BS: WAAAHHHH!! My baby grew up!

Subject: RE: BS: WAAAHHHH!! My baby grew up!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 07 Sep 07 - 03:17 AM

Ah, Gurney.... I have no fond rememberances of those days - I am not the maternal type (unless it's a young, nubile 20yr old lad who needs comfort and succour) so never had any trouble with nostalgia of that type.

What I do miss is the happy little thing that would willingly come when I called, pick up things when she dropped them and spend more time on her bike than on a computer.

I just know she's going to 'big' school to learn more bad teenager habits....!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: WAAAHHHH!! My baby grew up!
From: astro
Date: 07 Sep 07 - 02:35 AM

Liz,

I really know this...my daughter who wears a size 00, is now at Berkeley and not with me :-(

I don't believe shes grown up which is wonderful but terrible...

Enjoy them and then let them pass with joy....into their lives...

astro

Subject: RE: BS: WAAAHHHH!! My baby grew up!
From: Gurney
Date: 07 Sep 07 - 02:16 AM

Liz, you could try spending some time with a mum who has babies just at the teething stage, or terrible twos. That should fix your nostalgia.

Subject: RE: BS: WAAAHHHH!! My baby grew up!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 06 Sep 07 - 04:16 PM

But it would be preceded by an upraised index finger and the words 'Just a sec'...

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: WAAAHHHH!! My baby grew up!
From: Micca
Date: 06 Sep 07 - 03:08 PM

Rapaire, I would love to be a fly on the wall to hear Phoebes response if Liz pulled the stroke you suggested. It would be a carefully reasoned, containing no profanity, demolition of her mothers mental state, and antecedents, her history and in general, a total demolition job, and also original, witty and as complete as you could wish for.

Subject: RE: BS: WAAAHHHH!! My baby grew up!
From: MBSLynne
Date: 06 Sep 07 - 10:46 AM

Lol Morty! It's not that long since you kindly walked him to the bus for us at Sidmouth...now he'd have to walk you!

When I was shopping this morning, I saw a couple of mothers with pushchairs and several small children. They were stopped behind a sandwich board and one had produced a potty which the little boy(Aged about2) had just used. She was saying "Good Boy!" and the look of pride on his little face was a picture. It takes you back.....

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: WAAAHHHH!! My baby grew up!
From: autolycus
Date: 06 Sep 07 - 01:43 AM

Lynne, i remember once changing the nappy of Hannah, 'my' older one, and, at the time, it did feel like it was going on and on and on and......So I made a whole drama-queen number out of how all this nappy-changing was going on etc.etc.
Bingo, she's 25 - easy to think 'It's all gone so quickly ' - to do that requires not remembering soooooooooooo many longueurs.





       Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: WAAAHHHH!! My baby grew up!
From: Morticia
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 06:03 PM

Your 'other one' has a damn beard! Scared the living crap out of me, I can tell you.

I remember changing Phoebe's nappies......dammit, where did the time go?

Subject: RE: BS: WAAAHHHH!! My baby grew up!
From: MBSLynne
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 04:54 PM

Mine make fun of me in the open without being adults!

Yep, mine has just started 'big' school too and now she won't let me kiss her goodbye when she goes off to catch the bus *sob. I offered her a lift tomorrow because I'm going shopping in the town where the school is, but she says "No, it's more sociable on the bus"

The other one has just started the 6th form and he is LOVING every minute of it.

*sigh. How quickly it all goes by....

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: WAAAHHHH!! My baby grew up!
From: autolycus
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 03:51 PM

Some brilliant posts - LOL jacqui.c about the carpet.

I've loved seeing my 2 young ladies turning into just that, and their patience with me.

I say to the younger one, "Wow, I bought my first things off Amazon !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i typed away, and the order went ping!! and then, then, two days later, the CDs flopped on the mat without me moving!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

and she, at 21, sighs and says, "Dad, that's like going into the newsagent, asking for The Guardian, paying and getting it."

Welllllllll I-I-I-I-I-I'm still excited. tsk, kids !! :-)





      Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: WAAAHHHH!! My baby grew up!
From: Becca72
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 02:16 PM

Thanks, Sins.

I'll just remind him of the time he and his 3 daughters went out to lunch and he thought he'd embarrass us by playing up the "frail old man" act. Untill the we starting playing along and treating him like a dementia patient. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: WAAAHHHH!! My baby grew up!
From: SINSULL
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 01:38 PM

Heads up, Becca! Your Dad just put his hat on...

Subject: RE: BS: WAAAHHHH!! My baby grew up!
From: Becca72
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 12:30 PM

LOL, Liz.

Now that we're all adults we can make fun of 'em right out in the open.

Subject: RE: BS: WAAAHHHH!! My baby grew up!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 12:09 PM

Becca - parents have this little third eye in the back of their heads that see those impression, whether we're meant to or not... and we store them up for moments like these!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: WAAAHHHH!! My baby grew up!
From: kendall
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 12:06 PM

Becca72, you are who you are not because of your Mother, but in spite of her.

Subject: RE: BS: WAAAHHHH!! My baby grew up!
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 11:11 AM

My daughter is a sophomore at the university now, and has rented a house with four friends, one of them is her boyfriend. She just turned 19. Considering the choice of moving to campus and experimenting with different date partners or finding a nice pleasant young man to spend her time with I can't really argue. I hope she learns to take care of herself, though. She went from home to a dorm for a year where the school "took care" (after a fashion) of her, and now this house. At least she'll have to figure out how to pay her share of the bills.

My son is a sophomore in high school and it has been quite nice being able to engage in conversations with him as the lone teen in the house. The dynamic is different with two of them together. Not bad, just different. I am seeing the kid on his own now. There are times he misses having his sister here, because they get along well, but he's doing okay.

I agree with Kendall, they become more interesting as they grow up and I enjoy some of the visits with Moonglow when she can set aside the pouting teenager hat. She's getting better at that all of the time.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: WAAAHHHH!! My baby grew up!
From: Becca72
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 10:49 AM

I understand. It bothered me because my own mother used to say that to me as a sort of goal in life..."find a nice man to take care of you". Yeesh. So now I'm 35, never been married and fiercely independent...go figure. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: WAAAHHHH!! My baby grew up!
From: HouseCat
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 10:42 AM

Sorry, Becca! Just some days are harder than others......:~(

Subject: RE: BS: WAAAHHHH!! My baby grew up!
From: Becca72
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 10:26 AM

HouseCat....that statement gave me a shiver! Don't do that again!! Hopefully your daughter will grow up enough soon to take care of HERSELF.

And Dad, most of the time we didn't know you were looking when we did those impressions. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: WAAAHHHH!! My baby grew up!
From: Pistachio
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 09:38 AM

Hope Limpit had a lovely day.

My 'Baby' started 6th Form today and will start his first part-time job tonight! Next week he'll turn 17 and he'll have to fit in driving lessons too!
How the time has flown? Best go phone the insurance company and get back to work so I can afford the premium!!

Hazel.

Subject: RE: BS: WAAAHHHH!! My baby grew up!
From: HouseCat
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 09:34 AM

My baby is 27 and I'm still waiting for her to grow up so I can have my YAAAAAAAAAAAAAHOOOOOOOO moment. I hate to say it but I JUST WISH SHE'D FIND A NICE MAN TO SUPPORT HER SO'S I COULD RELAX!!!!!!!!!!!!! There! I've become my mother, oooooooooooooooooooooooooo help me........

Subject: RE: BS: WAAAHHHH!! My baby grew up!
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 09:32 AM

Huh...when my wife was Assistant General Counsel at a noted US University, a lawsuit was filed which said, in essence, since the University accepted my kid it owes him a degree, no matter that he had a flat grade point average of 0.1 in his first semester and 0.0 in his second (on a 4.0 point scale). This was filed three (3) times in court; on the third it was summarily dismissed "with prejudice."

Subject: RE: BS: WAAAHHHH!! My baby grew up!
From: Desdemona
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 09:25 AM

Rapaire--LOL! My partner teaches at a university where the parents of some of the incoming freshmen have taken your advice very much to heart, alas for their poor offspring!

~D

Subject: RE: BS: WAAAHHHH!! My baby grew up!
From: Desdemona
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 09:23 AM

Oooooh, I know; mine are 12, 16 and almost 21, and it never gets any easier to send them off to a new place! BUT, it is so true that, as they get older, they get so much more interesting. As they develop their own ideas and opinions, and become increasingly able to share their views, spending time with them just gets more and more stimulating, and--yes--it gives me an enormous feeling of pride that they're turning out to be such smart, funny, insightful and interesting people.

And don't forget, your little one still needs you, and will for a long time to come (I still need my mother, for a whole host of reasons). When she comes in this afternoon, knackered from her first day of "big" school, it's your face she'll be looking for, and your ear she'll want to fill with all the details. Enjoy!

~D

Subject: RE: BS: WAAAHHHH!! My baby grew up!
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 09:19 AM

Don't let her go off to school alone. And go talk to the teachers, tell them what a delicate little blossom she is and all about her food and bathroom habits. Remind them that she isn't to play roughly and that because of her breathing problems she shouldn't be called upon too often in class. Give her little notes in her lunch or in her books that say things like "Mummy-kins and Da-da wove our liddle Ba-Ba-Boo vewy muchies." Call the school whenever the temperature outside drops to within ten degrees of freezing and remind them that she needs extra scarves and jumpers for the walk home...or better, send a cab 'round to pick her up.

This sort of thing will guarentee an Empty Nest as quickly as possible.

Subject: RE: BS: WAAAHHHH!! My baby grew up!
From: kendall
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 07:32 AM

Right on, Morticia! I still miss my little girls after all these years, but I now have grown women whose company I enjoy like none other.
(Even when they do their impression of me)

Subject: RE: BS: WAAAHHHH!! My baby grew up!
From: jacqui.c
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 06:38 AM

Well said Morticia. My two are now married with families and I AM proud of the way they have turned out.

I do remember those milestones though - the day my daughter moved from home into her own house it really hit me when I saw her totally empty room. I had forgotten there was a carpet in there - hadn't seen it in years!

Subject: RE: BS: WAAAHHHH!! My baby grew up!
From: artbrooks
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 06:21 AM

My YAAAAAAAAWHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!!!!! has been echoing around the world for eight years or so, and you are welcome to grab a bit of it. I can't speak for Jenn, though.

Subject: RE: BS: WAAAHHHH!! My baby grew up!
From: Morticia
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 06:02 AM

I remember coming here to mourn when Pixie went off to her school graduation dance at 16.....my, have I really been here THAT long?

Anyway, what I wanted to say was: don't be sad,the best bit, the bit where you get to meet the adult and not only love but like them, where you are overwhelmed with pride and wonder at the man or woman they have become, where you enjoy their company more than anyone else in the world, that's just around the corner and it's wonderful.

Subject: RE: BS: WAAAHHHH!! My baby grew up!
From: Barb'ry
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 05:43 AM

my sympathies to you Liz. My youngest goes to uni next week, so that's all of them sorted... I thought I'd be doing PMB's whoop but so far I'm feeling miserable and wondering why my maternal hormones have decided to kick in when I've spent so long looking forward to no washing, ironing, shouting and loud music....
It doesn't seem to get any easier!
Good luck
Barb'ry

Subject: RE: BS: WAAAHHHH!! My baby grew up!
From: Hawker
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 04:56 AM

Went through it with my youngest last year and shed a tear as my last baby graduated to 'big school'.
Hope Limpit enjoys her new environment ands flourishes!
Cheers, Lucy

Subject: RE: BS: WAAAHHHH!! My baby grew up!
From: PMB
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 04:46 AM

If it's any consolation Liz, when you get to it, empty nest syndrome goes like this:


YAAAAAAAAWHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP!!!!!

Subject: BS: WAAAAAH!! My baby grew up!
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 04:35 AM

Now I'm not usually given to public displays of sentimentality, but I've just seen Limpit off to 'big school' for her first day.

We did the measuring thing before she left - she's grown a whole centimetre in 3 weeks, her uniform will soon be fitting her properly and she's elected to walk to school on her own... that cute little baby we used to peg out on a dog lead is growing up!!

I may just have a little trip through the baby albums later.

LTS