Days of Our Lives - MESSAGE BOARDS

SunnyAlso back when we were young (a million years ago) we would play with things that cost no money. Like the time my parents bought a new refrigerator and it came in a huge box my father somehow got it out of the box and took out all the staples and taped it up.....first my brother and i would play house in it and draw with crayons like the windows, flower boxes etc....when it got all banged up we would take it on the top of the hill and roll down....laughing hysterically the whole way down. Sunny

My friend and I would do the same thing!!!! We would excitedly stand and wait for the box (hopefully a refrigerator box)and take it to a high pasture hill out back, and ONE at a time lie longways in the box and roll all the way down the hill, over and over. Ohhhhhhh that was so much fun. I'd love to do it now but my osteoarthritis would torment me I made up nearly all the games we played as kids. I miss those days.

oh these are great ideas guys!!!! My kids are going ballistic right now cause they want to go outside so badly, but it's just way too hot.

I take them outside in the morning when it's still KINDA cool, then they are stuck inside all day until around 7pm when the sun goes behind the trees in our back yard...yesterday we took them to the river to splash around a bit and cool off before bedtime. I made some playdoh this morning, so they've been playing with that...but a 2 year old and a 3 year old, they get antsy pretty quick...lol...i think we've gone through their entire dvd collection.

any more fun indoor game suggestions would be awesome. I feel so bad for them...they see the sun shining outside and want to go out so badly, but they don't realize how hot it is out there. PLUS, it's very smokey and there's quite a bit of ash floating around out there right now with all the forest fires we're getting. not too good to breathe in too much. it's nuts!!! this is probably one of the worst fire seasons in history for us. hubby is a busy busy man this year!!

Is there any indoor gym or activity center. We have this place call Kidz Junction, where there are differet rooms (like a post office, grocery store, a vet, doctor office, super heros). The kids play dress up or play in the indoor gym. It lots of fun and kids get wiped out.

My friends and I, would alternate houses for playdates. The kids had lunch and then they played while the moms catch up with each other.

If you have a pool or even a sprinkler, kids love it.

I have been there, it is hard. My kids are now 8,6,5.

there is an indoor pool in town here...but my kids DO NOT saty in one spot together..lol...they ALWAYS have to go in opposite directions ALL THE TIME!!! i try and round em up and it's a battle every time!! ha ha...there's a program called strong start here...it's like a pre-pre-school...but they have the same hours as regular school...so it's closed for the summer...there is also a child care and resource center, and every tuesdays you can go there and they have toys and snack time and stuff...BUT during the summer, they all meet at the park, and no one is showing up cause of the heat..lol

we have a little kiddie pool at home here, and they have a big jungle gym with swings and slides and stuff...but again, the heat and smoke outside is just not very good to be in right now...lol...

yeah...it's tough with two kids that are so young still. i keep sunscreen on them outside all the time, and keep em hydrated as best I can, but those little bodies just seem to overheat so quickly. we got one more month of this weather and then it should start cooling off.

it's so funny, cause we had like the LONGEST winter EVER..i honestly thought it was never going to end...and we didn't even get a spring...it just went from winter to summer...lol...so i was b****ing and moaning about the winter, and now I wish it was like -10 outside right now. ha ha...

How about your local library? Do they have special program for pre-schoolers. Our library has a special area just for kids. They can play with a train table, do puzzles and play with puppets, color and read.

Where do you live?

OMG!!!!! I AM SOOOOO P'OED AT MY HUBBY RIGHT NOW!!!! EEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!

every day for the past couple weeks, I've been finding these weird looking beetle type bugs...big ones...ugly ones...in our house...they're not hard to catch and get rid of, but every day I kill about 5 or 6 of them...i figured they were coming from outside because we keep all the windows open at night to cool off the house, but i started to think some more and that just didn't make sense...we have screens on all the windows, and there's no rips in them ANYWHERE!!! plus i don't ever see them outside!! so then i started getting paranoid that our house was being infested with them..like coming out of the walls or something. AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! even my hubby was baffled by them...he doesn't even know what they ARE!!! so now i'm thinking...omg some exotic bug that is not native to this area is infesting our house and going to destroy everything...so THEN i'm sitting on the couch last night watching a movie and one of these bugs, drops off the ceiling and onto my effin' HEAD!!!! OMG i just about DIED!!!! so i'm freaking out and telling hubby, "i don't care what you do!!!! you tear this effin' house apart and find out where they are coming from!!!"

well well well...GUESS where they were coming from????????

hubby got a stump out of the woods and brought it home and put it in the basement... (he needed a stump to attach his anvil to..his hobby is goldsmithing). anyways, the effin' larvae must have been inside the effin' stump and hatched when it got to our house!!! you can see all the little holes in the stump.... *sigh* i'm so pi$$ed!!!!!

so NOW i've asked him to take the stupid stump and put it outside... but he won't cause he figures that all the bugs have hatched now, so now all we can do is just kill them as we see them. WTF??????????? are you kidding me with this????

and what if they start mating and multiplying!!!!!

seriously i'm tempted to move into a hotel until all these darn bugs are gone!!!! this is NUTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ALRIGHT!!! who's watching America's Got Talent?????

That Kevin Skinner guy makes me cry every time i hear him sing. WTH is THAT about??? ha ha!!!

I don't cry during movies, or music...I DON'T CRY!!!

I cried for joy when i married my husband and when my kids were born. I cried when I got my head stuck in a motor and broke my nose.

dammit!!!! that guy for some reason, brings out some kind of emotion i just can't explain. he's just so amazing!! i wish i lived in the US so i could vote. lol...