[tri-med] Re: feeding question

i can just imagine the "take your time love"!!!!
this was such a sweet response!
jude
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jocelyn Knowd" <jdknowd@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <tri-med@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 4:44 PM
Subject: [tri-med] Re: feeding question


> Wanted to change this to tri-family, but not sure you'd get it? Like
others
> I'm full of admiration for your guts at living this alternative lifestyle.
> (Especially with a special needs child).  At age nine I lived in Scotland
> in a small village where there was no electricity. We had oil lamps, Mum
> cooked on an open fire with an oven at the side. Washing was by hand,
> boiled up in a copper with wood fire underneath. I had to help Mum some
> times to put the clothes through the mangle, which had these huge wooden
> rollers. We had an outside toilet. But then we had an outside toilet when
> we first came to Australia in 1957. The dunny man used to come and collect
> the "full can", and leave a new one. I got caught many times, but he'd
just
> sing out "you take your time love", and stand outside the door sucking on
> his cigarette. Oh happy days (NOT). Love to hear more about how you
manage,
> but perhaps on Tri-family list, as we're supposed to stick to medical
> topics on this list.
>
> At 07:47 AM 20/08/2004, you wrote:
> >i'm typing with ruth in lap...sorry for all lower case.  joe and i live
in an
> >intentional community (read old hippie commune-of-sorts).  The whole farm
was
> >supposed to be "off the grid".  as folks built their houses that mostly
fell
> >by the wayside except for a few stubborn holdouts.  joe is one of them!
he
> >built his house for $1,400 twenty years ago.  i moved in with him nine
years
> >ago.  no elect.  no runnung water.  not even an outhouse.  just a shovel
> >and the
> >woods.  when ruth was born some of our friends gave us the gift of a
> >spigot in
> >our yard.  the lap of luxury!  our lifestyle worked before ruth.  now it
is
> >definitely a challenge.
> >rebecca,  ruth's mom
> >
> >
> >                   Building ___ooOOoo__ Rainbows
> >                        www.trisomyonline.org
> >                   Families Helping Families On-line
>
>
>                   Building ___ooOOoo__ Rainbows
>                        www.trisomyonline.org
>                   Families Helping Families On-line
>

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