Hello Barbc.

Glad to meet you Barbc!

So glad you've joined us. Welcome!!!!!

Welcome Barbc!

A hearty welcome to you barbc so happy you found us...There is no other Forum anywhere that can compete with or even come close to this one as you'll soon see...

[ October 24, 2005, 06:36 PM: Message edited by: chatty lady ]

Welcome Barbc,
I'm in Olympia, and many others from Washington State have found this site. It's great!
I'm kinda new too, and am enjoying the forums.
I'm 59, married 41 years, two dts., 40 and 36, and four grandsons, 10 yrs., two are 6, and one 18 mos. The two 6 years olds are cousins. Their mother decided to share a pregnancy. It was the second for the oldest, and the first for the youngest. The pregnancies were really a hoot for me! The youngest delivered her baby at home. What an wonderful and worrisome experience all at the same time.
I worked for Providence St. Peter Hospital for 30 yrs., but then had to retired because of illness.
Now getting my health back, and enjoying life again.
Just bought a Miata and having fun with her.
Is that called a mid-life crisis thing, or just me finally giving myself something I deserve?
Welcome again!
Lynne

Barbc--Congratulations on your new house. I bet it's lovely. Since you're overlooking the water, are you anywhere near where you can see the ferry? We like taking the Edmonds/Kingston ferry whenever we aren't walking on the Bainbridge ferry to Seattle.
Lynne--Did you get to be at the home birth? I had both of my babies at home (25 and almost 20 years ago) and loved it. I've been a doula for many years now so I've gotten to be at a lot of births, both home and hospital. Glad your health is getting better.

Dream of the Circle of Women
by Dahti Blanchard
published May 2004 by Spilled Candy Books
visit: www.dahtiblanchard.com

Dahti..Yes, I was at the birth with my cell phone ready to call the Medics!
I must admit it was the most wonderful experience I've ever had, except for birthing my two beautiful dtr. in a hospital setting.
I found out all about doula's with my dtr. having her home birth. Her mid wife was a next door neighbor, so that made it very nice indeed.
Her second baby was a feetling birth, so she had to have a C-section. She was very disappointed, of course, because she planned on having the second baby at home also.
Barbc and Dahti...ever hear of the town of Concrete? It's on hiway 20 going to Winthrop. Have a second home there, but don't go very often. It's really God's country up there.
So happy to have some Washingtonian's in the group. Now everybody will get tired of me bragging about our beautiful State, especially the Western side. Ooops!! Won't say no more.
Lynne

Gosh, you all are the best! Thanks so much for all your responses, I'm looking forward to knowing all of you better.

Well I hafta say, I'm a little jealous of you that have grandkids; it's weird because lately I've been having these dreams about babies (not ME, of course, oh,heavens, THAT would be a shock!). But, I can definitely picture myself as a grandma, even though my kids (24 & 21) are still a ways away from that. My daughter has a serious boyfriend, but she's still in college and he's away on a mission. One of my friends at work just had her first grandchild, and she told me that she can't even describe the love she feels for that little one, it's different, she said, than anything she's felt before.

Anyway, as to our house, we aren't near the ferry in terms of being able to see it, but are close enough to hear it. I'm so glad to know there are other Washingtonians on this forum, and I look forward to knowing you better.

Someone asked if we'd been back East -- many times. My husband's from Lowell, Mass; and we've been back quite often to visit his family. We usually have gone in the summer and stayed in New Hampshire at Hampton Beach. I love the ocean back there; out here in the Pacific Northwest we're on an inland Sound, and the beaches are, well, not so much beaches as piles of rock and seaweed!

Oh, and I guess I better fess up with my age, 53. I laughed when I read some of your comments about age not being a big thing. I grieved when I turned 50! It was so bad that I stopped going to the health club, because the treadmills make you put in your age, and I just couldn't do it! How's that for dumb! I'm better now (but I still don't go to the healthclub!)

Barbc, now that's a new reason for not going to the health club. I'm laughing at your post.