I guess he is like me after all

People have been telling me my ENTIRE LIFE that I talk too much. When I was little my parents used to tell people that if you woke me up in the middle of the night I would finish my sentence. They also used to say that G-d only gives you so many words to use and once they are gone that's it. I think my parents thought my words would be used up by my Bat Mitzvah.Noah has discovered his voice several months ago but he seems to be using it A LOT lately. In fact, this morning he woke up talking. He stood up in his crib, looked at Dan and I, and "bababababa dadadada lalalalala. . . ." I guess he is a lot like me after all.

I cracked

In light of recent events on my pregnancy/baby message board, a renegade mommy decided to take a stand and create a new message board for the September moms who were dissatisfied the the message boards run by ivillage and the trolls that mar the message board experience. So I wandered over to the new board to see what it was all about. I didn't want to like it. . . since I think the drama that has been going on is kind of stupid. But not only could I join for FREE but I could also have a siggy AND blinkies.And so I have become everthing I thought I found annoying in the online community.I am now "Toby mom to Noah 9/19" with cute Noah pictures to go with it. And I also have four blinkies under my siggy that profess my beliefs, such as: Proud democrat, working mom and proud, pro-freedom pro-peace pro-choice, a quote by Nelson Mandela, and all g-ds are one with a the symbols of the major religions.AAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Someone with too much free time

I belong to a message board. It started out as a pregnancy message board but now that we have all had babies it was converted into an online playgroup. I post and participate, but mainly I lurk around. I've received some good advice and product recommendations but I don't feel the need to post a response to every single thread that comes along. Some people do, and that's cool. . .but it doesn't always take 14 people to answer a question.Okay. So someone with a lot of time on their hands went through the motions of creating a membership on this message board and then thought it would be fun to talk shit about people in a public forum. To make matters worse, it was more than likely a member of the online community (a troll). Fortunately, I was out of town for most of the fireworks but from what I have read and been told it got pretty heated. And while part of me is curious about what exactly was said (yeah, I'm nosy) I keep coming back to the same thing. . . how big of a loser this person must have been in the first place. Have you nothing better to do with your time than go online and say nasty things about someone you don't know? What a waste of time. To a certain extent I am vested in the lives of the people on my message board but not THAT vested. I might read something that pisses me off to the point that I write as response, but I am WAY TO LAZY to create a new identity in order to write mean things. What kind of coward does that? And better yet, why do I care?