Tony Randall was 77 when he had his first child, so compared to you, you're by no means starting late. I was 30 when we had our first and 33 with our second. I'm glad I waited because I was too selfish in my 20's doing thing that I wanted to do.
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regrets
by IP_SEC ini only have one regret in life.
i didnt have a child.
to have some little munchkin to teach about everything and see what they become?
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Prize for who can guess who is on my new avatar...
by slimboyfat inwell i ain't got a real prize, but i could find an appropriate emoticon for anyone who gets it right.
it is a person my great grandmother knew, and he was quite famous in his day, and i semi-admire him with a little caution.
slim .
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Is it the Indian that sheds a tear at the end of those pollution commercials?
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Who pays for new KHs?
by lavendar inis it the members of that particular new kh who all chip in to pay for building materials?
or do the gb boys pay for them?
i know the jws all volunteer their time to build the khs, but who pays for all the building supplies?.
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Right now our congregation is in the process of funding a new kingdom hall and on top of that having to contribute toward a new assembly hall in Columbia, SC.
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KW13, I happy for you man!!! Congratulations!!! i've got 2 boys myself, 4 and 2, and they bring me the greatest joy and the greatest frustration at the same time. Enjoy every possible moment you can with your boy, trust me, they grow up fast and you wonder where the time went.
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Responding To Posters With An Agenda, Who Won't Listen To Reason
by minimus inwhy do we do it??
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Check out the next thread and try to exercise self control.
At least there is a disclaimer on it....
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Daddy, What's a.....
by FadingAway inmy wife works weekends 3rd shift , so usually i'm taking care of my 2 sons while my wife sleeps.
today i put my 2 year old down for his nap.
this gave me the opportuniuty to go out to the landfill to get rid of the old bushes and brush my wife pulled up from the backyard.
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Hey everyone, thanks for your posts and stories. If anyone else has stories, please feel free to share.
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What's with the "Simpson" looking avatars...
by changeling indid i miss something?
other than the movie?.
there was an elder in a hall i used to attend that looked just like homer.
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Drew Sagan started a thread on how to turn yourself into a Simpson's character. http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/27/138923/1.ashx
I did my 2 boys, and they came out pretty funny. I'm going to try to do the same thing with my departments org chart at work, I think they will get a kick out of it.
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Daddy, What's a.....
by FadingAway inmy wife works weekends 3rd shift , so usually i'm taking care of my 2 sons while my wife sleeps.
today i put my 2 year old down for his nap.
this gave me the opportuniuty to go out to the landfill to get rid of the old bushes and brush my wife pulled up from the backyard.
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My wife works weekends 3rd shift , so usually I'm taking care of my 2 sons while my wife sleeps. Today I put my 2 year old down for his nap. This gave me the opportuniuty to go out to the landfill to get rid of the old bushes and brush my wife pulled up from the backyard. Also we accumulated a nice collection of cardboard which had to go. So I get my 4 year old ready and head outside to load up the suv.
I start breaking down the boxes in the garage, while my son starts pretending to be a battlemech in the front yard. For those that don't know what battlemech's are, they are huge robots that weigh around 30 to 60 tons and stand 4 to 6 stories high. My son went crazy over them when he was 3 by watching me play the Mechassualt video game on my XBOX. Ever since then, he likes to pretend to bet a huge battlemech, moves, sounds and all. It gets weird stares from people time to time, but that's the fun of being a child. I get done with the cardboard and call him to come with me to the backyard so I can bag the bushes and brush.
I finally get done bagging the stuff in the backyard and hauls all 4 bags to the front to load in the suv. While I'm putting the bags in, my son start going to his question phase, mainly again about battlemechs.
"Daddy, what's this battlemech called?" He describes it by taking his right hand and makes it into a fist but lets the thumb and pinky stick straight out. He then takes that hand, places it on his ear so the pinky points straight and thumb points up. That is supposed to represent a huge shoulder mounted cannon.
"That's called Thor, buddy," I tell him. "Oh," he says.
"Daddy, what's this battlemech called?" He describes this one by taking his hands and cover both his ears so his elbows now point straight out. This represents a missle battery that is on either side of the pilots cockpit.
"That's a Mad Cat," I answer. "Oh," he says.
Now, while he is asking me these questions, I'm not really paying much attention. This is only the 1,457,789,564th time he's asked me this. However....
"Daddy, what's an erection?"
"Uh, buddy... how about I tell you about that when we get in the suv.... uh OK?"
"Ok, daddy."
So my mind is thinking how am I going to explain this to a 4 year old. How do I bring this down to a childs level? But I'm wondering, where did he hear this? At daycare? I don't think he's heard it at home either...
"Daddy, you know when you go to your office, you get an erection."
What!!!! I work in telecommunications managing connections between central offices and provide bandwidth utilization reports for our DSL network. It a nice job, but it doesn't get me that excited...
But then my brain kicks in..."Buddy, are you talking about when mommy takes you to Chuck E Cheese and you tell her to go this way and that way in the parking lot... are you talking about.... directions?"
"Yes, when you go this way and that way... what is a direction?"
Big sigh of relief!!!! So I give him the gist of what directions are. His response? "Oh."
"Daddy?" This time I stop loading again, to look at him and be ready for his next question so I don't get shocked or surprised.
"Yes, buddy?"
""Daddy, um, what's this battlemech called?" And he describes it....
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deaconbluez, as always, thanks for making my day! These are the funniest things I've seen! Please keep them coming!
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Do You Still Call It "The Truth"? "The Brothers" etc.
by minimus in"when i was in the truth....".
"since i left the truth"..... do you still find yourself using jw terminology?.
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no. I was baptized at 26 years old and still found using dubisms hard back then. could never get comfortable using it in my speech.