THE SHOPPING THREAD :-)

[Bedlam]

Oh J D, you sound like you are doing well. Gave me a giggle too. I think she is a  Lucky DD to have you.

[Frozzie]

oh dear JD...you gave me such a giggle with imagining you at DDs house    im still laughing imaging you trying to figure out the mop and the interphone !!

[CreamPuff63]

Oh, DD was surprised & impressed when she found out I was buying goods online

I texted my DD23 something probs along the line of ROTFLMAO  (wasn't that one but) and she said...what are you talking about mum, I said "its obvious! we all talk like this nowadays", she said "mum, never heard of it, I think you are making things up", I said "rubbish, this is how we talk on the forum". She disputed all the short talk ha ha, and turns out I was right cos we googled the abbreviation. Those crazy kids don't want to keep up with technology 

[Frozzie]

haha good on you cp...one over the kids    how could she not have heard of that...maybe even text lingo is getting old hat lol

[fundj&e]

1 for the mums CP......................... oh what a feeling         

[judydawn]

Yes, it doesn't happen very often. Grand-children are different - they think we know everything (mind you, mine are only youngsters so I guess that will change when they become teenagers and then they will probably think they know everything

[Bedlam]

So true JD,  littlies think we know everything,teenagers think we know nothing but then it does turn again doesn't it,perhaps when the kids have kids they look for advise again.  My kids think it's hilarious that mums on a "forum".

[judydawn]

My DD2 still thinks it's amazing that by her introducing me to the TMX it has led to such an involvement in this forum and all the friends I have made from it.

[johnro]

Our 3 DD's are not shocked by anything Mum does or doesn't do - but I speak form the mouth of the non Grandparent experience and heavens knows when that day will come.  The girls are more shocked at some of the things I tell them as to the happenings in the lives of current adolescents - after all as a result of teaching mainly yrs 11 and 12 for eons I have been able to an observer to all that is current and believe me many times there are 'beam me up Scotty moments!!    

[andiesenji]

I tell my grandchildren about my grandfather, who was the major "parent" in my childhood.  He and my grandmother raised me after my mom and dad divorced when I was still a toddler. 
My grandma had a lot of input but my grandpa and I had an extraordinary relationship, considering he was elderly when I was born (my mother was 16 and grandmother was only 32) but I was the only girl born in a generation, my mother being the last, and he took it upon himself to teach me to read by the time I was four and encouraged me to do things considered to be male-only activities. 
(He was far ahead of his time in many ways.)

[fundj&e]

With my kids its..........plssssssssssss  dnt  embarrass me 

[judydawn]

I know some people who are embarrassed by their aging parents but I usually find them interesting people - different I guess when they are not your own parents.

[obbie]

  Just remember that the kids usually pick the parents nursing homes.

I just loved it a few years ago, when my parents went for a ski holiday.

Spending The Kids inheritance.

They have been on quite a few since too.

Robyn

[fundj&e]

Good on them, that’s my plan 2 

[cookie1]

Exactly what we're doing.

I'm going to give up looking at this thread.  It is very dangerous.


It will certainly reduce the amount of liquid soap I buy. Thanks to ever suggested it. The woman in Howards Storage asked me where I heard about it.