Jo, You know me too well. I tried it with non-matching thread and it looked like hell, so I resigned myself to chillin on the sewing mania. The fabric is white denim so the mint green thread I was using was just utterly fugly, even for my standards. (perfectionism is not a trait I possess..I can live with a high level of imperfection in my life)
Just think of the non-matching thread as a contrast to give your decor yet another layer of sophistication, ala Christopher Lowell. (No, I don't watch him but have seen enough to know that I don't want all that junk in my home. Too much to clean.)
H and I were talking last night and he said an interesting thing. I hope I will be able to keep it fresh in my mind.
I can't remember what our original topic was (because my mind automatically jumped to sex, yikes!) but he said that people despise weakness. And if a person approaches you in a weak way, you will turn them down no matter what the request is. Weakness turns people off, he said.
Like I said, our original topic has escaped my mind, but I could not help but think of the implications of this kind of thinking on our sex life. Now, this is not new news...we've all read this many times on the board before, but you have to understand--this was the first time MY husband said it! lol So it really made me sit up and notice.
I don't necessarily think that my approach is weak or my initiations are weak, but my behavior after getting turned down is extremely weak. I hardly ever take it in stride with a cheery attitude. I don't fly off the handle, either, but I don't HOM as best as I could. I'm sure that he perceives this as weakness. He has even said to me when I was really losing it in the past, "Do you think you acting like this makes me want to ML to you?" I'm sure it doesn't.
So I have no idea why it was such a revelation to me that my ex-Marine husband might be turned off by weakness...I guess it really wasn't. Just hearing those words out of his mouth made me mentally resolve to not appear weak in front of him--to hold it together and handle myself in a manner that is Honey-worthy.
He hardly EVER loses it and acts weak or needy. So it stands to reason that this is a matter of integrity to him and it will affect how he sees me.
Lots of food for thought! Now if I could only remember the original topic...that is driving me crazy because it sortof proves that my mind turns everything into sex and tunes other stuff out.
I decided to post it on my own thread, lest Lillie have it up to her sweet southern eyeballs with our NFP and pg talk and boot us off!
Just out of curiousity, what drugs did she use to increase her milk supply? I too make a lousy cow and despite every single trick in the book to produce a lot of milk, I never did. I had to purchase the milk supply drugs from overseas but it literally made a night and day difference. At some point, about 3 mos into it, I just stop producing a lot of milk and my poor first baby got skinnier and skinnier until I realized that I had to either wean her or find a way to increase my supply. I am serious when I say I tried everything to increase it on my own, without drugs, you name it I did it! I was determined to nurse my babies and eventually found a way to do it, with a drug called Domperidone. I had absolutely no side effects at all with this drug, with the exception that I produced gobs of lovely breastmilk.
I don't know if it makes that much of a difference to your wife but I wanted to tell you the name of the drug in case she was interested.
Thanks. I don't recall the name of it, but that looks like it might be the one (I know it started with a 'D' anyway), although she got it by prescription. We tried every trick in the book, even spent a bunch of money on a lactation nurse, a pump that never got much of anything out, etc. We did the nursing plus supplementing. Unfortunately, supplementing just makes the baby too lazy to keep working at the breast. I don't know if we'll bother trying to breast feed on this next one or not.
Naw, you'd probably wind up having the baby on the plane...that is if the airline let you get on. They wouldn't let W get on when she was pg w/ #1 even tho she was only 8 months (she's always carried big, and by 7 months she looks like she's ready to pop)
Hey, HP. I think W, DD3 and I are planning to visit the City Museum or the Magic House when we're in town this weekend. Do you have any recommendation of one over the other?
Definitely the Magic House. They have added this new area just for little ones and it is really fantastic! It caters to the 3-6 crowd, lol.
The City Museum, on the other hand, seems geared towards school age children, almost exclusively. It is one of the neatest places I've ever seen...from an artistic standpoint..but it was sortof scary to have my little ones in there. It is comprised mostly of these huge overhead tunnels that the kids climb around in. Since my daughter was 3 at the time that we went also, I would not let her climb in there alone so I had to go in with her. I was afraid she'd get lost and not know how to get out, plus they are pretty vast...covering the ceiling of a building that is just massive. So there would have been no way of me knowing exactly where she was in the tunnels..too many kids to keep track of her accurately. So in I went. The smell of stinky kids' feet was overpowering. So unless you are amenable to climbing through miles of tunnels with rude shoving children who are barging over your precious D3, I'd steer clear!
There were of course lots of other things to do there but that was a big draw and my daughter couldn't stop asking to go in.
The Magic house built this area in their lower level that has a play grocery store, pizza restaurant, post office, etc. A tiny town, if you will. And the grocery store has a real basket and they 'shop' through the store and pick up what they need, checkout at the register, etc. It is so cute and it is all the kids' doing it..there are no adults playing the role of "cashier" that would ruin the experience, lol. It is hard to explain but very very cute. Also they have an excellent crafts area where the little ones get to get a piece of paper and go to town with it..glue, feathers, glitter, paint, etc. That was a big hit too.
