I hope Dean grows out of it! I didn't know you shouldn't give strawberries to children under two years old!

I am not sure if my mom will be thrilled, but we'll see! I'm sure she was hoping they'd be married first. My brother's girlfriend is still in college and they were talking about getting engaged and married when she graduates school because she'd have a good job (in social work) and they could actually afford it then. Right now they're living on just one salary, with the two little girls there too. So this baby is throwing a wrench in their plans for sure! My mom has had some reservations about her before too, and I think all of us have. But I hope things will change now that they will be having a baby together. I hope she doesn't threaten to leave him again.

Now Scott and I know we will have the youngest grandchildren on both sides :rolleyes: His sisters are having their families already, and now my brother is too! Our kids are going to be spoiled lol! Either that, or there will be so many grandchildren by then, ours will just be nothing new!

Well, it sounds like this baby probably wasn't planned and changing plans will be difficult. I hope the family takes this well because the girlfriend could be very sensitive to the family's reaction. Pregnancy makes you very emotional!! This is something that your brother and his girlfriend will have to figure out......Just plan on being happy about it.......after all it is a new neice or nephew!!!

I'm sure that when you have babies that they'll get a lot of attention no matter when they're born!!! And everyone will be thrilled for you!!!

You're right, and I think my mom will be more shocked than anything! It has been so hard for me to keep this from her, because I know that she's going to be either really happy or upset about it and I've talked to her almost every night. It's so hard for me not to warn her that something big is coming up! Yeah, I can't plan surprise parties or anything like that either :rolleyes: It's too hard to keep a secret like this!

I am very happy for my brother because he seems so excited for it! He was so excited to tell me too. He asked if I could keep a secret, and I couldn't even tell Scott. I said probably not, I tell Scott everything, so he might as well just wait and tell me later lol! So he said "Okay, you can tell Scott, but nobody else" and then he said "You are going to be an auntie!" :) I like that, because it feels like I'm a REAL aunt now. Scott's sisters and his mom always call me "Auntie Lindsey" around the kids, and little Tare actually went looking for me and calling "Auntie Lindsey!" the last time we were there and it warmed my heart! But Scott and I aren't married, and it's his side of the family, so it just doesn't feel the same to me I guess! The girls don't call me auntie either, even though I consider them my neices.

I know how you feel. I've been an aunt almost as long as I've been married from Glen's side of the family but it was so different when my brother had his first daughter!!! I was so excited and actually "felt" like an aunt then......plus she was named after me......Natasha Diane.

I've been an aunt since I was 16 months old. My nephew Bob is my sister's son.

Congratulations Aunt Lindsay! That's great news!

It's also good news about the hotel room!

Diana, that's so great that she was named after you! That must make you feel very special.

Janet, wow that must have been a big age gap! My dad is just a few years younger than his uncle and they are more like brothers.

Thanks Judy! Well, we just made $327 in our garage sale today, so it recoups the cost of that hotel we booked in the first place! The sting doesn't feel so bad now lol. We didn't even sell half our stuff, but everything big sold.. snowboard, golf clubs, wireless router, diamond necklace. Those are where we made the most money!

We have had a BUSY weekend!!! We worked at our Austin house for several hours both Sat. and Sun. On Saturday, we worked on the inside of the house and got everything sorted out - stuff that is to be donated and stuff that we will bring over to our house. Mostly the stuff coming to our house is mom's pictures and family memorabilia. I have a couple of chests of drawers in the garage that I plan to put most of her stuff in. It will make our garage a bit messy for a while, but eventually I'll get it unpacked and sorted out.

We put up a "moving sale" sign out by the road and were able to sell most of the furniture. We have a couch, coffee table and old painted dresser left and we will just send them to the salvation army, if no one buys them. Everything is listed in craigstlist too, so maybe someone will want them. LOL! The Craiglist Killer movie was on TV last night, so I made Gary go with me every time someone wanted to look at something. LOL!

Today we worked on the yard and garage, doing the same thing, sorting out what comes over here and what goes to goodwill. I'll be calling a local moving company called "Two Men and a Truck" to move the stuff over here. I'm calling the Salvation Army to come by and get the stuff to be donated. A woman who takes care of mentally ill men came by today and took about half the donation stuff. I'm glad that someone who really needs it, came by and took it.

That's great you were able to sell most of your stuff Gayle!

On Saturday while Scott was holding down the fort at our garage sale, I went to a few others with my family. I found a mandolin vegetable slicer for $1! I've been wanting to buy one for a long time. I took it home and made a salad with it that night. Well, I put carrots in the salad and you can't really use the guard with them until they're short, so I held them with my hand until they were short enough for the guard. Just my luck, I slipped, and sliced my thumb pretty badly :( It bled so much I almost got sick! I did have my cell phone on the counter beside me so I called Scott while I ran my thumb under cold water, and he came home immediately (he had just left to recycle cardboard boxes). We wrapped it up, and it stopped bleeding by yesterday morning. Yesterday afternoon, I put in a garden, and somehow managed to rip it open again :( I'm being very careful with it now. It really flipping hurts! :(

I'm sitting here in the district court lobby waiting for jury selection. Dang I hope I don't get picked.

But on the bright side, I found a 5 hour parking spot - most are a 3 hour limit and I don't know how long I'll be here. It only cost $4.00. I feel pretty lucky, hope my luck holds!

Well good news maybe. The last time I was picked for jury duty, my assigned number was 5. When I wasn't picked, my number was 48. Both times they selected the jury from people with numbers 1-15. My number today is 60. Keep your fingers crossed.

Ugh! Almost 3:00. Been here over an hour and now we are waiting for 4jurors who you KNOW are not going to show up. They were supposed to be here by 2:00. Get real judge, they are not going to come. The lawyers have at least 60+ people to choose 12. I think that is realistic. Geesh! Come on!

Today I went and visited with mom in between routes. Then came home and mostly loafed....lol. Now I need to get started on some laundry....again.

We are on break and they didn't ask me any questions so hopefully I am safe. The lawyers are behind closed doors choosing the jury. I am ready to go home.

Come on! It is 5:30! It's time to get this over with. My butt is sore from sitting on this bench. I'm going to be in bad traffic all the way home now and that does not make me happy! Please choose a jury and let us go home!