Comments on: Did everyone survive??? http://www.pippikneesocks.com/blog/2006/12/26/did-everyone-survive/ handspun yarn and other fibery goodness Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:26:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 by: JessaLu http://www.pippikneesocks.com/blog/2006/12/26/did-everyone-survive/#comment-11797 Tue, 02 Jan 2007 03:52:17 +0000 http://www.pippikneesocks.com/blog/2006/12/26/did-everyone-survive/#comment-11797 A princess dress, monster truck and light saber? I bet that's a sight to behold! LOL Polly Pocket came straight from the bowels of Hell. Don't ask me how I know this. Love the colors in that scarf - very sunny :o) A princess dress, monster truck and light saber? I bet that’s a sight to behold! LOL

Polly Pocket came straight from the bowels of Hell. Don’t ask me how I know this.

Love the colors in that scarf - very sunny :o )

]]> by: Stella http://www.pippikneesocks.com/blog/2006/12/26/did-everyone-survive/#comment-11761 Mon, 01 Jan 2007 21:01:59 +0000 http://www.pippikneesocks.com/blog/2006/12/26/did-everyone-survive/#comment-11761 Hi Pippi, I'm sorry about the pony castle. You had good intentions but dammit you got undermined. It's hilarious to read about though, so thanks for the laughs! Hope you get a chance to stream that sweet show at the deadnet! Happy New Year! XOX Hi Pippi, I’m sorry about the pony castle. You had good intentions but dammit you got undermined. It’s hilarious to read about though, so thanks for the laughs! Hope you get a chance to stream that sweet show at the deadnet! Happy New Year! XOX

]]> by: AlisonH http://www.pippikneesocks.com/blog/2006/12/26/did-everyone-survive/#comment-11438 Fri, 29 Dec 2006 06:31:18 +0000 http://www.pippikneesocks.com/blog/2006/12/26/did-everyone-survive/#comment-11438 I banned Barbie and toy guns, and it lasted till my first daughter was four and her little brother was two, when my MIL bought them both exactly those things for Christmas. And: a record player complete with diamond needle and all the old Shirley Temple singles she had in her attic. Great. I got to listen to Good Ship Lollipop with a daughter who was a perfect blonde imitation Shirley Temple clone. Over and over and over and over and (Make it STOP!) Lol! That light saber bit at the end had me laughing so hard! My son has SO been there, back when I was bigger than him (um, he's 6'9" and 22 now.) But the good thing is, the funny stuff like that that they do when they're little, that mostly is cute and halfway drives you nuts, becomes stories to tease them with when they're teenagers, and that they love to hear about when they hit their 20's. I banned Barbie and toy guns, and it lasted till my first daughter was four and her little brother was two, when my MIL bought them both exactly those things for Christmas. And: a record player complete with diamond needle and all the old Shirley Temple singles she had in her attic. Great. I got to listen to Good Ship Lollipop with a daughter who was a perfect blonde imitation Shirley Temple clone. Over and over and over and over and (Make it STOP!) Lol!

That light saber bit at the end had me laughing so hard! My son has SO been there, back when I was bigger than him (um, he’s 6′9″ and 22 now.) But the good thing is, the funny stuff like that that they do when they’re little, that mostly is cute and halfway drives you nuts, becomes stories to tease them with when they’re teenagers, and that they love to hear about when they hit their 20’s.

]]> by: Sue http://www.pippikneesocks.com/blog/2006/12/26/did-everyone-survive/#comment-11390 Thu, 28 Dec 2006 19:01:04 +0000 http://www.pippikneesocks.com/blog/2006/12/26/did-everyone-survive/#comment-11390 Oh Pippi, My twin girls are eleven. I dealt with the pony and Polly stuff a couple of years ago. You are supposed to drive over the Polly shoes with a vaccuum and pretend they never existed. When the kids ask if you've seen them, say no. End of story. Otherwise they will pester you and demand that you help them track those tiny things and make you crazier than you probably are. The ponies are easy. Unless you have that miniature pony boombox that drove me to the edge. At least you don't have Bratz slutz! Oh Pippi, My twin girls are eleven. I dealt with the pony and Polly stuff a couple of years ago. You are supposed to drive over the Polly shoes with a vaccuum and pretend they never existed. When the kids ask if you’ve seen them, say no. End of story. Otherwise they will pester you and demand that you help them track those tiny things and make you crazier than you probably are. The ponies are easy. Unless you have that miniature pony boombox that drove me to the edge. At least you don’t have Bratz slutz!

]]> by: Kelly http://www.pippikneesocks.com/blog/2006/12/26/did-everyone-survive/#comment-11381 Thu, 28 Dec 2006 15:50:22 +0000 http://www.pippikneesocks.com/blog/2006/12/26/did-everyone-survive/#comment-11381 It sounds like you had a good Christmas and looks like the kids made out well too. My daughter loves those polly pockets too. I don't know how many times I've gotten some of polly's items stuck in my vaccum! Hope you can relax a little now. It sounds like you had a good Christmas and looks like the kids made out well too. My daughter loves those polly pockets too. I don’t know how many times I’ve gotten some of polly’s items stuck in my vaccum! Hope you can relax a little now.

]]> by: Neefer http://www.pippikneesocks.com/blog/2006/12/26/did-everyone-survive/#comment-11296 Wed, 27 Dec 2006 19:47:36 +0000 http://www.pippikneesocks.com/blog/2006/12/26/did-everyone-survive/#comment-11296 <I>Hells, in the 1950’s the docs freely prescribed us mothers speed.</I> Not only that, they perscribed phenobarbital for the little ones. My mom used it regularly. We survived w/o speed or sedatives, but I thought I might strangle my kids more than once. I think we should rename December to Givemegivemegiveme. Hells, in the 1950’s the docs freely prescribed us mothers speed.

Not only that, they perscribed phenobarbital for the little ones. My mom used it regularly.

We survived w/o speed or sedatives, but I thought I might strangle my kids more than once. I think we should rename December to Givemegivemegiveme.

]]> by: HOLLYEQQ http://www.pippikneesocks.com/blog/2006/12/26/did-everyone-survive/#comment-11294 Wed, 27 Dec 2006 18:05:37 +0000 http://www.pippikneesocks.com/blog/2006/12/26/did-everyone-survive/#comment-11294 I hope your mail guy trips and falls in the snow and can't get up! Do you think they carry a "help and I have fallen and I can't get up" button. Just envision it - "um...dispatch, I am stuck in the snow in front of Pippikneesocks house and um.... well I have fallen and can't seem to get out of the snow without assistance. Yes, the family is at home but they are standing on the porch in their birkenstocks taking pictures. No, I don't have any socks on because she won't sell my wife sock yarn anymore because I am being such a shit. Yes, please dispatch 911 to help." Maybe you could help him by digging a ditch and covering it with snow! Since I don't know what the Polly plastic shoe was, I definitley would have thrown it out. Along with Barbie. I am all but begging my family to do a homemade Christmas next year. My parents are unwilling - but my sister sees the virtue. We altered it a bit and decided you could get one storebought gift - a girl has to have her electronics! But otherwise all gifts have to be made by you, or someone you have met (yes the internet counts if it is an artist and not walmart.com). You figure if 1/8 of the population of the US did this, the starving artists that stand at booths would actually have business. Oh, a girl can dream. Maybe I can talk my sister into it by summer. Oh well, it is over and I am exhausted. Happy Hollydays. Holly I hope your mail guy trips and falls in the snow and can’t get up! Do you think they carry a “help and I have fallen and I can’t get up” button. Just envision it -
“um…dispatch, I am stuck in the snow in front of Pippikneesocks house and um…. well I have fallen and can’t seem to get out of the snow without assistance. Yes, the family is at home but they are standing on the porch in their birkenstocks taking pictures. No, I don’t have any socks on because she won’t sell my wife sock yarn anymore because I am being such a shit. Yes, please dispatch 911 to help.”
Maybe you could help him by digging a ditch and covering it with snow!

Since I don’t know what the Polly plastic shoe was, I definitley would have thrown it out. Along with Barbie.

I am all but begging my family to do a homemade Christmas next year. My parents are unwilling - but my sister sees the virtue. We altered it a bit and decided you could get one storebought gift - a girl has to have her electronics! But otherwise all gifts have to be made by you, or someone you have met (yes the internet counts if it is an artist and not walmart.com). You figure if 1/8 of the population of the US did this, the starving artists that stand at booths would actually have business. Oh, a girl can dream. Maybe I can talk my sister into it by summer.

Oh well, it is over and I am exhausted.
Happy Hollydays.
Holly

]]> by: Norma http://www.pippikneesocks.com/blog/2006/12/26/did-everyone-survive/#comment-11282 Wed, 27 Dec 2006 14:45:01 +0000 http://www.pippikneesocks.com/blog/2006/12/26/did-everyone-survive/#comment-11282 Glad you survived! Your tree is (was?) beautiful -- so spare and natural-looking. My kind of tree. Those Polly Pocket shoes are a MENACE. Aren't they a choking hazard or something? LOVE that scarf. What'd you do with the buttons on it? Glad you survived! Your tree is (was?) beautiful — so spare and natural-looking. My kind of tree. Those Polly Pocket shoes are a MENACE. Aren’t they a choking hazard or something?

LOVE that scarf. What’d you do with the buttons on it?

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