee. After that, I will warm up with the choir, sing in a first service, and sit with hubby and grandson after that. I will go to Sunday School, then...

day of rest

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suzannaz I am sick as a dog I have been sick for days and I feel so back for my poor husband becuase he has been on total charge of our 17 month old who is "mr. excitement" anytime he is awake. Honestly I love my littlge guy but he is exhausting. And while I...

11 Feb 07

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would you feel hurt too?

itsjustmeb @itsjustmeb (1212) • Canada 10 Feb 07

My sister ended up engaged on New Years Eve - and then it was thrown on me a couple of weeks later that they wanted to run away to Vegas to get married. Didn't tell me a date at the time, and my sister knows I really do not have...

feelings

marriage

question

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suzannaz I would be really hurt if this heppened to me. I'm not sure how you should approach her other then to be direct and ask what is going on? I think the part that would bother me the most would be that she is keeping stuff from you, telling you one story and...

11 Feb 07

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What are your earnings going towards?

joey_matthews @joey_matthews (8354) 10 Feb 07

What are your earnings going towards? /---------------------------------------/ ./--Joey's Reply-----/... I remember reading in a few discussions what fellow mylotters are planning or using there earnings towards, this made...

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suzannaz Paying off my credit card. With a new baby in the house we have had to get so much stuff in the last year! I'm amazed! And we have been so lucky, with friends helping up out we didn't have to buy a crib, most of his clothing, or high chair.

11 Feb 07

Should babies sleep in the bed with parents?

babykay @babykay (2131) • Ireland 4 Feb 07

My 7 month old baby boy sleeps with me in the bed. He is breastfed and it is very handy the way if he wants a feed in the middle of the night, I just have to give him the breast, no hassle. However, I know some people strongly...

baby

bed

sleep

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suzannaz I dind't plan on co-sleeping when I had my son but he was colikly and honestly it was the only was we got any sleep! I breastfeed him and it was so much easier with he was right there in bed with us. He wasn't awake as long and we weren't either. We...

6 Feb 07

Is a driver's license really necessary?

TereFaerie @TereFaerie (386) • United States 4 Feb 07

I am in my late 20s, but I still don't have a driver's license. Everyone says that I need to get it before I get too old or I'll be afraid to drive. But I'm already afraid to drive, especially the way people in this city drive....

cars

drivers license

driving

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suzannaz I got my drivers license as soon as I could after my 16th birthday. And I would be lost without my car, but mostly because of circumstances. I live in the suburbs and always have. To get to anything you have to drive. I was briefly without a car for 1...

5 Feb 07

What is your favourite flower?

Andrew O @creationhub (3066) • Malaysia 4 Feb 07

Everyone has a favourite flower. Some changed their favouritism from time to time. When I was young, my favourite flower is the hibiscus. As an adult, my favourite is the rose. It does not matter what colour or type it is. The...

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suzannaz I have always loved lily of the valley. My grandmother always had some growning in her garden. Because they like shade they were always under some other bush or tree and to me, as a little girl, it always seemed to me that they were hiding, like a...

5 Feb 07

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Handling Rejection When Looking For A New Job

kathy77 @kathy77 (7486) • Australia 3 Feb 07

Hi to all my friends and members, this discussion is different as I give how to handle rejection to obtaining a job, have you ever been turned down for a job? Dealing with rejection is a hurdle you must overcome, so don't take it...

how

interview questions

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suzannaz Rejection? When looking for a job? Imagine that :) I work as a Management Consultant so I tend to work on special projects for companies and when the project is over sometimes I stay on and do other work but often when my project is finished, so am I. So...

4 Feb 07

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Scared of holding a baby

emskoneko @emskoneko (805) • United States 3 Feb 07

When I was small my mom had never let me hold my baby sister since I was only 3 years old. But many of my cousins were able to take care of their younger siblings and now have experience in taking care of them. I am sometimes...

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suzannaz I can completely relate. My younger brother was only 17 months younger than me so I hardly got a chance to "hold" him. We were basically the same size for most of our childhood. And growing up I had no younger cousins, or friends. When I had my own baby...

4 Feb 07

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Have you written your Will?

ukchriss @ukchriss (2097) 2 Feb 07

Recent surveys show that 25% of the UK population die without having a will. If you don't have a will, the government will decide what to do. That means a stranger will decide who gets what and how much tax you are liable to...

care of your children

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suzannaz I never bothered with a will until I got married. We are in the process of updating our wills now to include custody of our son. A few years ago my uncle died and we were faced with the possibility that he had not made a will, we didn't know there was one...

2 Feb 07

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Professional Organizers: Need One? Want One? Are You One?

suzannaz @suzannaz (73) • Canada 1 Feb 07

With the advent of HGTV and The Women's Network and TLC there have been an explosion in the various cleaning, organizing, decluttering programs. And the professional organizer has become someone that a lot of people...

cleaning

dirty little secret

home organization

professional organizers

relationships

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Christians - some questions....

suzannaz @suzannaz (73) • Canada 30 Jan 07

I am not a Christian, but my mother is and recently started asking why I don't believe in (the Christian) god. "For reasons too numerous to mention"... I told her, but honestly it's got a lot to do with my perception of...

alternative religion

christianity

How did having a baby change your life?

fieryfrost @fieryfrost (316) • Philippines 27 Jan 07

I am married and expecting our first child on May. I am just wondering how a baby changed the lives of the parents out there? I read about all the good things but I would appreciate to hear from real parents, real people. Simple...

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suzannaz It changed everything! Don't get me wrong, I love being a mommy but nothing stayed the same for us. And we have a high maintenance little boy, my friend has much more passive children so she gets more free time then me....that said Our schedules revolve...

28 Jan 07

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