"Terry Pulliam Burd" > wrote in message
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> On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 18:25:41 -0700, "The Ranger"
> > rummaged among random neurons and opined:
>
> <snip>
>
>>SFF5: "All girls: Are you going to try for a boy?" Me: "Girls are
>>great."
>>SFF5 "Yes, I know... But don't you want a boy?"
>>Me: "Not particularly. I have three practically perfect daughters;
>>I won my lotteries."
>
> <snip>
>
> The DH had 3 girls, all grown now and he did most of the raising of
> them (his ex essentially abandoned the family when the girls were in
> just into their teens and hadn't been much use before that). When
> Daughter #2 was married, the DH wanted to make a toast to the new
> couple. We were and are crazy about the SIL. To cut the toast short,
> what he essentially said was, "People often asked me if, having had 3
> girls, I didn't miss having had a son. I cannot imagine that there was
> anything a son could have done that my 3 daughters didn't put me
> through, but if I had had a son, I would hope he would turn out to be
> just like" SIL. There wasn't a dry eye in the house.
>
> Oh, and Daughter #2 is a twin and is pregnant with twins. She refers
> to them as "Tenant A" and "Tenant B," both of whom have eviction
> notices which are being served in early August.
>
> Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
>
> --
> "If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as
> old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had been as full as the
> waitress's, it would have been a very good dinner."
>
> -- Duncan Hines
>
> To reply, replace "spaminator" with "cox"


Let us know when the little 'squatters' are evicted.
-ginny