Hi!!!! I miss you guys!!!

YEAH ! What grampapa said !

People sometimes made fun of my lisp too, so I know the feeling. Thank God for speech therapists!

You said it Victor ! Mine told my parents that I stuttered because with 6 sisters, I couldn't get a word in edgewise. I suggested that 5 of them move elsewhere. Didn't happen.

If we'd only had a basement!

Hee hee. Wow - 6 sisters?!! No brothers? God bless you! How many bathrooms? You pass Go and proceed straight to Heaven.

ZERO brothers. ONE bathroom. My parents bathroom was off limits to the Estrogen Army. They got their pay-back though....I have 7 nephews and 3 nieces.

None of them knew what to do with male children.

JD, where are you in pecking order, age-wise? not the youngest, I hope.

V, everybody thought it was cute when Opie had a lisp in Music Man

"norm" is a psychology term that refers to the heavy guy on Cheers.

grampapa...I'm dead center. 3 older, 3 younger.

Jasper, did you spend a lot of time with your father? Were you overwhelmed?

Dave - take off the therapist hat, will ya?!! Hee hee.

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Not on this forum! Too much work to be done.

dave: Yes and Yes. We went fishing. A LOT. We had to.

JD - especially during PMS, right! What if each one was a different week and some the same week - WOW! You had an excuse to go fishing permanently!! I only had it half as bad as you - three brothers. Two were horrible to me - beating me up and teasing, and the youngest and I were buddies. He had some learning disabilities and I helped him until the day he died. My other two brothers have gotten a bit nicer but my oldest can still be a #@*^%#@!! At least we all work together fairly well in an emergency. Eleanor

Just the opposite of JD...6 OLDER BROTHERS, no sisters.

pixie - I hope they weren't like my brothers. I always dreamed of having brothers that "pampered me" !! I was second oldest and I think my arrival bent the older brother's nose out of shape!!! He had a bad case of sibling rivalry! They also did not treat women with very much respect including my mother. The wives of the two that married really had a lot of work to do to teach them some manners and to act civil !! I always felt sorry for them, the wives that is!! This is why I moved 200 miles away from them. Eleanor

I was going to mention the cycle business, but refrained. Glad Eleanor did though!

Sorry you had mean brothers, Eleanor.

Eleanor, only one picked on me the rest were much older when I was born. I was born in June and the boys turned 17, 14,13,12 that Nov., and the other 2 were 11 in May and 7 in Jan. The 7 year old hated me until I was about 16 and he no longer lived in the same state. LOL

Ahh, family. The cornerstone of our society!
I'm so glad that my children really like each other. But then, when they are all almost 10 years apart, I guess its easier.

Send your brother to a different state! Wish I could have done that with mine.

Plus, Dave has the whole Victor thing to deal with as well !

He gave up on me long ago.

My brother is 18 mo older than me and he told me recently that he felt really guilty about being mean to me, but then he'd do it again anyway. All I remember is I never could win. He could hit harder than I could and he teased me unmercifully (I call you Crisco because it's fat in a can). But by the time he was a teenager we were pretty good friends. You'll all be glad to know he's in therapy, so he's still working on that guilt LOL.

Ha ha - keep feeding the guilt trip!

Oh, I do. We were playing in the back yard at my grandmother's once and he had one of her golf clubs. He accidentally (I really believe it!) hit me in the head and split my scalp. I still have a bald spot. I remind him every time I see him (which is only once in blue moon, but that's another story, and it's not because we don't get along)

Guilt is the gift that keeps on giving. It is available worldwide and comes with a lifetime guarantee. It's bordering on being a natural resource.

Too bad we can't harness it for electricity.

Kassia says she wants to be a psych Nurse...she could practice on all of us based on the last postings !
Who wants to be the first patient?

Yes - we mentioned that to her earlier, Mike. She can put in on her resume.

lol... oh guys thanks~~~ I truly think the instructor was drunk! I read my proposal after I turned in and I could have done better. But I guess since everything she asked was included...so be it!

Victor, not that Regis... but Regis College... I don't think it was named after that Regis.... lol...

Well, as a psych nursing you don't do therapy... but in a few years I will be able to diagnose and prescribe...until then, Dave 47 is the one in charge of helping us... that includes me!!!

A good therapist knows when to throw in the towel! Or security blanket or whatever.

lol :)

Or lay down on the fainting couch.

Well, Dave, I wish you luck with that. As a former boss of mine used to say, that's like herding cats. (or nailing jello to a tree...I always liked that one, too).

He he, what a great way of calling us hopeless!

i have to look up jasper dale - i am a great fan of l. m. montgomery's books (even made it - at long last - to PEI this summer) but i don't remember that character (hangs head in shame...) is he in the 1st one?

No...he's much further along in the story line. I don't know how closely the films followed the books, but JD was in the "Avonlea" series which ran on TV...he married Olivia, who worked at the Avonlea General Store...and he's the one who invented the "Magic Lantern" (camera) (supposedly...)

Here is DH cat. He is part Maine Coon and ??? Dont mess with him. He is a scrapper.

oh what a beautiful cat!!!!

He has beautiful, shiney fur!

Yeah, he is a beauty. So he's not too friendly?