From: M.A.
Amnesia:
condition that enables a woman who has gone through labor to have sex again
Bottle Feeding: an opportunity for Daddy to get up at 2am, too
Defense:
what you'd better have aroun de yard if you're going to let de children play
outside
Drooling: how teething babies wash their chins
Dumbwaiter: one who asks if the kids would care to order dessert
Family Planning:
the art of spacing your children the proper distance apart to keep you on
the edge of financial disaster
Feedback:
the inevitable result when the baby doesn't appreciate the strained carrots
Full Name: what you call your child when you're mad at him
Grandparents:
the people who think your children are wonderful even though they're sure
you're not raising them right
Hearsay: what toddlers do when anyone mutters a dirty word
Impregnable: a woman whose memory of labor is still vivid
Independent: how we want our children to be as long as they do everything we say
Look Out!: what it's too late for your child to do by the time you scream it
Prenatal: when your life was still somewhat your own
Prepared Childbirth: a contradiction in terms
Puddle:
a small body of water that draws other small bodies wearing dry shoes into
it
Show Off: a child who is more talented than yours
Sterilize: what you do to your first baby's pacifier by boiling it and to your last baby's pacifier by blowing on it
Storeroom: the distance required between the supermarket aisles so that children in shopping carts can't quite reach anything
Temper Tantrums: what you should keep to a minimum so as to not upset the children
Thunderstorm: a chance to see how many family members can fit into one bed
Top Bunk: where you should never put a child wearing Superman jammies
Two-Minute Warning: when the baby's face turns red and she begins to make those familiar grunting noises
Verbal: able to whine in words
Whodunit: none of the kids that live in your house
Whoops: an exclamation that translates roughly into "get a sponge"
--- Tamara P Duvall http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) Healthy US through The No-CARB Diet: no C-heney, no A-shcroft, no R-umsfeld, no B-ush.
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