I was almost one son short today (yes, bead related!)

Hopefully someone will get a chuckle out of this. Looking back, I probably will. And if it had happened to anyone else I'd probably be a little amused. !>>>>

umm - yup chuckling away.....

it is a miracle that kids live long enough to "grow up" when they pull little stunts like that!

Cheryl last semester of lawschool! yipee! DRAGON BEADS Flameworked beads and glass

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Helen C" :

]Hopefully someone will get a chuckle out of this. Looking back, I probably ]will. And if it had happened to anyone else I'd probably be a little ]amused. Oh, my aching neck!!

yes, it's always funnier a couple of months later.

Helen, if they're all purples - leave them mixed - they're now "purple bead soup".

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

Reminds me of the time my sister fell asleep. When she woke up she found my niece sitting in a puddle on the bathroom floor. The puddle consisted of all the shampoo the little tyke could reach, plus all the baby oil and baby powder. She had also found 3 or 4 tubes of lipstick and drawn all over herself, the walls and floor with them. Wanna guess how many gallons of water it took to remove all that gunk? How well I remember the trials and tribulations of a toddler with boundless energy and an exhausted mother..... so glad mine are in their 20s now..... Barbara Dream Master

If you want to make God laugh, tell him your future plans. Woody Allen

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Barbara Otterson :

]Reminds me of the time my sister fell asleep. When she woke ]up she found my niece sitting in a puddle on the bathroom floor. ]The puddle consisted of all the shampoo the little tyke could ]reach, plus all the baby oil and baby powder. ] She had also found 3 or 4 tubes of lipstick and drawn all ]over herself, the walls and floor with them.

my oldest decided to help clean the kitchen. so she dumped the entire can of Comet on the floor and started scrubbing. this was back in the days when people waxed their floors.

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

And people always asked *why* I never had any kids.... =:-o

Arondelle

Sistah!

Celine

I am, I'm chuckling away. And now I have to share, even if it is a little gross.

When my brother was a baby, he used to rock - anything, but he would rock the crib, which was on a hard wood floor. So this one time, he woke up from a nap with a full diaper, rocked the crib across the room, decorating the wall as he went. He finally reached the dresser on the other side of the room where the corn starch was and opened that and shook it hard. My mother finally went in to him to see why he was so quiet and she screamed bloody murder. I seriously thought he was bleeding, that's how loud she screamed (I was probably 4 1/2) She said the corn starch was so thick in the air, she couldn't even see where the baby was. She didn't even know what to clean first!

I'm convinced that he is the reason I only wanted girls. LOL.

Cheri (Bubbee to Emily and Nathan)

me three!

Kathy K

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Helen,

OMG! I'm sorry about the pain it will be to sort the beads, but aren't kids the darnest? Thank you for the chuckle.

Starlia

On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 22:17:48 -0400, Lee S. Billings wrote (in message ):

I hear these stories and thank God that we stopped at one. Once there are more of them than there are of you, you're done for. They also know when you're totally exhausted and at the end of your rope. Like puppies, there's a reason God made them so cute - they'd never survive otherwise.

OTOH, a friend of mine with seven(!) tells me that having a whole slew of kids is much easier than just one. She claims they entertain/watch each other. (Hers range from 17 to 3 - she plans on having more, too!)

Hlen, you have my sympathy and empathy. I certainly wouldn't bother sorting all those purple beads - call it a custom bead mix, and smile whenever you look at the finished piece.

Kathy N-V

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Kathy N-V :

]Once there are ]more of them than there are of you, you're done for. They also know when ]you're totally exhausted and at the end of your rope.

gods, yes!

]Like puppies, there's ]a reason God made them so cute - they'd never survive otherwise.

amen - i had a dear friend that taught me that one!

]OTOH, a friend of mine with seven(!) tells me that having a whole slew of ]kids is much easier than just one. She claims they entertain/watch each ]other. (Hers range from 17 to 3 - she plans on having more, too!)

Jamie's dearest friend has 14!! brothers and sisters - all home schooled. Christina is a college student and the baby is two, i think, and she has brothers/sisters in their 30s.

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

Well, I've started the sorting. Picking out the one color of bugles was easy. But the 14 colors of seeds are going to take a while. A long while. Glad you were all amused! At least it wasn't all over the house. Mainly in one spot. And I even vacuumed and salveged (sp) those beads! Can't stand bead soup but thanks for the suggestion. If it wasn't the only purples I had I probably wouldn't worry about it. At least they're different enough to sort (no close colors) Just time consuming. Didn't even beat the boy (though the thought did run through my head) Just yelled at him. I think he even tried to tell me he was sorry. Can't wait till I have this next/last kid so I won't be so tired (HAW! Like that's gonna happen) In about 16+ years maybe! Thanks for the support.

Later,

Helen C

No one has ever asked me that, and I'll be 50 this year. Is that weird or what? ~~ Sooz

------- "Those in the cheaper seats clap. The rest of you rattle your jewelry." John Lennon (1940 - 1980) Royal Varieties Performance ~ Dr. Sooz's Bead Links

Lol. I'm sorry, Helen! I remember those days, only it's not funny when it's your kid!

look at it this way..when he's old enough to start dating, you can embarrass him in front of every girl he brings home by saying "you know, when he was three years old, he liked to play with beads. there was this one time he dumped a bunch on the carpet, and then peed all over my desk!"

-amber. who informs every boyfriend that my older sister has had, does have, and ever will have about the time she laughed so hard at dinner she blew rice out her nose.

Oh Helen. It is funny, as long as it isn't happening to me. Kinda glad I don't have kids when things like this happen. Peed on the desk???

Lara

Yep, potty training. Think he got too "busy" having fun on Mommy's desk and didn't realize he had to go. Oh Well. It could have been worse (a deposit instead. on important papers or something. Or on the beads he dumped) All I know is my neck hurts today and as best as I can estimate by the bead I've done, I'm about 1/10th done with the sorting. Have a feeling they're gonna stay this way for a while (sort as I need them) But I did make some neat chain and bead earring today (are jump rings normally so stubborn? I swear I wrestled with one for 1/2 hr)

Later,

Helen C

My daughter once woke up from a nap, found Mommy's Vaseline, and emptied the contents all over herself and my bed. Vaseline, in case you've ever wondered, does not easily come out of sheets...

My son, in a similar incident, once found the tub of Crisco at my best friend's house while she was on the phone... yeah. That was interesting!

-Kalera