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Redlippie Nov 19th 2007 7:08 am

Bad time of the year
 
As much as I love the holidays here, I miss the fandamily like crazy. It is the one time of the year I get especially angry at the nimcompoops who have forced my children and husband to leave the country of their births and scatter my family all over the globe.

Anyone feeling like this (I know Tegs mentioned something)?

I get like this every blooming year.

hatfield1 Nov 19th 2007 7:15 am

Re: Bad time of the year
 

Originally Posted by Redlippie (Post 5575501)
As much as I love the holidays here, I miss the fandamily like crazy. It is the one time of the year I get especially angry at the nimcompoops who have forced my children and husband to leave the country of their births and scatter my family all over the globe.

Anyone feeling like this (I know Tegs mentioned something)?

I get like this every blooming year.

Well yes of course. But what are we to do?:( I have been sending off “You Suck “notes in bottles but I don’t think anyone is answering. :curse::lol:

Redlippie Nov 19th 2007 7:20 am

Re: Bad time of the year
 

Originally Posted by hatfield1 (Post 5575541)
Well yes of course. But what are we to do?:( I have been sending off “You Suck “notes in bottles but I don’t think anyone is answering. :curse::lol:

I swear more than usual, which sounds like a Gordon Ramsay cooking show......

They've been going around the Horn and I've been picking them up here in FL.

Tegwyn Nov 19th 2007 7:25 am

Re: Bad time of the year
 
The holidays brings it out more than normal but I find it doesn't hit all the time. Some holidays more than others. I'm a great aunt to some little tykes that I am yet to meet. We are trying to arrange a gathering in the UK sometime next year. Sort of half way point for us all. Look forward to that. I would love them to come here and get them to play in the snow. Also watching those little faces open prezzies on Christmas morning. Those little faces are precious. :)

hatfield1 Nov 19th 2007 7:26 am

Re: Bad time of the year
 

Originally Posted by Redlippie (Post 5575559)
I swear more than usual, which sounds like a Gordon Ramsay cooking show......

They've been going around the Horn and I've been picking them up here in FL.

I bet you do. You eat with that mouth? :lol:
Well throw them back you silly woman.:sneaky: No wonder people in SA think I’m doing nothing to help. :eek:

hatfield1 Nov 19th 2007 7:32 am

Re: Bad time of the year
 

Originally Posted by Tegwyn (Post 5575588)
The holidays brings it out more than normal but I find it doesn't hit all the time. Some holidays more than others. I'm a great aunt to some little tykes that I am yet to meet. We are trying to arrange a gathering in the UK sometime next year. Sort of half way point for us all. Look forward to that. I would love them to come here and get them to play in the snow. Also watching those little faces open prezzies on Christmas morning. Those little faces are precious. :)

How hard is that?:( I won’t see my parents this year, but they live in the states so we see them twice a year.:thumbup: I look forward to putting down “Magic Snow” (talcum powder) for the boy with foot prints from Father Christmas in it. Just like granny did for me in durbs at Christmas. :D

Tegwyn Nov 19th 2007 7:37 am

Re: Bad time of the year
 
Talc as magic snow - what a cute idea! :thumbsup: My father was not as ingenious. He told me that Father Christmas could not always use reindeer in hot climates so would use springboks or zebras depending on which was faster on any given year. I really believed him too.......:blink:

Redlippie Nov 19th 2007 7:38 am

Re: Bad time of the year
 

Originally Posted by hatfield1 (Post 5575627)
How hard is that?:( I won’t see my parents this year, but they live in the states so we see them twice a year.:thumbup: I look forward to putting down “Magic Snow” (talcum powder) for the boy with foot prints from Father Christmas in it. Just like granny did for me in durbs at Christmas. :D

Oh how sweet!!

hatfield1 Nov 19th 2007 7:44 am

Re: Bad time of the year
 

Originally Posted by Tegwyn (Post 5575646)
Talc as magic snow - what a cute idea! :thumbsup: My father was not as ingenious. He told me that Father Christmas could not always use reindeer in hot climates so would use springboks or zebras depending on which was faster on any given year. I really believed him too.......:blink:

That’s a very SA solution. :thumbsup:I have the neighbors dog that escapes everyonece and a while but that’s nor nearly as romantic. :(I really believed in magic snow . Those were the days…..:cry_smile:

hatfield1 Nov 19th 2007 7:46 am

Re: Bad time of the year
 

Originally Posted by Redlippie (Post 5575648)
Oh how sweet!!

I’m just itching to try it this year. I don’t know if he will really get it, but next year for sure. Just look on their little faces……:)

Redlippie Nov 19th 2007 7:49 am

Re: Bad time of the year
 

Originally Posted by hatfield1 (Post 5575684)
I’m just itching to try it this year. I don’t know if he will really get it, but next year for sure. Just look on their little faces……:)

I miss mine being that small.

hatfield1 Nov 19th 2007 7:56 am

Re: Bad time of the year
 

Originally Posted by Redlippie (Post 5575697)
I miss mine being that small.

Sorry… :(I just want to soak up as much as I can before they turn in to cheeky teens. ;)

Redlippie Nov 19th 2007 8:04 am

Re: Bad time of the year
 

Originally Posted by hatfield1 (Post 5575721)
Sorry… :(I just want to soak up as much as I can before they turn in to cheeky teens. ;)

I did. I have enjoyed every single stage of their lives and I'm fantastically close to them. They're good kids brought up the S.A. way ;)

They haven't changed much in their teens - excepting now they're into girls with big boobs, cars, girls with big boobs, girls with big boobs, girls with big boobs.....:lol:

hatfield1 Nov 19th 2007 8:13 am

Re: Bad time of the year
 

Originally Posted by Redlippie (Post 5575752)
I did. I have enjoyed every single stage of their lives and I'm fantastically close to them. They're good kids brought up the S.A. way ;)

They haven't changed much in their teens - excepting now they're into girls with big boobs, cars, girls with big boobs, girls with big boobs, girls with big boobs.....:lol:

Well I guess something’s will never change. Boys will be boys and Big boobs for ever…….:thumbsup::thumbsup:

Tegwyn Nov 19th 2007 8:31 am

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Sigh........ my baby just turned 21 last month..........:( She did not get my permission to grow up......:p


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