I Can't Believe My Army Buddy Married Her

[Christie_M]

[quote name='Jesus_lol' post='1714271' date='Nov 29 2008, 07:40 PM']...
i wouldnt worry about that, christie [/quote]

thanks.


...i've been worrying about for the past 8 years...


[quote name='rachael' post='1714273' date='Nov 29 2008, 07:41 PM']literally...everyone from my family is large. my parents, my grandparents (both sides when they were all alive), my cousins except for one or two (i think i have around 20), and almost all all the aunts and uncles[/quote]


me and my parents are large right now. my dad all his life, mom only after she had kids(she was realllly skinny when she got married) my brother started to do all the exercise and eating right like i always do, and with in a few weeks he's started to loose weight!
I"m all like "WHAT?? I've been doing this for how long and nothing, then you just start and wha-la?! "
and he's growing...which helps

[CatherineM]

The women in my family have hips and thighs that you could use for landing aircraft. Made having lots of kids easier. I was researching a female ancestor who fought during the Revolutionary War. She hid soldiers, etc. She had 15 kids that all survived to adulthood, and still lived to be 93 years old. My mom always says that the women in our family are hard to kill, and there wasn't a bathing beauty in the bunch.

[rachael]

[quote name='CatherineM' post='1714293' date='Nov 29 2008, 10:56 PM']The women in my family have hips and thighs that you could use for landing aircraft. Made having lots of kids easier. I was researching a female ancestor who fought during the Revolutionary War. She hid soldiers, etc. She had 15 kids that all survived to adulthood, and still lived to be 93 years old. My mom always says that the women in our family are hard to kill, and there wasn't a bathing beauty in the bunch.[/quote]
you just made my day.

[missionseeker]

Lol, CatherineM.

My great grandmother had 22 kids that survived to adulthood. I can walk around Birmingham, AL and know that people are related to me because they LOOK like me. It is the strangest thing. The weirder thing is that they know, too. My mother and father were once stopped and asked "Is that child an _____?" and when they said yes he said "I would have known her anywhere, she looks it!"

[Christie_M]

Edited November 30, 2008 by Christie_M

[CatherineM]

My great-grandmother had 12. My grandfather was the last. She was 48 when he was born. My great-grandfather fell out of the barn loft after #6, and never was in a picture standing up again. We used to joke that maybe she pushed him, but didn't push him from a high enough spot. Even when he was in his 80's, and in a nursing home, she had to "visit" him at least once a week, or the nursing staff couldn't control him.

My mom has outlived 3 husbands. She only has one kidney, one lung, one breast, but just turned 86, and is as scary as ever. She wasn't supposed to be able to have any kids. She enjoyed gloating over every pregnancy with the doctor who told her that.

[Christie_M]

*jaw dropping*

WWoooowwww

[missionseeker]

Lol, awesome. I told Jeff that one time when I am in Canada, we'll have to plan a roadtrip to Edmonton. I figure it's good gauge...

[IcePrincessKRS]

[quote name='missionseeker' post='1714298' date='Nov 29 2008, 11:00 PM']Lol, CatherineM.

My great grandmother had 22 kids that survived to adulthood. I can walk around Birmingham, AL and know that people are related to me because they LOOK like me. It is the strangest thing. The weirder thing is that they know, too. My mother and father were once stopped and asked "Is that child an _____?" and when they said yes he said "I would have known her anywhere, she looks it!"

[/quote]

I get that whenever I go back to my hometown... the grocery store, the pharmacy, walking down the street, Subway... "Are one of Anna's kids?" I get that "who the heck are you?" look on my face and slowly say "Yyyesssss." And they say something like, "Oh, I was in 7th grade with her/went to high school with her/worked with her 30 years ago" as though I should know who they are... "Tell her I said hi!" And I say "Sure will...." and think "who the heck did you say you are again?" Get back to Mom's house "Some random person I don't know said to tell you hi."

[rachael]

[quote name='IcePrincessKRS' post='1714313' date='Nov 29 2008, 11:14 PM']I get that whenever I go back to my hometown... the grocery store, the pharmacy, walking down the street, Subway... "Are one of Anna's kids?" I get that "who the heck are you?" look on my face and slowly say "Yyyesssss." And they say something like, "Oh, I was in 7th grade with her/went to high school with her/worked with her 30 years ago" as though I should know who they are... "Tell her I said hi!" And I say "Sure will...." and think "who the heck did you say you are again?" Get back to Mom's house "Some random person I don't know said to tell you hi."[/quote]
It's the hair.

[missionseeker]

[quote name='IcePrincessKRS' post='1714313' date='Nov 29 2008, 11:14 PM']I get that whenever I go back to my hometown... the grocery store, the pharmacy, walking down the street, Subway... "Are one of Anna's kids?" I get that "who the heck are you?" look on my face and slowly say "Yyyesssss." And they say something like, "Oh, I was in 7th grade with her/went to high school with her/worked with her 30 years ago" as though I should know who they are... "Tell her I said hi!" And I say "Sure will...." and think "who the heck did you say you are again?" Get back to Mom's house "Some random person I don't know said to tell you hi."[/quote]


Those moments are always so awkward.
I'ts happened many times "You Buddy's girl?" yyyeeesss? I knew him before you were born. Say hi. oookkkkay?

[IcePrincessKRS]

[quote name='rachael' post='1714316' date='Nov 29 2008, 11:16 PM']It's the hair.[/quote]

My mother's hair is stick straight and blond. It's the face, all my siblings have a similar face. When I went to the hospital to have Charlotte I used the hospital that all of my sibs were born at. We called to let them know we were on our way, but when I got there the nurse's face lit up and she said "I didn't know it was YOU when I saw the name! Gosh, you look just like your mother!" (I don't think I do, but apparently it's similar enough.) She didn't know which one of us I was other than my name being on the chart, but I hadn't been in that maternity ward for like 10 years so it wasn't as though she actually recognized me for ME. She recognized me as one of my mother's kids.

[quote name='missionseeker' post='1714317' date='Nov 29 2008, 11:16 PM']Those moments are always so awkward.
I'ts happened many times "You Buddy's girl?" yyyeeesss? I knew him before you were born. Say hi. oookkkkay?[/quote]

Yeah, I never get why they think we should know them. I am going to instruct my children that if they ever hear me doing that to someone to just kick me. lol

[CatherineM]

[quote name='missionseeker' post='1714311' date='Nov 29 2008, 09:11 PM']Lol, awesome. I told Jeff that one time when I am in Canada, we'll have to plan a roadtrip to Edmonton. I figure it's good gauge... [/quote]

That's a good 48 hour long drive. Canada is surprisingly big. We've got two couches though.

[picchick]

[quote name='Mr_Private_Person' post='1714145' date='Nov 29 2008, 07:53 PM']How did he talk to the money exchangers in the temple? The Saducess? The Pharisees? or any other person who wouldn't admit they were living wrong and wanted to change?[/quote]

Yeah He was stern with them but Jesus did not insult them. So you would like to use Jesus's frustration as an excuse to insult people? I wonder what'd He'd say. "Well done good and faithful servant"?