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1. 3 Responses to “Sorry so long gone”

2. Thank you for taking the time to post this, Crystal, and I know it was difficult just to find a few minutes to do it. How did I do it with all those kids, Crystal? People often ask me that. Thirty years of my life is a blur, so I have no answer.

   James Michael weighs 14 lbs already! What a chunk!!
   I don’t remember much about my babies. I do remember taking Buddy for his six weeks check-up, and he weighed almost 12 lbs. I was breast-feeding him. Can you believe that!!?? I was the only woman in the entire hospital (and that’s the truth) that was breast-feeding her baby. In the fifties, women did not breast-feed. That was an absolute taboo. It happened during WW2 when women had to go to work. They started bottle-feeding, and never stopped. That’s a true fact. I tried to breast-feed Lainie, but I (can’t think of the word)my breasts clogged. And nobody knew what to tell me to do, so I almost had to be “lanced?”" The pain was excruciating.

   I was so sad then, anyway, because I had just returned from Germany, after three years, only to find my mother dying.

   I didn’t try breast feeding again until Ben and Maria. It was beginning to be popular again.

   How did I get on that subject? Anyway. August may be the good time to do it, but there’s a problem involving Lainie and Bailey, and Ben and his family.
   Lainie has Bailey on the weekend that Lily has to start to school the following Monday. I’ll have to look at that situation again, so the exact date is not set yet. Nobody else has given any feedback. Carmen and Maria need to know pretty soon to ask off from work. And also Jason has to get off work.

   Lainie wants the cabin deal at Oak Mountain, but I don’t want anything that has to do with depriving me of HUGE comforts of air-conditioning, a comfortable bed for napping and sleeping, a pool to sit by, a place to keep cool at all times. Anywhere to be handy to yap with my kids and company. I haven’t been back to Alex (my brother) with anything, and he has expressed a wish to come. I would love to have him there. My Mom and Dad would be happy to see so many of their posterity gathered together.

   Potty-training? I always took it easy. I “suggested”, and the CUTEST, MOST ADORABLE memory that I have occurred in California with your mother.
   She was twenty months old when I started training her. I sat her on the toilet that day. Just the big toilet. No little seat or anything. She put her face up like a puppy-dog, and started a slow howl, and she went something like, “A-woooooo!! A-woooooo!!A-wooooo!! I laughed myself silly. She didn’t take to toilet-training very well, but by the time she was two years old, she was completely trained.

   By mother on Mar 19, 2008

3. Me taking off work is not a problem. I can take off at pretty short notice and my schedule is flexible so any time works for me. If august doesn’t work what about july? i imagine august is pretty close to schools starting. i would also imagine most consideration would have go to people traveling in from out of town since birminghamites will already be there. surely a bit of flexibility can be found in their schedules. Those who have time issues need to state some dates they are available so that common ground can be found. and if you have no problems it would be helpful if you chimed in and stated as much. anyway, maybe we should just throw out another date, say, the last weekend in July, and see if there are any conflicts with it???

   By maria on Mar 20, 2008

4. ya’ll pick when you want. I will ask Bailey’s grandfather if it is other than the second weekend. I work around his schedule all the time.

   By lainie on Mar 20, 2008

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